quality and efficiency of the public services provided, and how these outcomes vary depending on the specific features of this …

Contemporary civil wars are rooted in a partial or complete breakdown of the social contract, often involving disputes … over public spending, resource revenues, and taxation. A feasible social contract gives potential rebels something akin to … after war must rebuild the social contract. The chances of success increase if the economy can achieve broad- based growth …

An Act to regulate public procurement with the objective of maximising economy and efficiency, promoting competition …

achieving risk-return efficiency. We first estimate the expected returns, risks, and financial distress risk proxy (the inverse … z-score), then apply the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to obtain the risk-return efficiency score for each bank …, and finally conduct ordered logit regressions of bank ratings on estimated risks, risk-return efficiency, and the inverse …

. Problems of resource use efficiency, role of markets, inter-linkages between markets and the emergence of institutions have all …