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Improving efficiency in the application of irrigation water, due to its scarcity, is a matter of concern to all decision-makers in the country, since it is not possible to continue managing the precious liquid with current guidelines. Studying the efficiency of irrigation in Cuban agriculture as a combination of resources will allow us to know where the application of water will be of greater benefit, always in combination with other resources used in the production process. In this context, the use of non-parametric techniques such as data envelopment analysis is convenient, given its flexibility and ability to handle the productive characteristics of entities. The analysis of irrigation by means of DEA, will allow to evaluate where the management of the water is carried out in a more efficient way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study analyzes the level of technical efficiency of public investment in Education at the primary and secondary level in Peru, 2016 to 2022. Data envelopment analysis - DEA was used and for the association between the provision of resources and educational quality. the panel data fixed effects model. The results indicate that there are relative differences in efficiency between the regions, registering an average score of 49% for the primary level and 38% for the secondary level, with the most efficient being Moquegua, Tacna, Arequipa and Ica, and the least efficient being Loreto, Huánuco, Ucayali, and San Martín. From the input-output association, classroom size, infrastructure in good condition and public investment have a direct relationship, while students per teacher and per computer, the relationship is inverse with respect to educational achievement in communication and mathematics at the primary and secondary level. This suggests that inefficient regions should increase educational attainment at the primary and secondary levels by an average of 51% and 62%, respectively, while maintaining the same level of spending. Therefore, to improve their efficiency within the framework of public policies, they can adopt the management implemented by regions such as Moquegua and Tacna. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Covid-19 pandemic caused an unusual population mortality rate. This paper aims to determine a causal relationship and its incidence between the Technical Efficiency (TE) of health systems and the Covid-19 mortality rate. Using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology and the OLS, GLS and 2SLS adjustment methods, in 108 countries grouped according to per capita health expenditure, it was found that a 1% increase in the TE of the health systems of the analyzed countries reduces the number of deaths from Covid-19 by between 61 and 127 per hundred thousand inhabitants, concluding that the efficiency of expenditure was transcendental in the prevention of mortality caused by the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes the relationship between sport and territorial development. From a Data envelopment analysis (DEA), the Malmquist index and a Tobit regression model, with the use of investment, competitiveness and sports success variables, we want to delve into the knowledge of this binomial for the specific case of the Spanish Autonomous Communities for 2011, 2015 and 2018, first and last year for which data is available, and an intermediate year. The main results show important territorial differences and specificities in sport in Spain and reinforce the close relationship mentioned above. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since in Argentina the Primary Health Care Centers (CAPS) are financed by public funds, the analysis of their efficiency becomes relevant in order to propose improvements in their performance. In this work, DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) is applied to evaluate the technical efficiency of CAPS operating in a city in the interior of Argentina. For this, the CAPS are grouped according to the available specialties (nursing, medical clinic and pediatrics) and the following are used: a DEA BCC (Banker, Charnes y Cooper) output oriented model and a Super-efficiency model to evaluate the technical efficiency in each group. The results differ between the groups. In the CAPS that offer the 3 specialties, most are efficient. On the contrary, in the CAPS that have an infirmary and a medical clinic, as well as those that only have an infirmary, most of the CAPS are considered inefficient. It is concluded that it is possible to improve the efficiency in the use of public resources assigned to the first level of care in the city, based on the increase in the number of consultations or the reduction in the number of working hours, which would allow improving the access to health care for the most vulnerable population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The expenditure that countries make on health systems is related to public health indicators, which include child survival rates and life expectancy, so this relationship can be considered a measure of the efficiency of the health system for each country. This article develops a retrospective descriptive research on health systems. The sample is made up of 19 Latin American countries, and for each country the efficiency of health expenditure was evaluated by means of an enveloping analysis of data oriented towards outputs with delimited variables. The variables used are: public expenditure on health, private expenditure on health, life expectancy and survival rate (neonatal, under 5 years). This information was taken from the World Health Organization and World Bank data repositories. The results of the research indicate that total expenditure on health presents an average annual growth rate of 5.5% and mortality rates (at 5 years