Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene
This book examines the relationship between man and nature through different cultural approaches to encourage new environmental legislation as a means of fostering acceptance at a local level.
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
Volume 39B includes a symposium marking the centenary of Carl Menger's death in 1921. The symposium, edited by Reinhard Schumacher and Scott Scheall, features contributions from Sandra J. Peart, G羹nther Chaloupek, Erwin Dekker, and Sandye Gloria. The Volume also features general-research essays from Marina Uzunova and Alexander Linsbichler.
Carec Road Safety Engineering Manual 4
This manual focuses on the provision of safer pedestrian facilities in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) countries, particularly on the physical road infrastructure. It also outlines proven facilities that have been shown to assist pedestrians including those in the high-risk groups. Aimed at engineers, project managers, planners, traffic police, and other decision-makers, the manual shows how wise investment in pedestrian facilities can save lives, prevent injuries, and return major economic benefits to CAREC countries.
The causes of the IMF crisis in South Korea. What Experts Say
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: A, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, course: Advanced Macroeconomics, language: English, abstract: What had happened to Korea, and why did the nation have to face the IMF crisis in 1997 all of a sudden? To see what the causes for the crisis were, analyses from six essays of scholars and experts in the field of economics will be introduced and compared. While they have similar and different views for the causes at the same time, their views can be grouped into two categories: internal factors and external factors. When the Korean currency crisis broke out, the IMF and many scholars focused the whole crisis on Korea's internal problems. However, there are many other scholars who attribute the causes not only to internal but also to external problems. The experts who see the causes as internal problems think the crisis originated from internal factors of Korea such as policy mistakes, highly leveraged corporate sectors, and banking system. The external factors refer to the external shocks such as contagion effect from South-east financial crisis and appreciation of Japanese yen. Although all the causes for the crisis are closely related with each other, addressing the causes separately would give people better understanding of the context. On Nov. 1997, Korea faced the IMF crisis, or also known as the financial crisis, which caused severe damage to the Korean economy. The new OECD member was reduced from being the world's eleventh largest economy to an economy surviving on overnight loans from the international money markets. The won, the Korean currency, fell by more than 50 percent against the US dollar. Also, KOSPI (the Korea Composite Stock Price Index) fell by thirty percent, and the short-term interest rate shot up to forty percent per year. Consequently, on Dec. 1997, Korea called the IMF for rescue, owing $58.3 billion of financial aid. As shown in table 1 and 2 in the
The Economy of Waste
This booklet is to elaborate the difference between a healthy economy, where people do business in efficient and ethical ways verses an economy where it wastes money, time and human resources in order to create larger and larger business and income for few billionaires meanwhile, majority of people live in poverty.
The Economy of Waste
This booklet is to elaborate the difference between a healthy economy, where people do business in efficient and ethical ways verses an economy where it wastes money, time and human resources in order to create larger and larger business and income for few billionaires meanwhile, majority of people live in poverty.
Office of the Special Project Facilitator繭s Lessons Learned
This publication discusses issues and resolutions relating to an integrated road investment project in Sri Lanka as one of the Office of the Special Project Facilitator?s (OSPF) Lessons Learned series of case studies on ADB?s complaint management experience. It presents the issues, challenges, and solutions that OSPF identified from its experience responding to the concerns of affected households and people in the course of the project?s implementation. The OSPF case study series aims to support ADB operations departments, government and private sector partners, and other stakeholders by documenting grievance redress management experiences and identifying important lessons and good practices on problem-solving that are useful for future projects.
Green Bonds. Effectiveness of Green Labelling and Certification
Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: A (Distinction), University of Edinburgh, course: MSc Carbon Finance - An Empirical analysis of the performance of the certificates and green labelling for green bonds, language: English, abstract: This paper conducts the first comparative analysis of the financial performance of the certification and the green labelling for green bonds. Based on a unique dataset of 22 certified, 16 self-labelled and 7 unlabelled green bonds, the study contrasts the financial performance of the three green bond classes over the period 01/06/2016 to 13/07/2017. Over the full sample period, the labelled green bonds have significantly lower volatility than the unlabelled one, while there is no significant performance differences between the certified and self-labelled green bonds. In terms of the relationship between the labelling and the price/yield changes, no significant evidence is detected throughout the given period. Consequently, this paper's discovery concludes that the green labelling offers stakeholders the opportunity to reduce the volatility whereas the other effects on the price or yields are inconclusive.
Thematische Karten, Atlanten, Kartenverwandte Darstellungen, Kartentechnik, Automation, Kartenauswertung, Kartengeschichte
Keine ausf羹hrliche Beschreibung f羹r "Thematische Karten, Atlanten, kartenverwandte Darstellungen, Kartentechnik, Automation, Kartenauswertung, Kartengeschichte" verf羹gbar.
