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Efficiency evaluation of municipal solid waste management utilities in the urban cities of the state of Madhya Pradesh, India, using stochastic frontier analysis

Vishwakarma, Amit; Kulshrestha, Mukul; Kulshreshtha, Mudit - In: Benchmarking: An International Journal 19 (2012) 3, pp. 340-357

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evolve a framework for assessing the efficiencies of municipal solid waste management (MSWM) services. Design/methodology/approach – Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), a deterministic parametric frontier technique, has been employed for benchmarking...

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Fiscal Responses after Catastrophes and the Enabling Role of Financial Development

Melecky, Martin; Raddatz, Claudio - In: The World Bank Economic Review 29 (2015) 1, pp. 129-149

Natural disasters may constitute a major shock to public finances and debt sustainability because of their impact on output and the need for government response with reconstruction and relief expenses. The question arises of whether governments can use financial development policy as the means...

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Endogene Rücknahmepolitik in einem dualen Entsorgungssystem / An Endogenously Determined Repurchase of Scrap in a Dual Waste Disposal System

Clausen, Hartmut; Wacker, Holger - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 217 (1998) 3, pp. 292-307

Zusammenfassung Mit dem neuen Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetz, das auf die Produktverantwortung von Produzenten und die Schließung von Stoffkreisläufen abstellt, nimmt die Bedeutung von Rücknahmeverpflichtungen als abfallwirtschaftliches Instrument zu. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird der...

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Consumer perceptions and willingness to pay for cassava-wheat composite bread in Ghana : A hedonic pricing approach

Owusu, Victor; Owusu-Sekyere, Enoch; Donkor, Emmanuel; … - In: Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies 7 (2017) 2, pp. 115-134

with a blend of 15-40 per cent cassava flour blended with wheat flour in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is … based on interviews with 350 consumers in the Ashanti and Eastern Regions of Ghana to assess their awareness, perceptions … cassava-wheat composite flours. Nigeria has imposed a 10 per cent blending requirement for this reason. Ghana has taken …

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Willingness to pay for insurance against mobile money fraud: evidence from Ghana

Ayifah, Rebecca Nana Yaa; Adda, Adriana Apawo - In: Journal of Money Laundering Control 27 (2024) 5, pp. 917-931

pay for insurance against mobile money fraud in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses nationally … representative data collected from 4,266 adults (persons 18 years and above) in Ghana. Individuals’ willingness to pay premiums for …

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Accounting for Waste or Garbage Accounting: Some Thoughts from Non‐accountants

Laughlin, Bob; Varangu, Linda K. - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 4 (1991) 3

The management of waste is central to any reconsideration of an organisation′s environmental impact. Some Canadian experience in waste management is introduced and some questions this raises for conventional methods of accounting are identified.

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Healthcare waste disposal strategy selection using grey-AHP approach

Thakur, Vikas; Ramesh, A. - In: Benchmarking: An International Journal 24 (2017) 3, pp. 735-749

Purpose Nowadays healthcare waste (HCW) has become a big challenge for the hospital management, especially, in developing countries like India. Like other developing countries, Indian healthcare waste disposal (HCWD) industry is also fragmented, as some hospitals are having their own in-house...

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EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE FUTURE OF WASTE MANAGEMENT

Fairbank, Kellogg - In: European Business Review 93 (1993) 1

The waste management industry is changing dramatically as a result of new legislation and commercial pressures. Examines the current situation and looks at the future of the industry throughout Europe.

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Nuclear power for clean, safe and secure energy independence

Baker Schaffer, Marvin - In: Foresight 9 (2007) 6, pp. 47-60

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review technologies for nuclear power and to assess their suitability in pursuit of clean, safe and secure energy independence. Design/methodology/approach – Technologies and potentials associated with the industry standard, light water reactors...

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Going back to go forward : Steam powered innovation

In: Strategic Direction 20 (2004) 2, pp. 31-33

Despite being generally considered obsolete and part of a long gone age, steam power could be about to make a comeback, at least in the marine propulsion and process industries. The reason for this revival is the revolutionary PDX technology, which has been developed by the UK research and...

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