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This paper has attempted to examine the impacts of competition policy reforms on the efficiency of the Philippine commercial banking system. It uses the stochastic frontier approach to come up with estimates of profit efficiency and cost inefficiency measures. The results are quite interesting....
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reform processes that took place in Morocco, Egypt and Iran primarily between 2010 and 2017, thus before the United States … government rents faded, subsidy spending became financially unsustainable and foreign donors pressed for reforms. Yet, reform has … spending can affect the nature of social contracts profoundly and distinctly, depending on the reform strategy. It assesses the …
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technology adaptation using data from the manufacturing firms in Iran. By connecting two price distortions and their results on …
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. This discussion paper examines the most recent experience of food subsidy reform in Iran in order to derive some lessons … for food subsidy reforms elsewhere. Iran has a long history of providing general commodity subsidies, including for energy … market rate) – during the four years following the unilateral withdrawal of United States from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 …
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Subsidies are considered important means to facilitate the provision of public transit, yet the empirical evidence implies that they can have harming effects on costs and possibly also on operators' performance. This paper examines the impacts of deficit-balancing subsidies on the cost...
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