Off-Campus Study, Study Abroad, and Study Away in Economics
Chapter 1. Exploring Your Own Local Economy Using Adam Smith.- Chapter 2. Extra-Curricular Undergraduate Student Field Trips.- Chapter 3. Economic Journeys in Alaska.- Chapter 4. Off-Campus Colloquia as Immersive Study and Active Learning: Capitaf, Milton and Rose Friedman's Home.- Chapter 5. Faculty professional development through international experiences..- Chapter 6. Educating in Theory and in Practice: The Fund for American Studies.- Chapter 7. International internships: Their value and a guide to setting them up.- Chapter 8. Teaching the Economics of Poverty and Discrimination as a Study Abroad in South Africa.- Chapter 9. Teaching Economics of Poverty as a Global Classroom Course in Ghana.- Chapter 10. Business in Emerging Markets: The Case of Morocco.- Chapter 11. The Chinese menu: How to discover the key ingredients of market systems through a study abroad program.- Chapter 12. Sports, Culture, and the Economy: Baseball in the Dominican Republic.- Chapter 13. Short Term Study Abroad - Renewable Energy in Germany and Switzerland.- Chapter 14. Study Abroad in Germany: Sie Mussen Arbeiten ], but It Is Not that Hard.- Chapter 15. Schumpeter in Vienna: A Study Abroad Course.- Chapter 16. Engaging Economics: 'The Innocents Abroad' in Rome and Italy.- Chapter 17. Developing Study Abroad Opportunities in Economics and Finance: Guidance from a Faculty-Led Program in Madrid, Spain.- Chapter 18. Exploring how place can enhance learning in short course study abroads.- Chapter 19. A Study Abroad Experience in Ireland: The Celtic Tiger Before and After the Global Financial Crisis.- Chapter 20. Multidisciplinary Agricultural Study Abroad in Uruguay.- Chapter 21. The World as a Living Economics Classroom: Lessons from 'Economies in Transition', a Faculty-Led Study Abroad Course in Central and Eastern Europe.- Chapter 22. Using Study Abroad to Teach the Fundamentals of a Market Economy in Comparative Settings.- Chapter 23. Study Abroad in the Transitional Economies.
Remembering and Learning from Financial Crises
The chapters in this book reflect on people's relationships with past financial crises - from public opinion to business leaders and policy makers. In connection with financial crises, Remembering and Learning from Financial Crises addresses three fundamental questions: first, are financial crises remembered, and if so how? Second, have lessons been drawn from past financial crises? And third, have past experiences been used in order to make practical decisions when confronted with a new crisis? These questions are of course related, yet they have been approached from different historical perspectives, using methodologies borrowed from different academic disciplines. One of the objectives of this book is to explore how these approaches can complement each other in order to better understand the relationships between remembering and learning from financial crises and how the past is used by financial institutions. It thus recognises financial crisis as a recurring phenomenon and addresses the impact that this has in a range of public and policy contexts.
Einf羹hrung in Die Phonetik
Keine ausf羹hrliche Beschreibung f羹r "Einf羹hrung in die Phonetik" verf羹gbar.
Covid-19 and Transport in Asia and the Pacific
This guidance note documents how the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has affected the transport sector in developing Asia and the Pacific region, from personal mobility and public transport to the aviation industry, among other facets. The unprecedented impact of the pandemic has caused enormous changes to the transport landscape in the region. The guidance note also shares Insights on how the transport sector can help deliver greener and more resilient infrastructure as countries around the world plan for recovery and rejuvenation in the post-pandemic future. It is one of a series produced by the Asian Development Bank for key sectors and thematic areas.
Mapping the Spatial Distribution of Poverty Using Satellite Imagery in the Philippines
This report presents the results of a feasibility study on generating high-quality poverty statistics in the Philippines using satellite imagery, geospatial data, and powerful machine-learning algorithms. The ?leave no one behind? principle of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires appropriate indicators for different segments of a country?s population. Conducted by ADB in collaboration with the Philippine Statistics Authority and the World Data Lab, the study aimed to enhance the granularity, cost-effectiveness, and compilation of high-quality poverty statistics in the Philippines.
