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... significant in the case of Kenya and Rwanda It is negative but not significant in the case of Zimbabwe, positive and statistically insignificant in the cases of Morocco and Tanzania We turn now to the subject ... determinant of investment The coefficient on the supply of credit has the expected positive sign in 19 cases and it is positive and statistically significant in 16 cases For most of these countries the ... investment/GDP ratio in the case of Togo to a reduction of 0.12 percent in the case of Kenya Conclusion The empirical results of this chapter not lend support to the basic assertions of the financial liberalization...

Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 05:15

... only the reporter gene situated on the same side, relative to the boundary, of the construct However, when the combination of the PTS and the boundary is placed 3¢ to one of the reporter genes, the ... outside the region defined by the promoters of the two reporter genes (3¢ to one of them, Fig 4, bottom), the PTS is able to overcome the enhancer blocking effect of the boundary, and restricts the ... later than in the case of the histone gene cluster [10] This difference in the timing of somatic pairing perhaps reflects the difference between the complexities of the regulation of the two systems:...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 01:20

... members of my graduate committee, Prof Shandre M Thangavelu and Prof Julian Wright, and those of my thesis examiners, Prof Hans Degryse of Tilburg University, Dr Hur Jung, Dr Changhui Kang and Prof ... take the results of this risk equation with care, we console to the fact that the coe¢ cients of Capitalit of the system GMM are between that of OLS and that of …xed e¤ect The coe¢ cient of RegP ... to the theoretical literature that banks may choose capital and risk simultaneously, researchers put a measure of risk on the right hand side of the capital equation and capital on the right hand...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:51

... geographical and environment, the firm could take more control the quality, price and supply of its products because of the profit on the economic scale Merge and Acquisition and Valuation – The case of ... case of Comeco  17 Analyze the motivations behind the acquisition of COMECO on the point of views of PVOIL and verify whether the acquisition is a good decision  Perform business analysis and ... investment The main elements were the state‟s recognition of private ownership and multi-sector development, the liberalization of foreign trade and FDI, and the implementation of the socio-political and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2015, 15:38

... Rule of law: Assessment of the law and order tradition in the country produced by the country-risk rating agency International Country Risk (ICR) Average of the months of April and October of the ... whatsoever for any consequences of its use The term "country", as used in the context of the ADB, refers to a member of the ADB and does not imply any view on the part of the Institute as to sovereignty ... Overview of the Financial Sector and Flow of Funds Analysis 3 The Role of Financial Infrastructure and Efficient Financial Markets 14 The Role of Government as Issuer 24 Conclusion: The Example of...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:40

... especially the lack of the vision in the long term The objective of the study will therefore design a development strategy for the company in the long term Based on the examination and analysis of the ... of 7%-8% or more Therefore, the annual growth rate of the plastic industry will also be in the range of 20%-25% consequently The center of the development of the plastic industry as well as the ... about the Rang Dong Plastic Company It aims at the formulation of the development strategy for the company in the long term The depth of the study depends partly on the availability of the data of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/04/2013, 10:33

... characteristics of the "Sassi of Matera" and "Trulli of Alberobello" In the South of Italy, the sites of the "Sassi of Matera" (Figure 1a) (classified as humanity world heritage in 1993) and "Trulli of Alberobello" ... namely, “Tufo of Matera” for the structures of the "Sassi of Matera," and “Stone of Fasano” for the structures of the "Trulli of Alberobello," they are different with regard to form and constructive ... and the knowledge of the temperature coefficient of the material of which it is made A single measure allows for the determination of diffusivity, thermal conductivity, and specific heat of the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58

... meteorological stations of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) [8] and of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) [9] The results for the two decades are compared and the existing differences ... trend in the eastern and south-eastern parts of the Mediterranean, indicating a less frequent expansion of the low pressure over the area and therefore a weakening of the Etesian winds and a subsequent ... values of HDD were reduced in the second decade, while the monthly and yearly values of CDD were increased The reduction in the yearly values of HDD was in the range of 9.5 to 22% in Athens, and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... Scope of the study In fact, there are lots of various methods to improve listening skills in TOEIC test, the case of part and It requires much of time and effort However, due to the limitation of ... lot of difficulties for the student, specially, the case of: Questions-Responses and Short conversations There are basic reasons make the students poor listening: they are objective situation and ... is one of the most common English language tests in the world today The aim of the TOEIC is to measure the ability to speak, read and understand basic business English For this reason, the TOEIC...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:59

... terms of the impact of outsourcing (IMPACTL to IMPACTO) They were asked whether it had improved: the timing of their supplier deliveries, the lead-time for the delivery of orders, the quality of ... interpret the terms of the contract and then negotiate new understandings of these terms with the suppliers The monitoring staff have also indicated that because of contract ambiguity, they have ... account for 15% of lines and 90% from 50% of the lines However, customers wish to purchase from a range of brands, even if they don’t buy them Thus, for example, 50 brands of coffee may have to...

