creating a global fiscal system to fund global public goods

... Ecuador El Salvador Fiji Finland France Germany Ghana Greece Guatemala Guyana Honduras Hong Kong India Ireland Jamaica Kenya Malawi Malaysia Malta Mauritius Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua ... NMAs and member companies used INFOTAB material to argue against advertising restrictions (Argentina and Australia), public smoking bans (Malaysia, Norway), cigarette tax increases (Argentina, ... secretariat grew, adding a regional coordinator for the Middle East and Africa [113], and an assistant secretary general who was also regional coordinator for Asia [114] INFOTAB also expanded...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... rotation (45 years) and thinnings that are designed so as to maintain a constant and relatively low basal area after each cycle (15 m3 ha−1 ) The rotation of scenario is fixed to 60 years As for ... plain or transformed) to expand the information on explanatory variables A selection based on different aspects was considered: available variables, desirable variables with a high biological expression, ... the stand (in years), a, c, d and p are the fixed parameters of the model, and bi is a variable parameter related to the stand site index (dominant height reached at 50 years) specific to each site...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:21

... important to guard against a hasty categorization of public goods as global or nonglobal A decision on this issue requires careful assessment and impact analysis as well as a participatory policy ... has to be deliberately sought The fact that some public goods have access problems may sound paradoxical, because public goods are, at least partially, nonexcludable Yet barriers to access are ... feminists Many individuals act internationally not only as a national of a particular country but also as a global citizen” Nevertheless, we agree that a more systematic approach to the representation...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 06:20

... Implications of a global public goods agenda and traditional development assistance Linkages between the local, national, and global levels Global public goods and civil society ... single partner to contribute An example would be the creation of a global database containing useful information on vital statistics and other key health indicators The database can exist and can ... data gathering, analysis, and reporting methodologies In fact, there is a great potential for the two agencies to build on each others’ comparative advantages WHO has a clear technical advantage...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 06:20

... a global public "bad." Malaria has significant cross-border aspects, but these make malaria control a regional public good (and one requiring collective action at the regional level), not a global ... therapy (ART) to AIDS sufferers in low-income countries ART is rival (therapy made available to one person or nation cannot be made available to another) and excludable (persons can be barred from ... Globalization and Health 2007, 3:9 cerns the activities of the GFATM and PEPFAR Many have complained that PEPFAR diverts U.S resources away from GFATM, a multi-lateral agency, to a bilateral and highly...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... 3.2 Addressing Services publish a PsEPR event on a “channel” Practically speaking, a channel is a name Channel names are hierarchical, to enable prefix matches that enable subscription to a family ... tuple-store service across many diverse PlanetLab sites The management supervisor monitors health of the tuple-store service, dynamically starting and stopping instances to maintain availability ... event is an XML fragment that includes addressing information and a typed payload Figure shows an XML fragment for an event generated by a load average monitor running on PlanetLab The monitor sends...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 19:20

... 90% and MAP >50 mmHg, data collection was stopped and animals were sacrificed (with pentobarbital and phenytoin) Statistical analysis Baseline Haemorrhage Hypovolemia Volume restitution Baseline ... this article as: Bendjelid et al.: Validation of a new transpulmonary thermodilution system to assess global end-diastolic volume and extravascular lung water Critical Care 2010 14:R209 Page of ... Xray and ALI criteria to diagnose pulmonary edema [17,18] EVLW is also a prognostic parameter since it has repeatedly been shown to be correlated with mortality in patients with ALI as well as...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... organization’s accounting and control systems ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY What are the primary factors and constraints that influence an organization’s strategy and why are these factors important? ... implementation generally requires a monetary investment, and all organizations are constrained by the level and cost of available capital Although companies almost always can acquire additional capital through ... Structural capital “doesn’t go home at night or quit and hire on with a rival; it puts new ideas to work; and it can be used again and again to create value, just as a die can stamp out part after part.”18...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 09:13

... interface and employs a fully parallelizable design, enabling applications to saturate available network and compute hardware Panache can also mask fluctuating WAN latencies and outages by acting as ... metadata operations on the gateway nodes Finally, we run a parallel visualization application and a Hadoop application to analyze Panache with an HPC access pattern 7.1 Experimental Setup All ... important design decision in Panache was to mask the WAN latencies by ensuring applications see the cache cluster’s performance on all data writes and metadata updates Towards that end, all data...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 18:20

... many financial analysts, macroeconomic indicators are used to judge where a stock, exchange or countries economy may go Macroeconomic indicators are treated as statistical indicators which are used ... you can better than most In the end you still have to continue doing research because variables in the market can change at any time Investing today also has many more advantages than it had in ... stocks that trade at attractive prices Like a Christmas shopper waking up at a. m on the day after Thanksgiving, value investors hope to snag bargains by buying out of favor stocks While some beaten-down...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 16:20

