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productivity and efficiency: a review of concepts, methods and empirical work / Tiho Ancev, M. A. Samad Azad and Mahmuda Akter -- 3 … productivity analysis, emphasizing the link between productivity and efficiency measurement, and environmental impacts. The purpose … of the book is to present new approaches and methods for measuring environmentally adjusted productivity and efficiency …
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in science / Tasso Brandt and Torben Schubert -- 9. How and why does cost efficiency of universities differ across …. Scale and research specialization in European universities : a directional distance approach to teaching efficiency / Andrea …
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productivity and the re-organization of work in the global car industry …Introducing the myth of Japanese efficiency -- Wide selection : a myth encountered -- Production malapropisms : the BMW … totalizing myth : Japanese efficiency as a cultural fiction …
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In spite of massive flows over the past 50 years, aid has failed to have any significant impact on development. Marginalization from the world economy and increases in absolute poverty are causing countries to degenerate into failed, oppressive and, in some cases, dangerous states. To address...
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This book considers the impact of economic reforms on manufacturing performance and explores policy options for promoting manufacturing. Using country-specific case studies spanning Africa, South Asia, South East Asia and Latin America, the authors examine the evidence for and against both trade...
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Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Claude d'Aspremont and Louis-André Gérard-Varet (1979), 'Incentives and …-38 -- 3. Theodore Groves (1973), 'Incentives in Teams', Econometrica, 41 (4), July, 617-31 -- 4. Jean-Jacques Laffont and Eric …. Ledyard and Thomas R. Palfrey (1999), 'A Characterization of Interim Efficiency with Public Goods', Econometrica, 67 (2 …
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Labour Supply and Incentives to Work in Europe highlights recent developments in the labour supply in Europe and gives …pt. 1. Incentives to work -- pt. 2. Factors affecting labour force participation -- pt. 3. New forms of employment …
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This book analyses the policy mixes that provide the best possible incentives for firms and governments to act on … barriers of the Kyoto Protocol for industry; and the incentives for firms to undertake climate-related R&D and investments. As … of the Kyoto protocol : costs, benefits and incentives to ratification and new international regimes …
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Incentives to Improve Education identifies three categories of incentives: rewards, (financial rewards for teachers …
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This book revisits traditional evaluation methods, such as cost-benefit analysis, to try and find a balance between the ever-increasing demand for transport, the search for sustainable mobility and green transport solutions, and the limited financial resources that governments are able to invest...
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