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Health policy responses to the f inancial crisis in Europe doc

Health policy responses to the f inancial crisis in Europe doc

... social insurance contributions, revenue can be maintained by lifting income or earnings ceilings, broadening the contribution base to encompass non-wage income or increasing transfers from the ... charges Other Albania There have been some small reductions in the external financial assistance provided to Albania since the start of the crisis. However, according to the Ministry of Health there ... further destabilize the health system if they erode financial protection, equitable access to care and the quality of care provided, increasing health and other costs in the longer term. In addition...

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Cambridge.University.Press.Press.Politics.and.the.Public.Sphere.in.Europe.and.North.America.1760-1820.Jul.2002.pdf

Cambridge.University.Press.Press.Politics.and.the.Public.Sphere.in.Europe.and.North.America.1760-1820.Jul.2002.pdf

... authoritative in the Middle Ages called their authority into question. When combined with the propaganda poten- tial of the printing press to disseminate such findings, printing became a 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 which judged the acts of...

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Tài liệu CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN EUROPE: A BASELINE ASSESSMENT doc

Tài liệu CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN EUROPE: A BASELINE ASSESSMENT doc

... GUIDELINES FOR DRINKING-WATER QUALITY WHO’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 joint action with WHO, the European Commission (EC) and other international organizations in building a supporting information base. The resulting ... 1980 and 2005 in Finland Note. The vertical line indicates the beginning of the compulsory monitoring system. Source: Finnish Food Safety Authority (15). WATER-RELATED HEALTH DETERMINANTS: GEOGRAPHICAL...

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Tài liệu HEALTH ASPECTS OF AIR POLLUTION RESULTS FROM THE WHO PROJECT “SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF HEALTH ASPECTS OF AIR POLLUTION IN EUROPE” doc

Tài liệu HEALTH ASPECTS OF AIR POLLUTION RESULTS FROM THE WHO PROJECT “SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF HEALTH ASPECTS OF AIR POLLUTION IN EUROPE” doc

... 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 in the field of air pollution research, mainly from Europe and North America, were actively involved in the ... 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...

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Tài liệu Solving the Financial and Sovereign Debt Crisis in Europe doc

Tài liệu Solving the Financial and Sovereign Debt Crisis in Europe doc

... 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...

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Tài liệu Benefits Table database: Estimates of the marginal external costs of air pollution in Europe pptx

Tài liệu Benefits Table database: Estimates of the marginal external costs of air pollution in Europe pptx

... 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 in the 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...

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Tài liệu A junk-free childhood 2012 - The 2012 report of the StanMark project on standards for marketing food and beverages to children in Europe pptx

Tài liệu A junk-free childhood 2012 - The 2012 report of the StanMark project on standards for marketing food and beverages to children in Europe pptx

... 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. In the example below, the Kinder chocolate is promoted to parents as containing milk and being only a ‘snack’ size. Products are sold in multi-packs...

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Tài liệu Learning 2.0 - The Impact of Social Media on Learning in Europe ppt

Tài liệu Learning 2.0 - The Impact of Social Media on Learning in Europe ppt

... for innovating and modernising Education and Training institutions and for preparing learners for the 21 st century. 2 The high rate of people using the Internet for sending and receiving ... to 79% in the 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 in the years leading up to 2020 (European Commission, 2008g) and can thus contribute to modernising Education and Training in Europe. Enhancing innovation...

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Labour Force Participation of the Elderly in Europe: The Importance of Being Healthy doc

Labour Force Participation of the Elderly in Europe: The Importance of Being Healthy doc

... living in a couple and the number of children in many of the men’s equations, this could indicate that there is some coordination going on within couples: on average men seem to specialize in ... labour force participation of the elderly in Europe. Nevertheless, knowing 2 In the future, there will be a link e stablished between SHA RE and the social security administration of 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...

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On the Segregation of Genetically Modified, Conventional, and Organic Products in European Agriculture: A Multi-market Equilibrium Analysis doc

On the Segregation of Genetically Modified, Conventional, and Organic Products in European Agriculture: A Multi-market Equilibrium Analysis doc

... 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. 13 A ... 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 can imagine a population ... on the other hand, is assumed to be an increasing cost industry: at the margin, expanding organic production requires additional farmer- supplied inputs that are available only at increasing...

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WORKING PAPER SERIES NO. 398 / OCTOBER 2004: MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS AND BANK PERFORMANCE IN EUROPE THE ROLE OF STRATEGIC SIMILARITIES potx

WORKING PAPER SERIES NO. 398 / OCTOBER 2004: MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS AND BANK PERFORMANCE IN EUROPE THE ROLE OF STRATEGIC SIMILARITIES potx

... on the capital levels on performance hinges on the recent theory of the banking firm, which is based on the ‘specialness’ of banks in a setting in which there are asymmetries of information. In ... banks per 1,000 inhabitants in the European Union is almost double the number in the United States, suggesting that there is room for consolidation in the European Union. Third, there is still a considerable ... variety of financial indicators to define the strategic features of banks engaged in domestic and cross-border mergers in the European Union. These indicators include measures of financial performance:...

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The work of savings banks in microcredit in Europe (10 May 2011) Joint conference of the European Savings Banks Group (ESBG) and the European Microfinance Network (EMN) held in Brussels, Belgium pot

The work of savings banks in microcredit in Europe (10 May 2011) Joint conference of the European Savings Banks Group (ESBG) and the European Microfinance Network (EMN) held in Brussels, Belgium pot

... The growing importance of microfinance in Europe 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 in the 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 in the development of microfinance, since they finance the local economy in the communities where they...

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Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe pot

Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe pot

... 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 ... 1725-2237 Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe EEA Technical report No 15/2011 Methods 18 Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe The ... impact Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe EEA Technical report No 15/2011 Results 26 Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe Table...

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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

... un - employment rate in the European countries due to the introduction of cloud com - puting are around 0.5% in the short run and 0.2-3% in the medium run. 20 Before entering in further details, it ... enter in the labor force). The current and expected increase in output af- fects consumption/savings behavior. In the short run, the demand of new business creation 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 in the initial...

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The Importance of Reporting Incentives: Earnings Management in European Private and Public Firms potx

The Importance of Reporting Incentives: Earnings Management in European Private and Public Firms potx

... but they may also abuse discretion when it is in their interest. 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 in the middle. Second, accounting regulation within the European Union ... together with the controls. The coefficients on the variables of interest are highly significant. In fact, the t-statistic for the PUBL coefficient in the complete model is larger than in any other...

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