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These gains are not outcomes of technology per se but of the application of technology to meet business requirements at various steps along the value chain - including access to information which may reduce transaction costs for inputs, extend marketing opportunities, improve market outcomes, and enhance the quality of customer relations (chapter IV). While this experience is evident across sectors, the ways in which individual enterprises relate to ICTs vary according to their needs, the industries and activities in which they are engaged as well as the skills and capabilities of their owners. On the one hand, ICTs offer new ways of building capabilities, through improved access to information, new and more interactive services and innovative approaches to formal and lifelong education.
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I am convinced that there is no alternative to a green transition when it comes to shaping the world to be a place worth living in. There are issues we have to deal with, but first and foremost there are great opportunities to seize. The relevant players in Brandenburg are aware of complex challenges resulting from the present transitional process. They are redoubling their efforts to promote further economic development towards sustainability. This study presents the green growth path of the regional growth core (RGC) Schonefelder Kreuz.
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Rural women are at risk of gender-based violence because of traditional attitudes regarding the subordinate role of women that persist in many rural communities. Girls from rural communities are at special risk of violence and sexual exploitation when they leave the rural community to seek employment in towns. Compulsory sterilization or abortion adversely affects women’s physical and mental health, and infringes the right of women to decide on the number and spacing of their children.
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Problems with the inverters/charge page | 57 controllers accounted for 1099 sets (20.9%) followed by 657 problems with batteries (12.5%) and 363 problems with wind turbines (6.9%). On-site investigations suggested that the bearings of wind turbines were made out of unsuitable copper material. The main causes of the exceptionally high proportion of malfunctioning charge controllers/inverters were poor technical design and the utilisation of unsuitable material during assembly.
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This is a sizeable change in a short period of time. In 2012, Mexico extended compulsory education beyond low'er-secondary education to include upper secondary school, w'ith the goal of making it universal by 2022. Drop-outs remain an important issue, and one that has attracted considerable public attention.
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Monitoring and oversight mechanisms are not systematic and can be strengthened. Gender equality related reforms and good governance collectively reinforce each other. Planning and implementation of gender equality' reforms will only succeed if there are sound planning, monitoring and implementation processes for the public sector at large.
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Today’s mainstream international law scholarship (MILS) is concerned primarily with the issue of its scientificity. This brings us to the larger epistemological questions of linear modernity, narratives of circular progress, role of colonisation and rejection of pre-science. International law is not a self-contained regime as it draws insights from all the other disciplines that were born after the Enlightenment. This article makes a psychological investigation using Nandy’s psycho-political framework under the third world approaches to international law (TWAIL). It also sees, as a case in point, the invasion of modernity via late capitalism into tribal life as modernity’s apology for the “third” disenchantment. International Law’s evolutionary scientificity, therefore, has been examined through psychology and mythology in the post-colonial world.
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Through the ITU Academy, which has more than 10,000 users, and its Centres of Excellence network, it delivers in-person and e-learning courses. The annual Al for Good Global Summit also provides an important opportunity for global and inclusive dialogue on Al. Hie Forum explored policies and actions for advancing STI to achieve the SDGs.
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ABSTRACT Since the development of magnet schools in the 1960s—and more recently, the proliferation of charter schools in the last fifteen years—school choice has been a pervasive element on the education reform landscape. With this growth has come the need for information tools to help site-based educators manage, grow, and improve their schools. This is a radical change from traditional public schools. Typically, district administrators decide where students attend school and, consequently, satisfying the “customer” has not been much of a priority in public education. This article reports on both the process of development and the information gained from a field test of a parent stakeholder satisfaction survey for charter schools and other schools of choice. The survey has been designed to assist schools with recruiting and retaining educational consumers by providing information both for external accountability and internal accountability. Preliminary findings from the first stakeholder group surveyed—p...
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Given that the negative externalities of long-term unemployment are likely to be particularly acute for youth, youth-specific measures should be an important part of an employment strategy. In South Africa, significant institutional capacity aimed at assisting work seekers in finding employment is already in place, and this provides a good starting point for additional efforts. There are many public Labour Centres providing services related to the Unemployment Insurance Fund, the Compensation Fund, inspection and enforcement services and employment skills development services.
