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Okun's and Barro's Misery Index as an Alternative Poverty Assessment Tool. Recent Estimations for European Countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056555
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Performance Measurement and Management Promotion through Non-Financial Measures : A Management Accounting Perspective
Eisenberg, Paul - 2018
The purpose of this paper is the discussion of non-financial performance measures that can be adopted in the management accounting function of business organisations. The study is important because it shows how organisational focus on non-financial measures can substantially enhance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935122
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Assessing Absolute and Relative Poverty Trends with Limited Data in Cape Verde
Angel-Urdinola, Diego; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
poverty over time, but this was mainly due to the adoption of a relative measure of poverty and to comparability issues … between the surveys. The task of assessing the trends in poverty and inequality was also made more difficult because the unit … necessary to estimate poverty and inequality using group data. In this paper, we use the Poverty module of SimSIP in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836273
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Does Modernization Improve Performance: Evidence from Indian Police
Kumar, Surender; Kumar, Sudesh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper aims to measure the role of police modernization scheme in its performance in crime repression. We use output distance function as an analytical tool and estimate it using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) framework in a ‘single stage’. We find that the police modernization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259959
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Task-Specific Abilities in Multi-Task Agency Relations
Thiele, Veikko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper analyzes a multi-task agency framework where the agent exhibits task-specific abilities. Besides investigating the appendant consequences of applying incongruent performance measures in incentive contracts, this paper demonstrates how the provision of incentives - including the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260345
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Contents and Aims of Management Plans for World Heritage Sites: Managerial Analysis with a Special Focus on the Italian Scenario
Badia, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
performance measurement systems, to get both support to the management and accountability to the community. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650039
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The quantification of the performances of public institutions – basics concepts
Mitu, Narcis Eduard; Dracea, Raluca; Popa, Ana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The performance of the public sector affects us all. There are at least three reasons why we should be interested in how well it functions: it is big; its outputs are special; and it is getting bigger. With all these, in Romania, the performance within the public sector represents a concept not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786996
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Measuring regional public health provision
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) evaluates the performance of public health services of the Greek prefectures. The efficiency levels of the Greek prefectures are compared and analyzed in a regional context. With the use of bootstrap techniques and conditional full frontier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534257
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PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION
Plantinga, Auke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This chapter discusses methods and techniques for measuring and evaluating performance for the purpose of controlling the investment process. However, many of the methods discussed in this chapter are also used in communicating investment performance between the investment management company and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616895
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Performance Measurement in Multi-Task Agencies
Thiele, Veikko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
incongruent measurement of the agent's performance, and a centralized investment, otherwise. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621240