comparing across countries and examining the budget deficit

... developing countries and with representatives of the World Bank and the donor community These consultations identified the areas of interest and the demands for capacity enhancement The following ... essential that the revenue side of the budget be considered, given its implications for efficiency and equity in the economy and its impact on the dynamics of debt and growth Thus, to make the best ... reflect the views of the Executive Directors of The World Bank or the governments they represent The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work The boundaries, colors,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/04/2016, 07:40

... withstand the load Bone strength depends on its microarchitectural and macro-architectural features [80] These features can be affected by the pathophysiology of osteoporosis and the local and ... the highest effective stresses are located in the centre of the bony end plates For degenerated discs, the stresses are found in the lateral aspects of the end plates, in the cortical wall, and ... example, carrying an additional load The resulting compression force will then be a function of body weight, the mass of the load and the distance of the load to the vertebral body Mannion et al...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:49

... interests, and choices Students at the same time will be encouraged and motivated to work harder On the other hand, the negative washback is that teachers will usually teach to the test, narrow the ... the needs of the test, but on the other hand, other teachers may think that tests force them to teach what they don’t find suitable or appropriate for students Spratt (2005) has stated that the ... from the uses of tests, the impacts of testing on test takers and teachers, the examination of results by decision makers, and the potential misuse, abuse, and unintended usage of tests In other...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... T O THE REVIEW This part of the report explains the nature and purpose of the Review It sets out who was involved and why, then describes the objectives set for the Review, the scope of the task ... ION The task faced by the Review was both challenging and daunting Health and Social Care is of interest to everyone in Northern Ireland and the team approached their task fully aware of the ... undertaken The Review was to provide a strategic assessment across all aspects of health and social care services, examining the present quality and accessibility of services, and the extent to which the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20

... development The data, analysis, and findings presented in the report represent the Task Force’s best understanding of the broad and constantly changing scope of the ICT sector and the use of ICT in the ... Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States and the ... of ICT goods and services and expanded the range of technology choices and solutions It has also stimulated the entry of new players – principally the private sector - and increased the opportunities...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 19:20

... draw and the rule changes that they make will shape the financial and regulatory landscape for another generation or more The regulatory overview includes how the money market will operate in the ... But they also are beginning to sift through the ashes to see what they can learn as they reexamine the rules and regulations that serve as the financial industry’s fire code The lessons that they ... and their investors to help government officials and the general public better understand market developments During the credit crisis, the ICI Research Department has worked alongside many other...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 08:21

... business These conversations provide color and context for the data that we gather, and they highlight new developments among funds and their shareholders Each year, the annual update of the Fact ... stock and bond funds that held international assets were moderated by the strengthening of the U.S dollar and the resulting decrease in the dollar value of their foreign securities The rise in the ... moderate-income families At the same time, the creation of IRAs in the 1970s and the expansion of 401(k)s and other defined contribution plans in the past two decades have given these workers new ways...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:20

... Karachi and other major 114 cities of Pakistan, because of the concentration of motor vehicular and other energy-consuming activities in these cities and the high pollution intensity of these activities ... with 0.16 and 0.12 g/L lead content was implemented in the above four cities in 1995 and 1997, respectively) See the sources for details regarding test procedures and other details Another important ... the low labor and high fuel costs in Pakistan However, many vehicle users maintain their vehicles themselves, or use the services of local mechanics, and only when absolutely unavoidable Further,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 21:20

... newborn infants, Schwartz and colleagues [19] have shown that there was a physiological lengthening of the QTc interval at the second month of life This might explain why Cimaz and colleagues [2] found ... unpublished data) The areas of increased echogenicity were seen predominantly in the endocardial surface of the atrial area In the last case, it was the hyperechogenicity feature that prompted the cardiologists ... search for anti-SSA/Ro and anti-SSB/La antibodies in the healthy mother Both were positive Because no CHB was noticed and because the hyperechogenicity was located only in the atria, no treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... conceived the idea for the review, RS and GSM drafted the manuscript and the figures, GSM prepared the video supplement, JW and DET critically revised the manuscript All authors read and approved the ... The tendon forms in the distal third of the leg and changes direction to enter the foot where it passes acutely behind the medial malleolus In this region the tendon flattens (Figure 2) and the ... mechanism and was found in 23% of 348 adult feet [24] The middle and posterior components extend to the remaining tarsal bones, the middle three metatarsals and the flexor hallucis brevis muscle The...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... conceived the study, CZ and THH carried out the literature search JL, HL and THH wrote the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Competing interests The ... agencies at all levels and all Chinese people The law requires the State Council to establish the National Narcotics Control Commission, and the local governments at or above the county level to ... which organizes, coordinates and guides narcotics control activities in their jurisdictional areas The establishment of the commission and the committees demonstrates that the Chinese government has...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... introduced over the past year, and will continue to make in the coming years, will increase your enjoyment of the journal Some of the ideas we have in mind for the future include the following: ... ‘versions’ of the journal) The website URL will remain the same (http://ccforum.com) because it is already well known; we are just removing ‘forum’ from the title of the online version We hope the changes ... articles for us over the past year to whom we should like to extend special thanks for all of their hard work, a list of whom can be found at the end of this issue of the journal and on the website (http://ccforum.com/info/about/reviewers.asp)...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:21