and neonatal) were reduced by 41% and 33% respectively. The efficiency of health spending ranged from 90% to 100%. The group formed by Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Jamaica and Nicaragua are the benchmarks in health spending, with respect to child survival rates and life expectancy according to the results of efficiency during the study period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes a methodology to calculate the sustainable added value of the processes (SVA) that form a supply chain (CS), through a comprehensive indicator. The methodology consists of six steps and uses as methods the Life Cycle Analysis and the methods of Diakoulaki and Saaty, based on multiple criteria. When applied to a CS of electromechanical products, it was possible to obtain the SVA of each process and with it the value that each one contributes to the economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. These results demonstrate the novelty and feasibility of applying the developed methodology and its differences with other existing ones in the specialized literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This survey tries to check the outcome achieved by the researchers (Wadud, A., & White, B., 2000) through an alternate methodology that is hold in the stochastic frontier model construction and compare them with those obtained in Data Envelopment Analysis. For it, the authors have performed a researcher in the argentinean northeast silvo pasture sector constructing deterministics and stochastics models and it has the assumption that the production frontier is aptly represented by the mathematical function named translog. It has been demonstrated that as much the variable scale return DEA models as the equivalent to the constant scale return model show greater variability that the stochastic frontier measures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the presence of the pandemic caused by covid-19, digital platforms were implemented to continue with the education processes from isolation. In the case of higher education that imparts various areas of knowledge, different results were identified in the use of the same digital platforms. In response to this, it was necessary to analyze how the technological characteristics implemented at a higher level in Mexico have influenced the participation, attendance and evaluation of students by area of knowledge. Therefore, a data envelopment analysis was performed to measure the efficiency of the inputs and outputs described by the literature; the limitations of the research was circumscribed by the amount of data to be analyzed. As a result, it was identified that the greater the number of features added to the digital platforms, the better levels of participation, attendance and evaluation of students by academic area. Likewise, when considering future lines of research, it is considered ideal to elaborate on the various methods of digital evaluation, such as the digital portfolio and feedback. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Colombia, numerous methods have been implemented to measure the efficacy of secondary education institutions. The purpose of this study is to establish the efficiency of these institutions, using an innovative methodology known as Stochastic Non-Parametric Envelopment Analysis of Data (StoNED) with an output-oriented measurement. A visualization of the relationship between efficiency and the management of the education secretariats by department is proposed. Institutions are taken as decision units, based on the results of students' SABER 11 tests, considering two levels of aggregation, by institution and by department. A slight difference is found in the proportion of institutions that present technical efficiency with respect to those that do not. Moreover, it is identified that most of the institutions that do not present technical efficiency are those of an official nature, and those located in rural areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this research is to calculate the level of efficiency and productivity of the main seaports in North America in 2010-2018. The methodology used in the first stage is Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in which the technical efficiency is calculated, later in a second stage the change in productivity is obtained by instrumenting the Malmquist Index, which is disaggregated into two factors: "change technical" (Frontier-Shift) and the "efficiency change" (Catch-Up). The results show that on average it was the port of Los Angeles that had the highest growth in productivity, however, the values obtained in general indicate the lack of port policies for the terminals to better optimize their resources and encourage port development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Diversos estudios defienden la complejidad económica como modo alternativo de comprender el bienestar. Cada vez más trabajos parten del análisis envolvente de datos (DEA) estándar, pero no se encontraron estudios que los compararan con modelos más avanzados o que consideraran la sofisticación económica como insumo del desarrollo humano. El objetivo es cubrir esta laguna, comparando modelos DEA estándar y SBM como herramientas para medir la eficiencia de los países al convertir complejidad económica en desarrollo humano. Se elaboró el índice compuesto de desarrollo humano y complejidad económica (ICDH-CE), que se aplicó a 50 países con datos de 2013, y se concluyó que los modelos estándar sobrevaloran la eficiencia de los países, especialmente de los más desarrollados y prósperos. En cambio, los modelos SBM proporcionan una mejor clasificación. Finalmente, el ICDH-CE muestra que Singapur es la única economía que transforma de manera eficiente la complejidad económica en desarrollo humano. