... cost-effective vehicle for the dissemination of information.One important source of information for prospective investors comprises theperceptions of within-country domestic and foreign entrepreneurs ... capital, as in the case of the offshoring of software development in India (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 2004b, pp. 169-170). However, because of its relatively high-skill ... used for hedging purposes, forwards foreign-exchange contracts have increasingly been used for cur-rency speculation. For example, in the early 2000s speculators used forwards as the main toolfor...
... crucialsupplement to mobilization of domesticresources for development ODA target of 0.7 percent of developed-country GNIestablished by theUnited Nations in the 1960s bined net flows surpass those of the ... assessment of the Second United Nations Development Decade, the Assembly notedthat the performance of countries members of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization forEconomic ... target of three quarters of 1 per cent of external flows for ODA. Analysis of the externalfinancial flows required to meet the Second United Nations Development Decade growthOfficial development...
... growth of gross domestic product (GDP) of 5 per cent by 1970 about half of official foreign-exchange receiptswere committed to repayment of debt to official lenders.1The decline in official flows ... rescheduling andcalls for debtforgivenessIn the 1970s, privatelending becomes theprincipal source of external resources for development burden. This produced an agreement with IMF for Emergency ... questioned owing to lack of a clear criterion for the choice of dis-count rates that are based on fluctuating interest rates of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries....
... (2005).3Japan’s holdings of foreign exchange reserves, approaching $1 trillion, are much larger than foreignholdings of Japanese yen as foreign-exchange reserves, suggesting that the “net” role of Japaneseyen ... allocation of global resources across countries.The current-account deficits of the United States have been the rule for most of the past three decades, with only a brief period of balance (see ... use of the dollar asthe major reservecurrencySources:United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and United States Fed.aThe ratio of current-accountbalance of GDP.CAB...
... Conference on Financing for Development (United Nations, 2002a) places the mobilizationofdomestic financial resourcesfor devel-opment at the centre of the pursuit ofeconomic growth, poverty ... aprecondition for the development of securities markets Mobilizing domesticresourcesfordevelopment 11Table I.1.Contribution of physical capital, human capital and productivity to thegrowth of output ... of improved economic growth (and the negativeproductivity performance of the 1980s the result of low growth during the debt crisis)rather than a cause of it.Mobilizing domesticresources for...
... the impact on developing countries of heavydependence on exports of one or a few commodities for the bulk of their foreign-exchangeearnings. Two features of commodity price trends are important ... cent of total farm receipts in Organization forEconomic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries in 2003, having declined from 38 per cent in 1986-1988. While distorting forms of support ... continued strong performance of the Chinese economy is often seen as a major determinant of recent developments in international trade conditions and, in particular, the rise of global commodity...
... WordNet the field labels that are interesting for the domain 227 Proceedings of EACL '99 The Developmentof Lexical Resources for Information Extraction from Text Combining WordNet ... is one of the main bot- tlenecks in the developmentof new ap- plications in the field of Information Ex- traction from text. Generic resources (e.g., lexical databases) are promising for reducing ... profitably ap- plied. It also provides a criterion for building lex- ical resourcesfor specific domains. It can be ap- plied in a semiautomatic way. It has the advan- tage of using the information...
... 13Level of human resourcesfor health 13Distribution of human resourcesfor health 14Performance of human resourcesfor health 16Cross-cutting problems concerning human resourcesfor health 17PART ... Planning of Human Resources for HealthASSESSING FINANCING, EDUCATION, MANAGEMENT AND POLICY CONTEXT FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING OF HUMAN RESOURCESFOR HEALTHThe importance of the health workforce for ... Programme of the Harvard School of Public Health, this tool is part of WHO’s efforts to fulfi ll that mandate in recognition of the need for an updated assessment tool for health workforce development. The...
... Center for Economic Development. “The task for the university (and for re-gional stakeholders) is to identify and support areas of universityexpertise that align with clusters of opportunity for ... an important distinction in the taxonomy of the economic development efforts of higher education. As the Organi-zation forEconomic Cooperation and Development pointed out in2007, universities ... Funding1. University of Wisconsin – Madison2. University of California – Los Angeles3. University of Michigan – Ann Arbor4. University of California – San Francisco5. University of Washington –...
... 2002) Professor Robert Brown, Assistant Principal (Research & Enterprise), UWIC Professor Noel Lloyd, Registrar, University of Wales, Aberystwyth Roger Carter, Head ofEconomic Development, ... measured series of increases in funding to enable the Council to place the HEED fund firmly towards the top of HEIs’ Future Developmentof the Higher Education Economic Development ... terms ofeconomic development) . 12 The HEW/HEFCW Third Mission Working Group (the membership and terms of reference for which are presented at Annex B) has recommended the adoption of the...
... Screening of Feed Resourcesfor Efficiency of Microbial Protein Synthesis 107Harinder P.S. Makkar8 Screening of Plants for Inhibitory Activity AgainstPathogenic Microorganisms from the Gut of Livestock ... (between 100 mL for small numbers of worms and 1000 mL for large numbers of worms. Take a 1 mL sub sample(remember to clip the tip off the pipette tip to give an internal diameter of about4 mm ... afurther with 900 μL of distilled water. For negative control add 100 μLofthelarval suspension to 1400 μL of distilled water and for the positive ivermectincontrols add 100 μL of the larval suspension...
... IslandNY-NJ-PAUSWashingtonArlingtonAlexandriaDC-VA-MD-WV 1The Five-Year economicDevelopmenT STraTegY For The DiSTricT oF columbia THE FIVE-YEAR ECONOMICDEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIANovember 14, 2012 Of ce of Mayor Vincent ... business development efforts, avoids the SECTION BINIGHTS and FINDINGS18 The Five-Year economicDevelopmenT STraTegY For The DiSTricT oF columbia B.3Findings highlight need for: ECONOmIC ... Five-Year economicDevelopmenT STraTegY For The DiSTricT oF columbia SECTION AGROWING and DIVERSIFYING THE DISTRICT’S ECONOMY14 The Five-Year economicDevelopmenT STraTegY For The DiSTricT oF columbia...
... context of multilingual natural language processing systems which aim for coverage of both languages using a roman alphabet and lan- guages using other alphabets, the developmentof lexical resources ... problem of country name transliteration from English into Chinese. The algorithm does not aim to specify general grapheme-phoneme conversion for English, but only for the subset of English ... Instances of 'y' as a vowel are also replaced by the vowel 'i'. For each pair of identical consonants in the input string Reduce the pair to a singular instance of the consonant...