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What determines local governments' technical efficiency? The case of road maintenance
Kalb, Alexander - 2009
In this paper we investigate the determinants of local governments' technical efficiency in road maintenance for a panel of German counties using a broad variety of estimation approaches. More specifically, we calculate efficiency indices using non-parametric (DEA) and parametric (stochastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299173
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Recent evidence on agricultural efficiency and productivity in China: a metafrontier approach
Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat; Wang, Xiaobing - 2007
Economic reform in China helped transform the structure and volume of agricultural production and resulted in … productivity (TFP) in China by allowing producers operating under their own technologies. A metafrontier function approach is … enhancing agricultural TE and TFP growth in China. Our major findings indicate that TC was mostly attributed to Chinese …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299369
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The impact of reform on economic growth in China: A principal component analysis
Song, Ligang; Sheng, Yu - 2008
further urbanization, openness to trade and industrial structural adjustments to sustain the growth momentum in China. The … study also found that the potential for further enhancing growth through technical efficiency in China is considerable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284622
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Russia's agriculture: eight years in transition - convergence or divergence of regional efficiency
Uvarovsky, Vladimir; Voigt, Peter - 2000
In this paper, we consider how Russian Agriculture has developed since the constitution of the Russian Federation. The analysis is based on Oblast level data of 75 territorial units during the period from 1993 to 1998 and is focusing on technical efficiency (TE), technological change, and (both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299457
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Involvement of small and medium sized enterprises in the private realisation of public buildings
Heinecke, Bastian - 2002
This paper explores the procurement of public buildings in local authorities in the UK under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and its consequences for small and medium sized enterprises. Following an outline of the development of PFI in the UK, the paper explains the peculiarities of local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305664
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Federal, state, and local governments: Evaluating their separate roles in US growth
Higgins, Matthew J.; Young, Andrew T.; Levy, Daniel - 2008
We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336011
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Preferences and the level of satisfaction from the provision of insurance services in activity of the LGUs on a municipal level in Podkarpackie voivodship
Skica, Tomasz; Rodzinka, Jacek - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 8 (2012) 3, pp. 76-84
The article is based on the results of author's study survey conducted on a representative sample of municipalities of Podkarpackie voivodship. Based on the results of research, the article will present both the current state of insurance in local government units (LGUs) of the municipal level,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551377
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Tagum City: Development at the Crossroads
Gerochi, Hope - 2004
Population processes and outcomes (in this case, urbanization) influences and changes the development of an area and vice versa. In the case of Tagum City, its growing economy is presumed to be attracting considerable movement of people which proves to present both opportunities and challenges...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429779
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Donor assistance and urban service delivery in Africa
Stren, Richard - 2012
Sub-Saharan African cities have been growing at historically unprecedented rates. Since the early 1970s, they have welcomed international assistance involving a succession of major thematic objectives. The main agency involved in urban assistance has been the World Bank. But as its goals have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319765
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The Impact of Intergovernmental Grants on Cost Efficiency: Theory and Evidence from German Municipalities
Kalb, Alexander - 2008
In this paper we use a simple bureaucracy model of fiscal illusion to analyze the impact of intergovernmental grants on the cost efficiency of local jurisdictions. We find that a higher degree of redistribution within a system of fiscal equalization or an increase in the amount of grants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298062