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In the present economic scenario, the key concerns in policy making in India are: how to achieve higher energy … efficiency in the key sectors and how to reduce the vulnerability of the economy to external shocks. In this paper, an attempt is … shown increasing trends of technical efficiency, there is still a lot of scope for energy saving potential in the industrial …
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in the South Asian countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan and India. For the efficiency analysis we used non parametric … returns to scale. The technical efficiency figures for Pakistan, Bangladesh and India are 0.395, 0.087, and 0.28, respectively …The objective of this study has been to estimate the efficiency and sustainability of microfinance institution working …
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the manufacturing sector in India. In analysing the impact of ISO Certification on technical efficiency, this paper uses … international trade. This paper attempts to examine the impact of such certifications on technical efficiency of firms belonging to … data from the CMIE Prowess for the period 2007-2012. In the first step, the paper estimates technical efficiency for the …
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World cotton prices have been declining in the past decade and farmers in West and Central Africa have been especially … newly available household surveys have permitted the estimation of measures of poverty among cotton producers in West and …
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The Chad Rural Policy Note builds on the findings of a rural sector stocktaking exercise. An initial draft of the note was prepared as a just-in-time study designed to contribute to the preparation of the Chad Interim Strategy Note. This finalized version of the note intended mainly to establish...
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This paper attempts to examine the factors affecting cotton production in Multan region using primary source of data. A … cultivation, seed and sowing, irrigation, fertilizer, plant protection, inter-culturing / hoeing and labour cost on cotton yield … scarce inputs by both public and private sectors as these inputs were major requirement of the cotton crop. …
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• Available evidence strongly suggests that cotton producers in West Africa are relatively unresponsive to changes in … reduction or abolition of cotton subsidies in rich countries. • To increase price responsiveness and ensure that the results of … cotton marketing structures. • While most West African countries have already taken important steps in that direction, much …
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of textile exports to the EU and to the US, is significant. West African cotton-producing countries are very dependant on … cotton earnings for their GDP and over the last years, most of the growth of their cotton exports’ revenues has resulted from … increasing exports to China. The results of a model of Chinese and West African cotton exchanges suggests that Chinese imports of …
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This paper examined the data of cotton pruduction during 1980—2002 in Çukurova region. In this study, a supply model … was constructed for cotton 2002 in Çukurova region. According to the estimation of the supply model, elasticities of … cotton, corn (cross elasticity), irrigation and motorin were calculated 0,56, -0,49, -0,30 and -0,90 respectively. It was …
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The Kalman Filter is used to estimate a structural time-series model of cotton supply for 30 countries and 16 …
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