the burden of lower growth and more frequent recessions

... envisioned in the Programme of action Olsen and Zeckhauser (1966) were the first to check whether there exist in the practice of the NATO some form of ‘exploitation’ by the small countries of the large ... consisting of the level of literacy, life expectancy and GDP per capita To get a clear picture of what might be at stake the gap variable is split up by the HDI of both the donor and the HDI of the ... programs and can therefore not neglect the efforts of others if they want to achieve goals that are in line with the agenda set by the participants of the Cairo conference They are dependent on others...

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Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... economic growth? If so, how and to what extend? Who does trust others? The thesis is structured as follows: The first chapter gives an overview of the existing literature and the current state of research ... confirms the validity of the trust question Another study by Sapienza et al (2007) gets to the same result under the condition that the stakes of the game are sufficiently high By the same token, they ... presidencies Furthermore, Bjørnskov points out that high trust countries like for example the Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands have a rather peaceful political history and that their royal...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 16:20

... policy in the euro area These simulations are supplemented by an analysis of the experience of other countries in Section The examples of the United States, the Netherlands and Ireland are chosen ... necessary, as the example of the Netherlands shows The Netherlands reached a higher growth path and halved their unemployment under the condition of a de facto monetary union with Germany and without ... some of them: In the second half of the nineties, the real effective exchange rate of the dollar rose sharply, in addition the terms of trade improved as a result of a drop in the price of raw...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20

... effects of RRs on the cost and availability of credit is determined by the banking system’s market structure, the degree of financial development, and the design of RRs themselves.14 The effects of ... the motives and use of RRs across the world 4 partly reflects the sectoral and targeted nature of many of these other macroprudential instruments and also their less active use over the cycle ... against the wind”: (i) raising RRs during the upswing phase of the cycle to contain excessive credit growth and the associated build up of vulnerabilities and (ii) lowering them during the downswing...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:21

... an ellipse with the use of a function of the Xfig software The parameter of lower- face roundness was computed as the ratio between the horizontal axis and the vertical axis of the ellipse (see ... menton) If the face was not depicted fully frontally and was slightly turned, then only the data of the more frontal eye (left eye in case of turning right and vice versa), and the measurement of face ... two paper -and- pencil self-portraits, the first from memory, and the second with the use of a mirror The facialmetric parameters of the two self-portraits were compared with those of the photographic...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... businesses and academics in the nature and behavior of the financial At the core of this issue are questions about the type of financing need and receive at various stages of their growth, the nature of ... implications among these alternative of small business finance is a growing of small business finance For example, the impact of the U.S of the early 1990s and the effect of the consolidation of the banking ... credit, and other sources of funds These data allow for tests of research regarding the cost and availability of different types of external finance and how the cost and availability vary with the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20

... expressed are those of the author and not necessarily reflect the views of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand © Reserve Bank of New Zealand ISSN 1175-4117 Introduction The second half of the 1990s witnessed ... increased dramatically during the second half of the 1990s in the United States Despite the recession, the rate of The theoretical framework in this section and the results for the United States presented ... instead of the increase seen in the United States and elsewhere Though there is not evidence of an acceleration in productivity growth in New Zealand in the later half of the 1990s, there is...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... to the most recent edition of the World Cancer Report (Boyle and Levin [eds.] 2008) in the past 30 years the burden of cancer doubled, based on incidence of new cases and deaths The burden of ... Breakaway: The global burden of cancer— challenges and opportunities The health and economic burden of cancer Overview A key objective of this report is an exploration of the global burden of cancer ... up another 24% of the global 2009 total The remainder is comprised of the costs of transportation to and from medical providers, the costs of complementary and alternative treatments, and the value...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... activities and interests of the profession through A.E.A.”34 26 > More The relations between the CEA and the economics profession on matters of theory never fulfilled the early hopes and expectations of ... review of the various fields of economics in the early 1950s, Moses Abramovitz wrote of the “fragmentary” and “rudimentary” state of the art in the economics of growth The theory of growth, ” he ... “government and business must work together constantly to achieve more and more jobs and more and more production which will mean more and more prosperity for all the people.”20 In the fall,...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 00:47