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the study is to measure the technical efficiency in secondary education institutions (IEM), in Florencia, Colombia, and to identify actions to strengthen educational management from the perspective of the rectors. The research is of a mixed type and the technical efficiency indicator was determined in a sample of 18 IEM, based on the analysis of the data envelope. An interview was conducted with the Directors of the IEMs and a DOFA (Weaknesses, Opportunities, Strengths, Threats) matrix was constructed. The results indicate that 39% of the IEM are efficient and 61% have potential for improvement in the use of classroom capacity and teaching work. Awareness activities are proposed for the academic community and parents, on the importance of the educational process and results of the Saber tests and the fulfillment of the resources for the School Feeding Programs and transportation service. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The expenditure that countries make on health systems is related to public health indicators, which include child survival rates and life expectancy, so this relationship can be considered a measure of the efficiency of the health system for each country. This article develops a retrospective descriptive research on health systems. The sample is made up of 19 Latin American countries, and for each country the efficiency of health expenditure was evaluated by means of an enveloping analysis of data oriented towards outputs with delimited variables. The variables used are: public expenditure on health, private expenditure on health, life expectancy and survival rate (neonatal, under 5 years). This information was taken from the World Health Organization and World Bank data repositories. The results of the research indicate that total expenditure on health presents an average annual growth rate of 5.5% and mortality rates (at 5 years and neonatal) were reduced by 41% and 33% respectively. The efficiency of health spending ranged from 90% to 100%. The group formed by Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Jamaica and Nicaragua are the benchmarks in health spending, with respect to child survival rates and life expectancy according to the results of efficiency during the study period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a mixed methodology employing data envelopment analysis, this article evaluates the relative efficiency of 19 Colombian National Army research groups to create collaborative improvement plans that produce synergies and generate better future results based on the indicators and characteristics evaluated. The results show a wide margin for improvement for the groups evaluated. However, six of these groups have a relative efficiency of 100 %, indicating a higher level of maturation. Thus, we propose a sponsorship program by these six groups for the group-sets resulting from an allocation model with clear purposes. This design would allow significant advances in the Army's research system results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The situation of violence in Mexico shows an alarming trend as the number of committed crimes increased by 10.9% in 2021 compared to 2020. In fact, 75.6% of the Mexican population perceives the insecurity. Due to the above, it is necessary to strengthen public security to combat this trend. However, the resources allocated to the public security in Mexico are limited. Although there are studies that investigate what causes the violence in Mexico, so far there is no study that measures the efficiency of combating the violence related to budgetary, human, and material resources of the public security. This article investigates the efficiency of combating the property violence in 206 municipalities in the Northwest region of Mexico through the Data Envelopment Analysis. The results show a low efficiency (56.67%) with significant differences between the states in the region. Baja California is the state with the lowest efficiency (17.61%), whereas the highest efficiency is found in Durango (67.25%). For the last, the need to carefully plan changes in the police force and the public security infrastructure was noted to improve the efficiency and the level of security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this research was to propose variables to be used as a basis for analyzing efficiency in the nickel mining. Compared to the rest of the world, in Cuba the application of mathematical methods that do not require specification of a functional form has been limited, so this research proposes Data Envelopment Analysis as an effective benchmarking tool. This technique makes it possible to identify elements that determine the establishment of goals and contributes to the development of action plans that allow companies to be efficient in an environmentally responsible manne Based on the results, it is proposed to use the tons of nickel produced in Cuba as a product variable in the efficiency analysis. The technical indicators such as input or resource variables and the technical indicators (capital productivity), expressed through the Global Effectiveness of the Equipment (OEE), and labor productivity, as well as the economic and environmental indicators that are better weighted in the selected units. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this research is to determine the efficiency of the international trade logistics network of nineteen of the APEC region by the year 2016. We work towards this goal using the methodology of the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Network. In the instrumentation of the network, two nodes are considered; in the first one, the inputs are the infrastructure and the transport services, and the outputs are considered to be the logistics services, the costs and the execution time. The outputs of the first node constitute the inputs of the second, while the outputs of the second node are the volume and value of exports. The results show that none of the countries studied were efficient in their international trade logistics network. The six countries with the highest scores during the review period were China with 0.65, Vietnam with 0.56, Peru with 0.35, Russia with 0.35, Republic of Korea with 0.33 and Singapore with 0.32. