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One of the objectives of this CEM was to identify the most promising products and conduct competitiveness diagnostic. The products list is summarized in Table 1 below. Competitiveness, in this report, is seen as a combination of productivity and costs, and the second section of the CEM presents...
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their shareholders' interests. We show that the efficiency of the limit allocation depends on how firms' shares are …
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The current crisis has revealed the weaknesses of the global financial in general and its banking system in particular …, put forward a requirement for assessing the effectiveness and stability of the banking sectors across countries. Based on … available data from 64 countries over the world, the author tried to evaluate the effectiveness of the banking sectors in those …
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. which attracted more and more customers using the banking’ services; the efficiency of the banking system also has been … increasing. So far, there is still a lack of research on the efficiency of the banking sector in Vietnam over the decades … efficiency of 22 Vietnamese commercial banks in using their inputs in 2008 (these banks were ranked top in the banking industry …
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most important characteristics of the bankingefficiency and stability in a sample of twelve Ukrainian banks, which are … the biggest one in Ukraine according the National bank of Ukraine (NBU) classification. Our research covers the period … corporate social responsibility concept (CSR) of the following independent variables: 1 – efficiency (as a short term period …
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The integration process in the European banking sector considerably differs with regard to product types. Deep …
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The capital structure of firms that face restrictions on liquidity (i.e. that cannot hedge continuously) is affected by the agency costs and moral-hazard implicit in the contracts they establish with stockholders and customers. It is demonstrated in this paper that then an optimal level of...
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We study rural employment transitions in Ethiopia between farming and both low- and high-return nonfarm employment. We find that initial asset holdings and access to saving and credit are important factors for transition into high-return rural nonfarm employment and that households’...
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Empirical studies across many developing countries routinely document a positive correlation between participation in rural nonfarm employment and households’ wealth or income. This paper explores whether nonfarm employment leads to higher consumption expenditure growth in Ethiopia. We find...
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This paper examines the nonfarm employment choice of individuals using panel data from Ethiopia that covers the period 1994-2004. Non-farm activities that require more resources in the form of skill or capital yield higher returns but employ proportionately fewer people. Women have lower...
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