... dollars) for the CAP estimations of the different studies included in the current review The per capita cost ranged between $6 and $613 in the OECD countries and $0.20 and $2000 in the non-OECD countries ... the individual and population, and the costs thus incurred) will lead to various economic effects for both the individual and society, both at the present time and in the future The economic impact ... minimum, the plausible minimum, the feasible minimum, and the cost-effective minimum The first one is defined as the exposure that would result in the lowest population risk while the second is the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... could learn and enhance their skill in the diagnosis of common illness (Ande, Oladepo, & Brieger, 2004; Bentley, 1989) and thereby deliver better care to the community Experience from other regions ... coverage, the more integrated and intensive the service offered by the CHWs The extent to which other factors should be taken into account is contingent on local conditions including the economic and ... and mild anemia among AWWs was 0.7%, 15.7% and 55.8% respectively the fundamental question of the capabilities of ICDS AWWs to provide for all the services and their capacity to imbibe from the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... economically (they work as traders, control a large market and hire men to their bookkeeping), but they are sexually and socially submissive to their husbands in the domestic arena and peripheral to the ... whether they try hard, they can improve their situation in life, and whether they like to plan for the future (questions taken from the most recent round of the Young Lives survey)14 We then investigate ... enacted and when he or she fully endorses the actions in which he or she is engaged and/ or the values expressed by them People are therefore most autonomous when they act in accord with their authentic...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:22

... a substantial impact on the individual, their family, the community and the society in which they live Furthermore, the evidence suggests that there are subgroups of the elderly who are more ... regard to the following issues: Understanding the facts and myths of the elderly and traffic safety; Understanding the need for mobility; and THE ELDERLY AND MOBILITY: A LITERATURE REVIEW Identifying ... adults in the next two decades Alsnih and Hensher (2003) examined the effect of the increasing population of older adults and how this affects mobility and other factors First, they discussed the concept...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20

... Demirguc-Kunt and Detragiache (2002) specifically investigate the relation between the explicit deposit insurance and stability in banking sector across countries The authors confirm and strengthen the findings ... samples, BPNN outperforms the others in both the one-year-prior and the two-years-prior samples In the jackknife method, BPNN also outperforms others in both the one-year-prior and the 18 two-years-prior ... in the US and UK Using twelve macroeconomic, financial and institutional variables, they find that among global EWS for the US and UK, the Logit performs the best However, this model as many others...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 06:20

... SPECIFIC THEMES The following summarizes the assessment of the proposed research for each of the six themes In its review, the committee considered the clarity and appropriateness of the thematic ... identified in these sections underlie or cut across all of the themes and research priorities Their placement in the current draft plan, with three sections at the end of the document, misses the opportunity ... to these themes There is no ranking of either the long-term or the near-term priorities Commonalities among themes, particularly in the areas of infrastructure and education, are identified The...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 06:20

... caused by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), who took oil as a strategic move against the war and restricted the global trade in oil export This is still known as the Arab ... by the “Act for Maintenance of Sanitation in Buildings”; however, small buildings and individual residences are not included, and the substances in indoor air and their concentrations from the ... habitation The cause of the disease onset relates to a house, symptoms occur within the house, symptoms are less serious or disappear when the patient is away from the house, and when the patient...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... capital and thus their effectiveness, and policymakers should consider trade-offs among them Next, the studies reviewed here largely examined the military of the 1980s Since then, the scale and scope ... data on the relationship between performance on the one hand and ability, experience, and training on the other would allow military officials to determine the optimal manpower mix for their force, ... conducted at the Seventh Army Training Center standardized TANK course, the authors define the relationship between performance and AFQT score for both the tanker position and the gunner position Their...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20