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Sources of Output Growth in Indian Agriculture during the Post-Reform Period
Shanmugam, K.R.; Soundararajan, Vidhya - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
, low productivity, lack of credit at reasonable rates, natural calamities and unavailability of proper extension services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365194
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Short term gain, long term pain? Impact of New Zealand’s fiscal stimulus - A dynamic general equilibrium analysis
Giesecke, James; Schilling, Chris - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
spending cuts and productivity improvements, tax reforms, and asset sales. We find that a policy that reduces the cost of …-targeted spending on infrastructure to deliver long run productivity improvements. Given New Zealands longer term growth challenge, any … fiscal efforts to stabilise the economy and avoid a more severe recession should have productivity at the centre of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363981
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Emerging Issues in Promoting Competition Policy in the APEC and ASEAN Countries
Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This paper looks at the emerging issues and problems in promoting competition policy and coordinating its implementation under regional arrangements, particularly the APEC and the ASEAN. Implementing competition policy is a big challenge. As the review of country experiences shows,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365325
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Technical Efficiency and Its Determinants in Gansu, West China
Sun, Sizhong - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper analyses the technical efficiency problem in Gansu Province, West China, using firm-level cross-sectional data. Compared with previous studies, which mostly focus on industries, this paper focuses on a geographic area instead. By applying the stochastic frontier framework, this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363772
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Efficiency of Large Scale Manufacturing in Pakistan : A Production Frontier Approach
Mahmood, Tariq; Ghani, Ejaz; Din, Musleh-ud - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper examines the efficiency of the large scale manufacturing sector of Pakistan using the stochastic production frontier approach. A stochastic production frontier is estimated for two periods1995-96 and 2000-01for 101 industries at the 5-digit PSIC. The results show that there has been...
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Technical Efficiency in Agricultural Production and Its Determinants : An Exploratory Study at the District Level
Shanmugam, K. R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
to study how improvements can be made in the productivity of this sector. This study attempts to estimate the technical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363990
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Spatial-Temporal Dimensions of Efficiency among Electric Cooperatives in the Philippines
Lavado, Rouselle F.; Barrios, Erniel B. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
The efficiency of 119 electric cooperatives in the Philippines from 1990-2002 is analyzed using a stochastic frontier model augmented with spatial-temporal terms, addressing the underestimation of technical efficiency usually encountered among maximum-likelihood based methods. The model is also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365176
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Spatial Stochastic Frontier Models
Barrios, Erniel B.; Lavado, Rouselle F. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The stochastic frontier model with heterogeneous technical efficiency explained by exogenous variables is augmented with a sparse spatial autoregressive component for a cross-section data, and a spatial-temporal component for a panel data. An estimation procedure that takes advantage of the...
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Health, Technical Efficiency And Agricultural Production In Indian Districts
Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; Shanmugam, K.R.; Ruger, … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
In this study, we attempt to quantify the effect of improved population health on technical efficiency in agricultural production. Using data for over 260 districts in 15 Indian states, we employ the random-coefficients technique to estimate a Cobb-Douglas production function, computing overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365370
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Impact of Services Trade Liberalization on Employment and People Movement in South Asia
Chanda, Rupa - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Services have been a key driver of overall economic growth in South Asia since the 1990s. This paper examines how the growth of services output, trade and investment have affected service sector employment in South Asia and the extent to which countries in this region are proactively undertaking...
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