Averting a Great Divergence
The most significant debate in global economic history over the past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence, the economic gap between different parts of the world. Thus far, this debate has focused on China, India and north-western Europe, particularly Great Britain. This book shifts the focus to ask how Japan became the only non-western county that managed, at least partially, to modernize its economy and start to industrialize in the 19th century. Using a range of empirical data, Peer Vries analyses the role of the state in Japan's economic growth from the Meiji Restoration to World War II, and asks whether Japan's economic success can be attributed to the rise of state power. Asserting that the state's involvement was fundamental in Japan's economic 'catching up', he demonstrates how this was built on legacies from the previous Tokugawa period. In this book, Vries deepens our understanding of the Great Divergence in global history by re-examining how Japan developed and modernized against the odds.
Mechanical Analysis of China’s Macro Economic Structure
This volume is a major breakthrough in helping decipher and piece together the major interactive and flow investment dynamics within the complex Chinese economic structure, in an effort to guide global investors to formulate their own macro assessment and investment strategy in or related to China. Different from US that had a relatively short and ascending economic past, China endured a much longer history with quite a few volatile economic cycles. With that lesson of history in the background as the country's guiding management principle, China's economic policy and management superstructure, combined with regional government, business, consumer and investment community, form together a huge and complex operating environment of investment flow dynamics within which macro investment opportunities can be identified and strategies can be formulated by interested global and domestic investors..
Consumption Corridors
This book explores how to enhance peoples' chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in the social sciences and humanities, environmental and sustainability studies, but also community activists and the general public.
Politics and Poverty
Originally published in 1992. At its foundation FAO was conceived as an organization that would bring together health and agriculture. It would manage the world's food output to greater advantage and improve the well-being of its people. Almost a half-century on, FAO faced mounting criticism from its major funding nations, professionals within the field, and developing countries. The efficacy of its constitution, bureaucracy and aid, and even its fidelity to original ideals are questioned. This book presents an informed, if irreverent, insider's view. The first part of the book sets out the structure and activities of FAO. It gives a human dimension, describing the personalities that have influenced decisions and performance, the motivations of its staff, its location in Rome. The second part appraises FAO'S success in achieving its ultimate objective the alleviation of poverty. Throughout, the concern is both for a more visionary organization to help develop a sustainable income base for the rural poor in the developing world.
Between Depression and Disarmament
This business history analyzes the connections between private business, disarmament, and re-armament as they affected arms procurement and military technology transfers in Eastern Europe from 1919 to 1939. Rather than focusing on the negotiations or the political problems involved with the Disarmament Conferences, this study concerns itself with the business effects of the disarmament discussions. Accordingly, Schneider-Creusot, Skoda, Vickers, and their respective business activities in Eastern European markets serve as the chief subjects for this book, and the core primary sources relied upon include their unpublished corporate archival documents. Shifting the scope of analysis to consider the business dimension allows for a fresh appraisal of the linkages between the arms trade, disarmament, and re-armament. The business approach also explodes the myth of the 'merchants of death' from the inside. It concludes by tracing the armaments business between 1939 and 1941 as it transitioned from peacetime to war.
The Effect Evaluation of Haze Governance Policies in Hebei Province-Based on I-O Model
This book provides a dynamic simulation model based on input-output table. The model includes an objective function, i.e. maximizing economic and social development and three sub-models, including economic growth model, pollutant emission model and energy balance model. The data of 2012 is selected as the base period data. The haze control policy of Hebei Province is written into the model as an exogenous variable. Reducing the total PM2.5 emissions is an environmental constraint, which is used to eliminate the impact of natural factors on environmental quality. Lingo software is used to simulate this model. By comparing the socio-economic impacts in different scenarios, this book found the most effective policy combination of haze governance. Comprehensive haze governance policy recommendations provide experience for other regions of China and other developing countries. In this book, the dynamic simulation model of haze governance also provides a reference to other environmental policy simulations.This book is divided into five parts. The first part is an introduction. This paper mainly introduces the research background, research status at home and abroad, the purpose and significance of the study, the content and methods of the study, the key scientific problems to be solved and the expected results. In the second part, the current situation and existing problems of economic, social, energy and environment development in the study area are analyzed in detail. In the third part, a comprehensive evaluation model of dynamic optimization of haze control policy is constructed. The fourth part carries on the simulation experiment, and carries on the analysis to the experimental result. The fifth part puts forward the policy suggestions to realize the economic, social, energy and environmental development of Hebei Province.In this book, we have some understandings about haze governance. From the perspective of policy effect, the policy effects of subsidy for soil and water conservation, subsidy for development and utilization of clean energy, subsidy for new energy vehicles, motor vehicle restriction and subsidy for introduction of PM2.5 treatment technology are decreasing. Comprehensive policy can better achieve the goal of sustainable development of economy, energy and environment than single policy, and the effect of "source governance" policy is better than that of "end governance" policy.
