... guarantees and interest subsidies The study focused on three assistance clusters in Northern Ireland (training, marketing and upgrading machinery and equipment), and two inthe Republic of Ireland (marketing ... through the coordinated use of a range of CORFO programs It combines training activities, innovation, infrastructure, technical assistance, and business and finance networking In 2001, the PTI financed ... whether they were currently participating inthe program; (iii) whether they had participated in it inthe past and, if so, in what year; (iv) the monetary value ofthe incentive; and (v) how they...
... deposit and lending interest rates These findings, more generally support the use of RRs as a policy instrument in an inflation-targeting regime in terms of their effectiveness in reinforcing monetary ... Considerations The effects of RRs on the cost and availability of credit is determined by the banking system’s market structure, the degree of financial development, andthe design of RRs themselves.14 The ... using an effective rate our RR measure is based on a simple average of rates (in Brazil of demand and savings deposits; in Colombia of checking and saving accounts, CD and bonds, andin Peru the...
... inthe XVIII Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State in San Salvador, El Salvador in October of 2008; inthe V Summit ofthe Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in April of 2009; in ... training of educational personnel, from teaching colleges to inservice training for existing teachers By the year 2015, all teacher-training programs, under the jurisdiction ofthe Ministries of ... implemented in schools under the jurisdiction ofthe Ministries of Education Before the end ofthe year 2010, the Ministries of Education will update the contents and didactic methods of their curricula...
... following system of equations: where is the nominal short-run (90-day paper) interest rate, the neutral nominal interest rate, stands for the rate of inflation, is the inflation target ofthe central ... effectiveness ofthe policy rate by hindering the proper functioning ofthe transmission channel of monetary policy (see Medina Cas and others, 2011a,b) Indeed, muted inflationary pressures and tightening ... undertaken in understating the mechanics of MaPPs, including quantifying their impact on credit, the output gap, and thus NRIR, and investigating whether their effect is temporary or permanent The NRIR...
... most ofthe associated venous complex inthe upper neck extending up the common facial vein at the margin ofthe mandible Tumour extended into the lumen ofthe deep lingual vein and other veins ... result in occlusion ofthegreat veins either by extrinsic compression or tumour invasion ofthe venous wall and thrombosis To date only 24 cases of thyroid cancer and invasion of mediastinal veins ... radioiodine ablation scan showing abnormal 131I accumulation inthe right upper neck and thyroid bed There is a linear abnormality to the right ofthe midline ofthe upper chest extending inferiorly...
... banking operations and finance in relation to theGreat Depression; its logical starting point is war finance andthe inflation of bank credit and currency associated with the financing ofthe ... participating inthe War, and it was the predominant type of inflation inthe case ofthe United States BANKING IN RELATION TO WAR FINANCE The World War was probably the worst-financed war in history ... system in much the same fashion as does the granting of loans The banks thus place inthe hands of entrepreneurs a volume of purchasing power in excess ofthe volume of real savings being effected...
... Pratini How the forces of globalization are reshaping business inLatinAmerica Foreign firms are re-engaging with LatinAmerica Brushing off earlier disappointments with investments inLatin America, ... the eight Latin American countries is their weak performance on the Index for the exchange of technology and ideas Encouraging steps in some countries include funding for R&D andthe growth of ... appears inthe top half ofThe Globalization Index The remainder are clustered inthe bottom third ofthe list, with Venezuela bringing up the rear in 59th position, just ahead of Iran Despite these...
... services inthe poorer parts ofthe country (2) The role ofthe private sector Shifting the financing and/ or delivery of health services from the public to the private sector is another key component ... assessment of existing capacity for these functions and to help in strengthening such capacity when necessary (7) Continue building on the important role of NGOs Changes in financing and decentralization ... is redefining the role of government andthe public sector in many countries (2) The transformation depends on increased participation of a larger range of social and political actors inthe development...
... sources of mixed feelings Merton and Barber (1976) described the sociological ambivalence as follows: “ the ambivalence is located inthe social definition of roles and statuses, not inthe feeling-state ... situational conditions of gift-giving may differ according to characteristics ofthe gift-giving occasion, whether the presentation ofthe gift is public, private, or anonymous, and whether the gift is ... (p.21) These results were the same if comparing between male and female behavior is the interesting finding of Othman and Lee’s study Givers will pay different attitude to these factors when choosing...
... cause, given that there is an increased use of Q-queries in spite ofthe seemingly inferior search results, there is a strong need for the search engines to improve their handling of question-queries ... clustering but on understanding the expression of intent Method We address the main thesis ofthe work by retrospectively studying queries issued to a search engine over the course of 12 consecutive ... explored building question-answering systems using web knowledge and Wikipedia (see Dumais et al (2002) andthe references therein) Our findings call for a greater synergy between QA and IR inthe web...
... parallel, duplicating service delivery infrastructure The absence of links between financing and productivity or quality andtheThe State of Social Protection inLatinAmericaandthe Caribbean ... coverage inthe lowest quintile was below 10 percent in 10 ofthe 18 countries inthe sample (ranging from 0.2 percent in Bolivia to percent in Colombia) In contrast, at the other end ofthe income ... and often regressive nature of financing and redistribution arrangements for SI andthe associated lack of financial sustainability for many programs and systems • Reinforcing the targeting and...
... an insight into the process of re-accommodating the various media as agents of power One ofthe elements that emerged during the writing of this book was that the media as a whole inLatinAmerica ... media and media audiences within Cuba itself Looking at the importance of cultural industries on the island, especially the film industry after the revolution, andthe increasing presence ofthe internet ... outlets andthe communication infrastructure, they also become more capable of shaping and defining the news agenda They now have immense power and influence, since they are capable of imposing the...
... surprising that there has been such a resurgence of interest in analyzing the dynamics and determinants of poverty and inequality, andthe relationship of policies affecting them inLatinAmerica Introduction ... (3 and 4) A change inthe land Gini of 10 percentage points (3) translates into a rise ofthe income Gini by 3.9 points If Brazil would have the Canadian level of land inequality (a land Gini of ... work inthe mines and on the fields ofthe large estate holders The nature of land endowments andthe presence of mineral endowments thus affected the distribution of land Apart from the nature of...
... complex due to the political nature underlying the issue; and on the other, investing inthe creation of information systems is considered very expensive and offers no guarantee of providing expected ... participating inthe preparation ofand Page of discussion about this document COCORHS is a member network oftheLatin American andthe Caribbean Health Observatory, an initiative coordinated by the ... over time Using various methodological approaches, the study of HRH in LAC in recent years is predominantly descriptive and mainly focused on aspects of training andthe definition of educational...