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The productivity effects of decentralized reforms - an analysis of the Chinese industrial reforms
No full textThe empirical literature on the effects of ownership has not distinguished between the effects of ownership and the effects of control. It has also generally ignored the dynamic effects of various ownership and control rights. Using a rich set of panel data about changes in China's state-owned enterprises, the author examines the static and dynamic effects of decentralizing ownership and control rights. He finds that productivity and growth rates improved significantly when reform improved the incentives for managers and employees to learn and to work hard - for example by decentralizing the rights to control wages, make production decisions, and appoint new managers. Increasing profit-retention rates and adopting performance contracts - conventionally viewed as the most important reforms for China's state enterprises - did not improve productivity much. Overall, decentralization accounted for a least 42 percent of productivity growth in Chinese state enterprises in the 1980s. Much of that gain came from improvements in the growth rate of productivity rather than in improved levels of productivity.Labor Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Public Health Promotion,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Municipal Financial Management
Effects of the multifibre arrangement on developing countries : a survey
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to review the major findings of existing studies on the Multifibre Arrangement's (MFA) effect, with emphasis on the effects to LDCs, and to suggest the directions for further studies that are needed for a better understanding of the MFA. The paper is composed of six sections. Following the introduction, section 2 examines the dominant features of textile and clothing (T&C)exports from the LDCs. In section 3, the essence of the MFA provisions and their actual development is briefly summarized. These two sections provide a background to the discussion in the later part of the paper. Section 4 surveys the effects of the MFA on importing countries. The effects of the MFA on exporting LDCs are discussed in section 5. Finally, in section 6, a summary and conclusions are given, as well as the directions for further studies which are needed on the subject.Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Trade Policy,Development Economics&Aid Effectiveness
Blind people - manipulation of virtual objects
No full textThe project contains open data, in partial fulfillment of a submission to Scientific Reports (SREP-23-00924A) for the manuscript:
Blind people can actively manipulate virtual objects with a novel tactile device
authored by
Mariacarla Memeo, Giulio Sandini, Elena Cocchi, and Luca Brayd
Blind people - manipulation of virtual objects
No full textThe project contains open data, in partial fulfillment of a submission to Scientific Reports (SREP-23-00924A) for the manuscript:
Blind people can actively manipulate virtual objects with a novel tactile device
authored by
Mariacarla Memeo, Giulio Sandini, Elena Cocchi, and Luca Brayd
Significato prognostico dell'urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) e del suo inibitore (PAI-I) nel cancro del colon - retto
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