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It is expected that this research will contribute to the economic literature on the importance of evaluating the impact of public policies in order to improve the allocation of financial resources as well as contribute to the productivity and efficiency of companies. For this, the REINDUS program has been taken as a reference, one of the most representative instruments of industrial policy in Spain, which grants, among others, soft loans to companies with the purpose of promoting industrial development through business improvement and efficiency of the productive sectors. The period analyzed includes calls between 2009 and 2014, based on 689 SMEs with required information. Therefore, the objective of this research is focused on advancing in the specification about the usefulness of soft loans, as an instrument of industrial policy, from the perspective of productivity and efficiency, in this way, it will be possible to contribute to the development of indicators and policies for monitoring and adapting the aid programs to companies, in order to optimize the allocation of these resources and generate the desired effects in the various public policies to support the development of the business fabric in Spain. To study the improvement of productivity through the total change of the Total Factor Productivity (TFP), the Malmquist Index, initially introduced in the context of the consumer theory by Malmquist (1953), and the decompositions of Färe, Grosskopf et al. (1989, 1994) that assumed constant returns to scale using data envelopment analysis techniques, DEA (Orea and Zofío, 2017). Following this decomposition, we can calculate: (i) the productivity behavior (malmquist), (ii) the change in efficiency (effch), (iii) the technological change (tech). Färe, Grosskopf et al. (1994), provided the decomposition of efficiency into scale efficiency (out / in-.scalech) and into pure efficiency change (pure.out / in.effch), finally, following Färe, Grifell-Tatjé et al. (1997), we can obtain the marginal rate of substitution (input-biased technical change -ibtech-) and the marginal rate of product transformation (output-biased technical change -obtech-) in presence of technological change and the magnitude of technical change -matech-. To perform the necessary matching for the proposed analysis and because we are facing a quasi-experimental design, a combination of techniques is proposed, such as the analysis of Differences in Differences and the Matching by Nearby Neighbors using Mahalanobis Distance, to try to reduce the risk of bias in the estimation, since simple matching cannot account for unobservable characteristics (Pérez and Moral, 2015). To match the control and treatment groups, a model is used in which the criteria of financial capacity prevail, widely recognized by the literature on credit risk as determining factors when establishing the financing capacity of companies. The analysis of the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and its components in the study period, shows that the treated companies reduced their productivity on average, for example, the treated companies in the 2009 call shown a reduction in the TFP (malmquist) between 2012 and 2008 of 9%, while in the control companies the reduction was 7%. In the best case, call 2014, practically the same level of productivity was maintained among those treated (loss of 1% between 2013 and 2017). It was expected, therefore, that the investments made would have a positive effect on productivity, however, the results show the opposite, in fact, if technological change (tech) is observed, which implies a shift of the production frontier, presented a significant setback, it is striking, since it was the one that most contributed to the negative variation of the TFP in the analyzed period. The improvements came from positive changes in efficiency (effch), probably motivated by the reduction in wage costs after the crisis of 2007 and in line with the evolution of the labor market and the destruction of jobs in these years. Following the Färe decomposition, Grifell - Tatjé et al. (1997) we calculated the alternative directions of the bias of the inputs in the technological change. The STAF / FIAS input pair presented a bias towards the use fixed assets compared to savings in personnel expenses in the treated companies when technological change occurs, the same occurs with the treated companies in the FIAS / MATE relation, To the extent that this input is used, it generates savings in the production needed materials. In general, the impact of the program did not show a positive effect within the treated companies compared to the control companies, in fact, there were setbacks in productivity (malmquist), mainly due to the technological setback (tech-frontier shift), which was largely offset by change in efficiency (effch-catch up). This technological decrease supposes a deviation from the policy objectives on the results obtained, therefore, emphasis will have to be placed on carrying out an exhaustive analysis of possible agency conflicts within the companies, on adjustment costs not contemplated in the policy, the amount of the loans and the execution of the projects proposed in such a way that the disbursements are subject to milestones that guarantee their execution. It is proposed to design a monitoring strategy based on information technologies to facilitate and