...Ambrose R. Aheisibwe; Razack B. Lokina; Aloyce S. Hepelwa Purpose This paper aims to examine the level of economic efficiency and factors that influence economic efficiency among seed potato producers in South-western Uganda. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyses the economic...

... constantly. Understanding what has been done by efficient administrations to contain the outbreak is essential while new immunization developments for the new variants are not available. Design/methodology/approach This work adapts the traditional Banker, Charnes and Cooper (BCC) Variable Returns...

... positions and populist discourses. The objective of this paper is to examine the efficiency of social policies (health, education and social protection) aimed at reducing the risk of exclusion across Spanish autonomous communities. Design/methodology/approach The authors use data envelopment analysis...

...-resource-driven growth on the one hand and employment growth on the other. The positive impact of innovation on efficiency as seen in the paper can be interpreted as the expenditure incurred to realize the potentiality of the technology which is possibly imported. However, capital accumulation is resulting...

...Ines Ben Abdelkader; Faysal Mansouri Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide preliminary efficiency assessment of Arab microfinance institutions (MFIs) within the period 2002–2012. Microfinance is defined as the provision of financial services to poor and low-income households...

... be contacted at: nissimB@yvc.ac.il 19 08 2015 15 09 2016 27 09 2016 11 10 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Efficiency Well-being Optimal time allocation Actual allocation Minimized gap We will refer...

...Busayo Bidemi Adeyemi; Victor Olusegun Okoruwa; Adesola Ikudaisi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the efficiency of rice millers and determine factors influencing cost efficiency in Southwest Nigeria using the cost route approach. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyses...

...@gmail.com 01 02 2016 06 05 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Governance Productivity Efficiency Enterprise Agency Stakeholder This paper uses an African case study to examine drivers of state-owned...

... making, examples of potential institutional and policy changes are examined for Ghana’s financial, retail, and land resource sectors. Findings It is argued that the concept of institutional efficiency must be looked at quite differently from the Pareto-optimal concept in the neoclassical economic...

...Sarabjeet D. Natesan; Rahul Ratnakar Marathe Purpose How can efficiency of a welfare scheme be measured? The purpose of this paper is to develop an efficiency evaluation model, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) implementation efficiency model (MIEM), to evaluate...

... graduates that meet the changing labour market standards. Thus, the emergence of the private institutions should be seen as a welcome development since they are more focused on the job market requirements than just providing a general education. Development Efficiency Education Human...

... and developmental approaches (Majid, n.d.). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Takaful Malaysia Efficiency Supervision Mutual Islamic insurance The participants are insured against various risks. They will, also, benefit from the surplus distribution [2] , and share...

...Aziz Karimov; Bola Amoke Awotide; Taiwo Timothy Amos Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate production and scale efficiency of maize producing farms in South-Western Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – This study is based on a semi-parametric approach and uses a combination...

... to assist SMEs to secure loans from financial institutions in Malaysia. Being the sole issuer of credit guarantees to SMEs, the performance of CGC directly reflects the availability of credit guarantees to SMEs. Hence, to ascertain the accessibility of credit guarantees, this study evaluates the efficiency...

...Phillip Anthony O’Hara Scrutinises legal, ethical and efficiency standards for and against insider trading. The main arguments supporting insider trading are that it promotes economic efficiency and enterprise. The primary argument against insider trading is that it can be a breach of fiduciary...

...Julius H. Mangisoni The crop sector in Malawi faces a number of constraints which must be overcome before agriculture can reach its full potential. This paper uses the policy analysis matrix (PAM) to assess efficiency in the crop sector and financial analysis to explore the potential of investing...

... in a way that indirectly taxes corporations. This extension of liability stands contrary to the evolutionary development of the corporation as based on an efficient redistribution of property rights. It biases investment towards lower risk, lower yield ventures, and is expected to decrease New Zealand’s...

.... © MCB UP Limited 1998 Development agencies Efficiency Equity Northern Ireland Regional development The notion that equity is a prerequisite for economic growth and should be pursued as a policy objective in its own right has gained widespread acceptance in the 1990s...

... by the expansion of industrialisation in the less developed countries, the key to protecting the global environment is technological advancement by which the world community can raise the efficiency of the current energy usage and/or develop feasible alternative sources of energy so that the consumption of fossil...

... of external effects resulting from certain social undertakings. In addition to externalities, two other market failures are discussed: the use of efficiency measures while ignoring effectiveness measures; and the emphasis on the short‐term time horizon at the expense of the longer term. As noted...