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Editors, Publishers, Impact Factors, and Reprint Income
Marcovitch, Harvey - eSocialSciences - 2010
Many editors are likely to deny that thoughts of a rising Impact Factor (IF) might influence their acceptance rates.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694246
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Effect of Structural and Conditional Rigidities on Moving a Beneficiary from Passive to Active State: An Empirical Investigation in a Poverty Reduction Programme in Rural India
Banik, Arindam - eSocialSciences - 2007
Most studies on poverty alleviation and reduction programmes emphasize structural bottlenecks, asymmetric information, and rent seeking behaviour. This paper provides an analytical characterization of the beneficiaries in a situation of much structural and conditional rigidity, where all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528156
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What’s Social Policy Got To Do With Economic Growth?
Kanbur, Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2006
So what’s social policy got to do with economic growth? Quite a lot, it would appear, if one takes the results of cross-country growth regressions at face value, as they are by many social policy analysts, even as they criticize the findings of the economic policy part of the very same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699351
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Assessing the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Poverty
McKay, Andrew - eSocialSciences - 2009
Fiscal policy measures are a key means by which governments can influence distribution and poverty, but in fact the relationships between fiscal policy and poverty are not well understood. The most commonly used technique for assessing the distributional impact, benefit incidence analysis, is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459696
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Productivity and Efficiency at Public and Private Sector Banks in India
Mohan, TT Ram - eSocialSciences - 2007
A comparison between PSBs and their private sector counterparts based on measures of efficiency and productivity that … use quantities of outputs and inputs. Efficiency measures a firm’s performance relative to a benchmark at a given point … between the private and public sectors. Tornquist total factor productivity growth, Malmquist efficiency and revenue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487657
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Innovation, Efficiency, Productivity and Intellectual Property Rights: Evidence from a BRIC Economy
Kanwar, Sunil - eSocialSciences - 2013
The innovation, efficiency and productivity responses to the stronger protection of intellectual property rights post … increase is found in the annual rates of technical change, efficiency change, and productivity growth – about 3, 8 and 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133188
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Choice and Success of Job Search Methods
Weber, Andrea; Mahringer, Helmut - eSocialSciences - 2014
in the support of low quality workers. For these workers it is equal in efficiency to the other search channels. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945222
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Efficiency of Raising Health Outcomes in the Indian States
J, Prachitha; Shanmugam, K R - eSocialSciences - 2013
This study measures the efficiency of Indian states in raising health outcomes, using the stochastic frontier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945570
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What Explains the Productivity Decline in Manufacturing in the Nineties in India?
Ray, Saon - eSocialSciences - 2014
productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … efficiency change using a Tobit regression for each industry. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026233
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Ethics of Public Health Interventions: A View from the Frontline
Jain, Yogesh - eSocialSciences - 2012
Rural people are deprived even of the basic facilities of medical care. Is this ethical? [6th K R Memorial lecture].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010534929