The paper discusses China's post-reform regional economic growth imbalance relative to input disparity in technology, physical and human capital. Financial sources and types of ownership are used to construct physical capital. Technology is measured by innovation investment, and human capital is constructed from schooling years per capita. The results show that domestic bank loans and foreign-o...

In this paper, we estimate Okun’s coefficients for ten Canadian provinces using real GDP and unemployment rate data across the provinces. We obtain an average estimated Okun’s coefficient of –1.58 under the Hodrick-Prescott detrending method and –1.32 under the quadratic detrending method. There is relative stability of the coefficients across the two detrending methods. Generally, the cost of ...

The Sea of Marmara is a tectonically active basin that straddles the North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ), major strike-slip fault separates Eurasian and tectonic plates. Main (MMF), which part NAFZ, contains an approximately 150 km long seismotectonic segment has not ruptured since 1766. A key question for seismic hazard risk assessment whether or next rupture along this likely to produce one ear...

This study examines, using quantile regression, the linkage between food security and efforts to enhance smallholder coffee producer incomes in Rwanda. Even though in Rwanda smallholder coffee producer incomes have increased, inhabitants these areas still experience stunting and wasting. This study examines whether the distribution of the income elasticity for food is the same for coffee and no...

BACKGROUND During the last decades, the number of dentistry units increased significantly across the country. The aim of this study was to assess the efficiency of dental units of Iran provinces regarding dental health inputs and outputs using Data Envelopment Analysis approach. METHODS In this applied descriptive-analytical study, the study population included all of Iran 31 provinces. The o...

Wheat is widely grown in Iran as a staple food; therefore, the government there encourages farmers to produce wheat (a common agricultural enterprise) by increasing farm productivity and efficiency. The study compares the efficiency of wheat production for dryland (low input) and irrigated (high input) systems across Iranian provinces by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The average techni...