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Performance Management of Double Bottom Line Institutions: Evidence from Banco Compartamos’s Productivity Distribution
Hudon, Marek; Périlleux, Anaïs - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2011
of one of the most famous MFIs worldwide: Banco Compartamos. Our results suggest that productivity gains generated by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371096
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Firm-Sponsored Classroom Training: is it Worth it for Older Workers ?
Dostie, Benoit; Léger, Pierre Thomas - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2011
the impact of training on productivity decrease dramatically with age, suggesting that incentives for firms to invest in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371117
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The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade
Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J Bradford; Redding, Stephen J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first wave of empirical findings from micro data on plants and firms proposed challenges for existing models of international trade and inspired the development of new theories emphasizing firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371478
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Who Benefits More From Nerica Varieties? Gender Differential Impact on Yield and Income in Benin
Kinkingninhoun-Medagbe, Florent M.; Diagne, Aliou; … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013
The NERICA varieties are modern rice varieties developed by AfricaRice which won its creator Monty Jones the 2004 World Food Prize. They are widely believed to offer hope for Africa’s Green Revolution because of their ability to grow under multiple stresses as well as their high response rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207542
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RESOURCE UTILIZATION BEHAVIOUR OF CASSAVA PRODUCERS IN EPE AREA OF LAGOS STATE: STOCHASTIC FRONTIER PRODUCTION FUNCTION APPROACH
Ogunbameru, A.; Okeowo, T.A. - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013
The Stochastic frontier production function was used to assess the technical efficiency of cassava production in Epe Area of Lagos State, Nigeria. Results show that cassava farmers in the study area experienced increasing positive return-to-scale (2.2675. The study also reveals that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207623
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Impact of Information and Communication Technology-based Market Information Services on Smallholder Farm Input Use and Productivity: The Case of Kenya
Ogutu, Sylvester O.; Okello, Julius J.; Otieno, David J. - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013
it inhibits adoption of modern technologies that have the capacity to enhance productivity of smallholder farms. Hence …, farm productivity and agricultural transformation has been stifled, leaving smallholder famers in grinding poverty … ICT-based market information service (MIS) project on farm input use and productivity in Kenya. It finds strong empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207630
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Competitiveness from Desideratum to the Strategic Objective of The Romanian Leadership
Stefan, Daniel Larentiu; Craciuneanu, Viorel - In: Knowledge Horizons - Economics 6 (2014) 4, pp. 85-89
the Romanian leadership is the one which can help to identify a new model of economic growth based on the emphasised areas' development, areas which have shown their potential and competitiveness. Such a growth model would be based on the orientation of SMEs in Romania towards the foreign...
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Firm Efficiency and Input Market Integration: Trade versus FDI
Imbruno, Michele - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and … - 2015
This paper highlights the crucial role played by international access to intermediate inputs to explain firm-level performance, via two channels simultaneously: trade and FDI. We develop a simple theoretical model showing that trade integration of input market entails an efficiency improvement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011208183
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Exports, R&D and Productivity: A test of the Bustos-model with enterprise data from France, Italy and Spain
Wagner, Joachim - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 716-719
-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of … productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011208209
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“Do intra- and inter-industry spillovers matter? CDM model estimates for Spain”
Goya, Esther; Vayá, Esther; Suriñach, Jordi - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2012
-industry externalities, on the productivity of Spanish firms. To the best of our knowledge, no previous paper has examined spillover effects … others affect a firm’s productivity. Additionally, firm’s technology level is taken into account in order to ascertain … especially, process innovations. Finally, innovation output has a positive impact on firm’s productivity, being greater in more …
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