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L’echec de la croissance de la productivite agricole en afrique francophone

Nkamleu, Guy Blaise - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This paper examines changes in agricultural productivity in 8 French-speaking countries. The relative performance of agricultural sector was gauged using data envelopment analysis. From a panel data set of the 8 countries, which included the 30-year period 1970-2000, mathematical programming...

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Technical efficiency, technological change and total factor productivity growth in Malaysian manufacturing sector

Jajri, Idris; Ismail, Rahmah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The manufacturing sector is becoming more important for the Malaysia economy. The contribution of output and employment from this sector is continuously increasing since the 1980 an, except for certain period when an economy experiences recession. Viewing from its capacity to spearhead economic...

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Enhancing technological progress in a market-socialist context:China's national innovation system at the crossroads

Gabriele, Alberto; Khan, Ali Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper analyzes the available evidence of China's S&T, R&D, and innovative capabilities, to provide an assessment … policy suggestions aimed at improving China's overall innovation strategy. Our approach focuses particularly on the evolving … relationship between China's NSI and the country's overall market socialist social and economic system - both of which are …

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Windows of opportunity: lead poisoning prevention, housing affordability, and energy conservation

Nevin, Rick; Jacobs, David; E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

We used housing demolition and window replacement rates to forecast prevalence trends for childhood lead poisoning and lead paint hazards from 1990 to 2010 for the President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children. The mid-point of that forecast has now been...

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Towards a sustainable development of the chinese economy: Accomplishments and challenges in limiting greenhouse gas emissions

Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

Implementation of AIJ for China”. It focuses on five issues or questions: the subject of the paper, China’s concerns about clean … development mechanism, what China has done so far in limiting its carbon emissions, what can be expected from China at the … international climate change negotiations subsequent to Buenos Aires, and whether combating global climate change is in China …

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Analysis of Innovation and Energy Profiles in the Turkish Manufacturing Sector

Okay, Nesrin; Konukman, Alp Er S.; Akman, Ugur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We present Turkey’s manufacturing-sector innovation data and, for the first time, analyze likely relationships among GDP growth, sectoral innovation intensities, energy consumptions, and energy-saving potentials. We detect a power-law-like relationship between the projected energy-saving...

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Multicriterial Assessment of RES- and Energy-Efficiency Promoting Policy Mixes for Russian Federation

Didenko, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We focus on assessing RES- and energy-efficiency promoting policy mixes for Russia from multicriteria perspective with emphasis on GHG emission reduction. We start from two surveys: the first one studies country’s energy saving and RES potential to determine possible range of outcomes for...

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Eficiencia energética en el sector de agua y saneamiento: estimaciones utilizando una función de requerimientos de insumo

Ferro, Gustavo; Lentini, Emilio J; Mercadier, Augusto; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We analyze by means of frontier methods (input requirement function) the relative energy efficiency of urban water and sanitation providers in Brazil. We estimate energy savings through measures the sector could implement on variables which control. We find a 63 percent efficiency average, with...

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Разработка модели системной динамики для энергетического сектора в Латвии

Skribans, Valerijs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

One of the most pressing problems in the Latvian economy is related to the energy sector. The most characteristic feature is coupled with the low efficiency of thermal energy consumption of households as a result of poor insulation of existing buildings in Latvia. Solving energy sector problems...

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Macroeconomic Effects of the German Government’s Building Rehabilitation Program

Kronenberg, Tobias; Kuckshinrichs, Wilhelm; Hansen, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The German government maintains programs providing financial support for the rehabilitation of buildings with the aim of reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in the building sector. Lately, these programs have received additional attention for three reasons: First, the...

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