World Population and World Food Supplies
Originally published in 1954. This great work surveys the distribution of the world's population and the food production of all countries chosen as important by reason of either their demands on the world food market or their contributions to it.
Financial Conditions and Macroeconomic Performance
This collection of papers on financial instability and its impact on macroeconomic performance honours Hyman P. Minsky and his life's work. Based on a conference at Washington University, it includes among the authors Benjamin M. Friedman, Charles P. Kindleberger, Jan Kregel and Steven Fazzari.
Europa frente a EE.UU. y China. Prevenir el declive en la era de la inteligencia artificial
M?S DE 3.000 COPIAS VENDIDAS Pr籀logos de Jos矇 Carlos D穩az y Vinton Cerf Encontrar a autores con un background acad矇mico y fuertemente emprendedor como el de Andr矇s Pedre簽o y Luis Moreno no es f獺cil. Por esta extra簽eza este libro supone un verdadero soplo de aire fresco: un nuevo enfoque de las consecuencias del retraso digital de Europa, con un tono cr穩tico de quien sufre la ausencia del impulso a las empresas digitales, y la exhaustividad impuesta por la investigaci籀n acad矇mica. Un libro de estas caracter穩sticas era muy necesario. La Uni籀n Europea es, en la actualidad, v穩ctima de sus pol穩ticas y dudas por abandonar su zona de confort y transformar su tradicional sistema productivo. Y la crisis del coronavirus ha vuelto a reflejar este atraso europeo, as穩 como la necesidad de profundos an獺lisis de sus consecuencias y pol穩ticas para impulsar el desarrollo econ籀mico. Asia, ya consolidada como l穩der de la econom穩a digital, ha salido airosa de esta nueva crisis mundial, y leyendo este libro comprender獺n el porqu矇. Pero si algo tiene de especial esta obra es que sus autores se han atrevido a dibujar m獺s all獺 de la cr穩tica una hoja de ruta a modo de recomendaciones para cerrar la brecha digital. De forma s籀lida exponen por qu矇 la formaci籀n de talento, la creaci籀n de ecosistemas digitales, una regulaci籀n que pondere sus efectos sobre el desarrollo de las tecnolog穩as de vanguardia y una Administraci籀n inteligente son temas que deber穩an convertirse en "asunto de Estado" para una Uni籀n Europea que se aproxima de forma acelerada a su declive econ籀mico, y si nada lo evita, har獺 insostenible el modelo de econom穩a social de mercado que nos caracteriza, con una p矇rdida del bienestar para millones de europeos. Europa, si no potencia estrategias para aprovechar las ventajas de las tecnolog穩as de vanguardia, quedar獺 relegada a un papel secundario en un mercado que generar獺 decenas de miles de millones de euros. El cambio al que nos enfrentamos generar獺 miedos que habr獺 que gestionar, y potenciales damnificados que deber獺n ser protegidos y acompa簽ados por pol穩ticas sociales para minimizar las externalidades negativas de la transformaci籀n tecnol籀gica. Por todo ello, despu矇s de leer este libro el lector tendr獺 m獺s claro que nunca que estamos en ese estado que en la Grecia cl獺sica llamaban Kair籀s, el momento oportuno para hacer algo importante. Y aqu穩 encontrar獺n las herramientas necesarias para ello.Estructura del libro Introducci籀n: - Conceptos b獺sicos- La disrupci籀n en la econom穩aPARTE I: DIAGN?STICOCap穩tulo 1: 聶Por qu矇 Europa no es una potencia en la econom穩a digital?Cap穩tulo 2: Sectores tradicionales y la tormenta perfecta del sur de EuropaCap穩tulo 3: I+D europeo: 聶Insuficiencia o ineficiencia?Cap穩tulo 4: La regulaci籀n como cultura PARTE II: POL?TICAS Y PROPUESTAS DE ACTUACI?NCap穩tulo 5: Una fuerte apuesta por la IA en EuropaCap穩tulo 6: Perspectivas de creaci籀n y destrucci籀n de empleoCap穩tulo 7: La revoluci籀n de la educaci籀n y el talento en el marco de las tecnolog穩as disruptivasCap穩tulo 8: Emprendimiento y problemas de escalabilidad de las startupsCap穩tulo 9: Ecosistemas digitales. En b繳squeda del modelo europeoCap穩tulo 10: Las Administraciones P繳blicas en la era digital PARTE III: DIOSES INSATISFECHOS Y UNA NUEVA TEOR?A ECON?MICACap穩tulo 11: Europa en la encrucijada. Metiendo en vereda a unos dioses insatisfechos e irresponsablesCap穩tulo 12: Planteando nuevas aproximaciones te籀ricas para la econom穩a digital --------------------------Andres Pedre簽o Mu簽oz es ex-rector de la Universidad de Alicante, catedr獺tico de econom穩a aplicada y emprendedor.Luis Moreno Izquierdo es director del Grupo de investigaci籀n en econom穩a de la innovaci籀n y la
The Rise and Fall of Society
This volume is an essay on the rise and fall of societies in general. Includes economics, war, social services, competition, trade, reform, corruption and much more.It describes in detail the difference between the "State" and "Society" and highlights issues current to this day, such as high tax, high spend and loss of freedom. The book illustrates the formation of a society, its government, and the eventual dismantling of society by governing political bodies.Rothbard wrote of this book: "Frank's final flowering was his last ideological testament, the brilliantly written The Rise and Fall of Society..."
