Assesing the Impact of the Investment Climate on Productivity Using Firm-Level Data: Methodology and the Cases of Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua [PDF]
, 2005 Developing countries are increasingly concerned about improving country competitiveness and productivity, as they face the increasing pressures of globalization and attempt to improve economic growth and reduce poverty.
Escribano, Álvaro, Guasch, J. Luis
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American Business ReviewThe study investigates the dynamics of interaction between bank competition and risk networks of the Indian banking system between 2010 to 2020. It has estimated bank competition using the Lerner Index through the translog cost function and bank risk ...
Abhishek Poddar, Arun Misra
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Contribution of the Technical Efficiency of Public Health Programs to National Trends and Regional Disparities in Unintentional Childhood Injury in Japan. [PDF]
Front Public Health, 2022 Hashimoto A, Kawaguchi H, Hashimoto H.
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Smallholders' Cost Efficiency in Mozambique: Implications for Improved Maize Seed Adoption [PDF]
Maize is an important staple in Mozambique. It is also a dominant crop produced by smallholder farmers. However, the actual maize yields, currently estimated at 1.4 tons/ha, fall short of potential yields of 5-6.5 tons/ha.
Christy, Ralph D. +2 more
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The potential of energy substitution in the industrial sector [PDF]
, 2007 The extent of substitutability between energy and the other factors (i.e. labour and capital) and between individual fuels (coal, electricity, natural gas and petroleum) is an extremely important question and quite central to energy policy, planning and
Abd. Aziz, Azlina
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Prudent Electricity Procurement by a Load Serving Entity
EnergiesMotivated by the projected solar and wind capacity additions around the world, we model the energy procurement decision of a load serving entity (LSE) faced with alternatives of solar power purchase agreements (PPAs), wind PPAs, non-renewable energy ...
Kang Hua Cao +4 more
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Public sector efficiency in the design of a COVID fund for the euro area. [PDF]
Res Econ, 2022 Olanubi OE, Olanubi SO.
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Evidence on Allocative Efficiency and Elasticities of Substitution in the Manufacturing Sector of Pakistan [PDF]
This study investigates the nature of allocative inefficiencies in large scale manufacturing sector of Pakistan over the period of 1969-70 to 1990-91. The study employ translog cost function to examine allocative inefficiency with capital labor and raw ...
Eatzaz Ahmed, Sohail Zafar
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Analysing industrial water demand in India: An input distance function approach. [PDF]
This study investigates the water demand of Indian manufacturing plants. It adopts an input distance function approach and approximates it by a translog form.
Kumar, Surender
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The stochastic frontier analysis technique in measuring the technical and economic efficiency of hospital diagnostic laboratories: a case study in Iran. [PDF]
Cost Eff Resour Alloc, 2022 Aghlmand S +4 more
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