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However, a significant additional barrier to the increased penetration of renewable energy arises from the “intermittent” nature of the electricity produced. The extent to which the grid as a whole can accommodate such variations is a function of its capacity to adjust to supply and demand shocks (power system flexibility), and as the penetration of intermittent renewable sources increases the need for such capacity rises as well. Moreover, since those renewables which are the most promising sources of future increases in capacity (e.g. offshore wind, tidal/stream, wave energy and solar photovoltaics) are intermittent in nature, the need to be able to adjust output levels and sources on short notice is likely to rise (see Infield and Watson, 2007, Sinden, 2007).
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An EIA must include documentation on the facility's impact on the environment, natural resources or the local community. In addition, the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate will be involved if extraction of fresh water is planned. If any of the above sector authorities decline the application, the applicant has the right to appeal the decision to the relevant sector authority via the country council authority. This is important for minimising the occurrence of infectious diseases, pollution and discharges and for maximising growth, health and welfare of farmed fish.
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See also chapter 3 in this publication. In the early 2000s, the Commission on Human Rights mandated the drafting of guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights, in an attempt to develop a coherent theoretical framework on the subject. Draft guidelines were submitted to the Human Rights Council at its second session in 2006.
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The authors thank the officials of the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, staff at employment and welfare offices, training institutions and research institutes and trade union and employer representatives for valuable information, discussion and advice, as well as the interpreters for their support during the mission. Yohei Takashima accessed further valuable information in Japanese in summer 2009. The review benefitted from extensive comments on a preliminary draft by the Japanese authorities in September 2010.
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One of the main goals of these strategies has been to increase the growth and productivity of the business community - and to make it easier and cheaper to establish digital infrastructure. Such regional examples can be found throughout the Nordic Region. For instance, Region Norrbotten in northern Sweden initiated a project called "Platform Lumiora" in cooperation with the municipalities of Norrbotten, Norrbotten County Council and IT Norrbotten, with the aim of speeding up the expansion of high-speed Internet in the region. Also, Region Holland, located on Sweden's west coast, has developed a strategy for the cross-border expansion of high-speed broadband to ensure that 100% of households in rural areas will be offered a fibre connection.
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Previous experience of refuge crisis shows that migrants can, eventually become valuable contributors to the economic and social development of countries. Other German cities like Munich, Diisseldorf, Stuttgart and Freiburg have established ‘welcome departments' within their city halls to prepare for the arrival of refugees. Over the past two decades, urban population growth and the effects of globalization have enhanced the complexities and manifestation of crime and violence in cities. One study showed that 60 to 70 per cent of urban residents have been victims of crime in those developing or transitional countries where rapid urban population growth is at its highest.
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One readily available product is the RETScreen Clean Energy Project Analysis Software developed by the Government of Canada. This decision support tool, available free-of-charge, can be used worldwide to evaluate energy production and savings, costs, emission reductions, financial viability and risk for various types of renewable-energy and energy-efficient technologies. A CPR is a detailed regional or national end use study that estimates the potential contribution of conservation to meeting future energy requirements (energy and capacity).
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The Youth Labour Market Problem: Its Nature, Causes and Consequences, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries”, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, No. A Review of OECD Countries’ Experiences with Active Labour Market Programmes”, Swedish Economic Policy Review, Vol.
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E.M. Schneiderman, D. Lenihan, P. Samuelsson and D. Taylor (2009), “Impacts of climate change on phosphorus loading from a grassland catchment: Implications for future management”, Water Research, Vol. Redesigning Animal Agriculture, CAB International, United Kingdom. Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol.38, pp. Forest Tends, Washington, D.C., United States.
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Such systems must ensure privacy and data security. Unified and nationally consistent safety standards, linked to accreditation of providers, facilities and organisations, are needed across the primary and ambulatory care sector. These should align with broader health system governance and management.
