... cost-
effective vehicle for the dissemination of information.
One important source of information for prospective investors comprises the
perceptions of within-country domestic and foreign entrepreneurs ... capital, as in the case of the offshoring
of software development in India (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development,
2004b, pp. 169-170). However, because of its relatively high-skill ... used for
hedging purposes, forwards foreign-exchange contracts have increasingly been used for cur-
rency speculation. For example, in the early 2000s speculators used forwards as the main tool
for...
... crucial
supplement to
mobilization of
domesticresources for
development
ODA target of 0.7 per
cent of developed-
country GNI
established by the
United Nations
in the 1960s
bined net flows surpass those of the ... assessment of the Second United Nations Development Decade, the Assembly noted
that the performance of countries members of the Development Assistance Committee of
the Organization forEconomic ... target of three quarters of 1 per cent of external flows for ODA. Analysis of the external
financial flows required to meet the Second United Nations Development Decade growth
Official development...
... growth of gross
domestic product (GDP) of 5 per cent by 1970 about half of official foreign-exchange receipts
were committed to repayment of debt to official lenders.
1
The decline in official flows ... rescheduling and
calls for debt
forgiveness
In the 1970s, private
lending becomes the
principal source of
external resources
for development
burden. This produced an agreement with IMF for Emergency ... questioned owing to lack of a clear criterion for the choice of dis-
count rates that are based on fluctuating interest rates of Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries....
... (2005).
3
Japan’s holdings of foreign exchange reserves, approaching $1 trillion, are much larger than foreign
holdings of Japanese yen as foreign-exchange reserves, suggesting that the “net” role of Japanese
yen ... allocation of global resources
across countries.
The current-account deficits of the United States have been the rule for most
of the past three decades, with only a brief period of balance (see ... use of the dollar as
the major reserve
currency
Sources:
United States Department of
Commerce, Bureau of Economic
Analysis, and United
States Fed.
a
The ratio of
current-account
balance of GDP.
CAB...
... Conference on Financing for Development
(United Nations, 2002a) places the mobilizationofdomestic financial resourcesfor devel-
opment at the centre of the pursuit ofeconomic growth, poverty ... a
precondition for the
development of
securities markets
Mobilizing domesticresourcesfordevelopment 11
Table I.1.
Contribution of physical capital, human capital and productivity to the
growth of output ... of improved economic growth (and the negative
productivity performance of the 1980s the result of low growth during the debt crisis)
rather than a cause of it.
Mobilizing domesticresources for...
... the impact on developing countries of heavy
dependence on exports of one or a few commodities for the bulk of their foreign-exchange
earnings. Two features of commodity price trends are important ... cent of total farm receipts in Organization forEconomic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) member countries in 2003, having declined from 38 per cent in 1986-1988. While distorting forms of
support ... continued strong performance of the Chinese economy is often seen as a major determinant of
recent developments in international trade conditions and, in particular, the rise of global commodity...
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the field labels that are interesting for the domain
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The Developmentof Lexical Resources
for Information Extraction from Text
Combining WordNet ... is one of the main bot-
tlenecks in the developmentof new ap-
plications in the field of Information Ex-
traction from text. Generic resources
(e.g., lexical databases) are promising for
reducing ... profitably ap-
plied. It also provides a criterion for building lex-
ical resourcesfor specific domains. It can be ap-
plied in a semiautomatic way. It has the advan-
tage of using the information...
... 13
Level of human resourcesfor health 13
Distribution of human resourcesfor health 14
Performance of human resourcesfor health 16
Cross-cutting problems concerning human resourcesfor health 17
PART ... Planning of
Human Resources
for Health
ASSESSING FINANCING, EDUCATION, MANAGEMENT AND POLICY CONTEXT FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING OF HUMAN RESOURCESFOR HEALTH
The importance of the health workforce for ... Programme of the Harvard
School of Public Health, this tool is part of WHO’s efforts to fulfi ll that mandate in recognition of the need for
an updated assessment tool for health workforce development.
The...
... Center for
Economic Development. “The task for the university (and for re
-
gional stakeholders) is to identify and support areas of university
expertise that align with clusters of opportunity for ... an important distinction in the taxonomy of the
economic development efforts of higher education. As the Organi-
zation forEconomic Cooperation and Development pointed out in
2007, universities ... Funding
1. University of Wisconsin – Madison
2. University of California – Los Angeles
3. University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
4. University of California – San Francisco
5. University of Washington –...
... 2002)
Professor Robert Brown, Assistant Principal (Research & Enterprise), UWIC
Professor Noel Lloyd, Registrar, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Roger Carter, Head ofEconomic Development, ... measured series of increases in funding
to enable the Council to place the HEED
fund firmly towards the top of HEIs’
Future Developmentof the Higher Education Economic
Development ... terms ofeconomic
development) .
12 The HEW/HEFCW Third Mission
Working Group (the membership and
terms of reference for which are
presented at Annex B) has recommended
the adoption of the...
... Screening of Feed Resourcesfor Efficiency of
Microbial Protein Synthesis 107
Harinder P.S. Makkar
8 Screening of Plants for Inhibitory Activity Against
Pathogenic Microorganisms from the Gut of Livestock ... (between 100 mL for small numbers
of worms and 1000 mL for large numbers of worms. Take a 1 mL sub sample
(remember to clip the tip off the pipette tip to give an internal diameter of about
4 mm ... a
further with 900 μL of distilled water. For negative control add 100 μLofthe
larval suspension to 1400 μL of distilled water and for the positive ivermectin
controls add 100 μL of the larval suspension...
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INIGHTS and FINDINGS
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14 The Five-Year economicDevelopmenT STraTegY For The DiSTricT oF columbia...
... context of multilingual natural language
processing systems which aim for coverage of
both languages using a roman alphabet and lan-
guages using other alphabets, the developmentof
lexical resources ... problem of country
name transliteration from English into Chinese.
The algorithm does not aim to specify general
grapheme-phoneme conversion for English, but
only for the subset of English ... Instances of 'y' as
a vowel are also replaced by the vowel 'i'.
For each pair of identical consonants in the input string
Reduce the pair to a singular instance of the consonant...