BACKGROUND Hospitals are the most costly and important components of any health care system, so it is important to know their economic values, pay attention to their efficiency and consider factors affecting them. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the technical scale and economic efficiency of hospitals in the West Azerbaijan province of Iran, for which Data Envelopment Analysis (...

1 Management can profoundly affect the quality of healthcare delivery. Certain public management processes in healthcare institutions lacking flexibility, budgetary autonomy and performance based incentives, have become associated with poor health outcomes, and inefficiency. However, new management models that emphasize autonomy in contracting, human resources, and budgeting can improve efficie...

Abstract: In this paper, the researchers have proposed a multi-dimensional knapsack model for project capital budgeting problem in uncertain situation which has been modeled through fuzzy sets. The optimistic and pessimistic situations were considered and associated deterministic models were yielded. Numerical example has been supplied toillustrate the performance of proposed model. The results...

The new portfolio optimization engine, OptFolioTM, simultaneously addresses financial return goals, catastrophic loss avoidance, and performance probability. The innovations embedded in OptFolio enable users to confidently design effective plans for achieving financial goals, employing accurate analysis based on real data. Traditional analysis and prediction methods are based on mean variance a...

This study examined the relationship between budgeted capital and health sector performance in South West Nigeria. The adopted statistical tools to analyse data that were sourced from approved budget estimates of six Western States. descriptive statistics showed on an average level, all selected expenditures contributed approximately 99.9% their budgetary allocations. Jarque-Bera test reveals a...

The dramatic change in aggregate fiscal policy in recent years has contributed to a shift from process rules to allocation rules in federal budgeting. Although the allocation rules inherent in formula budgeting seem to offer fairness in times of fiscal constraint, they actually impose arbitrary program-level budgets that reflect the peculiarities of baselines, accounting conventions, and time h...