Browsing by Subject "Utilization"

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The resource curse and child mortality, 1961–2011
(Elsevier Ltd, 2017) Wigley, S.
There is now an extensive literature on the adverse effect of petroleum wealth on the political, economic and social well-being of a country. In this study we examine whether the so-called resource curse extends to the health of children, as measured by under-five mortality. We argue that the type of revenue available to governments in petroleum-rich countries reduces their incentive to improve child health. Whereas the type of revenue available to governments in petroleum-poor countries encourages policies designed to improve child health. In order to test that line of argument we employ a panel of 167 countries (all countries with populations above 250,000) for the years 1961–2011. We find robust evidence that petroleum-poor countries outperform petroleum-rich countries when it comes to reducing under-five mortality. This suggests that governments in oil abundant countries often fail to effectively use the resource windfall at their disposal to improve child health.
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A study of military factories in Turkey from the viewpoint of productivity and cost effectiveness
(2006) Kurtay, Kemal Gürol
This study is a field study which investigates military workshops with a investigation methodology for proper determination of concerns that are considered to have adverse effects on productivity and cost-effectiveness at factories and proposes a number of alternatives for their elimination. It also defines issues common for any military factories, that are considered detrimental to cost-effective and productive operation of military factory and puts forth suggestions for their elimination. The Study further makes a comparison of data supplied from military workshops against statistical data retrieved from private owned worksites of similar character and nature, in the conclusions drawn after a compilation of findings obtained through factory investigations. All this effort currently being carried out is an activity aimed exclusively at improving productivity in military factories. Improving productivity through boosting the amount of output toward shortening production cost and by decreasing operation times are the core of this study.