Search Results - subject:"Resource allocation."

International migration and foreign assistance: concepts and application to the Philippines.

G, Ranis - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1992

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967337

Issues in Managing and Sequencing Financial Sector Reforms Lessons From Experiences in Five Developing Countries

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 1992

A review of the experience of five developing countries in reforming their financial systems illustrates the benefits and risks, and provides lessons on the factors which contribute to successful financial sector reforms. Financial sector reforms need to be supported by active monetary policy,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825950

Causality and Efficiency in the Coffee Futures Market

Kebede, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992

Tests for causality and rationality in the coffee futures market were carried out using data from the New York Market. Tests of causality indicated that futures prices strongly influence variations in spot price eight weeks or more to maturity. However, beginning seven weeks to maturity there...

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Risk adjusted performance measures and capital allocation

Shaw, David - In: Balance Sheet 11 (2003) 1, pp. 46-61

Risk adjusted performance measurement can be a difficult and expensive goal to get right or improve even with everyone supportive within the institution. If this measurement is combined with existing profitability performance measurement and elements of traditional ALM, both hopefully already...

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A framework for intergenerational planning

Miller, Mel; Siggins, Ian - In: Foresight 5 (2003) 6, pp. 18-25

Terms such as “intergenerational planning”, “intergenerational redistribution”, “intergenerational equity” and “intergenerational accounting” have all gained currency in recent years. This paper reviews recent debates about how to assess the extent and nature of future need,...

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Never mind the business buzzwords : Resistance to change

In: Human Resource Management International Digest 11 (2003) 4, pp. 18-21

Office and factory life everywhere throws up individuals who have nothing positive to say about their employers, irrespective of whether the organization is, broadly speaking, good or bad to work for. A typical gripe of such people is that changes in working practice have been made but:...

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Private, Private Government-Dependent and Public schools. An International Efficiency Analysis using Propensity Score Matching

Vincent, Vandenberghe; Stéphane, Robin - EconWPA - 2003

This paper aims at estimating the effect on achievement of various types of schools: private, private but government-dependent and public ones. It is based on the analysis of Math, Science and Reading test scores of 15 year-olds students surveyed in 2002 across OECD and non-OECD countries. The...

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Real-Time Hierarchical Resource Allocation with Quadratic Costs

Van Zandt, Timothy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper presents a model in which boundedly rational members of an administrative staff calculate resource allocations in real time. We consider a class of hierarchical procedures in which information about payoff functions flows up and is aggregated by a hierarchy, while allocations flow...

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Fuzzy decision-making for dynamic resource allocation

Zhang, H.; Tam, C. M. - In: Construction Management and Economics 21 (2003) 1, pp. 31-41

For construction activities, timely resource allocation is crucial to avoid unnecessary waiting time of resources and … delay of activities, especially under the condition of limited supply of resources. Timely resource allocation, i … to imprecision or subjectivity in decision criteria), a fuzzy dynamic resource allocation (FDRA) based on the fuzzy …

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Private, Private Government-Dependent and Public schools. An International Effectiveness Analysis

Vandenberghe, Vincent - EconWPA - 2003

This paper aims at estimating the effect on achievement of various types of schools: private, private but government-dependent and public ones. It is based on the analysis of Reading test scores of 15-year-old students surveyed in 2002 across OECD and non-OECD countries. The estimation of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125904