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The current explosion in criminalization and incarceration is unprecedented in size, scope, and negative consequences—both direct and collateral—for communities of color. These macro systems exist in relationality to the micro dynamics of living in the midst of police scrutiny, economic marginalization, and political disenfranchisement. Critical race theory is a guide for pedagogy and praxis in exploring the racist and classist foundations of current micro and macro injustices. Using Supreme Court opinions and the voices of political prisoner/prisoners of conscience as evidence of the dominant text and the dissent, this article explores the following issues: the roots of U.S. law, criminal justice, and mass imprisonment in classism and racism, the political economy of the criminal justice system and the prison industrial complex, the intersectionality of injustices rooted in micro and macro systems, and the role of prisoners of conscience/ political prisoners in inspiring resistance to micro and macro injustice.
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The fifth and final section concludes. The firstfocusesoninequalityinterms of human capital, particularly education, while the second focuses on employment and labour income. These researchers' interpretation of their findings indicates that, when men and women have the same endowments and an equal distribution of skills and abilities, the existence of inequality will lead to the exclusion of potentially highly skilled women and to the inclusion of less skilled men.
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A new treaty based on the United Nations Model Double Taxation Convention between Developed and Developing Countries: 2011 Update11 would support the interests of developing countries better than the one based on the current OECD model, since the former gives more taxing rights to developing countries. In these cases, the multilateral financial institutions and bilateral donors w'ould need to help by providing additional resources for social spending, as well as the appropriate technical and financial support for strengthening those capacities. For many developing countries, increasing the progressive incidence of the public budget is probably best achieved through well-targeted redistributive spending, but also through growth-enhancing public investment.
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Many of the indicators that Norway is collecting at present are, though useful, primarily process indicators, or measures of service capacity, for example registration of diagnoses or staffing numbers. With other existing indicators, for example inpatient suicides, readmission rates or waiting times for access to services, Norway is making steps towards being able to assess quality of mental health care. However, the fact that psychiatric patients are often very vulnerable, and in a large proportion of instances held involuntarily, makes measuring performance and quality of care vital and more complex (Pincus et al.,
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Evidence further shows that most Vietnamese consider tax evasion unjustifiable, but despite good tax morale, underreporting of wages to evade social security contributions is widespread. Only 46% of domestic private firms are registered with the social security system, and these report only 32% of the wages actually paid. Profound structural changes in Viet Nam have impacted not only the economy, but also households in terms of income and social mobility.
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ABSTRACT Wage restraint has been the paradigm in the much discussed Dutch political economy – just as labor market liberalization is the paradigm in the internationally dominant politico-economic policy discourse. The Dutch employment ‘miracle’ has been associated with the protracted wage restraint capital and labor agreed upon in 1982 to improve competitiveness, profits and investment. Competitiveness and investment have not improved since then, however. Nonetheless, the paradigm is remarkably stable. It is sustained by a broad epistemic community of politicians, academics, journalists, civil servants and at its heart the Central Planning Bureau (CPB), a government advisory agency that since the 1950s has been the intellectual center of Dutch socio-economic policy making. Partially based on interviews we analyze the paradigmatic character of the wage restraint formula, the epistemic community sustaining it and the pivotal position of the CPB within this community. Looking for the basis of its stability w...
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However, recognizing the great importance of remittances in national development, the LDCs should design appropriate measures to counteract negative impacts on migrant workers. These countries can adopt aggressive labour export strategies to identify areas with a high demand for labour, and negotiate bilateral labour migration agreements with those countries. Governments can also create expatriate livelihood support funds to help returning migrants find new jobs.
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Governments need to target their scarce resources at mobilising large-scale private sector investment and at activities unlikely to attract sufficient private funding. But banks are not the only source of financing -the low-carbon transition can mobilise new sources of capital and new financial instruments. The total assets held by financial institutions - banks, institutional investors, central banks and public financial institutions -have been steadily increasing over the past ten years, amounting to around USD 305 trillion (FSB, 2013, see Figure 2.2).
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For LDCs, the elimination was to take place within seven years of the date of entry into force of the Agreement. At the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the WTO, held in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (hereinafter referred to as Hong Kong, China), from 13 to 18 December 2005, members agreed to grant LDCs an additional seven years to maintain existing measures that deviate from their obligations under TRIM, with the possibility of additional extensions. It also seeks to prevent procedures applied for granting import licenses per se from having restrictive or distorting effects on imports. The Agreement consists of, among other things, provisions for automatic and non-automatic import licensing.
