... dis-charge can contain a wide range of contaminants and originate from a myriad of sources. Some of the biggest generators of toxic industrial waste include mining, pulp mills, tanneries, sugar ... from mining operations can contain silt and rock particles and sur-factants. Depending on the type of ore deposit being mined, tailings can also contain heavy metals like copper, lead, zinc, ... examples of persistent environmental damage caused by the discharge of toxic mine waste. In Papua New Guinea for ex-ample, companies discharge millions of tons of contaminated mine waste into...
... and Patrinos (2004)), which are frequently interpreted as indicating diminishing marginal returns to schooling. There are some reasons for caution in interpreting the precise magnitude of estimates. ... school in Ghana or Peru would gain the same amount of knowledge in any year of schooling as the average student in a school in Finland or Korea? Still, using the quantitative measure of years of ... This work, following the innovative analyses of human capital by Jacob Mincer (1970, 1974), considers how investing in differing amounts of schooling affects individual earnings. Over the past...
... in exploring on-line banking business as well as in promotingnon-bank financial institutions. Efforts should be made in upgrading financial operations and financial services, and in conducting ... China Statistics Yearbook, China Financial Yearbook and People’s Bank of ChinaStatistics Quarterly bulletin.B. Developmentof direct financing and indirect financing marketsproviding financing ... Impact ofFinancialSector Developments on Economic GrowthA. Rapid growth offinancial assets resulted in a higher financial assets/ GDPratio In the past 20 years, with the deepening of the financial...
... growth from the second quarter of 2000 into jobclasses using beginning size of firm, mean size of firm over the period,and end size of firm. If the beginning size of the firm is used to classifyfirms, ... greatest weight in the net economic impact.Experience suggests that because of these typically large indirect effects The Roleof Small and Large Businesses in Economic Development By Kelly ... EdmistonIncreasingly, economicdevelopment experts are abandoning traditional approaches to economicdevelopment that rely on recruiting large enterprises with tax breaks, financial incentives,...
... ethanol-induced mucosal injury in the upper gastrointestinal tract leading to increase in the permeability of the gut mucosa to endotoxins [43, 44]. These factors are involved in ethanol-induced ... . Interestingly, HMGN3 has been found to be associated with resistance against anticancer drugs including vinblastine, topotecan, paclitaxel and doxorubincin in human hepatocellular carcinoma ... signaling. This finding corroborates the interaction observed between various intracellular signaling pathways and apoptosis induced by 1mM concentration of ethanol in HepG2 cells [19]. Int....
... overall financial system, with the degree of internationalizationmore important indirectly in terms of influencing the quality of the financial systemthan in terms of directly affecting the ... Foreign financial firms may introduce new financial instruments, which may affect the behavior of money 7 In particular, much of access to international financial services will be denominated in ... the infusion of new capital.COST OFFINANCIAL SERVICES IN ASIA An analysis of the impact of internationalization will have to start with a comparison of theexisting costs of and efficiency in...
... shown that interactions betweenKCs and endotoxin comprise the initiating event lead-ing to hepatotoxicity in liver injury, including endotox-emia and ischemia ⁄ reperfusion injury [14]. In ourstudies, ... signaling is independent of Toll-interleukin 1 receptor domain-containing adaptorprotein. Drug Metab Dispos 36, 95–101.10 Ghose R, Guo T & Haque N (2009) Regulation of geneexpression of hepatic ... USA). Binding of all of the anti-bodies was detected using an ECL detection system (iNtRONBiotechnology, Seoul, Korea) in accordance with the manu-facturer’s instructions. The intensity of the...
... renewed interest in examining the indications for BCG vaccination in theUnited States included consideration of the wide range of vaccine efficacies deter-mined by clinical trials and estimated in ... should continue to be included in ongoing testing programs if their skin-testresults are <5 mm induration. Those vaccinees who have positive tuberculin skin-testreactions (≥5 mm of induration) ... preventing pulmonary TB in adoles-cents and adults. These studies also were not useful in determining a) the efficacy of BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy of the vaccine strain administered6...
... REPORT 2013 1 GLOBAL FINANCIALDEVELOPMENT REPORT 2013Rethinking the Role of the State in FinanceWashington, D.C. GLOBAL FINANCIALDEVELOPMENT REPORT 2013 BENCHMARKING FINANCIAL SYSTEMS AROUND ... would involve the following determinations: in terms of producing information about possible invest-ments and allocating capital, the financial (a) developing and analyzing measures of the ... Systems: 2008–10 versus 2000–07 (Financial Markets) 37B1.3.1 The Chinese FinancialSector 38B1.4.1 Romania’s FinancialSector 40 xiv PREFACE GLOBAL FINANCIALDEVELOPMENT REPORT 2013and sound...
... important rolein the financial system of the U.S. economy. They complement the roleof large banks by special-izing in relationship banking and providing credit to smallbusinesses—a sector that ... Gregory F. Udell. 1998. “The Economics of Small BusinessFinance: The Roles of Private Equity and Debt Markets in the Financial Growth Cycle,” Journal of Banking and Finance, August, pp. 657-59.Carter, ... “Small Business Lending and theChanging Structure of the Banking Industry,” Journal of Banking andFinance, August.Sullivan, Richard J. 2000. “How Has the Adoption of Internet Banking AffectedPerformance...
... Washington, D.C. 20009 202-293-5380 www.cepr.net CEPR A Short History ofFinancial Deregulation in the United States 9 taking in the combination of banking and securities dealing. ... crowning achievement of decades and millions of dollars worth of lobbying efforts on behalf of the finance industry. The repeal of Glass-Steagall was a monumental piece of deregulation, but in ... not involve the actual transfer of assets, so a buyer often does not own the underlying asset.22 The financial industry developed a wide range of derivative instruments in the 90s, most of...