Do farm-level technical efficiency and welfare complement each other? Insight from Ghana’s cocoa industry
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Conditional Mixed-process (CMP); Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Ghana’s cocoa industry; Technical efficiency; Welfare;All these keywords.
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