... banks from holding longer-term loans on their balance sheets, prompting increasing costs, reductions in the term of loans and introducing greater refinancing Bonds and Climate Change www.climatebonds.net ... to increase opportunities to make low-carbon fixed income investments, December 2011 “Investor interest in the links between bonds and climate change is growing” risk.3 In addition, changing ... hybrid and electric vehicles increase and electric vehicle infrastructure expands Buildings and Industry: • Includes technologies and projects designed to improve the energy efficiency of buildings...
... stimulating political participation, increasing citizens’ efficacy, recruiting and training political leaders, and enhancing commitment to the democratic system.” Larry Diamond, Juan J Linz, and ... identifying U.S national interests in the region and the potential threats to those interests U.S INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST The United States has many vital and enduring interests in the Middle ... U.S interests include countering terrorism, countering WMD proliferation, maintaining stable oil supplies and prices, ensuring the stability of friendly regimes, ensuring Israel’s security, and...
... identifying U.S national interests in the region and the potential threats to those interests U.S INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST The United States has many vital and enduring interests in the Middle ... of interstate aggression, either by superpower intervention or by regional states against each other Fears of interstate aggression certainly remain today, but they are manifesting themselves in ... U.S interests include countering terrorism, countering WMD proliferation, maintaining stable oil supplies and prices, ensuring the stability of friendly regimes, ensuring Israel’s security, and...
... stimulating political participation, increasing citizens’ efficacy, recruiting and training political leaders, and enhancing commitment to the democratic system.” Larry Diamond, Juan J Linz, and ... continues to be undermined by decreasing oil prices and declining GDP and growth rates, popular discontent and dissatisfaction may grow Recent trends indicate that the rentier model is becoming increasingly ... “Hardliners and Softliners in the Middle East: Problems of Governance and the Prospects for Liberalization in Authoritarian Political Systems,” in H Handelman and M Tessler (eds.), Democracy and...
... policy Investment flowed into infrastructure, rather than into traded goods production; investment was increasingly inefficient and capital-intensive, creating few jobs Like so many other middle-income ... alleviating poverty, coping with urbanization, saving water and halting environmental destruction, obtaining food, and attracting money for investment Each is discussed in turn Restoring Economic Growth ... exacerbated the savings-investment gap, and (thanks to fixed nominal rates) a steadily increasing overvaluation of the exchange rate Such underpricing of increasingly scarce foreign exchange discouraged...
... male (and especially female) literacy, the decline in fertility, and reductions in infant and child mortality The only way to explain the combination of falling incomes per capita and increasing ... against the apparent increase in consumption per capita of various foodstuffs in urban areas, the apparent narrowing of rural-urban income gaps, increases in enrollment ratios, increases in male ... policies such as tariffs and a grossly overvalued exchange rate insulated firms from competition, permitting inefficiency to flourish and creating a vested interest in the continuation of these policies...
... community in Syria, and tribal relationships in key appointments in the military, see Asher Susser, “The `Alawis, Lords of Syria,” in Ofra Bengio and Gabriel Ben-Dor (eds.), Minorities and the Statein ... Bankers in the Jordanian military see Asher Susser, “The Palestinians in Jordan: Demographic Majority, Political Minority,” in Ofra Bengio and Gabriel Ben-Dor (eds.), Minorities and the Statein the ... in the quality of commanders in war So egregious was the promotion of political lackeys in Egypt in the 1967 war that Israel had singled out a string of incompetent division and brigade commanders,...
... geography and the opinions shared by Saudis of all political stripes Change Within the Al Saud King Fahd’s final days are near, and his successor, Crown Prince Abdullah, is consolidating power King ... regime change, it is tempting for the United States to try to intervene in the process Unless the United States is willing to intervene decisively as it did in Iraq, it often has little influence ... confronting the United States and its allies in the Middle East, including terrorism, the stabilization and reconstruction of Iraq, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and containment policies toward Iran and...
... remain a dominant producer, but import patterns have changed and will continue to change significantly over the next decade Most analysts expect energy demand in Asia, especially in China and India, ... 1990 and 2003 became increasingly difficult to maintain.30 In the Iranian and Libyan cases, and barring new crises in relations with the West, the outlook is almost certainly for a weakening or ... September 11 and the War in Iraq The events of September 2001 and uncertainties regarding regional security, including a heightened risk of instability in Saudi Arabia and the uncertain future of...
... Security Environment in the Middle East “on the street,” actively obtaining and translating handbills and pamphlets, understanding what is rented in video stores, and closely monitoring what millions ... since the 1956 Suez crisis, during which Russia threatened (albeit not very credibly) nuclear strikes against Britain and France in response to their intervention in Egypt In 1967 and again in ... extraordinarily prominent issues in international affairs, and will compel continued American and Western attention For these and other reasons, the region is demanding of Western military presence and...
