OR in developing countries: A review

White, Leroy; Smith, Honora; Currie, Christine S. M.

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2010.02.015

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“…• It is likely that government will be both part of the problem and part of the solution (White, 2011). This underscores the need for methods to be transparent and to be a record of decision making with respect to the use of public or donor funds.…”

Section: Operational Research In Development (Ord)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This underscores the need for methods to be transparent and to be a record of decision making with respect to the use of public or donor funds. It also underscores that the socio-political context may constrain available solutions or approaches (White 2011). …”

Section: Operational Research In Development (Ord)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In South Africa, which is defined by the World Bank as a "developing" country (World Bank 2012), this means that OR education cannot be meaningfully discussed without some reference to "development" and specifically OR in development. The role of OR in developing countries has been discussed at length in both developed and developing countries (White 2011). We do not attempt to give a comprehensive review of ORD here, although there is some inevitable overlap in the issues we consider.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Operational Research(ers) in development: Growing a new generation of operational researchers

Durbach

Scott²,

Nyirenda³

et al. 2013

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Dedication to Emeritus Professor Theodor StewartTo Theo, for his enormous, enduring (and continuing!) contribution to the theory and practice of operational research at the University of Cape Town. AbstractThis paper explores the theme of training operational research (OR) practitioners in South Africa by critically evaluating a Masters program in Operational Research in Development (ORD), launched in 2005 at the University of Cape Town. This program was specifically focused on applying OR to the problems of the developing world in general and Africa in particular. We describe the program and review the practical work undertaken by students participating in the program. Topics range widely across domains including health (antimalarial drug resistance); poverty (food banking); governance (NGO management structures and monitoring of local government performance) and sustainable livelihoods (spaza shop operations). We use the review to highlight strengths and weaknesses of the program, as well as challenges faced in the OR education in South Africa at a postgraduate level.

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Section: Operational Research In Development (Ord)mentioning

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Section: Operational Research In Development (Ord)mentioning

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Scott²,

Nyirenda³

et al. 2013

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“…The OR literature produced in Colombia mainly concentrates on reporting successful cases of application or theoretical developments, but not on analysing the impact of OR in the business sector. This shows a disconnection between academia and industry (White, Smith & Currie, 2011). Knowing the impact of OR in practice is essential if one wants to bring practical solutions to meaningful problems and contribute to advance theory (Mingers, 2015;Bornstein & Rosenhead, 1990; White et al, 2011).…”

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Understanding the Role of or/MS in the Strategic Decisions of Colombian Organisations - An Exploratory Study

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ABSTRACT. Operational Research & Management Science has been defined as the field that provides analytical methodologies to make better decisions. It offers an ample set of tools to facilitate the analysis of complex organisational issues and enlighten decision-making. Nonetheless, it has also been argued that the role it actually plays for corporate strategic decisions is not as key as one would expect it. This article aims at exploring the role that OR/MS plays at the corporate level of a sample of Colombian organisations. To this end, primary information was collected through an online survey that sought to identify the various types of problems they commonly face, the tools mostly employed, and the processes they normally follow. The results suggest limited use of tools at the corporate level of the organisations surveyed. We conclude the paper with some reflections and recommendations for reversing this situation that are worthy of further research.

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“…This paper is part of a limited, but rapidly growing, OR literature aimed at examining the public policy problems of developing economies (White et al, 2011). These contributions typically highlight the positive role operational researchers can play in using quantitative techniques to address crucial development issues such as: public finance and debt management (Balibek and Köksalan, 2010), health care system design (Rahman and Smith, 2000), water resource development plans (Abu-Taleb and Mareschal, 1995), infrastructure planning (Brimberg et al, 2003), natural resource policy (Kalu, 1998), or rural electrification problems (Henao et al, 2012;Ferrer-Martí et al, 2013).…”

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Export diversification through resource-based industrialization: The case of natural gas

Massol

Banal‐Estañol

2014

European Journal of Operational Research

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. February 14, 2014 Permanent AbstractFor small resource-rich developing economies, specialization in raw exports is usually considered to be detrimental to growth and Resource-Based Industrialization (RBI) is often advocated to promote export diversification. This paper develops a new methodology to assess the performance of these RBI policies. We first formulate an adapted mean-variance portfolio model that explicitly takes into consideration: (i) a technology-based representation of the set of feasible export combinations, and (ii) the cost structure of the resource processing industries. Second, we provide a computationally tractable reformulation of the resulting mixed-integer nonlinear optimization problem.Finally, we present an application to the case of natural gas, comparing current and efficient export-oriented industrialization strategies of nine gas-rich developing countries.

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OR in developing countries: A review

Cited by 64 publications

References 120 publications

Operational Research(ers) in development: Growing a new generation of operational researchers

Operational Research(ers) in development: Growing a new generation of operational researchers

Understanding the Role of or/MS in the Strategic Decisions of Colombian Organisations - An Exploratory Study

Export diversification through resource-based industrialization: The case of natural gas

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