This paper seeks to explain the relationship between regional economic discrimination in the form of three indices of need discrimination, capacity discrimination and combined index of tax compliance across provinces for the period of 2002-2016 in three five-year periods. The research model was estimated by GLS method. The results of the model estimation show that there is a significant relatio...

Due to the economical restrictions, improving efficiency in the collection and processing of blood products at blood centers is important. This study uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the efficiency of 31 Provincial units of Iranian Blood Transfusion Organizations (IBTO) to determine to what extent efficiency can be improved. Efficiency grades were computed with DEA linear progra...

Introduction: Iran's health system is encountered with a variety of challenges and problems due to the issues of quality, relevancy, and effectiveness. The main reason of inefficacy in health system is unnecessary centralization. In the latest decade, health sector decentralization polices have been implemented on a broad scale throughout world especially in developing countries. Decentralizati...

The purpose of this study was to determine the efficiency of provincial administrations of the ministry of sport & youth by using non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis. Inputs and outputs of the research were selected by the expert’s choice. Inputs for provincial sport administrations included staff, budget and sport facility capitation (percapita). Outputs for provincial sport administratio...