... capturing the impact of inflation and the effects of the fiscal-monetary policy mix; (iii) indicators for the openness of the economy and external competitiveness (such as the sum of export and import ... over the period of the analysis, as well as for economic and monetary regime changes, such as the creation of the monetary union and the introduction of the euro A list of the variables used in the ... IV/2-SLS estimator derived from the use of the optimal weighting matrix, the overidentifying restrictions of the model, and the relaxation of the independent and identical distribution (i.i.d.)...
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The impact of ''accounting and auditing enforcement release'' on firms' cost of equity capital
... the impact of iv regulatory action and the effectiveness of the SEC, and academics interested in measuring the impact of accounting-related government regulation and the performance of cost of ... Paralleling the impact of the announcement of an SEC investigation, the bookend event: closure of the investigation indicated by the issuance of an AAER, may also impact a firm’s cost of equity ... TO TEST HYPOTHESES After calculating the change in cost of equity capital for the sample of firms targeted by an AAER and the matched sample, I test the first hypothesis, the impact of receiving...
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Báo cáo hóa học: "The impact of psychosocial and organizational working conditions on the mental health of female cleaning personnel in Norway" doc
... health [28] The HSCL has been found to be a psychometrically valid and reliable indicator of anxiety and depression symptomology Anxiety and depression are common stress-related disorders and closely ... 49 men and 374 women) After excluding the male respondents, 374 women comprised the final sample and were included in the analyses The Committee for Medical Research Ethics of Norway and the Norwegian ... environment reflected the quality of the relationship between the employee and her manager and colleagues The factor analysis revealed four meaningful psychosocial work dimensions, and these included...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article A Simulation Study: The Impact of Random and Realistic Mobility Models on the Performance of Bypass-AODV in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks" pdf
... the other hand, the nodes moving according to RW and RDM are most likely 5.2 Impact of Random Mobility Models on Bypass-AODV The RWP, RW, and RDM models are used to evaluate the performance of ... FRW, and MAN mobility models These findings are important for understanding the behavior of routing protocols and their effect on TCP performance Figures and show the percentage of short and medium ... in terms of number of hops for RPGM because of the strict movements of nodes On the other hand, for FRW and MAN, the higher the node speed, the higher the tendency for short connection (≤3) This...
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Assessing the Impact of Transport and Energy Infrastructure on Poverty ReductionCynthia pdf
... care and education and enhances the contact and communication of the poor with the outside world However, the team found that the positive impacts of transport and energy investments on the poor ... rather the use of the services, as measured by expenditures The impacts of the private port at Mundra in Kuchchh were different from the impacts of road and electricity improvements Although these ... reflected in the prices of their products and of the goods they purchase, as well as in the increased presence of traders and service providers in their communities Poor people share equally in the qualitative...
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Assessing the Impact of Transport and Energy Infrastructure on Poverty Reduction - Chapter 0 pps
... care and education and enhances the contact and communication of the poor with the outside world However, the team found that the positive impacts of transport and energy investments on the poor ... rather the use of the services, as measured by expenditures The impacts of the private port at Mundra in Kuchchh were different from the impacts of road and electricity improvements Although these ... reflected in the prices of their products and of the goods they purchase, as well as in the increased presence of traders and service providers in their communities Poor people share equally in the qualitative...
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Assessing the Impact of Transport and Energy Infrastructure on Poverty Reduction - Chapter 1 docx
... needed to further explore the results of the country studies and to further develop the policy and operational implications of the research This work was completed by April 2004 and is reflected ... are reported in Chapter The literature and project review helped identify the research hypotheses and to evaluate the available evidence concerning the impacts of transport and energy infrastructure ... formed the basis for a knowledge gap analysis and the formulation of proposals for the field research, described in Chapter The study team identified research on the impact of transportation and...
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Assessing the Impact of Transport and Energy Infrastructure on Poverty Reduction - Chapter 2 ppsx
... people and give them a chance to develop skills and improve their livelihoods Gender Impacts As of 2001, little research focusing on the gender distribution of impacts of transportation and energy ... Analysis of Projects (ADB 1997) requires an analysis of the distribution of project effects (costs and benefits) among different groups, and a calculation of the proportion of net benefits going to the ... physical and social infrastructure, including provision of basic services that will benefit the poor As the role of the private sector expands, that of the government should shift from owner and...
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Assessing the Impact of Transport and Energy Infrastructure on Poverty Reduction - Chapter 3 doc
... systems and scale urban works having optimal impact on the employincreasing the operational and end-user efficiency of enment and incomes of the poor, and through the promotion ergy and water ... investment to the area and supported the growth of township and village enterprises, including tourism Although the northeastern PRC is generally low in poverty, poor people from other parts of the country ... describes the socioeconomic profile of the study area prior to project implementation, and the benefits expected to accrue to the rural people arising out of the improved rural transport and trading...
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Assessing the Impact of Transport and Energy Infrastructure on Poverty Reduction - Chapter 4 doc
... change, the impacts of changes in service provision, the impacts of transport modes other than roads, the impacts of energy sources other than electricity, and the impacts of transport and energy ... the PRC The results of this study are reported in the Thailand country study (Chapter 6) Crosscutting Themes The central theme of the proposed research program is the impact of transport and energy ... in the design of every case study Participation of the poor, together with other stakeholders, in the design and implementation of transport and energy projects is another important aspect of the...
