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We use panel data for fourteen Indian states to assess the influence of public infrastructure on industrial activity …, namely productivity, employment, real wages and investment, at the state level and over the period 1974-1998. Our results … state real wages and productivity, total highway length is a key variable in determining the level of investment in fixed …
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Cost reduction, along with the satisfaction of patient's and other users' needs, is one of the major concerns of industries and organizations that provide health care services. Hospitals are complex organizations that deal with a wide range of materials. These materials require adequate and...
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The main goal of the promotion paper is to forecast Latvia's current account, and using this forecast to define …, whether the current account deficit is a significant risk factor for Latvian economy. The modelling of Latvia's current … crisis during the time period before Latvia's accession into the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). The econometric models …
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This study uses stochastic Cobb-Douglas production frontier to estimate farm level technical efficiency of rice farms. Average technical efficiency of sampled farms was estimated to be 85 percent with a minimum of 57 percent and a maximum of 96 percent. The results further showed that the visits...
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The main goal of the 'Competitiveness of agro-food and environmental economy’ (CAFEE`12), was to debate new ideas contained in scientifically research in the field of rural development, agro-food economy, agro-food system, ecological performance etc. carried out by academicians, scientists and...
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create barriers and obstacles for development of province. These factors include political instability, poor infrastructure …
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The present study has made attempt to examine the historical trends in the power and its impact on the state economy and to explore the scope for enhancing its generation capacity in the state
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This paper aims to investigate the relationship between physical infrastructure and economic development of Pakistan. A … composite index of physical infrastructure has been constructed through Principal Component Analysis. This has been done by … taking into account three different dimensions of infrastructure i.e. transportation infrastructure, energy infrastructure …
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Indeed, it has been asserted that the most fundamental resource in the modern economy is knowledge while the most important process of economic development is learning. Therefore, e-commerce is an important contributor to the learning process which shapes economic performance. In fact, it...
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This is the second working paper of the UNFPA/ILO Project "Assistance for formulation and implementation of National Population and Human Resource Development" SUD/68/P06. The informal sector survey, subject matter of this report was undertaken in May 1988. Organization of informal sector in...
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