Ist das Bruttoinlandprodukt ein geeigneter Wohlstandsindikator f羹r eine Volkswirtschaft?
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich VWL - Sonstiges, Hochschule f羹r Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das grundlegende Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, die Frage zu beantworten, ob das BIP als Wohlstandsindikator gen羹gt oder ob es einen geeigneteren Indikator f羹r Wohlstand gibt. In diesem Praxistransferbericht wird zuallererst auf das BIP eingegangen. Es wird definiert, die Berechnungsarten werden vorgestellt und einige interessante Daten und Fakten werden beschrieben. In Anschluss folgt die Kritik am BIP. Infolgedessen werden zwei der unz瓣hligen Wohlstandsindikatoren vorgestellt. Zum einen der Human Development Index (HDI) und zum anderen der Happy Planet Index (HPI). Der Schlussteil dieser Arbeit besteht aus einem Fazit, bei dem auf die These eingegangen wird.
Increasing Access to Clean Cooking in the Philippines
This publication analyzes the use of clean and efficient cooking technologies in the Philippines and identifies opportunities and challenges to fast-track their uptake. In Asia and the Pacific, 1.8 billion people still rely on traditional cooking methods using fires and solid fuels. The wider uptake of cleaner cooking solutions is vital for achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 7 objective of universal access to modern, affordable, reliable, and sustainable modern energy. It is also important for the environment and human health. Based on a study of household cooking practices in the Philippines, this publication provides insights and recommendations to encourage clean cooking in the country. The findings identify policy, information, technology, and financing gaps that must be addressed to boost the development and market expansion of clean cooking technologies.
Climate Change, Coming Soon to a Court Near You
Report 1 guides readers through some of the basics about climate change as a defining challenge of our time. It further explains how judges from Asia and the Pacific contribute to climate governance and litigation.Without urgent climate action, humanity faces a world that cannot sustain civilization as we know it. People around the globe are demanding action, some with climate litigation. This report is the first in a four-part series that ADB produced in recognition of the inevitability of increased litigation in the era of climate change.
COVID-19 and Public-Private Partnerships in Asia and the Pacific
This guidance note examines the impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on public?private partnership (PPP) projects in Asia and the Pacific and identifies how these can be mitigated. COVID-19 is significantly affecting the development and life cycle stages of PPP projects in the region. This has led to disruptions in trade, production, and supply chains as well as sharp declines in consumption and investment. The guidance note looks at these impacts as well as the implications for contractual arrangements. It also presents governance practices that will help mitigate the risks and outlines important considerations for governments in regard to managing PPP projects for a post-pandemic recovery.
The Dynamics of Poverty
This book examines Gunnar Myrdal's analysis of poverty in relation to Sweden, the United States, South Asia, and the international economy. The chapters investigate Mrydal's methodological development and his focus on the principle of circular and cummulative causation, dynamic economic analysis, institutional frameworks, value premises, and social engineering. The challenge of world poverty, the international dimension of poverty, and the legacy of The American Dilemma and Asian Drama are also discussed. This book aims to explore the development of Myrdal's analysis of poverty during his life. It will be relevant to students and academics interested in the history of economic thought, development economics, the political economy, and labor economics.
Pakistan
This country diagnostic examines constraints to Pakistan achieving strong, sustained, and inclusive growth and proposes key sector reforms to boost the country's economic competitiveness.A number of factors are holding back Pakistan from achieving strong, sustained, and inclusive growth. The report recommends reforms and investments to diversify exports, strengthen the business environment, enhance access to and the quality of education and health services, and improve urban planning processes. The report is based on a study jointly conducted by the Asian Development Bank and Islamic Development Bank.
Inwieweit beeinflussen ausgew瓣hlte Einflussfaktoren die Suizidrate tats瓣chlich?
