Since China joined the WTO in 2001, the pressure for bank reforms has mounted as China ought to fully open up its … financial market to foreign competition by 2006. Efficiency is key for domestic banks to survive in a liberalised environment …, but it appears that the last hope for raising bank efficiency is through ownership reform. Whether ownership reform and …

This study shows that China.s post-1949 state-led industrialization has closely followed an underlying path that began … which is evidenced by a newly constructed dataset. Reform measures can only temporarily improve efficiency performance, but …

decreases investment efficiency, as measured using both absolute and relative metrics of investment returns. The negative effect …

This paper examines the efficiency of public sector expenditures at achieving social sector outcomes in small island … developing states (SIDS). Public sector efficiency is estimated using a stochastic production function (SPF) approach and panel … data since 1990. A second stage of the analysis examines the determinants of efficiency. Results indicate that the …