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... anglophobe’, The State and the Novel 15 who feels the British, lacking ‘literature, culture, language and manners’, flatter themselves as the liberators of the French (it is the French and the Americans ... allusions with her political theme The most obvious of these is the dynamic of the thriller, which leaves Grace’s fate unclear until the The State and the Novel 35 final page The other is an extended allusion ... of the media; a sequence of stock-market scandals; the poisoning of the food chain in the pursuit of profit; and the displacement of aesthetic values in the art world The chief villains are the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 10:20

... is, they have essentially assumed the expectations hypothesis Assessing the variability as well as the level of the term premium, and the relationship between the term premium and the macroeconomy, ... orthodoxy Therefore, it also seems likely that the recent financial and economic crisis the Great Panic and Recession of 2008 and 2009—will both rearrange the economic landscape and affect the focus ... solved and responses given Quarters of the term premium and the other variables of the model to economic shocks can be computed Figures and show the impulse response functions of the term premium and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 03:20

... laundering and corruption threaten the credibility and effectiveness of international financial institution (IFI) programs and the integrity of the IFIs themselves Thus, we urge the IMF and the World ... system If there is obscurity about their ownership, banks and other financial institutions may not be able to discover the identity of the beneficiary of the account and will be unable to meet their ... their financial procedures and controls and those of recipients, and to improve ways to strengthen safeguards on the use of their funds as well as governance and anti-corruption measures in their...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20

... concerned, the presence of the state would seem to be redundant and totally unnecessary.”16 Thus, the existence of the parallel realms of the state and the tribe secured the early phase of state formation ... Because there is no one more concerned about what the exit strategy is going to look like than the Taliban on the one hand and the Afghan government on the other They would actually rather like ... ask the Canadians, the Dutch, the Brits, or the Danes, this is about war fighting Others see it rather as a development mission the Swedes and the Germans believe they are doing development Others,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... taxes but also by the quantity and quality of the labor force The indicators of the quantity and quality of the labor force include the change in the proportion of the population in their prime-age ... 0.01% Source: Piketty and Saez Note: The vertical axis is the share of total income The observed relationship between the top tax rates and the income share of the top 0.1% and the top 0.1% are displayed ... for the analysis (i.e., the one year change in the variable is used in the analysis) The other explanatory variables included in the analyses have been used by other researchers The right-hand...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20

... order In the following sections I will argue the need for further theoretical and empirical investigation to better understand the tensions between professions, the state and the public and the dynamics ... change the actual triangle of professions, the state and citizens in complex and uneven ways The second step of analysis focuses, for the main part, on the linkage between professions and the state, ... the ‘cornerstones’ of welfare states and service societies; and subsequently, with the shifts in the arrangements of welfare states (Hall and Soskice, 2001), and new demands on health care, the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 07:20

... compared to 22 700 in 2000 The respective numbers for the MRR scenario and the TSAP are approximately 15 300 and 16 900 (IIASA, 2010) The objectives of the TSAP states that the number of years of ... quality regulations and establishing ambient air quality standards Thematic assessment | Air pollution Box 1.1 The main air pollutants and their effects on human health and the environment Nitrogen ... that meet these conditions show that both the number and the However, annual mean daily maximum O3 levels have risen, for example at monitoring sites within the midlands regions of the United...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... both the remuneration committee and the company management: “if they are advising the remuneration committee and not the management, that is one thing and, if they are advising the management and ... quality of the business, the risk management in the business; the second, it is the quantum of bonus that is paid and making sure that is in line with the relative success of the business and the returns ... (1995) and Sir Ronald Hampel (1998) These resulted in the publication of the Combined Code on Corporate Governance in June 1998 The Combined Code was revised following the review of the role and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 11:20

... Moresby and Canberra, and some further papers subsequently added After a lengthy gestation, this volume presents the results of the project The volume comprises a review of the longer-term and the ... from the World Bank to revise the constitution to pave the way for a reduction in PSC powers and then restructure the public service The request was positively received by the World Bank and in ... mission-debating, but the RMS did not eventuate as the guiding force of the public sector There were few supporters outside of the PMU Many departments did not understand the RMS and saw it as theory devoid...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... the CDM and JI up to 2020 (MtCO2e) 108 Table 14: Investment funds and land-use carbon 113 State and Trends of the Carbon Market 2012 State and Trends of the Carbon Market 2012 SECTION State ... including carbon, with the onset of the Arab Spring, the shutdown of nuclear power stations in Japan and Germany in the wake of the Fukushima disaster,1 and the downgrade of the United States’ AAA credit ... either reach the benchmark or purchase additional allowances 19 20 State and Trends of the Carbon Market 2012 Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom informed the European Commission (EC) of their...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... countries, such as in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, although they generally constituted a much smaller share of the loan pool than in the United States The analysis of the effect of banking ... Netherlands, the Nordic countries, Poland and the United Kingdom), while playing only a minor role in others (e.g Hungary, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland) Across the OECD, there are two ... Increasing the estimated price-elasticity of housing supply from the level in the Netherlands to the average level in the OECD (see Figure 4.1) 1.4 percentage points… Decreasing the rent control from the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20

