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Technical Efficiency of Small-Scale Marine Fishing Households: Evidence from a Stochastic Frontier Analysis
International Journal of Economic Practices and Theories
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Technical Efficiency of Small-Scale Marine Fishing Households: Evidence from a Stochastic Frontier Analysis
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Fernando, Ann
Jayasinghe-Mudalige, Udith Edirisinghe, Jagath Udugama, Menuka Herath, Keminda Guruge, Sashika |
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Economics, Econometrics & statistics
Fisheries sector, Stochastic Frontier Analysis, Technical efficiency C13, O12, Q12, Q22 |
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Stochastic Frontier analysis was used to estimate the technical efficiency and to explore the determinants of inefficiency of small-scale marine fishing households in Sri Lanka. Data were collected from a randomly selected sample of 124 fishing households from four coastal villages (Kadawatha, Ulhitiyawa, Kolinjadiya, Katuneriya) located in the Chilaw Fishing District from March to April 2014 by means of in-depth personal interviews carried out with the help of a pre-tested structured questionnaire, followed by on-site inspection of resources utilized by each household for marine fishing. Six Stochastic Frontiers were estimated, assuming three specifications for distribution of the inefficiency term (i.e. Half normal, Truncated normal, Exponential), for the Cobb-Douglas and Translogrithmic Frontiers. The Likelihood Ratio tests carried out in this context confirmed that the Translogrithmic form to be the best fit. The results reveal that Mean Technical Efficiency of the households was 59.8% in relation to the most efficient household in the sample, or stated differently, an efficiency gain of 40.2% can further be achieved with the existing resource-base. The inefficiency model indicates that increase in household size increases the efficiency due to increase in availability of labor. It highlights the necessity of capacity development of small-scale fishing communities, alongside provision of a schema of appropriate economic incentives to promote adoption of appropriate technology and coordinated action towards effective utilization of existing resource-base, which largely possess the characteristics of a ‘public good’
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International Journal of Economic Practices and Theories
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2015-04-01
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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http://www.ijept.org/index.php/ijept%20/article/view/Technical_Efficiency_of_Small-Scale_Marine_Fishing_Households_Evidence_from_a_Stochastic_Frontier_Analysis
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International Journal of Economic Practices and Theories; Vol 5, No 2 (2015); 69-77
2247 – 7225 |
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eng
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http://www.ijept.org/index.php/ijept%20/article/view/Technical_Efficiency_of_Small-Scale_Marine_Fishing_Households_Evidence_from_a_Stochastic_Frontier_Analysis/pdf_88
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