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich VWL - Statistik und Methoden, Note: 1,4, Hochschule Heilbronn Technik Wirtschaft Informatik (HUGS), Veranstaltung: Research Methods, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Forschungsarbeit fokussiert die Fragestellung, inwieweit die verschiedenen Einflussfaktoren die Suizidrate tats瓣chlich beeinflussen. Der Suizid z瓣hlt weltweit zu den h瓣ufigsten Todesursachen und geht daher mit einer bedeutenden Relevanz einher. Bislang herrscht, trotz der betr瓣chtlich hohen Zahl an Suizidtoten, jedoch weiterhin eine gewisse Verschwiegenheit der Thematik in der Gesellschaft. Demzufolge sind insbesondere Studien, die sich eingehend mit der Thematik besch瓣ftigen, fortw瓣hrend von 瓣u?erster Seltenheit. Aus diesem Grund ist es von zentraler Bedeutsamkeit, die Gr羹nde f羹r einen Suizid genauer zu betrachten. Das Ziel der Arbeit besteht darin, die Signifikanz der ausgesuchten Variablen auf die Suizidrate zu beurteilen. Die Auswahl der unabh瓣ngigen Variablen erfolgte haupts瓣chlich auf Basis theoretischer Ans瓣tze, die sich bereits mit Einflussfaktoren auf den Suizid befasst haben. So dienten sowohl eine durchgef羹hrte Studie als auch die Betrachtung verschiedener Literaturans瓣tze der Variablenaufstellung. Die empirische Analyse hat gezeigt, dass lediglich der Anteil der Bev繹lkerung mit einer Alkoholkonsumst繹rung und der Anteil der Bev繹lkerung mit einer Depression sowie das bestehende Durchschnittsalter einen signifikanten Einfluss auf die Suizidrate haben. Hingegen war f羹r den Anteil an Atheisten in der Bev繹lkerung, f羹r das Bruttoinlandsprodukt sowie f羹r die Schizophrenie kein kausaler Zusammenhang zur Suizidrate erkennbar. Im Folgenden werden die zuvor angef羹hrten Ergebnisse in einer ausf羹hrlichen Betrachtung dargestellt und empirisch analysiert.
Rajasthan Rising
This publication showcases how ADB and the Government of Rajasthan have partnered together to bring sustainable development to the cities and towns of Rajasthan, in northwest India. Since 1998, the Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project (RUIDP), extensive work has been undertaken to address urban challenges such as widespread poverty, inadequate infrastructure, and a harsh climate. This publication reflects on Rajasthan?s development issues and solutions and showcases how infrastructure investments and institutional support under the RUIDP have improved the economic conditions, health, and overall quality of life of citizens. It also discusses lessons learned and future priorities.
Bond Market Guide for Mongolia
This guide provides comprehensive information the local currency bond market of Mongolia, which has been an active participant to the ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum since 2019. ADB has been working closely with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Japan, the People?s Republic of China, and the Republic of Korea?collectively known as ASEAN+3?under the Asian Bond Markets Initiative to develop resilient regional financial systems. This guide aims to contribute to a better understanding of Mongolia?s local currency bond market and facilitate its further development.
Micro-Financing and the Economic Health of a Nation
A change in finance for low-income people is occurring around the world. The microfinance movement provides services on a wide scale by competing, financially self-sufficient institutions to the economically active poor. Microfinance has been credited for promoting the Millennium Development Goals, poverty reduction, women's empowerment, and many other social benefits. This extensive microfinance survey aims to bridge the gap between academic economists and practitioners in the current microfinance literature. Micro-financing and the Economic Health of a Nation set a precedent for future work in the sector as the premier book to provide a detailed analysis of housing microfinance worldwide. By addressing a number of issues, including lessons from informal markets, savings and insurance, the role of women, the position of subsidies, impact assessment, and management incentives, this book offers an overview of microfinance. This book reviews essential issues for foreign and domestic microfinance organizations that are considering expanding into housing and for providers of traditional housing loans that aim to provide their services to poor clients who lack collateral or regular income, with clear guidance for practitioners and policymakers. Micro-financing and the Economic Health of a Nation can be used by students in economics, public policy, and development studies. This volume offers a reasoned, moderate voice on the virtues and problems of microfinance.
Different Approaches to Learning Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
This publication presents case studies on the successful application of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in Thailand, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Finland. STEM education has an important role in inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all. By utilizing an inquiry-based and experiential teaching and learning approach as well as integrating engineering and technology with science and mathematics, STEM promotes employability skills, entrepreneurship, and innovation. The case studies in this publication provide inspiration and lessons for ADB developing member countries to enhance their respective STEM education programs.