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Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... traders to learn their activities and understand the overall picture of commodity trade in their regions CDRI 13 Agricultural Trade in the Greater Mekong Sub-region: The Case of Cassava and Rubber ... affecting the trees’ latex concentration and yield When there is little rainfall, the bark is hard and holds only a small When there is more rain, the bark becomes soft and the concentration of latex ... latex decreases, the At the end of the rainy season, the soil starts to dry and the rubber leaves start to shed, causing more sunlight to reach the ground and the temperature in the plantation...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20

... an ellipse with the use of a function of the Xfig software The parameter of lower-face roundness was computed as the ratio between the horizontal axis and the vertical axis of the ellipse (see ... menton) If the face was not depicted fully frontally and was slightly turned, then only the data of the more frontal eye (left eye in case of turning right and vice versa), and the measurement of face ... training at the academy of years in the case of males and 2.7 years in the case of females Participants were not told that the study concerned eye, lip, and lower-face proportions and roundness in artistic...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor at Wageningen University by the authority of the Rector Magnificus Prof dr M.J Kropff in the presence of the Thesis Committee appointed by the ... Netherlands came from the budget of the REFINE project, which was funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands The funding for the study on shrimp farming in the Can Gio area came ... Thi Them, and to be a sister of my brothers and sisters, Than, Huong, Thai, Hoa, Chau, Phu, Dinh, Dam, Tam and their husbands, wives and children I would like to thank to all of them for their...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 18:58

... height and the exposure to violence in utero and early in life explain most of the variation in HAZ scores of children Furthermore, the experience of armed conflict renders the positive effect of health ... research mostly ignored the link between mother’s health and children’s health at birth because of the lack of data Akresh and Verwimp (2006) use current BMI of the mother to proxy for her health ... the availability of any type of toilet facilities in the household, or if they are shared with others Furthermore, food can be contaminated through many channels, e.g the water, the storage of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20

... on whether the pregnancy history of the parents qualifies them to have a (new) child, and whether the child quota laid down in the yearly plan of the village or workplace is full or not The rules ... [2] Parallel to the hierarchical structure of civil servants, there is the party organization, and the leaders of the party at each level share the decision making with leaders of the civil servant ... would be the most accurate translation, but it is not suggestive of the incentives and fines attached The purpose of this article is to describe and discuss the concept of illegal pregnancy and how...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 16:20

... GUANGXI Sichuan+ GANSU SHANDONG JIANGSU LIAONING BEIJING JIANGSU ZHEJIANG GUANGDON XINJIANG HUNAN HENAN HUBEI JILIN YUNNAN JIANGXI HEILONGJ ANHUI QINGHAI BEIJING GUANGXI SHANDONG FUJIAN 1709.91 ... = ' ,> SHANXI 85.4767 fdi_gdp FDIK/GDP-GDPPC 29.9789 @? A A D A F:D SHANGAI JIANGSU LIAONING SHANDONG : INNER MO TIANJIN ZHEJIANG × 9? $9= 87 @ ; = ' ,>5 SHANXI D: A ×A + ) F:D @ :@ hainan 85.4767 ... × >? A A @ A E:F C> F:D B C: A A A NINGXIA 29.9789 9? $9= @ 87 C; : EF BEIJING TIANJIN HEBEI SHANDONG GUIZHOU SHAANXI LIAONING GUANGXI GUANGDON JIANGSU Sichuan+ GANSU ZHEJIANG FUJIAN GUANGDON...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20

... Denmark, Australia and the Netherlands The predicted full cost of the various latrine options (and the size of the loans) was between 40 and 160 euros, though households complained that the costs were ... sanitation On the whole, in both cases the provision of microfinance for water and sanitation addressed the symptoms rather than causes of the underprovision of water and sanitation to the poor Because ... is the synthesis of water marketisation and microfinance expansion Mader: Making the Poor Pay for Public Goods via Microfinance Underlying the idea of using microfinance for water (and other...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 09:20

... again the mean and standard deviation of returns Let si denote the standard deviation of the simulated series for the ith producer Also let sc denote the mean standard deviation for the group of ... means of the σ i ’s and vi’s and are reported in the first two rows (and second and third columns) of Table 15 The computations assume the lowest possible interest rate of 15% per annum The table ... reports the standard errors of these estimates The figures show that the variability of returns of noncontract growers exceed that of contract growers by a factor of or 10 depending on the measure of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20