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

Chaffai, Mohamed; Kinda, Tidiane; Plane, Patrick - HAL - 2011

-based simulations are then proposed in order to assess productivity gains which would occur if firms had the opportunity to evolve in …

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Estimación de frontera de producción para el sector de agua y saneamiento en América Latina

Ferro, Gustavo; Paula, Covelli; Romero, Carlos A. - HAL - 2010

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo efectuar estimaciones econométricas sobre eficiencia relativa de empresas prestadoras de agua y saneamiento sobre una muestra en América Latina, con datos de panel para el período 2003-2008. El estudio procura como importante subproducto, aportar información...

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Market power and voluntary land redistribution

Ménager, Lucie; Valente, Christine - HAL - 2011

Inequality in land ownership remains a major issue in many developing countries, such as Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa. Donors advocate a new model of "willing-buyer/willing-seller\", market-led land redistribution, but actual redistribution has fallen short of expectations. Little effort...

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The Brazilian organic food sector: Prospects and constraints of facilitating the inclusion of smallholders

Blanc, Julien; Kledal, Paul - HAL - 2012

The Brazilian organic food sector has experienced important growth during the last two decades. Brazilian smallholders … Institutional Economics and socio-anthropology, we analyze six experiences of Brazilian smallholders who converted to organics in … inclusion of smallholders into all three food systems. We confirmed the arguments in support of pursuing the agroecological …

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

Mitra, Arup; Sharma, Chandan; Veganzones, Marie-Ange - HAL - 2011

that core infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) matter for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and …

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

GUO, Huanxiu; Marchand, Sébastien - HAL - 2013

This paper aims to test the effect of smallholder farmers' participatory social learning on their gain of performance in a village of southwest China. By exploring a panel structure survey data collected in the village, we identify the social learning effect using a Spatial Autoregressive (SAR)...

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

Audibert, Martine; Huang, Xiao Xian; Mathonnat, Jacky; … - HAL - 2012

In the rural health-care organization of China, township hospitals ensure the delivery of basic medical services. Particularly damaged by the economic reforms implemented from 1975 to the end of the 1990s, township hospitals efficiency is questioned, mainly with the implementation since 2003 of...

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Identification of Segments of French Urban Public Transport with a Latent Class Frontier Model

Roy, William; Barros, Carlos - HAL - 2007

This paper analyses technical efficiency of French urban public transport from 1995 to 2002 with unbalanced panel data. The latent class frontier model is used allowing the identification of different segments in the production frontier. We find that there are three statistically significant...

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

Arcand, Jean-Louis; Borodak, Daniela - HAL - 2011

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 Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach suggested by Fried, Schmidt and Yaisawang … productivity observed in our sample, while class membership is slightly more successful. Our empirical model of class structure …

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Chaos in economics and finance

Guegan, Dominique - HAL - 2007

In this article, we specify the different approaches followed by the economists and the financial economists in order to use chaos theory. We explain the main difference using this theory with other research domains like the mathematics and the physics. Finally, we present tools necessary for...

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