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Is participatory social learning a performance driver for Chinese smallholder farmers?

MARCHAND, Sébastien; GUO, Huanxiu - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2013

in a village of southwest China. By exploring a panel structure survey data collected in the village, we identify the …

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Health Insurance Reform and Efficiency of Township Hospitals in Rural China: An Analysis from Survey Data

HUANG, Xiao Xian; PELISSIER, Aurore; MATHONNAT, Jacky; … - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2011

In the rural health-care organization of China, township hospitals ensure the delivery of basic medical services … also that in the context of China, the efficiency of township hospitals is influenced by unobservable factors. …

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Decentralization in Africa and the nature of local governments' competition: evidence from Benin

ROTA-GRAZIOSI, Grégoire; CALDEIRA, Emilie; FOUCAULT, … - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2010

Without denying particular dimensions of the decentralisation in Sub-Saharan countries, this paper applies standard reasoning from the fiscal federalism literature to a developing country and tests the existence of strategic interactions among local Beninese governments, called 'communes'. We...

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Total Factor Productivity and Technical Efficiency of Indian Manufacturing: The Role of Infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology

VEGANZONES-VAROUDAKIS, Marie-Ange; MITRA, Arup; SHARMA, … - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2011

Drawing on a recent dataset of the Indian manufacturing industry for 1994 to 2008, this paper shows for eight sectors that core infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) matter for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and Technical Efficiency (TE).In the analysis, we use a range...

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Explaining Productivity Differentials in Eastern European Agriculture: Efficiency or Class Structure ?

BORODAK, Daniela; ARCAND, Jean-Louis - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2006

This paper considers whether it is differences in technical efficiency or differences in factor endowments that explain productivity differentials in Moldovan agriculture. We compute non-parametric measures of technical efficiency for a sample of Moldovan small-holders using the four-step Data...

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Technical Efficiency Measurement within the Ivorian Manufacturing Sector: a Data Envelopment Analysis Approach

PLANE, Patrick; CHAPELLE, Karine - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2002

The African industrial structure is characterised by a strong firm-size heterogeneity with a co-existence of small if not micro-enterprises of the informal sector and large formal organisations operating with a modern technology. In this paper, we investigate the technical efficiency of Ivorian...

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Textile manufacturing in eight developing countries:How far does the business environment explain firms’ productive inefficiency?

PLANE, Patrick; KINDA, Tidiane; CHAFFAI, Mohamed - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2009

Production frontiers and inefficiency determinants are estimated by using stochastic models. Textile manufacturing is considered for a sample of eight developing countries encompassing about one thousand firms. We find that the most influential individual inefficiency determinants relate to...

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Beggar-thy-Neighbor Effects of Currency Undervaluation: Is China the Tip of the Iceberg?

MBAYE, Samba - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2012

. Finally, our estimates suggest that the external effect of China’s renminbi, which has been the focus of the profession thus … far, might be “the tip of the iceberg”: the latter two results carry over when China’s trade data are excluded from the …

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Foreign Direct Investment across China: what should we learn from spatial dependences?

BATISSE, Cécile; RENARD, Mary-Françoise; TANIMOUNE, … - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2013

specifications, we present a much clearer picture of FDI dispersion and spatial convergence across China by highlighting the …

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Multidimensional Inequalities In China

LABAR, Kelly - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2006

The usual manner of describing inequality in a population, involves income distributions. China has experienced rapid … the financing of such services. The changing face of inequality in China is therefore not confined to income. As such this … different dimensions considered. My results show that there has been a significant increase in inequality in China between 1997 …

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