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Value Creation and Profit Optimization
Winther, K. Tobias - EconWPA - 2002
it the cost: the following step is to analyze the cost structure and understand how it scales with market size. (6) By …
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managing design complexity
vassilakis, spyros - EconWPA - 2002
complexity in improving cost, quality, variety, and time--to--market performance variables. Management of design complexity is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134510
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Resources Used to Produce Individual Development Accounts in the First Two Years of the Experimental Program of the American Dream Demonstration at the Community Action Project of...
Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001
achieve their intended purposes cost-effectively. Financial benefit-cost analysis is a key part of this evaluation, and the … estimates of resource use in this paper are key inputs to the financial benefit-cost analysis. Financial costs are estimated … estimates of cost from the point of view of society as a whole (about $53,000 for 1998 and about $135,000 for 1999) and acts as …
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Payment systems efficiency, policy approaches, and the role of the central bank
Khiaonarong, Tanai - EconWPA - 2004
enhancing than the competitive and public service policy alternatives, due to higher cost-reducing effects, stronger private …
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managing design complexity
vassilakis, spyros - EconWPA - 2002
complexity in improving cost, quality, variety, and time--to--market performance variables. Management of design complexity is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412910
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Arrangements for Setting Drinking Water Standards
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002
This study forms part of a continuing program of research benchmarking the performance of economic infrastructure industries. Earlier studies have focused on information about outcomes, such as prices and productivity. This study of the water sector, however, compares regulatory processes for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134979
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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR:NIGERIA
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES,...
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Distribution of the Economic Gains of the 1990s
Parham, Dean; Barnes, Paula; Roberts, Paul; Kennett, Sharon - EconWPA - 2001
„h Australia¡¦s surge in productivity growth in the 1990s fuelled an acceleration in growth in total income and average income (income per person in Australia). ¡V Annual average income growth accelerated from 1.4 per cent in the 1970s and 1980s to 2.5 per cent in the 1990s. ¡V Faster...
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Determinants of Economic Growth and the Role of Human Capital in New Growth Models [in Turkish]
Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2005
This paper briefly summarizes and discusses that type of new growth models which are based on externalities created by investments in human capital. ***** TURKCE OZET: Bu makalede, yeni/içsel buyume modellerinin beseri sermayeye dayali turlerini ozetlemekte ve degerlendirmektedir. [Calisma...
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Returns to Education, Child Labor, & Schooling in India
Chamarbagwala, Rubiana - EconWPA - 2004
scarce, parental investments in their children's education may not be driven entirely by poverty and credit constraints. We … offer evidence that children's participation in child labor and schooling responds to economic returns to education in India …, which suggests implementing policies that raise the economic benefits of education - such as creating more high-skilled jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556051