Government capabilities as drivers of performance: path to prosperity

Manufacturing Growth: What is the path to prosperity in Africa?

What prevents sub-Saharan Africa from escaping poverty through the development of significant manufacturing industries? The first category of constraints are those external to firms, about which we have economic theories: scarcity of physical capital, taxes, poor infrastructure, lack of human capital, corruption, trade costs. A second category are those internal to firms, about which we know li...

Performance Metrics as Drivers of Quality: Getting to Second Gear Running title: Lee; Performance Metrics as Drivers of Quality

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Performance metrics as drivers of quality: getting to second gear.

constructing a test to predict the translation performance of english translation ma graduates on legal correspondence and deeds as a profession

regarding the ever evolving and improving world on different aspects of knowledge, the need to a worldwide communication would emerge stronger than ever before which calls for special attention on the judgments and best choices for intermediating between the nations. as the language skills for translation are tested separately from translation skills themselves, to assess translation skills pro...

Ride-Hailing Networks with Strategic Drivers: The Impact of Platform Control Capabilities on Performance

This work is motivated by the emergence of ride-hailing platforms such as Uber, Lyft and Gett that match demand (passengers) with service capacity (drivers) over a geographically dispersed network. This matching problem is complicated by two challenges. (i) There are significant demand imbalances in the network. (ii) Drivers are self-interested and behave strategically in deciding whether to jo...