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Security concerns increasingly influence foreign aid: how Western countries give aid, to whom and why. With contributions from experts in the field, this book examines the impact of security issues on six of the world's largest aid donors, as well as on key crosscutting issues such as gender...
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of science, precaution, and public involvement in current arrangements for European food safety governance. The devised … that demonstrates practical advice of how complex and conflicting food safety demands might be reconciled. At the core of … innovative food safety interface structure designed to improve the politics-science-society coordination throughout the …
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for China Economy. The primary objective of the event was to highlight the latest developments in efficiency and … 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 …
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Competition and Efficiency in the Mexican Banking Industry contributes to the understanding of competition policy in … the Mexican banking system and explains how levels of competition relate to the efficiency of banks …
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This book applies econometric techniques to test the relationship between efficiency and risk within the banking … industry in China. Chapters examine how efficiency has been affected by different types of risk-taking behaviour and how risk … has been an important determinant of bank efficiency in the context of the series of reforms impacting banks in China …
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rate of National Health Insurance contributions -- 8 Expanding the scope and improving the efficiency of National Health … Insurance administrative work -- 9 Expanding the scope and improving the efficiency of long-term care insurance operations -- 10 …
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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 …
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and GDP per capita on the efficiency of 58 countries' national innovation systems during the Great Recession. A total of …1 Introduction -- 2 Defining Knowledge and Knowledge Based Economy -- 3 Measuring Knowledge and Innovation -- 4 … National Innovation Efficiency During Global Financial Crisis Period and Afterwards -- 5 Conclusion and Policy Implementations …
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Keynesian economics and other important issues of political economy. For instance, it shows that the principle of effective … efficiency of various socioeconomic situations … Efficiency -- Chapter 11 Welfare and Efficiency:Socio-economic Controversies in the Modern Times -- Chapter 12 A Theoretical …
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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 …
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