AFRICAN MANPOWER PLANS: AN EVALUATION

Reading Plans as an Exercise in Evaluation

The communicative turn in policy analysis and planning has resulted in increasing interest in the issue of what the text of the plan has to narrate to different categories of readership. The quality of the text of the plan is a central aspect of this new concern. According to rational planning theory, a plan should be an exposition of various directives. The plan is based on the scientific exam...

Generating Query Evaluation Plans

Private health insurance plans in 1976: an evaluation.

Private health insures collected a record $39.4 billion in premiums and returned $35 billion in benefits to their subscribers in 1976--a reflection of the steadily rising cost of health care, higher utilization, and the demand for expanded services. The industry experienced a net underwriting loss of $611 million, mainly because claims and operating expenses under insurance-company group busine...

Efficiency Evaluation of Wood Supplying Plans

In this research, efficiency of Iranian forest and rangeland decision making unit was assessed using non-parametric method. Inputs and outputs determined by field research and with applying a Delphi method the final input and output variables selected. Forty five wood-producing units (forestry plans) in three northern Iranian province were studied using Data Envelopment Analysis. The efficiency...

Sequential Plans and Risk Evaluation

Introduced in 1990s, sequential plans generalize and optimize the classical sequential procedures allowing sampling in groups of variables sizes. Sequential plans are preferred to pure sequential procedures when the cost function is non-linear so that each observed group implies an additional fixed cost. Optimal plans minimize the risk, a weighted sum of the expected loss, cost of observations,...