The Language of Global Marketing
A domestic strategy and only one language means lost revenue and missed opportunities. Your business could be exploding on a global level. If your business wants international growth across borders into global industries, pursuing buyers without considering their culture or by using a machine translation hurts your efforts. A solid strategy with high-quality, culturally adapted content and translations connects you to prospective buyers online and leads to completed sales. To convert more website visitors into loyal customers and increase profits, you need the correct content in the globalized or localized language for your target audience. In The Language of Global Marketing, Rapport International President Wendy Pease provides the roadmap for business-builders to find new revenue from a global audience with the right quality content and tools. Filled with easy-to-understand strategies and solutions to real-life situations, this is your guide to successful international expansion through global inbound marketing and translation services. You'll discover: How to align your expansion plans, communications, and brand with your company's digital marketing planFour key components to build a successful Translation Management PlanSecrets to receiving better quality and more culturally appropriate translations from your translatorNine tactics to optimize your website and translate data for global SEO in your target marketInterpreter options when you need to speak to your customersHuge advantages of cultivating a diverse workforce while expanding globally Connect with your buyers across every language and culture - no passport or overseas travel necessary. Get The Language of Global Marketing now and speak the language of success for your organization!
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money is Keynes' masterpiece published right after the Great Depression. It sought to bring about a revolution, commonly referred to as the "Keynesian Revolution", in the way economists thought - especially challenging the proposition that a market economy tends naturally to restore itself to full employment on its own. Regarded widely as the cornerstone of Keynesian thought, this book challenged the established classical economics and introduced new concepts. It remains a relevant topic of debate to this day, perhaps more than ever. Given the economic turmoil of recent years, this debate is more heated than ever, between the Keynesian model of economics of Bush and Obama which favors bailouts and other government intervention to try to stabilize the market, and the Austrian school of economics which sees government intervention as detrimental and favors letting the market sort itself out on its own with minimal government interference. You decide.
Micro-Financing and the Economic Health of a Nation
A change in finance for low-income people is occurring around the world. The microfinance movement provides services on a wide scale by competing, financially self-sufficient institutions to the economically active poor. Microfinance has been credited for promoting the Millennium Development Goals, poverty reduction, women's empowerment, and many other social benefits. This extensive microfinance survey aims to bridge the gap between academic economists and practitioners in the current microfinance literature. Micro-financing and the Economic Health of a Nation set a precedent for future work in the sector as the premier book to provide a detailed analysis of housing microfinance worldwide. By addressing a number of issues, including lessons from informal markets, savings and insurance, the role of women, the position of subsidies, impact assessment, and management incentives, this book offers an overview of microfinance. This book reviews essential issues for foreign and domestic microfinance organizations that are considering expanding into housing and for providers of traditional housing loans that aim to provide their services to poor clients who lack collateral or regular income, with clear guidance for practitioners and policymakers. Micro-financing and the Economic Health of a Nation can be used by students in economics, public policy, and development studies. This volume offers a reasoned, moderate voice on the virtues and problems of microfinance.
Patients and Caregivers as Developers of Medical Devices
Moritz G繹ldner analyzes the unexplored phenomenon of patients and caregivers as innovators with respect to their own unmet medical needs in two complementary studies. In study 1 he uses a mixed-method approach to analyze quantitative data from two datasets on more than 1,100 medical smartphone apps each and qualitative data from 16 interviews with developers of medical apps. He finds substantial evidence that patients and caregivers develop medical apps and shows that those apps receive significantly better ratings than company-developed apps. In study 2 he further explores the commercialization activities of patients and caregivers by analyzing 14 case studies of patients and caregivers who successfully brought their tangible medical device on the market. He finds that those innovators did not maximize their profits, but rather sought to market their devices at reasonable prices to offer access to many other patients. The author discusses these insights and draws conclusions for scholars and managers that are valid beyond this extreme case of user innovation. About the author Moritz G繹ldner is an innovation consultant for user-centered innovation in (digital) healthcare. Prior to this position, he was a project manager and research associate at the Institute for Technology and Innovation Management at Hamburg University of Technology. His research interests cover user innovation in healthcare, social innovation, the emergence of new medical technologies, as well as entrepreneurship.
Introduction to Computable General Equilibrium Models
Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models play an important role in supporting public-policy making on such issues as trade, climate change and taxation. This significantly revised volume, keeping pace with the next-generation standard CGE model, is the only undergraduate-level introduction of its kind. The volume utilizes a graphical approach to explain the economic theory underlying a CGE model, and provides results from simple, small-scale CGE models to illustrate the links between theory and model outcomes. Its eleven hands-on exercises introduce modelling techniques that are applied to real-world economic problems. Students learn how to integrate their separate fields of economic study into a comprehensive, general equilibrium perspective as they develop their skills as producers or consumers of CGE-based analysis.
