... only these kinds of studies are rigorous, as will be discussed in Section 2 of this report.2. Synthesise what these studies tell us about: a. The impact of microfinance on the incomes of the ... brings together all these studies, and assesses the nature ofthe evidence ofthe impact of microfinance on the poor in SSA.Given this paucity, the particular nature of MFIs in SSA, and the policy ... poor b. The impact of microfinance on wider poverty/wealth ofthe poor c. The impact of microfinance on other non-financial outcomes for the poor. The volume and nature ofthe evidence is varied...
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... price of a mousetrap?Customers no longer need to know the price of servers, software and the rest ofthe parts making up the IT service stack. This knowledge is as useful as knowing the price of ... I discuss one functional transformation that has taken placed as a result of cloud services, namely; the impact on the assessment of value. This is a timely discourse as the vast majority of ... mousetrap. Customers, however, must know the price ofthe equivalent services from other cloud providers. This is the crucial performance measure. It is only this performance measure that constitutes...
... εicgbt(24)where X is a vector of controls, B the vector of behaviors, ε isthe error term, i denotes the individual, c the country, t the year ofthe interview, g gender, and b isthe birthcohort.Following ... the case of males the positive effect of education on the number of diseases is driven by the fact thatbetter educated males choose more intensive screening. Turning to the decomposition of the ... males). While the precision ofthe estimates ofthe effects of behaviors declines with respect to the micro data, we cannot reject the null hypoth-esis that these effects are jointly statistically...
... prevented them from trading quite as they wished, the cases on the use of goods discussed in this Article signal the end ofthe slippery slope approach of allowing any expansion ofthe type of measures ... on freedom of movement, namely the criterion of access to the market.”80 This would be “based on the effect ofthe measure on access to the market rather than on the object ofthe rules involved.” ... firm rejection of siren calls in favor ofthe importance ofthe unity of the internal market within the European Union. II. PARADISE REGAINED? The first ofthe cases under discussion to come...
... that establishes a reasonable linkbetween the NSES and the professional development system, then the evidence ofthe influence ofthe NSES on the systemof professional development is variable. ... discussion ofthe quality ofthe empirical evidence base at the end of each section.TABLE 3-1 Matrix ofthe Quality ofthe Evidence and Different Components ofthe Professional Development System Quality ... the model is a promising approach to capturing some ofthe policy and structural influences ofthe NSES on the systems that undergird the delivery of professional development. Likewise, the Eisenhower...
... ofthe facets of Managed Preferences, making your job as a system administrator easier. CHAPTER 2: WhatIsthe Managed Preferences System? 12 The Heart of Managed Preferences The very short ... answer to ‘ what are managed preferences’’ is this: a managed preference is XML that is applied to a user, group, or computer record that alters the default behavior ofthesystem or of an application. ... CHAPTER 2: WhatIsthe Managed Preferences System? 13 What Can You Manage? You may be thinking, ‘‘Great! There’s a managementsystem built into OS X. But what exactly can it manage?’’ The short...
... laboratories. Therefore, we realise that theenvironmental management must be is one ofthe important issues for our operation. Our basic approach is to minimize the harmful impacts on the environment ... (ISO), Genève. ISO, Environmental Management: The ISO 14000 family of International Standards. Kaisu Sammalisto, Torbjoărn Brorson, 2006, Training and communication in the implementation of ... from the management, staffs and all students to participate in environmental management. The third is also very considerable, originated in the social mission ofthe university. University is...
... consider the case of neuroaesthetics. This new branch of empirical aesthetics is often dened as the study ofthe neural processes underlying aesthetic experience. In other words, the job of neuroaestheticians ... psychologist Rolf Reber recently suggested that “art theorists… dene the criterion ofwhatthe [aesthetic] experience is expected to be; scientists… provide a test of whether this criterion is fullled.”2 ... monthly honorarium from the Society. The editor is responsible for the content ofthe journal. The editor is a member ofthe Board of Trust-ees ofthe Society and serves on the Executive Committee...
... there may be several distinctderivations that generate the same parse tree. The probability of a parse tree T is thus the sum of the probabilities of its distinct derivations. Let tid be the ... in the derivation d that producestree T, then the probability of T is given byP(T) = ΣdΠi P(tid)Thus the DOP1 model considers counts of subtrees of a wide range of sizes in computing the ... t is converted into a context-free rule rwhere the lefthand side of r corresponds to the root label of t and the righthand side of rcorresponds to the frontier labels of t. Indices linkthe...
... specie as theyhad, or sent it out ofthe kingdom. The Royal Bank and the Company ofthe Indias were now incorpo- TheHistoryof Banks/9 The conveniency of these notes soon spread them over the kingdom;and ... during the close of 1833 and the beginning of 1834.This event is commonly known as the Panic of 1833 34. The historyof this panic which is at once curious, instructive andentertaining, has hitherto ... theyneed, in the course of their business, the use ofthe floating capital whichthey have invested in the bank, they can borrow ofthe bank to the amount of their stock, and perhaps more. When they...
... Current Status ofthe CCMS Project The project is formally scheduled for only the development ofthe V4 product. The project is in the execution phase of project management lifecycle and the integration ... Three ofthe installations (Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego) host their own instances of both the application and the database. The rest ofthe counties use a shared system hosted at the California ... a variety of avenues. Risk Management Risks are reported, discussed, and managed on a weekly basis. Issue Management Issues are discussed/reported weekly at various project management...