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In recent years, renewable energy technologies have been advocated in Fiji on the basisthat they improve energy … technologies in Fiji are to be adequately evaluated. This paper develops andapplies a method for assessing the potential … contribution of renewable technologies to thesecurity of electricity supply in Fiji. The method is based on an application of …
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behind structural adjustment programs itexamines the economic policies of Fiji’s Interim Government between 1987 and1992 … policy. The economicperformance of Fiji under structural adjustment is examined. However, indelving behind the data the … economic growth in Fiji. …
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maximising employee potential in the Fijian workplace. It seeks to provide an overview of the situation in Fiji and the case …
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Fiji. The results reported here present a mixed picture, in that the model estimated specifies two different effects of the … the lack of market incentives and signals in the public sector and the involvement of Fiji's government in some activities …
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to forecast Fiji's exports and imports for the period 2003-2020. Design … Fiji. Findings - The paper's main findings are: Fiji's imports will outperform exports over the 2003-2020 period; and … the trade balance and current account balances. This has implications for inflation and exchange rate. By forecasting Fiji …
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A two-stage procedure is employed to evaluate non-bank financial institution cost efficiency. In the first stage, data envelopment analysis is used to calculate technical, allocative and cost efficiency indices using a sample of two hundred Australian credit unions. The results indicate that a...
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This paper examines the transmission of equity returns and volatility among Asian equity markets and investigates the differences that exist in this regard between the developed and emerging markets. Three developed markets (Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore) and six emerging markets (Indonesia,...
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The ‘daylight saving effect’ predicts that the mean weekend return following the spring and fall/autumn changes in daylight saving time is less than the mean weekend return throughout the rest of the year. With this market anomaly, the change in market participants’ behaviour is linked...
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In this study the nature and extent of efficiency and productivity growth in deposit-taking institutions is investigated using nonparametric frontier techniques. Employing Malmquist indices, productivity growth is decomposed into technical efficiency change and technological change for a sample...
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Electric utilities in Australia have been developing policies to stimulate interest and permit the purchase of electricity generated by renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic systems (PV). Studies show that under current conditions, it is technically feasible to introduce small-scale,...
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