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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Supply policy"”.
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Local-level institutions and common property resource management in the Khorixas regional constituency, Namibia
… Government of Namibia formulated the Rural Water Supply Policy which provides for the establishment of the Water Point Committees to take responsibility for management of water supply in rural areas. By establishing these local-level water management institutions, policy makers in Namibia assume …
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Blood safety and resource allocation: economic analyses of donated blood safety initiatives
… management at any cost has become the apparent policy of blood banks and regulators because of transfusion-transmitted HIV and hepatitis. However, blood bank opinion leaders suggest economic analyses of new interventions are increasingly important for choosing between competing interventions. In …
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Evolution of water supply mechanisms to reflect changing values: a case study of the Massachusetts water management program
… the institutional mechanisms governing water supply management to reflect those changing values and opinions. Massachusetts is a prime example of a state where changes in publicly held values have caused a thorough restructuring of the institutional mechanisms governing water supply …
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Industrial organization of housing supply : explaining spatial variation of home builder size in U.S.
The housing supply is affected by the market, regulation, land use, and capital. Research has revealed a strong variation between the supply sector and builders' behavior patterns. Understanding these variations will contribute not only to better performance of private homebuilders, but also to …
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Modeling inventory and responsiveness costs in a supply chain
Evaluation of supply chain performance is often complicated by the various interrelationships that exist within the network of suppliers. Currently many supply chain metrics cannot be analytically determined. Instead, metrics are derived from monitoring historical data, which is commonly referred …
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Rural electrification in Ghana: issues of photovoltaic energy technology utilisation
… advocacy has taken place in the academic and policy studies, environmental fora, and national agenda about solar PV energy technology serving as a panacea to the energy problems of rural populations in developing countries, especially Sub-Sahara Africa, whilst also helping to reduce greenhouse …
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Optimizing replenishment order quantities in uncoordinated supply chains
Many modern supply chains can be described as a series of uncoordinated suppliers. That is each supplier establishes their individual inventory and production policies on both the input and output sides. In these supply links there is minimal coordination between suppliers, and typically only …
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Sustainability of Rural Water Services in Low-Income Countries: Case studies in sub-Saharan Africa
… spent and efforts made to provide rural water supply services in various developing countries. However, the provision of such services to date is largely unsustainable and it is unlikely that the Millennium Development Goal target for safe drinking water in rural areas will be met. This is …
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Integrated size and price optimization for a fashion retailer
… development of a decision-support system for the supply of the about 1300 branches in Germany. There are some specialties about the situation at our industrial partner: The branches are supplied by prepackaged size-assortments of a product which we call lot-types. With the objective to economize …