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... An update to the World Bank’s estimates of consumption poverty in the developing world * The World Bank has been regularly monitoring the progress of developing countries against absolute ... 2 For the first time since this monitoring task began, the data indicate a decline in both the poverty rate and the number of poor in all six re...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20

... main refinancing rate, for its part, has an impact on interest rates. To do so, we are going to look whether the tone of the ECB’s statement (which we are going to codify) or the change in the tone ... Publishing Ltd and The University of Manchester 2006 Anticipating short-term moves in interest rates between the day before a meeting of the ECB’s Governing Counc...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20

... led to the killings of more than 100 people, the torture and inhuman treatment of several individuals, and arbitrary arrests and detention of many others. Meanwhile, MNOCs are continuing their ... of Father Nery Lito Satur and several others in the Philippines, and the public hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other members of the Movement for the Survival of th...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... 99 customers and suppliers to conform to their own Internet business strategy relative to large firms On the other hand, the readiness and willingness of customers and suppliers are also the ... increasing the level of digitization of the operation both on the customer side and the supplier side. The financial performance construct measures the level of imp...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... pharmaceuticals and supplies, and buildings and vehicles and the financing of strategies to improve the productivity, quality, and equity in the use of inputs. These latter strategies can include management ... Washington DC: The World Bank 41 World Bank 2007. Population Issues in the 21st Century: The Role of the World Bank. Washington DC. 12 unsafe...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... central bank’s credibility due to recent changes in its Board of Directors.  Widespread financial indexation. There is strong inertia due to the indexation of financial contracts to the overnight ... of the policy rate by hindering the proper functioning of the transmission channel of monetary policy (see Medina Cas and others, 2011a,b). Indeed, muted inflat...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... INTEGRATING GENDER INTO THE WORLD BANK’S WORK held in the six regions in which the Bank works; and informal consul- tations were held with many of the Bank’s bilateral donor partners and representatives ... designed to enable the process of diagnosis, strategy formation, and integration into operations: Integrating a gender dimension into relevant analytical work an...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... reading the draft and taking the time for two meetings to discuss Genuine Savings and the Bank’s CASE initiative. Participants in the March 1999 Terschelling Island meeting on ‘Questioning the World ... Thanks are due in particular to: Mark Anielski and Joy Hecht for helpful insights on national sustainability indicators and the work of the World Bank in thi...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20

... misunderstand the environmental variables themselves. Benjamin Franklin, the early American statesman, inventor, printer, and scientist alludes to the potential for misunderstanding these interactions. ... resistors is the same, so the ratio of the temperature drop across any resistor to the total temperature difference between the body and air is equal to the ra...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:44