Healthcare in developing countries is often unreliable and of poor quality, thus reducing individuals incentives to use …

The innovation, efficiency and productivity responses to the stronger protection of intellectual property rights post … increase is found in the annual rates of technical change, efficiency change, and productivity growth – about 3, 8 and 0 …

productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 …This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …

The relationship between trade liberalization and industrial productivity in developing countries, drawing upon a large … trade liberalization, the paper reviews the relationship between trade liberalization and industrial productivity at …

productivity and different modes of globalisation activities. This paper attempts to understand this relationship through ordered …

characteristics. These basic differences structured incentives for economic agents in such a way that different sets of actions became … in a fashion different from those in the 18th century Deccan, because their incentives were structured differently, not …

for the accident loss. The second objective is to extend the efficiency analysis beyond Shavell (1980, 1987) and Miceli …

are those that create incentives, broadly defined, for individuals to improve productivity. [IGIDR WP-2007-019]. … of ownership, industry and management structure, leadership, social norms, and institutional incentives to alleviating …

Politicians face high-powered electoral pressures while bureaucrats face longer-term, low powered incentives. Given … constitutional constraints, what incentives do politicians employ to control bureaucrats and how do bureaucrats respond to such … incentives? These issues are addressed using a sample model where politicians use posts of varying importance to motivate …