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Flower farming and flower marketing in West Bengal : a study of efficiency and sustainability
Sarker, Debnarayan; Chakravorty, Sanjukta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
For diversification in agriculture, one of the areas that have emerged as a fast growing sector recently in West Bengal is floriculture. In an attempt to examine empirically the relative efficiency between commercial traditional floriculture and its competing main field crops – Paddy, Jute,...
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Technical and Environmental efficiencies and Best Management Practices in Agriculture
Tamini, Lota D.; Larue, Bruno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
productivity index and the Fisher index. The two indices are used to measure changes in technology, profitability, efficiency, and … profitability, efficiency and productivity. … productivity in response to the adoption of 2 selected best management practices (BMPs) whose objective is to reduce water …
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Performance, IT maturity and offshoring behaviour of Italian manufacturing corporations in the dire straits of globalisation
de Panizza, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This study examines productivity and profitability of Italian manufacturing corporations in relation to IT usage and … productivity, although the significance of intensity variables depends on employment size and industry. The same occurs for some ….e. wage levels). These variables also show a positive impact on profitability, although limited to productions which are easy …
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Measurement of Efficiency of Banks in India
Varadi, Vijay Kumar; Mavaluri, Pradeep Kumar; Boppana, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Indian banks we have used four indicators i.e, profitability, productivity, asset quality and financial management for all …
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Welfare Effects of Water Pricing in Germany
Müller, Christopher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The observed two-part tariff price structure (consisting of a lump-sum price and a linear marginal price) for drinking water in Germany does not reflect the cost structure reported in the literature. Recovering marginal costs from a sample of 251 German counties, we see that there are positive...
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Ethnic minority children’s access to public services in Vietnam
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This study provides an analysis of access to public services of ethnic minority children. The main data sets are from a Baseline Survey of the Program 135-II in 2007, Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys 2004 and 2006, and the 15-percent sample of the Population and Housing Census 2009. It...
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Strategic Japanese business visions – possible transposes in public services
Grigorescu, Adriana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Frequently, the „Japanese miracle” was a subject of discussion. The book „The Strategist Brain Power – The Business Art in Japan”, by Kenichi Ohmae (Japan, 1975) when the business environment was confronted with serious problems. The book brings, also in Romania (1998), a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008645125
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Serviciile publice între nevoia cetăţeanului şi posibilităţile administraţiei
Grigorescu, Adriana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper aims at the balance between the citizen and the public authorities with public services as an interface. Public services place themselves at the crossroads of many elements such as: needs of the citizen, social need, public will, public resources, private availability, and civic...
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Bringing Citizens Back In: Renewing Public Service Regulation
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Fernández … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This essay concerns the ways in which public services – particularly household services such as communications, energy, water and transportation – have been regulated and deregulated, and analyses what consequences this has for users and citizens. Much of the deregulation of public services...
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Warfare, Fiscal Capacity, and Performance
Dincecco, Mark; Prado, Mauricio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We exploit differences in casualties sustained in pre-modern wars to estimate the impact of fiscal capacity on economic performance. In the past, states fought different amounts of external conflicts, of various lengths and magnitudes. To raise the revenues to wage wars, states made fiscal...
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