... issuance and foreign syndicated bank loan contracts come from Bondware and Loanware and cover 30 emerging markets between 1984 and 2004.4 We group privately owned firms into financial and nonfinancial sectors ... and its resolution (Dooley and Verma, 2003; Tomz and Wright, 2005), and via exogenous shocks that affect both the probability of sovereign debt crisis and the amount of foreign credit to the private ... the privatesector Recent empirical work has found various changes in privatesector credit patterns in the aftermath of financial crises (Blalock, Gertler, and Levine, 2004; Desai, Foley, and...
... liabilities Actuaries and plan sponsors are given very specific, and different, guidance by the IRS and the FASB about how those assumptions are chosen, who chooses them, and what conditions they ... work life and require clear and consistent disclosure of pension costs, along with the plan’s assets and obligations in a company’s financial statements Statement of Financial Accounting Standard ... CURRENT PENSION FUNDING AND ACCOUNTING FOR PRIVATESECTOR PENSION PLANS Pension Funding Pension Accounting Purpose Cash contributions to the pension plan Accounting cost and disclosure of pension...
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... USA Ireland Singapore Switzerland Iceland Netherlands Canada Australia Austria Sweden Finland UK Germany Taiwan Japan France Bahrain Italy Spain Greece $40,000 $35,000 $30,000 New Zealand $25,000 ... foreign and local competition Related and Supporting Industries Sophistication of local customers and needs – e.g., strict quality, safety, and environmental standards Availability of suppliers and ... propositions: Whole Foods’ customers) • Fair and demanding regulatory standards (California auto emissions & mileage standards) • Local needs that can be served nationally and globally (Urbi’s housing financing,...
... innovation and drive value for money, and that catalyse private investment for the benefit of poor people The privatesectorand prosperity for poor people We are not starry-eyed Private companies ... investment and deepening privatesector links into communities we can multiply the reach of the privatesectorand increase the opportunities for poor people The privatesector is more than just ... poor people The privatesectorand prosperity for poor people and men to participate in and contribute to that growth By creating jobs and opportunities, by providing new goods and services including...
... EBPs and attitudes toward EBPs was lower in public sector organizations than in privatesector organizations Public andprivatesector organizations also differed by gender composition (public sector ... EBP, and EBP use Examination of these issues has the potential to increase our understanding of EBP implementation and help inform implementation strategies within both governmental andprivatesector ... found to be less entrepreneurial than their privatesector counterparts [23] Such sector differences likely contribute to the private sectors' early and more widespread adoption of EBPs within...
... capacity-building, patient and family education as well as advocacy to include diabetes in national plans and priorities, and large-scale awareness-raising initiatives Private- sectorinitiatives like these ... that collaboration between privateand public sectors is needed to address the challenges of poverty, above and beyond the MDGs - and that this includes NCDs [19] - and organisations such as the ... fat and added sugar in key brands, and by 2012 it will ‘eliminate the direct sale of full-sugar soft drinks in primary and secondary schools around the globe’ and ‘display calorie count and key...
... EBPs and attitudes toward EBPs was lower in public sector organizations than in privatesector organizations Public andprivatesector organizations also differed by gender composition (public sector ... EBP, and EBP use Examination of these issues has the potential to increase our understanding of EBP implementation and help inform implementation strategies within both governmental andprivatesector ... found to be less entrepreneurial than their privatesector counterparts [23] Such sector differences likely contribute to the private sectors' early and more widespread adoption of EBPs within...
... choice and wealth evolution with imperfect credit market, by referring to earlier works such as Evans and Jovanovic (1989), Banerjee and Newman (1993), Galor and Zeira (1993) and Aghion and Bolton ... enterprises (TVEs) in the 1980s, the privatesector emerged as the new engine in the 1990s According to Sonobe et al (2004), “the heartland of this privatesector growth was Zhejiang Province, ... assumption is similar to that of Banerjee and Newman (1993) and Galor and Zeira (1993) so that individuals are living for one period only, and thus and over generations, the evolution of wealth...
... increasing private investment and the risk exposure of the lenders necessitate researches in risk mitigation in project financing in Vietnam, particularly in privatesector On the other hand, not ... the project financing in privatesector in Vietnam involves the participation IFC, we will exam only the financing structures IFC IFC often lends to the privatesectorand seeks no state support ... equitized However, in practice the privatesector remains disadvantaged in many areas, such as landuse rights and access to credit Regulations on setting up private business also represent a significant...
... ‘‘zerobased,’’ and other budgeting techniques, environmental andregulatory impact statements andregulatory analyses, and statutes that specify that agencies make rules on 267 268 Regulatory accountability ... the system’s functioning The twists and turns of political-agendas, the episodic and random 245 246 Regulatory accountability and legitimacy interests of courts and of outside commentators provide ... distinction between legal accountability (to the courts in respect of the juridical values of fairness, rationality and legality) and political accountability (to ministers and to Parliament or...
... the law: Formalism and the struggle for legal control’ (1991) Formalism and the failure of legal control Different approaches to law and control co-exist in legal policy andlegal thinking, but ... shall see that central to the study and analysis of regulatory enforcement is the width of discretion within regulatory systems (in the hands of both public andprivate actors), providing ample ... and more privateRegulatory officials are able to exercise considerable discretion and tend to make policy on a case-by-case basis rather than through the application of general rules and standards...
... then subject to approval by regulatory authorities) andregulatory republicanism (where an enlightened privatesectorand an informed public, through deliberation and constructive participation, ... individuals employed in the privatesectorand that, often, more can be achieved by harnessing the enlightened self-interest of the privatesector than through command and control regulation It ... of sectoral relationships From command and control to negotiation and persuasion Traditional public management, with its focus on the operation of public agencies, emphasises command and...
... similarities such as between England and Scotland.51 A common linguistic heritage (for example, of the Nordic countries) or common language (for example, England, Wales and Ireland) will conduce towards ... Lex Mercatoria andLegal Pluralism: A Late Thirteenth-century Treatise and its Afterlife (Cambridge, MA: The Ames Foundation, 1998) O F Robinson, T D Fergus and W M Gordon, European Legal History ... 285 International commercial law andprivate governance should rightly be made the focus of understanding and learning63 in an orchestrated attempt to comprehend legal orders across jurisdictions...
... spines; glandular-hairy, having the hairs ending in glands (usually needing a magnifying glass to be seen) Texture.—Succulent, fleshy; scarious, dry and chaffy; punctate, having translucent glands, ... of the flower, and is called the pistil It is this part which forms the fruit and incloses the seed The stamens and the pistil are the essential organs of a flower, because they, and they only, ... long, slender, and sharppointed buds The obovate and almost stalked buds of the Alders are also very conspicuous and peculiar In the Balsam Poplar the buds are large, sharp-pointed, and gummy; in...
... Strategy Paper Private Participation in Infrastructure Public -Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility PrivateSector Advisory Services PrivateSector Development PrivateSector Development and Infrastructure ... Privatesector organizations Both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations form part of the privatesector As the Bank’s education sector strategy points out, Private is a broad concept and ... been advisory services (to governments, privatesector institutions and firms), economic andsector work, research and training Arbitration, standard setting and ratings have emerged as an important...
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