promote feedback on the objectives that allows managers to have up-to-date, quality, and robust information, recognizing that such responsibility also falls on the beneficiaries of the policy, since it is a public instrument on which companies must be accountable to society, making it a fundamental requirement to provide periodic information by the beneficiary to monitor the progress of the investments contemplated in the investment projects contributed in the time of application. Likewise, greater involvement is required from the managing entity in the realization of the business plans, mainly in the actions immediately after the disbursement, as carried out by private investment funds. This work contributes to the economic literature a detailed analysis about the impact of the soft loans of the REINDUS program on the productivity and efficiency of the companies in the period 2009 to 2014, identifying the sources of the observed change on which the policy objectives can be adjusted to maximize its effectiveness, there is no previous work in this regard. The main limitation of this work was presented in the information available for the realization of the paper. The aid Managing Administration (Dirección General de Industria y de la Pyme in 2017) refers to the Boletín Oficial del Estado where the results of the respective calls are published as the only source of information available to third parties, with the limitation that this implies. It was not until the results of the 2016 call that the rejected companies began to be published and in 2018 the scores obtained by the companies benefited exclusively, which indicates that there is a path to consolidate the institutionalization of the impact evaluation of public policies within of the Public Administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study analyse the technical efficiency in terms of innovation of the firms in the service sector in the Uruguayan economy. Therefore, we use data from the 2010-2012 Innovation Activities Survey of the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII). In a first stage, we estimate the level of efficiency of each company through a Data Envelopment Analysis model, incorporating the inputs and outputs related to the innovative activity of the firms. The results reveal that, despite the effort made in terms of investment in innovation, the results are still very poor. On average, the companies analysed could increase their innovation production by 44.5% given the resources invested. Subsequently, we explore the relationship between innovative efficiency and several characteristics of the firms. In this sense, we found that medium-sized firms have lower efficiency than small and large companies. The results can be useful for both those responsible for the area of innovation of the firms, as well as to the institutions that provide support in the field of innovation (such as the ANII), since they provide substantive evidence to improve the orientation of the innovative strategy to be followed by firms in the service sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The application of stochastic DEA models using Bayesian Statistics is a technique that has been emerging in recent years, to be used it, simulation of multivariate probability distributions is necessary. A bivariate generator for continuous variable will be presented. Additionally, a discretization has been created on it to achieve simulations of a posteriori distributions with easy way to apply it. Application of the generator to two functions of bivariate probability density will be presented, one of them normal, with their respective tests of goodness of fit. Data from the education sector was used in the database of the DANE (National Administrative Department of Statistics) Colombia to solve the problem of a Bayesian stochastic DEA model. The results show the utility, power and easy implementation of the generator proposed in this type of problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In recent years, predicting the behavior of the Benchmark Banking Indicator (ibr) has become relevant due to its importance in the Colombian money market. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the efficiency of lstm networks for generating predictions of time series --through their long and shortterm memory-- that are comparable with the arima predictive model for econometric studies. The incidence of the representative market rate (trm) and the rate of 10-year public debt bonds (tes) was analyzed and compared to the ibr, seeking to determine its correlation through the Pearson method. Finally, the model efficiency was evaluated with the mean square error (rmse), using a multivariable lstm network with three inputs (ibr, tes, and trm) and one output. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the study of welfare systems, the relation of the social expenditure and the indicators of vulnerability as poverty rates or income inequality indexes focus a great interest in the literature. In this way, we evaluate the productivity of social transfer policies of EU15 states, which are the countries with more consolidated Welfare States within EU28, during the period 2011-2015, with data envelopment analysis. Subsequently, with a fuzzy clustering method we identify the existing patterns of social expenditures and their efficiency. We identify three groups. The first of them embeds most of the Nordic and continental welfare states. The second group is only made up with Luxembourg and Ireland, that are the countries with the lowest social spending but at the same time, they are within the group of efficient countries. The third group is made up of Mediterranean welfare states and United Kingdom and they are the less efficient countries in reducing vulnerability indexes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]