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IELTS Part 2 and Part 3 Topics and Questions -The Cultural Impact of Overseas Travel

IELTS Part 2 and Part 3 Topics and Questions -The Cultural Impact of Overseas Travel

... quality or the safety of the food? • (Similar to above) In general, are people in China concerned about such matters as the nutritional value of the food or the contents of the food they buy (for ... to the food)? FQ (This question might include: the packaging and the origin of the food) • What are the possible results if all (or the majority of) the people were not very concerned about the ... about the contents of the food they eat? (假设的问题) • (Similar to above) What could happen if all (or the majority of) the people were not very concerned about the contents of the food they eat? Food...

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Tài liệu THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN AUSTIN ppt

Tài liệu THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN AUSTIN ppt

... non-profit that advocates for affordable housing, retained Civic Economics to analyze the economic impact of the 2006 commitment and to consider the prospective impact of another round of bonds ... of these costs, we elected to take a conservative approach b The costs of these supportive services are here treated as positive in terms of local economic impact There exists a strong body of ... 3.6 THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING MAY 2012 Map Civic Economics THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT...

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Tài liệu Ford Report on the BUSINESS IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE docx

Tài liệu Ford Report on the BUSINESS IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE docx

... program to offset the CO2 emitted from the production of our hybrid vehicles in the U.S The purchase price of the offset is applied to a project that reduces or sequesters the emission of CO2 elsewhere ... recovered in the sales price Third, the GHG footprint of the in-use phase of light duty vehicles must be measured on a well-to-wheels basis, that is, the total emissions from the production of the original ... senior management, the Office of the Chairman and Chief Executive (OCCE) as well as the Environmental and Public Policy Committee of the Board of Directors What you will read in the following pages...

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Tài liệu The future impact of the Internet on higher education: Experts expect more-efficient collaborative environments and new grading schemes; they worry about massive online courses, the shift away from on-campus life docx

Tài liệu The future impact of the Internet on higher education: Experts expect more-efficient collaborative environments and new grading schemes; they worry about massive online courses, the shift away from on-campus life docx

... is the relevance of the education to the professional future of a person Universities need to strengthen the causality between an education and a professional future, and given the nature of the ... are “working in the trenches” of building the web Most of the people in this latter segment of responders came to the survey by invitation because they are on the email list of the Pew Internet ... other tech and science publications, said, The key challenge of the next five years—I say the because of the importance of education for the entire global labor force and the importance of...

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Tài liệu The Fiscal Impact of Immigrants in Austria – A Generational Accounting Analysis ppt

Tài liệu The Fiscal Impact of Immigrants in Austria – A Generational Accounting Analysis ppt

... native of the same age and gender The overall fiscal effect of immigration is found positive, under the assumption that the age and fiscal characteristics of future immigrants resemble those of the ... over time due to the aging of populations In the following, we will apply the method of generational accounting in order to evaluate the fiscal impact of immigrants in Austria The method has been ... that is, the present value of their taxes paid less their benefits received over their lifetime For previous applications of generational accounting on the estimation of immigrants’ fiscal impacts...

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Tài liệu A NOTE ON MEASURING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION ppt

Tài liệu A NOTE ON MEASURING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION ppt

... sense, since in either case the economic impact on the state and, thus, the size of the state's economy, is the same After all, the source of the impact is the new job (an expansion of the economic ... 1) The Economic Impact of the University of Northern Iowa on the State of Iowa Cedar Falls, IA: Department of Economics, The University of Northern Iowa Butler, T E (1980) An Estimate of the ... for the position: one is a graduate of a local university and the other is a lifetime resident of another state According to the skill-base approach, if the firm hired the local graduate, then the...

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Tài liệu From Burden to “Best Buys”: Reducing the Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries pdf

Tài liệu From Burden to “Best Buys”: Reducing the Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries pdf

... incurred as a result of its use The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this overview not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health ... society and the private sector with key economic insights needed to help reduce the growing burden of NCDs: • A global analysis of the economic impact of NCDs by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard ... The content of this report stems from the work published in two separate reports, one led by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health, and the other developed by the...

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Tài liệu The high price of pain: the economic impact of persistent pain in Australia pdf

Tài liệu The high price of pain: the economic impact of persistent pain in Australia pdf

... estimates of the number of cases in the category (‘n’) and the average cost for that category The product is the total cost (eg the wage rate for lost earnings multiplied by the average number of days ... (effects) of two or more courses of action Deadweight loss: is the loss of consumer and producer surplus, as a result of the imposition of a distortion to the equilibrium (society preferred) level of ... the first study that established the prevalence of chronic pain in a general sample of the Australian adult population, and one of the largest reported in the literature (Blyth et al, 2001) The...

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The Economic Impact of Cloud Computing on Business Creation, Employment and Output in Europe pdf

The Economic Impact of Cloud Computing on Business Creation, Employment and Output in Europe pdf

... mainly on the theoretical impact of this innovation on the creation of new firms and products, on the empirical evidence about the impact of its introduction for the European economy and on the implications ... and in the creation of new firms through the stock market The number of firms follows the equation of motion: where N E , t is the number of new firms and is the exogenous rate of exit The real ... decreasing in the number of firms The latter follows the equation of motion: Nt (1 ) Nt N E,t where N E , t is the number of new firms and is the rate of business destruction The real value of a firm...

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THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF COUNTERFEITING AND PIRACY ppt

THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF COUNTERFEITING AND PIRACY ppt

... published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein not necessarily reflect the official views of the Organisation or of the governments ... and magnitude They are of concern to governments because of (i) the negative impact that they can have on innovation, (ii) the threat they pose to the welfare of consumers and (iii) the substantial ... apparent to the consumer The size of the secondary market depends in large part on the difference in the price of the counterfeit or pirated article from the genuine item There is likely to be virtually...

