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Benchmarking Sustainable Development: A Synthetic Meta-index Approach

Cherchye, Laurens; Kuosmanen, Timo - EconWPA - 2002

The need for monitoring countries’ overall performance in Sustainable Development (SD) is widely recognized, but the methods for aggregating vast amounts of empirical data remain rather crude. This paper examines the so-called ‘benefit-of-the-doubt’ weighting method as a tool for...

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Growth Accounting for Some Selected Developing, Newly Industrialized and Developed Nations from 1966-2000: A Data Envelopment Analysis

Mathur, Somesh Kumar - EconWPA - 2004

We work out technical efficiency levels of 29 countries consisting of some selected South Asian, East Asian and EU countries using data envelopment analysis. Luxembourg has an efficiency score of one(most efficient) in all the years .Netherlands also has an efficiency score of one in...

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Efficiency of Delhi International Airport Using Data Envelopment

Mathur, Somesh Kumar - EconWPA - 2004

index with the efficiency indexes of some selected domestic airports of India in 2000-01.The study uses data envelopment … management and corporatization of airports rather than funding alone.The Airport Authority of India need to inculcate the spirit … Airports in India.Given the limitations in India’s airport infrastructure, a more suitable method of privatization seems to be …

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Industrial Sector Growth Accounting of Some Indian States and Union Territories: A Data Envelopment Analysis

Mathur, Somesh Kumar; Ahmed, Shahid - EconWPA - 2005

We work out technical efficiency levels of the Indian States and Union Territories using Data Envelopment Analysis from 1980-81 to 1997-98. We decompose net value added per worker growth into components attributable to technological changes (shifts in the overall production...

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International benchmarking of the Australian waterfront

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

, which was commenced by the Bureau of Industry Economics. It is the third Waterfront Benchmarking report in the cycle. The …

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The Australian black coal industry

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

On 9 July 1997 the Treasurer referred the international competitiveness of the Australian black coal industry to the Commission for inquiry and report within 12 months. The Commission is to identify ways of improving the international competitiveness of the Australian black coal industry which...

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International benchmarking of container stevedoring

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003

this international benchmarking study. For the sample of ship calls and terminals studied, productivity improved also in …

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A language for the construction of preferences under uncertainty

LiCalzi, Marco - EconWPA - 2005

This paper studies a target-based procedure to rank lotteries that is normatively and observationally equivalent to the expected utility model. In view of this equivalence, the traditional utility-based language for decision making may be substituted with an alternative target-based language....

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Benchmarking study about R&D and Innovation at the Spanish

Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel Zabala - EconWPA - 2005

The aim of this paper is the realization of a Benchmark analysis about the relative position of the Valencian Innovation System. This comparison has been threefold comparing the Spanish, Mediterranean and European regions. In order to undertake this analysis, on the one hand, for the Spanish...

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International benchmarking of telecommunications prices and price changes

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

The report, a series of international benchmarking studies conducted by the Productivity Commission, compares … a similar study, International Benchmarking of Australian Telecommunications Services, released in March 1999. …

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