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The Egyptian local team provided a background report (SPU-MoHE, 2012) following which an OECD team made a visit to Egypt, where the team discussed issues arising with a range of policy makers, stakeholders and staff and students in training institutions. Robust domestic demand, not least fast-rising investment, accounted for a part of the increase in GDP growth (OECD, 2010a:36). Although investment demand fell sharply in 2008-09, private consumption remained buoyant, especially in comparison with most OECD member countries. Regionally, Egypt also outperformed most of its peers, continuing to attract foreign investment and avoiding a steep slowdown (OECD, 2010a:36).
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There is a need for better targeted measures, best achieved within the river basin management framework required by the WFD. Improvements in targeting could also be associated with the delineation of vulnerable areas under the Nitrates Directive, as appropriate. Source: IFA, OECD, Environment Directorate. Agriculture has contributed to the decline of the pollution-sensitive pearl mussel, a protected species of which Ireland hosts internationally important populations (Box 3.2).
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They offer incubation space for new' enterprises in their facilities, as well as ideally, a package of business support services, such as coaching, advice, networking with other entrepreneurs and linkages with possible investors. Business incubators are a form of BDS that has become increasingly popular over the last few decades based on their demonstrated ability to positively influence entrepreneurial success (Lewis et al., Evidence suggests that incubated firms tend to have higher survival rates than the national average and may grow faster than nonincubated firms (Wilber and Dixon, 2003) due to the hands-on support they receive, and the clustering and networking provided by their advisors (Al-Mubaraki and Busier, 2012).
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Digital forensics and investigations play an increasingly important role in a broad range of scenarios, such as those in pandemics (e.g. COVID-19 contact tracing), criminal cases, civil litigations, and national security cases. In this book, the editors documented their education and research activities with students enrolled in the Master of Science (MSc) in Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Investigation program at University College Dublin, Ireland, who are also from the law enforcement and government community in Canada, Ireland, Germany, The Netherlands, and United Kingdom. Collaboratively, the authors focused on topics ranging from Internet of Things (IoT) malware analysis, IoT testbed setup, malware analysis (e.g. ransomware), CCTV forensics, financial investigations (e.g. PayPal accounts and Bitcoins), cloud forensics, and network and ToR forensics.
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To facilitate access to health care, Brazil should train more doctors and nurses, especially in family medicine, and strengthen incentives for them to move into underserved areas. Explicit targets for expanding capacity to reduce waiting times could also help to ease difficulties in access. Improving the governance of the system requires strengthening the role of regional networks and a better co-ordination of health care services, especially beyond primary care.
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Contaminated earth from a rail-twinning project on the Luxembourg-Petange line produced a recent jump in exports. The Environment Administration works with the Customs and Excise Administration to detect illegal waste transfers. In 2008, written warnings were issued to 24 firms found to be non-compliant during these inspections. Regulation EC/1907/2006, in force since 2007, makes industry responsible for managing the risks that chemicals may pose for health and the environment.
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Coastal regions, particularly Rakhine State and Ayeyarwady Delta Region, are at high risk for cyclones, storm surges and tsunamis. Much of the country, especially in the Central Dry Zone, is exposed to flooding and landslides during the rainy season, in addition to drought and fire during the dry season. The challenges call for more comprehensive approaches based on an integrated analysis of hazards, risks linked with land use, livelihoods planning and natural resource management. As such, new ways of working were seen as critical to building community resilience and reducing risk and vulnerability related to natural hazards and climate change.
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Raising the overall tax level would dampen incentives to work, save and invest and is therefore detrimental to growth. However, the final impact would depend on the use of tax revenues. Public investment (e.g. fostering human capital) could spur the growth potential and outweigh the detrimental effects of higher taxation. Likewise, for transfers, the impact on growth and income distribution depends on their financing.
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Under the second definition, presented for the purposes of a sensitivity analysis, market income does not include contributory public pensions, which are treated as transfers and as such have redistributive impacts. This second definition is also the approach taken in the OECD studies. Accordingly, in order to compare the redistributive capacity of the region with that of the developed countries, the results yielded using the second definition (in which contributory public pensions are treated as transfers) are given below.
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