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The Economic Impact of Stimulating Broadband Nationally docx

The Economic Impact of Stimulating Broadband Nationally docx

... quantified the direct impact of ConnectKentucky as the intervening factor in Kentucky Additionally, the paper extrapolates this impact to other states to quantify the potential national impact of pending ... ConnectKentucky impact on adoption Applying the growth rate of the nation to the starting point in the KY time series demonstrates that had Kentucky performed similarly to the rest of the country in terms of ... estimate the direct availability economic impact for Kentuckians of the increased growth in broadband adoption It then extrapolates from these results to estimate the potential economic impact to the...

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The Economic Impact of the Iraq War and Higher Military Spending pptx

The Economic Impact of the Iraq War and Higher Military Spending pptx

... structure of the Global Insights model, it likely understates the negative impact of military spending relative to other models The next section of this paper describes the key projections of the Global ... Budget Office produce its own projections of the economic impact of a sustained increase in defense spending The Economic Impact of the Iraq War and Higher Military Spending Introduction The Iraq ... model Other models will show somewhat different projections, but it is unlikely that the direction of the long-term impact on any of the key variables will be different In fact, because of the structure...

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The Economic Impact of Environmental Regulation pptx

The Economic Impact of Environmental Regulation pptx

... to the same river as either a public subsidy or imposing a public cost As one CEO explained “ Look, the public benefits from our products They use them and they get jobs Part of the price of ... policy The scores across each of the policy areas were then summed Since the 1982 and 1990 lists were scaled differently by their respective creators the scores for each period I standardized them ... say, the effects of coffee drinking on heart disease, they must take into account other factors that might influence their results For example, they may “control for” differences among the study...

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The Economic Impact of The Higher Education System Of the State of Oklahoma doc

The Economic Impact of The Higher Education System Of the State of Oklahoma doc

... otherwise noted, are in terms of the difference from the baseline scenario Therefore familiarity with this scenario allows the reader to better judge the magnitude of the economic impacts of the ... simple example of opportunity cost is choosing between buying a book or a movie ticket The choice of one implies the loss of the other: the opportunity cost In the case of our analysis, the opportunity ... different question, the answering of which is the privilege and responsibility of the people of Oklahoma 13 V Results and Analysis As mentioned in the previous section, the impacts of Oklahoma’s higher...

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An estimation of the economic impact of chronic noncommunicable diseases in selected countries ppt

An estimation of the economic impact of chronic noncommunicable diseases in selected countries ppt

... presentation of the results of the analysis; The discussion of the results including a brief discussion on the sensitivity of the forecast to the assumptions in the model Linkages between disease and the ... and the full-income models to explore the economic impact of chronic diseases are rare, despite the burden that they pose to countries and regions The few studies that have explored the impact of ... computed by the model and the GBD projected estimates The impact on the estimates is subtracted out of the estimates of lost income Model assumptions The characteristic model assumptions for the simple...

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An Assessment of the Economic Impact of the Rosemont Copper Project on Pima County, Arizona using the IMPLAN Regional Economic Forecasting Model ppt

An Assessment of the Economic Impact of the Rosemont Copper Project on Pima County, Arizona using the IMPLAN Regional Economic Forecasting Model ppt

... sections and The total impact of the Rosemont Copper Project over the duration of the production and post-production phases on the economy of Pima County is estimated to be 41,501 person-years of employment, ... million Over the life of the mine, these direct impacts will cumulate to 9,963 person-years of employment, labor income of $798 million, output of $16.1 billion and gross regional product of $3.6 ... income impacts of $43 million Annual impacts in terms of gross regional product will be $66 million; output impacts will average $136 million Over the life of the mine, total economic impacts...

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The Economic Impact of Rail Improvements to the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas pptx

The Economic Impact of Rail Improvements to the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas pptx

... In the case of the POCCA project, we are dealing with the expansion of an existing industry; therefore, we would expect a positive economic impact from the projects The economic magnitude of these ... section we report the results of the economic impact estimates for both the regional and state level study areas The results show what the impact of the original $21.5 million from the POCCA project ... construction of the improved rail infrastructure, as part of the operations of the improved rail infrastructure once complete, and for the operation of the rail infrastructure suppliers and vendors then...

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The economic impact of obesity in the United States potx

The economic impact of obesity in the United States potx

... per-person cost of around $700 a year Productivity costs In addition to direct medical costs of obesity, a number of more indirect costs are part of the overall economic impact of obesity Of these, effects ... obesity in excess of $215 billion The magnitude of this impact, and the potential for high future impact identified by several studies,16,21,47 underscore the importance of the obesity epidemic ... extra gal of jet fuel in the year 2000 At a p ­ revailing price of $0.79/gal, they calculate the extra Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy 2010:3 Economic impact of obesity...

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The Economic Impact of the President’s 2013 Budget ppt

The Economic Impact of the President’s 2013 Budget ppt

... over the 2018–2022 period CBO 10 THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE PRESIDENT’S 2013 BUDGET Because of the substantial uncertainty that surrounds the results of such models, the budgetary effects of economic ... estimating changes in the supply of labor, see the appendix 14 For a description of the impact of the Affordable Care Act on labor markets, see Congressional Budget Office, The Budget and Economic ... effects after 2016 focus on the impact of the President’s proposals on the supply That range is consistent with what CBO used in its November 2011 analysis of the impact of the American Recovery and...

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