... PAPERS TO THIS REPORT 145 REFERENCES 147 INDEX 153 BOXES 1.1 The World BanksAnalyticalandAdvisoryAssistanceProgram—AddressingChinasWater Scarcity: FromAnalysistoAction 1.2 Recent Water ... address Chinaswaterscarcity James Adams Vice President East Asia and Pacific Region The World BankADDRESSINGCHINASWATERSCARCITY xi Acknowledgments This report synthesizes the main findings and ... recommendations of the World BanksAnalyticalandAdvisoryAssistance (AAA), entitled AddressingChinasWater Scarcity: FromAnalysisto Action. ” The AAA was launched by the World Bank in fiscal 2006 to...
... homeless adults and children Under pressure from the global bankers to attract foreign investors, governments have suppressed labor unions and held down wages, benefits, and labor standards They ... serious costs to others in the form of pollution-caused illnesses, poisoning of food sources (such as fish in the streams and crops in the land), and hazards to employees that not enter into product ... Wal-Mart is not only a scofflaw in its own labor practices but also presses its suppliers in Chinaand other low-wage countries (whose names and locations it keeps secret) to drive down costs by cutting...
... elements designed to address gender issues I STEP 6: Adjust design and activities based on monitoring and evaluation results; strengthen aspects of the program that are successful and rework aspects ... omissions and distortions by probing into the biases, assumptions, and stereotypes that they may hold unconsciously Quality information on gender issues is most likely to emerge when researchers ... designed to address gender issues; Adjust design and activities based on monitoring and evaluation results; strengthen successful aspects of the program and rework aspects that are not 18 tives for...
... B.13 presents the results of our “best” model, i.e., the model that used questions that seemed to be the best fit for the concepts of stakes or benefits, prospects for success, and costs Table ... beliefs about stakes, prospects and expected casualties, the next several tables present cross-tabulation of beliefs about stakes, prospects and costs by party Tables D.7 and D.8 show that although ... there was some association between the main variables of interest: perceptions of stakes, prospects for success, casualties and other costs, and party and information consumption At the same time,...
... objectives (to increase PMTCT interventions and fight stigma) answer the following questions: Step #1 Assessment #2 Assessment #3 Assessment #4 Assessment What are the key gender relations related to ... contract solicitations (Requests for Proposals-RFPs) and program descriptions (Requests for Applications-RFAs); and integrate gender issues into all technical evaluations (for RFPs and RFTOPs) and selection ... Framework This section reviews gender assessment as the initial step in a process for integrating gender into projects and programs Part of the assessment phase presents critical questions to consider...
... using the statistical package SPSS 11.01 for Windows (SPSS Inc.) Tukey test (equal variances), and Thamhanes T2 (unequal variances according to Levene statistics) were used as post-hoc tests ... at our site indicates no Al toxicity, and demonstrates eective stress tolerance and stress avoidance strategies of the trees [19] A signicant decrease of Al concentrations in needles was shown ... vigorously growing mature spruce stand shows decient nutrient levels, and high yearly variations in concentrations from time to time This has to be considered when interpreting needle analysis Liming...
... admissions for depression and suicide rate, for each sex, between 2000 and 2005 SPSS for Windows V 19 (SPSS, Chicago, IL, USA) was used to perform all the calculations Results Hospital admissions ... hypothesise that it may have taken some years to see an effect on depression and admissions for depression Also, it is of interest to note that the decrease in admissions for depression is not associated ... antidepressant use is associated with increased risk of suicide The present study suffers from some limitations, however First we assumed that all antidepressants are prescribed and used for depression...
... [15] Statistical analysis Statistical analyses were performed using the SPSS statistical package ver 11.5 (2000) (SPSS Institute, Chicago) and SAS statistical package ver 4.16 (1994) (SAS Institute, ... patients with different rates of RA progression [13] An ELISA format was used in the present study, whereas a radioimmunoassay format was used in previous studies [13,14] Another ELISA assay was used ... products enter body fluids as 'biomarkers', where they can now be detected by sensitive immunoassays in accessible fluids such as serum and urine [5-9] These biomarker assays may be of use in distinguishing...
... South; Books, newspapers, magazines, master thesis in history, doctoral dissertation in history and other resources related to the thesis from 1954 to 1965 4.2 Methodology and Research Methods - Methodology: ... the study, we used historical and logical approaches as the core In addition, we also use a number of methods such as analysis, synthesis, comparison and interdisciplinary approaches to address ... Thesis issues needed to be further researched and resolved Due to lacks of concrete science projects, specific thesis research to clarify appearing laws, operation, characteristics, establishment...
... customers properly because customers who are indirectly paid to us CONCLUSIONS In summary, commercial banks Asia is a commercial bank shares in the retail sector The success of Asian banks to ... more semester andto school is ascertained schools are responsible for monitoring and ensuring the student is always learning and full-time in a semester is not any fall courses Case, does not ... business and support Business blocks including personal customer blocks, business customer and funds Support blocks including Technology-Information, management checking, business developing, resources...
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... for addressing new and emerging food assistance issues Adding a food assistance dimension to existing surveys has proven to be an especially effective investment in expanding research capital Since ... also conduct store inventories to assess changes in the food environment (such as availability, variety, and prices of WIC foods) 18-20 months after the revisions, and compare the results to similar ... necessarily those of ERS or USDA (USDA s National Agricultural Library s Digital Repository offers online browsing of all CCRs) In addition to the series of reports, articles on food assistance and...
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... economic issues such as competitiveness and debt dynamics These issues, and the implications of the ECB s interest rate decisions, were explained with regards to the multiple crises affecting ... competitiveness issues is no longer available due to the sovereign debt crisis 79 What is surprising is that the growth developments may have more to with the crisis than fiscal responsibility 80 ... Central Banks decision process and decisions themselves The utility of using a Taylor rule to model central bank decision making is well documented as Nechio suggests that “The literature shows that...
... combination of lectures, discussions, individual and group exercises, and self-assessments of leadership competencies The topics included: ▪ Concepts of leadership and the MSH Leading and Managing Framework ... survey Discussion MSH staff and provincial facilitators visited each health unit at least monthly after the first workshop to support the participants and assess progress The MSH philosophy of ... and MSH The Challenges Program used simple management and leadership tools to assist the health units and their communities to address health service challenges in family planning, maternal and...
... medications in the U .S Medicaid Program These results provide useful information to policy makers and health professionals interested in cost-effectiveness and cost-containment strategies along ... budget Study limitations Drug use was inferred from aggregate prescription data, themselves based on adding up prescriptions and payments from Medicaid claims data; it was not possible to review ... already established in the market Medicaid will struggle for many years to come to keep costs contained to the greatest extent possible, making sure that access to drugs is not compromised While...
... Objective reasons These are reasons rising from customers as well as business environment that cause credit risks Customers lack of conditions to borrow It makes the customers make up reports of credit ... risks Every industry has to cope with risks in the process of production and business But no others must admit as big risks as the banking industry Risks of commercial banks are very diversified ... documents and ensure credit safeness The bank should consider this as a competitive advantage - Enhance the quality of appraising business methods and business projects This decides the safeness of...
... mix solutions to develop Agribank cards Agribank Thanh Xuan has strengths, opportunities, as well as weaknesses and challenges It is important to study how to combine these factors to develop strengths ... research is very important to all products and services in general, andto card products and services in particular Businesses have three ways to bring a new product or service to customers, to ... deal about customers, their needs, how to meet those needs and how the business is doing to meet those needs Businesses not need to be experts at methods of research either However, researching,...