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Agricultural Export Performance in Africa: Elements of comparison with Asia
Ngaruko, Floribert - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003
extent to which the underlying strategies conform to international commodity price incentives. It confirms such conformity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755026
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Overview of Smallholder Contract Farming in Developing Countries
Simmons, Phil - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2002
An agribusiness firm’s choice to expand activities through contract farming rather than plantations, buying directly from open markets or other means reflects differences in transaction costs found in different types of procurement systems. Smallholders may enter contracts to reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755028
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Schooling Resources, Educational Institutions, and Student Performance: The International Evidence
Wößmann, Ludger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000
The paper suggests that international differences in educational institutions explain the large international differences in student performance in cognitive achievement tests. A microeconometric student-level estimation based on data for more than 260,000 students from 39 countries reveals that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755282
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Core-selecting package auctions
Day, Robert; Milgrom, Paul - In: International Journal of Game Theory 36 (2008) 3, pp. 393-407
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755764
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Incentives and Choice in Health Care
Sloan, Frank A. (contributor); Kasper, Hirschel (contributor) - The MIT Press
A vast body of empirical evidence has accumulated demonstrating that incentives affect health care choices made by both … consumers and suppliers of health care services. Decisions in health care are affected by many types of incentives, such as the … the role of incentives in health care markets and decisions people make that affect their personal health. The contexts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005756508
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The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
Easterly, William - The MIT Press
businesses, government officials, even aid donors—respond to incentives. Easterly first discusses the importance of growth. He …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005756530
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The effect of pay-for-performance contracts on wages
Parent, Daniel - In: Empirical Economics 36 (2009) 2, pp. 269-295
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005758392
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Incentive contrats and strictly proper scoring rules
Clemen, Robert - In: TEST: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of … 11 (2002) 1, pp. 167-189
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005759562
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Speed and Potential Breakdown in the Process of Strategic Renewal
Mahnke, Volker; Aadne, John Harald - Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, …
This paper suggest that successful strategic renewal involves three subprocesses, namely (1) facilitating strategic imagination, (2) developing of common ground among top management and middle management, and (3) coordinating strategic action. The management of and the linkage between the three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005760829
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Evaluitis – Eine Neue Krankheit
Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2006
: incentives are distorted, ossification is induced and the decision approach is wrongly conceived. As a result, evaluations are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005760913