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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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EARNED VALUE MANAGEMENT.CASE STUDY USING MICROSOFT PROJECT [PDF]
A formalism and a corresponding notation for earned value analysis are presented. With compact, consistent, mnemonic notation, earned value calculations become more transparent and flexible, leading to insights about standard quantities and advances ...
Assoc. Prof. Anca Mehedintu Ph. D +2 more
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Earned Income Tax Credit: Path Dependence and the Blessing of Undertheorization [PDF]
Some commentators have lamented that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is undertheorized—that its purpose is unclear—and that its design is therefore suboptimal.
Adamson, Michael B.
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ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar +2 more
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Earned Business Value Management [PDF]
AbstractIt is time to move on to construction time. This is when epics are distributed to releases and scheduled for further detailing. We use benefit estimates and cost estimates to monitor and adjust this scheduling. We will take an existing practice for cost management and use it for benefit management and benefit/cost management: we adapt what is ...
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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Unemployment spells and income distribution dynamics [PDF]
In the U.S., during the 1948-86 period, an approximation to the Gini Index based on the quintiles and on the top 5% of the income distribution yielded a value of 0.351.
Castañeda, Ana +2 more
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Statistical Control of Time and Cost Performance Indices in Construction Projects: A Case Study [PDF]
The earned value management is a powerful and important techniquein analyzing and controlling the project performance. While it allowsexact measurement of project progress, it lets corrective actions in atimely manner.
Ali Akbar Akbar, Amir Salehipour
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Analisa Pengendalian Proyek Kapal Ahts H 7050 Dengan Metode Earned Value (Studi Kasus Di PT Batamec Shipyard) [PDF]
Konsep “earned value“ merupakan salah satu metode yang digunakan dalam pengelompokan proyek yang mengintegrasikan biaya dan waktu. Dengan menyajikan tiga dimensi yaitu: plan value, earned value dan actual cost dimana dari ketiga unsur tersebut kita bisa ...
Afma, V. M. (Vera) +2 more
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