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Reforms and infrastructure efficiency in Spain's container ports
Trujillo, Lourdes - 2005
"Serrano and Trujillo quantify the evolution of technical efficiency in port infrastructure service provision in the major Spanish port authorities involved in container traffic. They also analyze the extent to which port reforms that took place in the 1990s had an impact on the efficiency of...
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Inefficient lobbying, populism, and oligarchy
Campante, Filipe R. - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523093
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On measuring aggregate "social efficiency"
Ravallion, Martin - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523271
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Improving Water Supply and Sanitation in Growth Centers in Zambia : Technical Efficiency Analysis
World Bank - 2022
Inefficiency is common in many of the world's water utilities, especially in developing countries. The problem derives from a range of different causes relating primarily to technical, organizational, and commercial (TOC) factors. Evidence from a World Bank study conducted in 2020 shows that...
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Bulgaria - Efficiency Analysis of STI Programs
World Bank - 2021
Transitioning to a more knowledge- and technology-based economy will be critical if Bulgaria is to achieve convergence with its European peers in terms of economic productivity and living standards. The coming year presents an important opportunity for Bulgaria to improve its support for...
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Burkina Faso : What is Driving Cotton Production, Stochastic Frontier Approach for Panel Data
World Bank - 2013
Burkina Faso's Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS) of the 2000s, which were implemented as annually rolled-over Priority Action Programs, focused on four pillars: a) accelerating broad based growth; b) expanding access to social services for the poor; c) increasing employment and...
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Burkina Faso : Determinants of Cereal Production, Stochastic Frontier Approach for Panel Data
World Bank - 2013
Burkina Faso's Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS) of the 2000s, which were implemented as annually rolled-over Priority Action Programs, focused on four pillars: a) accelerating broad based growth; b) expanding access to social services for the poor; c) increasing employment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560043
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The Costs of Irrigation Inefficiency in Tajikistan
World Bank - 2017
The Aral Sea Basin consists of the drainage area of two major rivers, the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya. The rivers originate in the Tien Shan Mountains and the Pamirs, and run through Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. An estimated 116 k
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Energy Efficiency Study in Lebanon
World Bank - 2013
The purpose of this report is to assess the status of past and current energy efficiency initiatives in Lebanon and, in conjunction with key stakeholders, prepare an Energy Efficiency Action Plan, implementation of this Action Plan in the near future. The identified EE programs have been...
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Effects of privatization and ownership in transition economies
Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2009
"The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post …-communist economies privatization to foreign owners results in a rapid improvement in performance of firms, while performance effects of … privatization to domestic owners are less impressive and vary across regions, coinciding with differences in policies and …
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