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development, and (iv) performance, including pricing and finance issues. The report concludes by benchmarking the efficiency of …
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changes in the efficiency of public spending could have a major impact on GDP and on the attainment of the government …'s objectives. The first challenge that stakeholders face is measuring efficiency. This paper attempts such quantification and has … two major parts. The first part estimates efficiency as the distance between observed input-output combinations and an …
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market development improve firm efficiency. Both government provision of information about products, markets, and innovation … and government assistance in arranging loans are positively associated with firm efficiency. Those private firms with weak …
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The author brings together two of government's primary challenges: environmental protection, and taxation to generate revenues. If negative externalities can be reduced not only by changes in consumption patterns, but also by making each activity cleaner (abatement efforts), how shall...
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The authors compare the performance of public and private sector manufacturing firms in Indonesia for 1981-95. They … Indonesia's public enterprises would raise total factor productivity by 6 percentage points; the same result could be achieved …
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poverty - defined on a consistent, welfare-comparable basis - changed in Indonesia during a series of crises that began in …
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from Indonesia. First they show that if the poverty line is set so that the headcount poverty rate is twenty percent, the …
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Indonesia's economic crisis has caused a consumption expenditures deterioration in the welfare of Indonesians. Focusing … associated with the measurement of poverty. The first issue is how to produce regionally consistent poverty lines - that is, how …
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indicators of commercial bank efficiency by applying a version of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to bank-level data from a wide … range of transition countries. They further extend the analysis by explaining the differences in efficiency between … controlling power and enterprise restructuring enhance commercial bank efficiency. 2) The effects of prudential tightening on the …
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Infrastructure is an important driving force for economic growth. It reduces trade and transaction costs and stimulates the productivity of the economy. Africa has been lagging behind in the global manufacturing market. Among others, infrastructure is an important constraint in many African...
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