... Office, and in 2007, following the inquiry of the Spanish Competition Commission, fined several savings banks for market-sharing agreements. INVESTIGATING DIVERSITY INTHEBANKINGSECTORIN EUROPE ... relationship-based banking model led savings banks to gain substantial market shares. In addition, they are leading the main initiatives aimed at combating financial exclusion mainly through their investment ... problems in Germany at the 10% significance level. Nevertheless, all the equations pass the overall significance tests, i.e. the F-tests. INVESTIGATING DIVERSITY INTHEBANKINGSECTORIN EUROPE...
... yielded 1 628 households in total. Having identified the geographic location of the EA in the field, each ‘visiting point’ inthe EA was counted. A visiting point could be defined as a stand, physical ... urban informal) and within urban formal areas of residence according to the majority of the race living inthe area (i.e., white versus African). Implicit stratification using a combination ... for determining the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS interventions to be implemented during the coming year inthe three districts concerned.Professor Leickness C. Simbayi, DPhil Principal Investigator,...
... funds in private sector investments PPCR funds used in private sector investments will adhere to the principles outlined below. Minimum concessionality: MDBs will seek to provide the minimum ... crops for fear of losing them, and falling into debt. Thus, a critical task for the public sector will be to support the private sectorin creating financial risk sharing and management approaches ... level in 1750, with most of the increase having occurred inthe 20th century and the most rapid rise occurring since 1970. Temperature changes over the continents have been greater than the...
... that they mustremain inthe posted station for the entire duration of the contract. This has assisted in retaining staff, especially in underserved areas. Further research into differences in attrition ... help in designing retention incentives and shaping the composi-tion of intakes to medical and nursing schools.One solution to alleviating shortages of doctors that isgaining prominence inthe ... have increased the demand for health serv-ices, putting an additional stress on the existing humanresources inthe public health sector [12]. Prevalence ofHIV/AIDS in Kenya remains one of the...
... Conversely, inthe case of the model estimated using the OIS, both the increase and decrease in the retail interest rate are principally due to the shock to the retail rate, which indicates ... is insuf-ficient for explaining the events during the crisis. The savings deposit interest rate is particularly important in Belgium, because it includes the interest rate applied to savings ... implemented.Furthermore, in order to insulate banking institutions against the effects of additional weakening of sovereign bond ratings, the Governing Council suspended the minimum eligibility...
... imposing on the out-goingcargoes tyrannical exactions called "indults." The results were fatal. Foreigners often eluded these impositionsby interloping inthe West Indies and intheSouth ... pounds sterling.[21] In view of the prevailing east wind in these regions, and the maze of reefs, cays and shoals extending far outto sea from the Mosquito Coast, the galleons, in making their course ... between the Virginian Capes and the Bermudas to about 38°, in order to recover the strong northerly winds, and then east to the Azores. In winter the galleons sometimes ran south of the Bermudas,...
... hat,’ the King said to the Hatter.‘It isn’t mine,’ said the Hatter.‘Stolen!’ the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who in- stantly made a memorandum of the fact.‘I keep them to sell,’ the ... being run over; and the moment she appeared on the other side, the puppy made another rush at the stick, and tumbled head over heels in its hurry to get hold of it; then Alice, think-ing ... going to begin again, it was very pro-voking to nd that the hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was inthe act of crawling away: besides all this, there was generally a ridge or furrow in the...
... in bold. The basic residues in domain 3B areindicated by underlines. The similaritybetween SIK1 and SIK2 in domain 3A, the N-terminal half of domain 3, is higher thanthat in domain 3B, the C-terminal ... zipper domain (b-ZIP)minus CREB [CREB (S): (right panel)] were investigated by using the Gal4 DNA-binding domain-linked assay. Cells were transformed with the Gal4 DNA-binding domain-linked CREB ... arereplaced with other residues inthe corresponding regionof SIK2. To examine whether or not the lower similarity in domain 3 B between the two isoforms contributes to the difference in their intracellular...
... filtered into the interior, and so reached the pipes of the Chinese. Just why the Chinese chose to obtain their supplies from India is no clearer than why, having obtained it, they smoked instead ... by simply eating or drinking the drug. Thereafter wherever the Chinese went, to railroad construction sites in Nevada and canal digging in Panama, they carried the technique with them.To smoke ... Peace, and other nostrums containing the drug. But working mothers paid no attention to such warnings. They had to leave their infants inthe care of old women or very young children when they went...
... Companies1 In order to attract foreign investment into Vietnam, the government has introduced the law onforeign investment, offered a lot of incentives including tax. After the financial turmoil in the Southeast ... turmoil in the Southeast Asia Region inthe latter half of the 1997, the government has made some furtherprogress in improving the environment for FDI by revising the legislation on FDI in 1996 andseveral ... the totalinvestment inthe economy during 1996-97.5.5 Banks in Vietnam5.5.1 Overview of local banking system structure and regulationVietnam initiated banking reforms in 1988-1989, when the...