The Great Free Trade Myth
This book is based on the author's experience as a British diplomat and scholar working in East Asia for much of the period since 1980. It seeks to challenge widely held views in Britain about the nature of our relations with countries in East Asia, especially in respect of trade. It does so by looking at case studies, or specific incidents in diplomatic relations, not academic theory, using examples that have hitherto received little or no attention. While it is aimed at general readers who may have an interest in the broad subject, it should also be of great value to academics and scholars.
Society on the Edge
The social sciences underwent rapid development in postwar America. Problems once framed in social terms gradually became redefined as individual with regards to scope and remedy, with economics and psychology winning influence over the other social sciences. By the 1970s, both economics and psychology had spread their intellectual remits wide: psychology's concepts suffused everyday language, while economists entered a myriad of policy debates. Psychology and economics contributed to, and benefited from, a conception of society that was increasingly skeptical of social explanations and interventions. Sociology, in particular, lost intellectual and policy ground to its peers, even regarding 'social problems' that the discipline long considered its settled domain. The book's ten chapters explore this shift, each refracted through a single 'problem': the family, crime, urban concerns, education, discrimination, poverty, addiction, war, and mental health, examining the effects an increasingly individualized lens has had on the way we see these problems.
What Really Counts
Politicians and economists fixate on "growing the economy"--measured by a country's gross domestic product. But this yardstick counts harmful activities such as greenhouse gas emissions, plastic waste, and cigarette sales as gains, and it ignores environmental protection, voluntary community work, and other benefits. What we measure is a choice, and what is and isn't counted determines what sorts of policies are enacted. How can we shift the focus to well-being and quality of life? What Really Counts is an essential, firsthand story of the promise and challenges of accounting for social, economic, and environmental benefits and costs. Ronald Colman recounts two decades of working with three governments to adopt measures that more accurately and comprehensively assess true progress. Chronicling his path from Nova Scotia to New Zealand to Bhutan, Colman details the challenge of devising meaningful metrics, the effort to lay the foundations of a new economic system, and the obstacles that stand in the way. Reflecting on successes and failures, he considers how to shift policy priorities from a narrow economic-growth agenda toward a future built on sustainability and equity. Colman has taken the critique of GDP outside the academy and attempted to realize an alternative. The lessons he offers in What Really Counts are vital for anyone interested in how we can measure what matters--and how better measures can help build a better world.
Jamaica's Evolving Relationship with the IMF
This book explores Jamaica's contemporary relationship with the International Monetary Fund since 2010. It looks at Jamaica's high debt and its inability to access financial support amidst international capital market restrictions, contextualizing harsh socio-economic realities. This book discusses Jamaica's second return to the IMF and the resulting network of actors, governance and political and socio-economic efforts to re-engender a relationship with a "new' IMF. Credibility was restored, demonstrated by and leading to the successful implementation of the 2013 Extended Fund Facility and subsequent exit to a Precautionary Stand-By Arrangement in 2016. Clarke and Nelson signal from their analyses lessons learned, discussing the economic prognosis for Jamaica as well as their relationship with the IMF under the shadow of the COVID pandemic.
Society on the Edge
The social sciences underwent rapid development in postwar America. Problems once framed in social terms gradually became redefined as individual with regards to scope and remedy, with economics and psychology winning influence over the other social sciences. By the 1970s, both economics and psychology had spread their intellectual remits wide: psychology's concepts suffused everyday language, while economists entered a myriad of policy debates. Psychology and economics contributed to, and benefited from, a conception of society that was increasingly skeptical of social explanations and interventions. Sociology, in particular, lost intellectual and policy ground to its peers, even regarding 'social problems' that the discipline long considered its settled domain. The book's ten chapters explore this shift, each refracted through a single 'problem': the family, crime, urban concerns, education, discrimination, poverty, addiction, war, and mental health, examining the effects an increasingly individualized lens has had on the way we see these problems.
Economic Outlook for Southeast Asia, China and India 2021
The 2021 edition of the Outlook addresses reallocation of resources to digitalisation in response to COVID-19, with special focuses on health, education and Industry 4.0. During the COVID-19 crisis, digitalisation has proved critical to ensuring the continuity of essential services.
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
Volume 39A features a selection of essays presented at the 2019 Conference of the Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought, edited by Felipe Almeida and Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak, as well as a new general-research essay by Daniel Kuehn, an archival discovery by Katia Caldari and Luca Fiorito, and a book review by John Hall.