... of the proposed critical shortage threshold The focus on doctors, nurses and midwives reflects the greater reliability of estimated numbers of these cadres In practice, the contribution of other ... out of the many possible configurations that could be theoretically predicted Among the evident synergies is the contribution of the EHRP to increasing the availability of staff for the expanding ... contemplates the further expansion of antiretroviral therapy (whilst sustaining its current gains) within the context of limited resources and many shortfalls in the provision of other essential...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... understanding the impact of PE from the perspective of males with PE and of female partners of men with PE A key strength of this qualitative research study is the large number of male and female ... control in understanding the impact of PE on men and their partners Latency time and the perception of control over ejaculation affect the men's satisfaction with sexual intercourse and their distress ... supporting reliability and validity [6,15] More recently, Althof and colleagues have developed and validated the Index of Premature Ejaculation which covers many of the key aspects of the disorder [20]...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... The sleep quantity scale is the mean number of hours of sleep per night reported over the past week Higher scores represent more of the concept being measured The HADS is designed to detect the ... comprehensive evaluation of their clinical and comorbid profile, and the impact of FM severity on HRQoL, symptom domains (such as, pain, sleep, depression), and productivity loss for patients and caregivers ... experienced widespread pain (above and below the waist and on both sides of the body) for months or more, experienced pain in the past 24 hours, and been in treatment at the enrolling physician’s practice...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... in the decisions throughout the process of development and finalisation of the questionnaire They gave their approval at each of the milestones of the development and finalisation process The ... between some of the IDEEL dimensions and the SF-36 (such as “impact on work” of IDEEL and “role physical” of SF-36; “emotional impact” of IDEEL and the mental component (or some of the related ... correlated with the items of the DEQ (range: -0.05-0.83), indicating the concurrent validity of the IDEEL (Table 3) The strength of the associations between the IDEEL dimensions and DEQ items was...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... obtained for top shoot growth of clones 1011 and 1019, the latter showing lower final lengths (A 112-136 mm), lower b-values (b 4.8-5.7) and inflexion points on d 35-38 The growth of lateral shoots ... differences between the pH treatments = = acidity and the addition of the ionic mix- ture The effect of acidic rain on the Gn of clone 1019 seemed to depend upon envi- ronmental and/ or ecophysiological ... interaction of pH x ions x d was found The Newman Keuls test was not significant at P

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... of the model, analyzed the scenarios, and drafted the manuscript EH and LM provided insights into the model structure and edited the manuscript JK conceived of the model and helped to draft the ... onto the solid phase and by the rate of shedding of cells from the solid phase into the fluid phase We assume that adhesion and shedding are described by the product of cell number and the rate ... lead to tumor growth there In this setting, the spine can be thought of as the 'primary' site and the brain as the 'metastatic' site With the primary site left uncontrolled, the chance of developing...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... examined the relative influence of serum, glucose, and oxygen supply, singly or combined, on the growth pattern of bovine IVD cells Since the nutrient supply affects the NP more than the anulus ... extents These areas warrant further investigation, as the actions of individual growth and survival factors that may enter the disc from the vascular supply or that may be synthesised by IVD cells themselves ... perform the experimental work and the statistical analysis and helped to draft the manuscript SR helped to conceive of the study, participated in its design and coordination, and helped to draft the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... participated in the synchronization and RNA-extraction and in the interpretation of the data JG and LDV participated in the design of the experiments DI and WV conceived and supervised the study WV, ... of MdEXP2 and microscopy The ORF of MdEXP2 was cloned into the SpeI restriction site (ACTAGT) of the vector pSA405A under the control of the chlorophyll a/b-binding protein encoding gene of the ... stick to the microfibril [18], we hypothesize that the characteristics of the MdEXPs might be related to the dominant MLG in the secondary cell walls of Micrasterias [13] instead of the (1®4)-b-glucan...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... requiring more specialised personnel and equipment The head office of the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare constitutes the highest level of the public health care sector and it is the main ... analysis of the data and drafted the manuscript GC contributed substantially to the conception and design of the study, data collection in the field, analysis of the data and critically reviewed the ... preference of a similar size to the range chosen above [53] The size of the discount rate affected both the effects of health interventions through the DALY formula and the costs of health services The...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22