... leadership changes, and increased Russian and Chinese activism in the region could complicate U.S attempts to engage friendly states in the region and deter hostile ones Continued violence in Israel and ... Israel and its neighbors Russia and China could oppose international mediation efforts and provide military andpolitical support to rejectionist states and Palestinian factions • Russia and China ... states undergoing dramatic political changes often become involved in international conflict: States undergoing democratic transitions are more likely than others to initiate wars,1 and they are...
... Sheldon H., and Daniel H Weinberg, “The Historical Record: Trends in Family Income, Inequality, and Poverty,” in Sheldon H Danziger, Gary D Sandefur, and Daniel H Weinberg (eds.), Confronting Poverty: ... Farhad, and Augustus Richard Norton, “Hardliners and Softliners in the Middle East: Problems of Governance and the Prospects for Liberalization in Authoritarian Political Systems,” in H Handelman and ... Environment in the Middle East Susser, Asher, “The Palestinians in Jordan: Demographic Majority, Political Minority,” in Ofra Bengio and Gabriel Ben-Dor (eds.), Minorities and the Statein the Arab...
... dates of beginning and ending temperatures through 20oC, 25oC The dates of beginning and ending temperatures through 20oC, 25oC are very important for defining the crop calendar and crop rotation ... Vinh (North central region), Can tho and Bac Lieu (Mekong river delta) On the other hand, in winter-spring season rainfall is increasing trend which observed at Bac Giang, Ha noi, Nam dinh, Vinh, ... mountain in central region (see table 5) Rainfall The situation of rainfall is some what complex depending on locations and seasons In annual and summer season (May - October) small decreasing...
... within the inland waters, territorial sea or EEZ adjoining the USSR northern coast and that it includes seaways suitable for guiding vessels in ice Due to the vagueness concerning leading in Article ... Navigation and pollution in the Northern Sea Route 231 For Russia, ships must satisfy special crewing and training requirements for navigating in ice.56 For the USA, requirements as to manning, training, ... the mandatory prescription of leading in ‘other regions’, as well as from Article 7(1) which states that the NSRA will determine the beginning and end of the navigational period taking into account,...
... Resources • Instability in rainfall would cause more severe floods in rainy season and droughts in dry season • Increase in frequency and intensity of typhoons, storms would cause high floods & inundation, ... decade In some summer months, temperature increases about 0.10.3oC per decade • More heavy rainfalls causing severe floods; • Rainfall decreases in dry season (Jul., Aug.) and increases in rainy ... Malaria: contraction and expansion, changes in transmission season High confidence Increase in malnutrition Increase in the number of people suffering from deaths, disease and injuries from extreme...
... motivation, and thus must be answered convincingly.The “why” of change may be a looming crisis, years of declining 34 Managing ChangeandTransition profit margins, or research that indicates that ... training course development, and other “rituals” of change (See “Putting Results-Driven Change into Practice” for an expanded example of results-driven change. ) Putting Results-Driven Change into ... Becoming Change- Ready If your organization isn’t change- ready, the following sections outline things you can to push it closer to this goal 26 Managing ChangeandTransition Do a Unit-by-Unit Change- Readiness...
... academic and spiritual being I hope that Pat and his community will find in these pages something insightful and useful as they continue to pursue their lives in the singularity that is life in Interior ... standard for deconstructing and analyzing ecosystem services, viewing how they have changed or might change over time, and for evaluating and modeling service substitutability The third and final ... committed to continuing this work, and to bringing the power of the researcher and the research institution into their hands for their direction, for only they know the meaningful and important...
... competitive demand between users Changes in land use have an impact in carbon fluxes, and many of the land-use changes involve livestock, either occupying land (as pasture or arable land for feedcrops) ... acidity, integrated pest management, double-cropping, and crop Livestock’s role in climate changeand air pollution rotations including green manure and cover crops Increasing crop yields result in ... climatically equivalent grasslands and croplands (IPCC 2001b, p 192), combining changes in carbon density of both vegetation and soil6 in the year of change Though physically incorrect (it takes well...
... in Understanding Climate Changeand Polar Ecosystems: Summary of a Workshop 32 FRONTIERS IN UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE CHANGEAND POLAR ECOSYSTEMS and meters to decades and ocean basins also remains ... Frontiers in Understanding Climate Changeand Polar Ecosystems: Summary of a Workshop 20 FRONTIERS IN UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE CHANGEAND POLAR ECOSYSTEMS Observed Changes in Polar Marine Ecosystems ... QUESTIONS IN CLIMATE CHANGEAND POLAR ECOSYSTEMS 31 by the combined and interacting anthropogenic effects of the ozone hole and greenhouse warming also indicate how better understanding and improved...
... variable is intended to capture the incidence of “soft lending” and/ or distorted incentives in lending: whether and how a history of financial indiscipline by the firms in their past borrowing affects ... distinguishing between profitable and unprofitable projects or, in more general terms, when they face ex-ante inefficiency in financing but have ex-post benefits of refinancing (Berglof and Roland ... affecting both the supply and the demand side However uncovering the actual changes at the microeconomic level – such as the changes in borrowing and lending practices – essentially remains an...