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The objective of this report is to perform a controlled laboratory study on the efficiency and emissions of swimming … variations (pool size), geographic orientations, ground plantings and shading variations, number of hours of use, seasonal use …
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and input size and studies its importance in shaping the relationship between productivity dispersion and the producer … level. Moreover, this productivity dispersion falls with employment size within most manufacturing industries. This pattern … generate a bell-shaped relationship between input size and productivity within a market and for locally traded goods. The non …
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This paper investigates the determinants of fiscal decentralisation, focusing in particular on the impact of the level of income on the level of fiscal decentralisation. Various measures of fiscal decentralisation, several of them novel in this context, are employed in a cross-country...
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The geopressured zone, assuming the presence of natural gas and high water productivity, may be used to produce … 63?/M Btu and a unit power cost of 46 mills/kwh. The conversion efficiency of the plant, including hydraulic turbine … energy from the well head overpressure, was 10.3%. This low efficiency accounts for the high unit power cost. A one-well, 1 …
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efficiency to free existing staff time to develop additional types of data from our partners. Another long-term theme related to … expanding data coverage to estimates of productivity and/or data needed to calculate productivity. Initial investigations within …
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The labour productivity differentials between manufacturing firms in Ghana and South Korea exceed those implied by … and South Korea. There is no significant difference in total factor productivity across the countries once we allow for … the shape of the relationship between productivity and human capital across countries is crucial for understanding the …
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The object of the present paper is to analyze the productivity of marketing cooperatives incorporating environmental … marketing cooperatives in the fruit and vegetables sector to consider improvement in productivity and sound environmental … so-called Operative Programs (OP). The present study analyses the total factor productivity (TFP) related to …
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The architecture of the firm involves determination of a boundary that encompasses the functions managed by thefirm. The past decade has seen substantial reorganization of firms where vertical or horizontal integration has beenunbundled into weaker forms of collaborations including value chains...
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This study investigated the efficiency and productivity change of a sample of food distribution units (MERCAs) in Spain … productivity change. The mean pure sales efficiency index was high, around 0.8, the mean scale index being 0,9. As appears from the … over the 1.997-1.999 period, applying non-parametric frontier methodology in a sales efficiency framework. We specified a …
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productivity is decomposed into technological change, efficiency and quality-environmental change. Additionally, the correlation of …The object of the present paper is to analyse productivity incorporating quality-environmental changes in marketing co … vegetables sector. Secondly, the productivity trend is studied empirically using nonparametric methods (Malmquist indices) and …
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