increase productivity and break out of a vicious cycle in which low productivity exacerbates vulnerability to poverty. In a …. This book will appeal to scholars and policy makers seeking instruments to promote increased agriculture productivity …

Economists have long studied the efficiency of firms, industries, and entire economies. This volume brings together … leading scholars to make connections between efficiency and a number of diverse areas of current interest to economists …, including an examination of the efficiency of tax systems across generations that overlap, and the efficiency of firm mergers …

policy and productivity-related policy. … Sub-Saharan African economies: exchange rate policy and productivity-related policy …

in regional per capita income and productivity? The authors answer this by comparing results with evidence available for …

: Environmental Productivity Growth in Consumer Durables -- Part II: Studies in Energy and Environment -- Chapter 5: Evaluating the … Efficiency Evaluation and Emission Abatement Cost Estimation of China’s Major Industry Sectors -- Chapter 9: Allocation Mode and … Efficiency of China’s Carbon and Sulphur Emissions -- Chapter 10: Context-dependent Total-factor Energy Efficiency in Chinese …

This book grows from a conference on the state of the art and recent advances in Efficiency and Productivity. Papers … efficiency and productivity analysis. Chapters on modeling advances include reverse directional distance function, a new method … analysis of productivity and price recovery indices, the relation of technical efficiency measures to productivity measures …

This volume offers a collection of studies on problem of organization’s efficiency, criteria for evaluating the … efficiency, tools and methods for measuring the efficiency. The articles included present an interdisciplinary look at efficiency … achieving efficiency in various types of organizations and systems (e.g. public institution, non-profit organizations …

Productivity in Ecuador -- Hierarchical performance and unobservable heterogeneity in health: A dual-level efficiency approach …This proceedings volume examines state-of-the art of productivity and efficiency analysis and adds to the existing …, dynamics of productivity change, measures of labor productivity, measures of technical efficiency in different sectors …