For example, if the score for a hospital is 0.80 as measured in the input direction, its inefficiency is 20% and it could produce its output with 20% less input.
In contrast, American ethanol produces only 1.5 units of energy output per unit of input, but its inefficiency is underwritten by government subsidies and high tariff walls.
For ({text{DMU}}_{1}) and ({text{DMU}}_{4}), the main source of its inefficiency is FA category.
To praise one life saved (Bill Clinton's recent bypass surgery) by the efficiency of the system and ignore those who die because of its inefficiency is wrong.
Although Pemex employs many talented people, its inefficiencies are huge.
The fate of the elderly in the final years of the Soviet Union, when the planned economy was collapsing under the weight of its own inefficiency, was pretty dreadful.On the other hand, the pope is technically right, in the sense that he is reading his own rule-book correctly.
The corresponding implication for e.g. the health facility in Bagala is that it operates locally efficient (BCC efficient, pure technical efficiency = 1), whereas its overall technical inefficiency is caused by its failure to achieve scale efficiency, represented by SE = 0.5207.
The inefficiency was also high design.
When the inefficiency was pointed out, the answer was that the inefficiency was, at least partly, the point.
Mr. Bezos's response is that, yes, inefficiency was all part of the plan.