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Assessing the Impact of Transport and Energy Infrastructure on Poverty Reduction - Chapter 5 pdf
... services, and the value of transportand energy-related household assets as input variables Case studies then looked more closely at the impacts of road and railway construction, the impacts of bus and ... represented 30% of the sample However, these were not always the same households About 30% of the nonpoor by an income standard were poor by the asset-based standard, and about 30% of the nonpoor ... members of the study team village of 100 households Part of the township of Hejiachuanit is located 10 km from the nearest the county headquarters at Dagou and km from the nearhighway and 49 km...
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Assessing the Impact of Transport and Energy Infrastructure on Poverty Reduction - Chapter 6 ppt
... help the Thailand study team to map some of the features of their village to and use of transport and energy services in greater detail The third module asked about perceptions of the impacts of ... welfare, and happiness Perceptions of Impacts Given the policy-oriented focus of the study, the Thailand study team set out to determine if the poor had differ- ent views about the impacts of transport ... favor of either the poor or the nonpoor However, it is a general fact that both roads and electricity were often provided to the better-off households in the villages before the rest of the villagers...
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Assessing the Impact of Transport and Energy Infrastructure on Poverty Reduction - Chapter 7 pps
... both The impacts of the private port at Mundra in Kuchchh were different from the impacts of road and electricity improvements Although these impacts were also covered by the household survey, the ... households were farmers, while 39% of the poor households and 24% of the nonpoor households were agricultural wage laborers, and 17% of the poor households and 10% of the nonpoor households were nonagricultural ... capturing the benefits of the change in national A comparison of the prices reported for different crops policy as well as part of the benefits of the road improvement and livestock products in the...
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Assessing the Impact of Transport and Energy Infrastructure on Poverty Reduction - Chapter 8 potx
... measures of the depth of poverty (average distance of the per capita income of poor households from the poverty line), the severity of poverty (squared poverty gap), and a measure of inequality (the ... benefits of reduced transport costs reflected in the prices of their products and of the goods they purchase, as well as in the increased presence of traders and service providers in their communities ... considerable extent on the quality of services provided The responsiveness of these services to the needs of the poor is partly a function of public policy and partly one of political culture and institutional...
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Assessing the Impact of Transport and Energy Infrastructure on Poverty Reduction - Chapter 9 doc
... developed for measuring the poverty reduction impacts of transport and energy projects On the other hand, the overall approach of examining the poverty impacts of transport and energy interventions ... infrastructure The study also shows that the quality and reliability of transport and energy services is just as important as the availability of infrastructure, for the poor as well as the nonpoor, and ... at the community level are equally available to the poor and nonpoor and may be of special significance to the poor Chief among these are the risk-minimizing and security-enhancing aspects of...
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Assessing the Impact of Transport and Energy Infrastructure on Poverty Reduction - Chapter 10 potx
... least two of the country case studies (the Peoples Republic of China [PRC] and Thailand) demonstrate their importance In the case of Thailand, long-distance travel patterns reveal the role played ... involving the poor themselves, to identify and quantify such indirect benefits and their effects on the lives of the poor Policy and Operational Implications 207 not suffer in consequence At the same ... on the ers more responsive to the needs of the poor poor, even if they are not direct users of these services For example, reduced transport costs can lower the cost of goods in local markets and...
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Assessing the Impact of Transport and Energy Infrastructure on Poverty Reduction - Appendix potx
... heavily than other fuels The result is both to reduce the use of the taxed fuel and to raise the price of the alternative indigenous fuel to levels Assessing the Impact of Transport and Energy Infrastructure ... policy and technology options In the Philippines and Viet Nam, another ongoing study (DFID 2004b) will explore the possibility of reducing the cost, improving the quality, and expanding the use of ... enhances the welfare of the rural poor Recent themes have included the differentiation of gender roles in transport and the impacts of transport infrastructure development on the physical and social...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Detecting the impact of climate and disturbances on tree-rings of Fagus sylvatica L. and Quercus robur L. in a lowland forest in Cantabria, Northern Spain" ppt
... either In this work, the individual and combined effects of climate and disturbances on the radial growth of these species were analyzed in a forest of the Cantabrian lowlands, Northern Spain The ... Europe The results reveal the importance of summer precipitation and temperature on the radial growth of European beech and pedunculate oak July is the driest month and one of the warmest in the ... releases The number and density of releases, the mean and maximum PGC values, and the change in percentage of suppressions of the different periods are showed The change in mean percentage of suppressions...
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Báo cáo y học: "A comparative study of anxiety and depression in patients with bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and tuberculosis in a general hospital of chest diseases" ppsx
... assess the impact of anxiety on depression (and vice versa) as well as the impact of age or time from diagnosis on anxiety or depression Logistic regression was used to assess the presence of depression ... S: The validity of the Greek modification of the Spielberger anxiety scale Encephalos 1984, 21:71-76 Tselebis A, Papaleftheris E, Balis E, Theotoka I, Ilias I: Smoking related to anxiety and depression ... patients are the group with the higher and more severe depression comorbidity Depression in patients with chronic respiratory diseases coexists with anxiety and is related to the chronicity of the disease...
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