We investigate how boundaries in knowledge control, sharing and co-ordination influence UK and German manufacturing firms’ innovation intensity (an indicator of the volume of product change) and product life (an indicator of the pace of generational change). In general UK plants more commonly face knowledge control boundaries related to plant ownership or control, while German plants more commo...

Fonkoze, a microfinance institution in Haiti, has used a poverty “scorecard” to benchmark existing client data to the $1-a-day extreme poverty line. By referring to data from a national survey of household income, 12 variables already routinely collected by Fonkoze were found to be suitable as indicators of whether a household is above or below the extreme poverty line. A scorecard was construc...

BACKGROUND The high and fluctuating mortality and rising health inequalities in post-Soviet countries have attracted considerable attention. However, there are very few individual-level data on distribution of health outcomes in Central Asian countries of the former Soviet Union. We analysed socioeconomic predictors of two self-rated health outcomes in a national survey in Kazakhstan. METHODS...

This paper presents household-level econometric estimates of the income and price elasticities residential electricity demand for Indonesia. Using annual household survey panel data SUSENAS from 2011 to 2013, estimation controls characteristics that significantly affect consumption, such as demographic aspects, house size, ownership home appliances. The empirical results show in Indonesia, is p...

This study aims to analyzing the preferences of Indonesian migrant workers children work abroad in Cilacap Regency, factors affecting preference and differences Regency based on demographic characteristics. Preferences became dependent variable, meanwhile income, education, age, gender, marital status as independent variable. The data collection method used purposive sampling with 100 samples u...

A recently-published paper by Wickremasinghe et al assesses the scalability of pilot projects in three countries using the aid effectiveness agenda as an analytical framework. The authors report uneven progress and recommend applying aid effectiveness principles to improve the scalability of projects. This commentary focuses on one key principle of aid effectiveness – country ownership; it desc...

Ongoing economic uncertainty is imposing stringent cost pressures on organizations across industries. In response, many businesses are prioritizing their investments to drive operational efficiencies and minimize IT spend on their application portfolios. However, several factors — including the expanding size and complexity of the application portfolio, poor license management, rising total cos...

Estimative analysis of the property market aims to identify the parameters, economic variables and mechanisms at the basis of negotiations that take place in the market. The aims are explanatory and predictive. In this work, a multiple regression analysis is carried out to evaluate a segment of the bare ownership market of residential properties in a district of an Italian city. In particular, ...

The primary objective of this article is to explore the feasibility of the application of cost minimization analysis in a teaching hospital environment. The investigation is concerned with the development of cost per admission and cost per patient day models. These models are further used for determining the value of the length of stay that would minimize cost per patient day (projected length ...