... Alexandria the access point to the Mediterranean and the trade with northern Italy), the land routes to China through Central Asia, and the sea routes (the Gulf and the Red Sea) to India, Southeast ... sense there might be in the phrase ‘capitalist state The next chapter examines the coterminous development over the past millennium of the modern state, of the state agenda, and the nature of the ... another the Franks, in another the Armenians who are Christians, in another the Jews … and in another, those of Greater India, and in each quarter, separate parts again, as in the quarter of the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 15:20

... contribute to the economy in to the economy in proportion to their roportion to their share of the population Immigrants contribute to the economy in proportion to their share of the population ... the conclusion that economic growth and growth in the immigrant workforce go hand in hand The correlation coefficient relating growth in the immigrant share of the labor force and growth in the ... contribute to the economy in direct relation to their share of the population The economy of metro areas grows in tandem with immigrant share of the labor force And, immigrants work across the occupational...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 05:21

... to hCt Since the peptides were monomers, this finding suggested they were b turn stabilized On the other hand, the similarity of the spectra of 2–4 to the spectrum of suggested that the introduced ... 16–22) and the amide chromophores [44,45] This suggestion was further supported by the observation that the intensity of the 220 band, that most likely corresponds to the phenylalanyl La band [42,45], ... of the results of the CD studies, the receptor binding affinities, and the hypocalcemic potencies in vivo of hCt, sCt, analogues 1–6 and/ or the partial sequence analogues 1a, 1b, 2a, and 3a The...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:21

... Forces in the New Economy 98 What Is the New Economy? 99 Digital Deflation Redefines the New Economy 100 Old Economy Companies in the New Economy 103 The Importance of R&D 106 The Old Economy Will ... was the Internet and the dot-com phenomenon that powered the New Economy of the late 1990s If that was the case, does the bursting of the Dot-com Bubble mean that we’ve seen the end of the New Economy? ... WAS THE NEW ECONOMY OF THE 1990s REAL? After the Y2K spending spike and “nonevent,” the bursting of the Dot-com Bubble, the 1929-like decline in the Nasdaq, and the abrupt TLFeBOOK CHAPTER and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 13:57

... by the Bank of England and the Fed in the United States also helped What is different about the 2008 crisis is not the end of regulation; it is the fact that the interest rate is close to zero and ... Maynard’s father.5 Marshall’s theory of demand and supply explained how much of any given commodity is produced and the price at which it is bought and sold Walras applied the theory of demand and supply ... that began in the fall of 2007, with the fall of Northern Rock in the UK, and that exploded into a worldwide catastrophe, with the failure of Lehman Brothers in the United States in the fall of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 22:02

... scarcer, and the price of the product will be higher to compensate the producers for the risk of violating the law; and the more strict the prohibition and penalties, the scarcer the product and the ... of the hands of the bad entrepreneurs and into the hands of the good ones The fact that good entrepreneurs prosper and add to their capital, and poor ones are driven out, insures an ever smoother ... connected For the greater the taxes and disbursements, the greater the gain of the one and the loss of the other, and vice versa “Ruling” and “ruled” apply also to the forms of government [p 16]...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:44

... Amazon THE LIGHTS IN THE TUNNEL / 14 These people must constantly fight to stay above the threshold of brightness that keeps them in the tunnel Some will fail Even in the United States, there ... place The autoworkers in turn make purchases from other business, small and large, and the light continues to parade through the tunnel We also know that behind the walls of the tunnel there ... While these businesses obviously don’t cater directly to the global mass market, they are nonetheless integrated into the activity that occurs in the tunnel, and they are heavily impacted by the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... relating to the differing economic systems of the North and the South The Northern economy was built on free labor and entrepreneurship and tended to spread opportunity more equally throughout the population ... for so long? The answer lies in the fact that the South was primarily an export economy The large plantations produced raw cotton which was then shipped to Europe and to the Northern states where ... brightest lights in the tunnel finally feel the impact and also begin to lose their light The owners of the businesses in the tunnel are seeing much of their wealth gradually drain away The tunnel has...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20