Renato Villano

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ binary logit and Poisson estimators to model socioeconomic, institutional and environmental factors influencing the adoption of certified seeds, in particular, and integrated crop management practices, in general, in rice production in the Philippines.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relative technical efficiency of urban water utilities in regional New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria is investigated using data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the efficiency consequences of a number of recent urban water policy initiatives.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of financial inclusion on poverty and vulnerability to poverty of Ghanaian households was examined using data extracted from the seventh round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey in 2016/17, a multiple correspondence analysis is employed to generate a financial inclusion index, and three-stage feasible least squares is used to estimate households' vulnerabilities to poverty.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed technical inefficiency in a rainfed lowland rice environment in Central Luzon using a stochastic frontier production function with a heteroskedastic error structure.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the impact of modern rice technologies on farm productivity while disentangling technology gaps (the distance between production frontiers) from managerial gaps (differences in technical efficiency) using cross-sectional farm-level data from 3,164 rice-farming households in the Philippines.