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Showing 1 to 20 of 160 for “"Economic Efficiency"”.
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Approximations for Economic Efficiency and Fairness
<p>Efficiency and fairness are two major objectives in designing economic systems -- they provide guidelines on the desirability of economic solutions. However, perfectly efficient and fair utopian economies are often nonexistent or impractical, due to incentives, lack of information, computational …
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Principles of economic efficiency applied to highway infrastructure problems
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1984.
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Economic efficiency of the collection distribution component of urban mass transit
… in North American cities indicate improved efficiency of operation through better co-ordination of mass transit system components. In particular, efficiencies have been improved through innovations in the collection-distribution of transit passengers with schemes such as dial-a-bus, …
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The Relative Economic Efficiency of Irrigated Rice Farms, West Java, Indonesia
… of this research are to assess the relative economic efficiency of irrigated rice farms, and to evaluate the effectiveness of the policy of subsidizing fertilizer and controlling the price of rough rice, as a measure to increase rice output and employment.
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The role of industrywide voluntary product standards in stimulating economic efficiency
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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Economic efficiency in transit service contracts : the role of contract structure
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1993.
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Electrified transportation and urban energy systems for economic, efficiency, and resilience benefits
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Chinese iron and steel industry in transition : toward market mechanisms and economic efficiency
Economic reforms in the Chinese industrial sector during 1979-88 have followed two lines: decentralization of the authority of the central government bureaucracy to the provincial and local level and movement within enterprises towards greater reliance on the market mechanism and away from …
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Chinese iron and steel industry in transition : toward market mechanisms and economic efficiency
Economic reforms in the Chinese industrial sector during 1979-88 have followed two lines: decentralization of the authority of the central government bureaucracy to the provincial and local level and movement within enterprises towards greater reliance on the market mechanism and away from …
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The impact of farm input subsidies on economic efficiency of maize production in Malawi
… (FISP) on the technical, allocative and economic efficiency and determining factors associated with these efficiencies of 12, 271 smallholder maize farmers from 2010 IHS3 dataset in Malawi. Descriptive statistics, stochastic frontier approach as and a Cobb-Douglas production function were …
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Reconciling Economic Efficiency and Social Needs? The EU, Objective 1 and Civil Society in Wales
… underlines its recognition as one of the most economically and socially deprived regions in the EU. The research considers questions such as whether there is a sufficient understanding from the European level of what are the social issues that must be addressed, whether these issues are being …
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Rate design for the 21st Century : improving economic efficiency and distributional equity in electricity rate
Electricity tariffs typically charge residential users a volumetric (that is, per-unit of electricity consumed) price that recovers the bulk of the costs of generating, transmitting, and distributing electrical energy. These tariffs also often include taxes and recover other costs associated with …
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Cost-based pricing in the NHS internal market : accounting choices and the achievement of economic efficiency
… manner which will facilitate the achievement of economic efficiency in the NHS internal market. Surveys of hospitals in 1991 and 1994 established the cost methods adopted in deriving the prices for healthcare contracts in the first year of the market and three years on. An in-depth view of the …
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Economic Efficiency in the Production of Low-Volume Rural Roads: An Application of Radial Measures of Efficiency
… local governments to produce a public good in an economically efficient manner, and the second was to compare and contrast alternative empirical methods used to obtain efficiency measures. The principle policy option examined was jurisdictional consolidation as a method to enhance production …
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From cost-effectiveness to economic-efficiency in conservation planning: the importance of considering the economic benefits of conservation
Providing an economic case for establishing new protected areas and demonstrating how conservation enhances human well-being is becoming necessary to reinforce moral arguments for biodiversity protection. Accordingly; this study aimed to assess whether the spatial distribution of priority areas …
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Optimisation of water demand management opportunities in non-residential facilities within the Cape Metropolitan Area based on economic efficiency
… not link environmental management issues with economic development policies and strategy.
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Optimizing the economic efficiency by micro-drill life improvement during deep-hole drilling in the 212-Valve manufacturing process
The micro-drilling process by robodrills in the production of valves at Waters Corporation is the bottleneck caused by the short drill life. This thesis analyzed the chip formation and removal during the process to improve the tool life. The effects of the tool materials, geometry and peck drilling …
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To Till or Not to Till: The Question of Economic Efficiency and Tillage Systems in a Sample of Illinois Grain Farms
… reaction to price changes. The knowledge that efficiency regime does not change with tillage practice is important for policy makers, who constantly have to assess the potential effects of new technologies and practices not only on the ability of farmers to feed the nation, but also on the …
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