Depuis la seconde moitie de la decennie soixante-dix, les performances a l'exportation du Benin n'ont cesse de decliner inexorablement. L'analyse des resultats d'estimation d'un modele d'offre aboutit a une insuffisance de l'offre d'exportation. cette contrainte d'offre joue sur la capital en...

This study evaluates the technical efficiency and productivity of a sample of public sector hospitals in three provinces of South Africa using the non-parametric techniques of data envelopment analysis (DEA) and DEA-based Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI).

Most large electric utilities and a growing number of gas utilities in the United States are using a planning method -- Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) - which incorporates demand-side management (DSM) programs whenever the marginal cost of the DSM programs are lower than the marginal cost of...

The government electronics community faces the exciting challenge of entering into new of types of partnerships with the commercial electronics industry. Past interactions have been based primarily on the needs of government. Future interactions will be based more on the needs of industry,...

Because the Mexican government has encouraged investment in Mexico by increasing the percentage of ownership of a Mexican business that a US company can hold, joint ventures are more attractive now than they had been in the past. This study provides preliminary information for US renewable...

Numerous regulations and standards, both national and international, apply to the packaging and transportation of radioactive material. These are legal and technical prerequisites to practically every action that a designer or user of a radioactive material transportation package will perform....