SAN FRANCISCO, July 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -b The Asia Foundation, the premier non-profit organization devoted to Asia's development since 1954, announced today that Mr. Hamid Latif Sharif has been named as the Foundation's new country representative in Pakistan. Mr. Sharif is currently the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) assistant general counsel for South Asia, and Law and Policy Reform. He will begin his three-year post with the Foundation on August 10, while on leave from the ADB. Mr. Sharif's distinguished 12-year tenure with the ADB will bring strong leadership and experience in the Foundation's core program areas of law and governance, economic reform, and women's empowerment to our Pakistan office," said Douglas Bereuter, The Asia Foundation's president. "His professional relationsh...
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is providing notice of country-by-country allocations of additional Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 in-quota quantity of the tariff-rate quota (TRQ) for imported raw cane sugar and of country-by-country reallocations of the FY 2012 in-quota quantity of the tariff-rate quota for imported raw cane sugar.
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Jennifer C. Betti of The Asia Foundation, +1-415-743- 3367, jbetti@asiafound.org
Policymakers devote a great deal of attention to short-run fluctuations in the labor market. Central banks monitor indicators of labor market tightness in the conduct of monetary policy due to the potential implications for inflation. Fiscal authorities are concerned with the budget consequences of fluctuations in the labor market because they affect both revenues and expenditure programs. More generally, these fluctuations may be associated with significant losses in welfare. The motivations of this article stems from a striking empirical observation about long-run variations in labor market outcomes: Long-run changes in total hours of work in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries exceed the variation of hours worked over the business cycle in a representative...
... the business cycle in a representative country (say, the United States) by almost an order of mag...
JAKARTA, August 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today in Jakarta, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, The Asia Foundation, and the United States Library of Congress' Regional Office for Southeast Asia signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a joint books program. In the first two years of the program, The Asia Foundation will contribute over 50,000 books worth approximately US $2 million (Rp 18 billion) to the libraries of six state Islamic universities. This collaboration will foster the exchange of scholarly information between the academic community in Indonesia and graduate programs focusing on Indonesian studies in the United States. This shared information will improve access to high-quality Indonesian research for scholars in the United States, assist Indonesians in keeping abrea...
...The Asia Foundation Country Representative Douglas Ramage added, "Syarif Hiday...
NATO hits military depot in Tripoli TRIPOLI, Libya - NATO jets destroyed a military storage facility and other targets in Tripoli's eastern outskirts early Sunday, days after key international players recognized Libya's rebel leadership as the country's legitimate representative.
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