Keyword: developing countries

Found 852 papers in total
Efficiency of Thai provincial public hospitals during the introduction of universal health coverage using capitation
2008,
We investigate the impact of implementing capitated–based Universal Health...
When are Partnerships a Viable Tool for Development? Institutions and Partnerships for Water and Sanitation Service in Latin America
2009,
Partnerships are increasingly becoming unpopular in Latin America, they have narrowly...
Reservoir Inflow Modeling Using Temporal Neural Networks with Forgetting Factor Approach
2009,
In this paper, a recursive training procedure with forgetting factor is proposed for...
Modeling Integrated Decisions for a Municipal Water System with Recourse and Uncertainties: Amman, Jordan
2009,
Stochastic mixed–integer optimization is used to identify a portfolio of...
Linking Performance and Collective Action: the Case of the Office du Niger Irrigation Scheme in Mali
2009,
Increasing irrigation efficiency in irrigation schemes has always been high on the...
Operations Research in Jordan: contrasting university courses and companies' expectations
2008,
The study assesses the training and education of Operations Research (OR) in...
Decision Process in a Water Use Conflict in Brazil
2008,
This paper presents a procedure for decision analysis in water use conflicts among...
Integrated water resources management along the Senegal River: Introducing an analytical framework
2002,
Integrated water resources management has become a trendy paradigm, although the issue...
Assessment of different irrigation models in Vietnam
2005,
An assessment of three institutional models for irrigation management in Vietnam is...
The economic and ecological effects of water management choices in the upper Niger River: Development of decision support methods
2006,
One million people in the Inner Niger Delta make a living from arable farming,...
Technical efficiency and environmental–technological gaps in wheat production in Kerman province of Iran
2008,
This article reports on an analysis of technical efficiency and...
Economic potential for soil carbon sequestration in the Nioro region of Senegal's Peanut Basin
2007,
This paper presents results from an analysis of the economic potential for soil carbon...
Integrating stochastic models and in situ sampling for monitoring soil carbon sequestration
2007,
Participation in carbon (C) markets could provide farmers in developing countries...
A simulation-based analysis of productivity and soil carbon in response to time-controlled rotational grazing in the West African Sahel region
2007,
In the Sahel region of West Africa, the traditional organization of the population and...
Impact of small-holder irrigation on the agricultural production, food supply and economic prosperity of a representative village beside the Senegal River, Mauritania
2008,
A considerable effort to rehabilitate and extend degraded irrigation schemes is taking...
Multipurpose fodder trees in the Ethiopian highlands: Farmers' preference and relationship of indigenous knowledge of feed value with laboratory indicators
2008,
In the tropics, numerous organizations have promoted multipurpose fodder trees (MPFT)...
Supply chain management implementation in Tunisia: an exploratory study of the dairy sector
2008,
Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a major issue in many industries as firms realise the...
Differences in the economic growth of Latin American countries: integration effects and foreign direct investment influence
2008,
This paper tries to explain the wide range of economic experiences among Latin...
The impact of response to the results of diagnostic tests for malaria: cost–benefit analysis
2008,
Objective – rapid diagnostic tests for malaria seem cost effective in standard...
Water services regulation for the urban poor: Zambia
2008,
There is rapid urbanisation in developing countries, where UN Habitat estimates that...
A dynamic bio-economic model for analyzing deforestation and degradation: An application to woodlands in Uganda
2007,
This study is an effort at developing a dynamic non-linear programming bio-economic...
Mu1ticriteria tour planning for mobile healthcare facilities in a developing country
2007,
A multiobjective combinatorial optimization (MOCO) formulation for the following...
Optimization model for allocating water in a river basin, during a drought
2007,
Optimization of water use is a complex problem in a large scale river basin. One of...
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