The objective of this study is to see the impacts of economic reforms and trade liberalisation policies on agricultural export performance of Pakistan. The major purpose is to examine the effects of both domestic supply-side factors and world demand on agricultural export performance. Four indicators of economic reforms and trade liberalisation policies are considered namely competitiveness, di...

Different policies have been implemented around the world seeking to deliver demand response potential in the electricity markets. Externalities, namely the CO2 externality, have been one of the key concerns in the debate on the effectiveness of different policies regarding demand response development. Although most previous researches have centred on the short-term assessment of different poli...

This paper econometrically analyzes the relationship between public spending and gendered urban employment in China for the period 1999-2009. Proponents of gender-sensitive public policies suggest that spending on healthcare and education may increase long-run growth and women’s relative employment via the expansion of paid care work (increasing labor demand) and reductions in unpaid labor (inc...

Abstract In this study, we applied recently developed panel unit root and cointegration techniques to examine the long-run real income per capita and price elasticities for demand of electricity in selected Middle East and North African (MENA) countries using an annual data series from 1990 to 2011.Our main finding from the panel analysis is that the demand for electricity is highly price ela...

The under-performance of supply chains presents a significant hindrance to disease control in developing countries. Stock-outs of essential medicines lead to treatment interruption which can force changes in patient drug regimens, drive drug resistance and increase mortality. This study is one of few to quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of supply chain policies in reducing shortages and...

Despite efficient carbon monitoring system and the commercialization of battery technology for intra-port transportation, port management are found not adopting these environmental yet costly equipments. Port authority who regulates environmental policies lacks leverage to impose tangible reduction on emission through concession. This model integrates sustainability into port equipment expansio...

Processor scheduling policies can be broadly divided into space-sharing and time-sharing policies. Space-sharing policies partition system processors and each partition is allocated exclusively to a job. In time-sharing policies, processors are temporally shared by jobs (e.g., in a round robin fashion). Space-sharing policies can be either static (processor allocation remains constant during th...

— Many economists argue that the Chinese state and collectively owned enterprises are fundamentally inefficient and better economic performance requires large-scale layoff of the state and the collective sector workers. This paper argues that the productivity of state and collectively owned enterprises depends on the level of aggregated demand. If the government undertakes expansionary policies...