... organization’s accounting and control systems ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY What are the primary factors and constraints that influence an organization’s strategy and why are these factors important? ... implementation generally requires a monetary investment, and all organizations are constrained by the level and cost of available capital Although companies almost always can acquire additional capital through ... Structural capital “doesn’t go home at night or quit and hire on with a rival; it puts new ideas to work; and it can be used again and again to create value, just as a die can stamp out part after part.”18...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 01:20

... Hall/CRC Research Notes in Mathematics, Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, Fla, USA, 1999 26 A Pazy, Semigroups of Linear Operators and Applications to Partial Differential Equations, vol 44 of Applied ... Pata, Global attractors for a semilinear hyperbolic equation in ˜ viscoelasticity,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 260, no 1, pp 83–99, 2001 22 V Pata and A Zucchi, “Attractors ... Coupled Systems and Their Attractors, vol 184 of Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, Birkh¨ user, Basel, Switzerland, 2008 a 24 S Zheng and Y Qin, “Maximal attractor for the system of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... look to larger meetings and collaborative actions with a broader range of participants The goals of this approach include: • To create a Think Tank or what Franklin Roosevelt described as "A Brain ... Alanko T, Kataja V, Asola R, Utriainen T, Kokko R, Hemminki A, Tarkkanen M, Turpeenniemi-Hujanen T, Jyrkkio S, Flander M, Helle L, Ingalsuo S, Johansson K, Jaaskelainen AS, Pajunen M, Rauhala ... (Cyclophosphamide, Methotrexate and Fluorouracil), FAC (5 Fluorouracil, Doxorubicin and Cyclophosphamide), Tamoxifen and Ovarian ablation Innovative strategic thinking and approaches should be encouraged...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... increasing NCD rates: a lack of global advocacy, partnerships and interactions, capacity and resources, global norms and standards, as well as a health service orientation towards acute care [19] ... treatment and cure of diabetes The campaign has two main parts – a top-down approach targeting major policymakers around the world, and a bottom-up approach aiming to make billion people aware ... communication to build support among the public and among politicians To date, a National Youth Panel and website has been set up in Spain, El Salvador hosted a diabetes fair that was attended by Health...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... commodities China’s GDP growth rate has averaged percent or more for the past 20 years,13 thanks to the rapid transformation of China from a backward agrarian nation to a global manufacturing giant Its ... it came to a halt altogether once the Japanese invaded China in 1936 From that time until 1945, China was involved in a war of resistance against Japanese aggression and occupation as the Japanese ... advantage that they have made every effort to maximize The unparalleled expansion of China’s rise as a global leader in manufacturing is significant because manufacturing is the base of a healthy...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 11:36

... Bilingualism Clevedon: Multiingual Matters, 96-116 Canagarajah, A S (2006) Negotiating the local in English as a lingua franca Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 26, 1970218 Canagarajah, A S (2005) ... Linguistics, Madison, WI Canagarajah, A S (2007) Lingua franca English, multiplingual communities, and language acquisition The Modern Language Journal, 91, 923-939 Canagarajah, S., & Said, S B (2009) ... communication, and (some) fundamental concepts in SLA research Modern Language Journal, 81, 285-300 Fukumura, A (1993) Qualifications of Language Teachers and English as an International Language TESL...

Ngày tải lên: 04/08/2015, 09:39

... image to characterize local visual appearance near the location of the detected feature point The image is characterized around each feature point in an invariant fashion In the third step “Matching”, ... based on appearance similarity as well as associating features with objects of interest They are two approaches handling feature interactions in a button-up or top-down fashion Local appearance information ... algorithms based on global features fail to work when partial occlusion takes place, where global features are severely contaminated On the other hand, local features describe image patches around...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 17:52

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2017, 10:24

... feedback Designed once to internationally-accepted global standards Market Surveillance Product sample and audit Customs inspection for SDoC Marketplace complaints After-market surveillance One ... the global model of “One StandardOne Test, Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity” – Use internationally accepted standards from ISO and IEC Work to – eliminate local and national deviations and ... Communicate administrative requirements for testing and SDoC – Example; Publicly available documents, WEB, Publications, seminars, etc Establishes the appropriate market surveillance system to assure...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 02:20

... global language” and two ways to make a language global , they are official status and education priority I also have given examples and cite ideas of [1] explanation to the way a language achieve ... cannot make a language global , many languages are easy to study in terms of grammar and vocabulary but they are not global Here, I agree with Crystal in respect of his point that a language cannot ... eventually come to be used by more people than any other language” [1] How a language becomes a global language” There exit several explanations about how a language achieves a global status”...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 20:20