... social insurancecontributions, revenue can be maintained by lifting income or earnings ceilings, broadening the contribution base to encompass non-wage income or increasing transfers from the ... chargesOtherAlbaniaThere have been some smallreductions inthe externalfinancial assistance providedto Albania since the start of the crisis. However,according to the Ministry ofHealth there ... further destabilize the healthsystem if they erode financial protection, equitable access to care and the quality of care provided, increasing health and other costs inthe longerterm. In addition...
... authoritative inthe Middle Ages called theirauthority into question. When combined with the propaganda poten-tial of the printing press to disseminate such findings, printing becamea major force behind ... Transformation in Early Modern Europe, vols. (Cambridge, ), and its abridgement, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, ). Eisenstein, Printing Press and Eisenstein, Printing ... exempt from the scrutiny of this new rational-critical public. This being the case, the opinion of the public increasingly assumed the role of a legitimis-ing tribunal whichjudged the acts of...
... GUIDELINES FOR DRINKING-WATER QUALITYWHO’s Guidelines for drinking-water quality (39) are the international reference point for stan-dard-setting and drinking-water safety. To ensure the delivery ... States of the WHO European Region committed themselves to jointaction with WHO, the European Commission (EC) and other international organizations in building asupporting information base. The resulting ... 1980 and 2005 in FinlandNote. The vertical line indicates the beginning of the compulsory monitoring system.Source: Finnish Food Safety Authority (15).WATER-RELATED HEALTH DETERMINANTS: GEOGRAPHICAL...
... needs to be a system for maintain-ing the literature database and for developing the science of meta-analysis for the purpose of monitoring research findings, summarizing the literature for health ... for Europe (CAFE) programme of the European Commission. More than 80 leading experts inthe field of air pollution research, mainly from Europe and North America, were actively involved inthe ... changes in the magnitude of a hazard are linked to changes in effects, there should be sufficient evidence to assume a causal link between the exposure to the pollutant and the health end-point in...
... role). The UK (based on the Vickers Report)14 is implementing the most significant reform since the crisis (including ring-fencing retail banking from investment banking), the USA has the Volcker ... and these, in turn, contribute to the financial instability. The EU financial system mixes traditional and capital markets banking and this is interacting with the sovereign crisis in a ... slippage. The resulting indebtedness has been exacerbated by the financial crisis and recession, and this in turn is contributing to underlying financial instability – Europe s biggest problem. The...
... nitrogen-containing pollutants (NOx, NH3) are widespread in Europe, with particular hot-spots in a few countries, such as the Netherlands. The most visible effect is one of reducing the viability ... shown inthe section 'Further data'. The sheet also gives incidence of other health effects for the same region for the same change in emissions.A breakdown is not given for the two ... calculated is a function of the position of the modelled sources within each country, within the modelling domain. Here, and elsewhere, effects in eastern Europe are included although analysis...
... including examples of street graffiti promoting the marketing theme (shown here). Further concerns There are further concerns regarding the self-regulations, which we intend to analyse in ... Europe, and evidence that they are not applied in other regions (giving rise to ‘off-shore’ marketing to European children via the internet) so calling into question the companies’ strength ... by promoting specific aspects of the product. Inthe example below, the Kinder chocolate is promoted to parents as containing milk and being only a ‘snack’ size. Products are sold in multi-packs...
... for innovating and modernising Education and Training institutions and for preparing learners for the 21st century.2 The high rate of people using the Internet for sending and receiving ... to 79% inthe Netherlands). 33% use the Internet for seeking health-related information (ranging from 10% in Bulgaria to 56% in Finland); and 31% use the Internet for reading online newspapers ... of European Education and Training policies inthe years leading up to 2020 (European Commission, 2008g) and can thus contribute to modernising Education and Training in Europe. Enhancing innovation...
... living in a couple and the number of children in many of the men’s equations, this could indicate that there is somecoordination going on within couples: on average men seem to specialize in ... labour force participation of the elderly in Europe. Nevertheless, knowing2 In the future, there will be a link e stablished between SHA RE and the social security administrationof some countries, ... on the probability of work-ing for pay in Austria, in countries like the Netherlands and Sweden, four out of the …ve health indicators have an own signi…cant e¤ect. These e¤ects are in line...
... efficiency gain in production, due to the innovation, net of the possibly noncompetitive pricing of the improved inputs. But for the rest of the marketing sector we postulate a competitive setting.13A ... units. But for the latter we assume that the cost of drawing the required farmer-supplied efforts into organic production are increasing at the margin. For instance, one canimagine a population ... on the other hand, is assumed to be anincreasing cost industry: at the margin, expanding organic production requires additional farmer-supplied inputs that are available only at increasing...
... on the capital levels on performance hinges on the recent theory of the banking firm, which isbased on the ‘specialness’ of banks in a setting in which there are asymmetries ofinformation. In ... banksper 1,000 inhabitants inthe European Union is almost double the number inthe UnitedStates, suggesting that there is room for consolidation inthe European Union. Third,there is still a considerable ... variety offinancial indicators to define the strategic features of banks engaged in domestic andcross-border mergers inthe European Union. These indicators include measures offinancial performance:...
... The growing importance of microfinance inEurope over the past decade was highlighted as well as the growing interest of the European institutions in microfinance, which has become an integral ... sector and involving all the actors inthe development of this sector in Europe. The financial crisis has had a “positive” impact on microfinance institutions, in that they have diversified their ... as the JEREMIE and the JASMINE programmes. Savings banks have a particular role to play inthe development of microfinance, since they finance the local economy inthe communities where they...
... underestimation of the damage costs when focusing only on the metals. Epidemiological research is continuing into the toxicological effects of heavy metals. Recent preliminary findings indicate damage ... 1725-2237Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe EEA Technical report No 15/2011Methods18Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities inEurope The ... impactRevealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe EEA Technical report No 15/2011Results26Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe Table...
... un-employment rate inthe European countries due to the introduction of cloud com-puting are around 0.5% inthe short run and 0.2-3% inthe medium run.20Before entering in further details, it ... enter inthe labor force). The current and expected increase in output af-fects consumption/savings behavior. Inthe short run, the demand of new businesscreation requires and increase in savings, ... strengthen the propagation of its benefits within the country. In a context as the European one, smaller countries would be able to obtain larger gains from simi-lar policies at least inthe initial...
... but they may also abuse discretion when it is in theirinterest. For this reason, reporting incentives are likely to play an integral role in determining the informativeness of reported accounting ... referred to as insider economies. The Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries would generally be viewed as being somewhere inthe middle.Second, accounting regulation within the European Union ... together with the controls. The coefficients on the variablesof interest are highly significant. In fact, the t-statistic for the PUBL coefficient in the complete model is larger than in any other...