Agricultural practice in Bangladesh is largely dependent on the monsoonal rainfall. Historical data show that Bangladesh experienced severe droughts and floods during monsoon months. Crop losses were reported under both of these extreme conditions. Intra-seasonal monsoonal rainf…
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This dissertation examines the role of micro-credit on the liquidity constraints faced by poor landless and near-landless households in rural Bangladesh. The objective of the study is to examine whether collateral-free interest-bearing micro-loans from the Grameen Bank can help …
A 2-D radial compositional simulator was used to investigate the effect of liquid drop out on the productivity of a rich gas condensate reservoir. A seven layer reservoir model was constructed based on well logs and core analysis data. A two phase relative permeability model was…
Deep ocean benthic foraminiferal assemblages were analyzed for a quantitative relationship to surface ocean biological productivity. This analysis is based on the response of benthic foraminiferal assemblages to the surface ocean biological productivity for a global data set. Tw…
In the first essay, productive efficiency and some of the main factors affecting it in 11 countries in the Middle East and North Africa region were evaluated over the period 1980–99 using Färe's non-parametric approach. The results indicate that Oil producing countries are more …
This study examines the sources of growth in Indonesia. To do this, a standard growth model is developed. First, the model is decomposed into two sectors, oil and non-oil, which are then estimated by applying OLS and 2SLS procedures. This decomposition is intended to capture the…
This dissertation presents three essays on the relationship between technology adoption, government intervention and total factor productivity growth. In the first essay, we examine the relationship between investment in human capital and technology adoption decisions of entrepr…
Both highly developed and developing countries share the common problem of how to maximize the health and welfare of their populations within a context of ever-tighter budgets for public health expenditures. In such situations, it becomes crucial for governments to identify effe…
Given high population growth rates, subsistence, low-input agriculture, and consequent low and stagnant incomes, a challenge for economists and development practitioners in Sub-Saharan Africa is to identify sustainable models of input intensification to promote agricultural prod…
Professional development is usually pursued by providing adult professionals with opportunities to learn and update their knowledge and skills that will increase their productivity. Farmers representing 75% of the workforce in Senegal need to acquire and update farming skills th…
The textile industry has been a major contributor to industrialisation in many countries. Therefore the performance of firms in this subsector may be greatly linked to the growth of the subsector and subsequently act as a driver of economic growth, among other factors. Also, fir…
Transgenic cell lines that produce biopharmaceutical proteins are widely utilized in the biotech industry and the demand is not predicted to decline in the near future. For obtaining an industrially usable cell line, process components like expression vector, host cell line and …
Software is not only a rapidly developing and indispensable tool today but also the most prominent driving force of digital transformation. Thanks to the innovation studies carried out in the software of these programs, the productivity growth is achieved in the design processes…
İş gücü verimliliği, üretim aşamasında gözlemlenen ya da ölçülen sermaye, iş gücü gibi belirli faktörlerin, üretime direkt ya da dolaylı yoldan etki eden katkılardır. Bu tanım, bir içinin ürettiği reel katma değer olarak da açıklanabilmektedir. Globalde, üretim aşaması ile istih…
Cette thèse analyse plusieurs aspects reliés à l'éducation et à la formation professionnelle agricole. Plus précisément, elle étudie l'impact de la formation par alternance sur la productivité des techniciens de formation agricole exerçant la fonction de gérant d'une entreprise …
This dissertation consists of two essays that address two distinct topics concerning the land tenure institutions of Bulgaria. The first essay studies the evolution of land tenure institutions, focusing on the period 1839-1944 during which the country experienced two distinct la…
This dissertation consists of two essays related to the process of structural transformation and sectoral Total Factor Productivity (TFP). Understanding the sources of the large per capita income differences across countries remains a key question in economics. A way to approach…
State Owned Enterprise (SOE) privatization has become a major issue in both developed and developing countries of the world. During the 1980s, state owned enterprises were under scrutiny because of the accumulating evidence that such enterprises were performing poorly and creati…