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...France also resumed its domestic currency's convertibilit... showing the actual percentages of total project costs state governments had to contribute in order... were much lower than they were in other regions of the United States owing to the disenfranchiseme...
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... the "something" denoted by dignity is the project of this Article. . Following in the spirit of Isai...For example, in France some cities banned the spectacle of dwarf throwing... his researches into the most distant regions of this globe, and beyond this globe, to the plane...
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Rankings on the ease of doing business do not tell the whole story about an economy's business environment. Lhe indicator does not account for all factors important for doing business- for example, macroeconomic conditions, infrastructure, workforce skills or security. But improvement in an economy's ranking does indicate that its government is creating a regulatory environment more conducive to operating a business. In Eastern Europe and Central Asia many economies continue to do so- and economies in the region once again dominate the list of top Doing Business reformers in 2007/08. New this year: reforms in the region are moving eastward as 4 newcomers join the top 10 list of reformers: Azerbaijan, Albania, the Kyrgyz Republic and Belarus (table 1.1).
Rwanda is one example of the divi...
...Twenty-six of the regions 28 economies implemented a total of 69 reforms. Si... in a single year since the Doing Business project started. In the past year reformers focused on eas...France and Portugal among the OECD high-income economies....
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Vinod Rai, Comptroller and Auditor General of India and chair of the Knowledge Sharing Committee, presented his report to the Governing Board and the XX INCOSAI. According to the INCOSAI strategic plan, the purpose of goal 3 is to encourage SAI cooperation, collaboration, and continuous improvement through knowledge sharing, including providing benchmarks, conducting best practice studies, and performing research on issues of mutual interest and concern. In addition to Rai's report, the individual working groups and task forces reported on their goals and achievements. This article summarizes the activities and accomplishments of goal 3 working groups and task forces.
... on performance measures indicating IT project effectiveness and investment success. Several guid... on Program Evaluation (Chair: the SAI of France). In May 2009, the Working Group on Program Evalua... economic processes by periods, countries, regions, and economic activity areas. One of the group's m...
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Nonetheless, the desire to build an international women's movement led some Western feminists to proclaim a global sisterhood that united Western and non- Western women through a common political agenda.3 Over time, many international conferences have staged challenges to a hegemonic Western feminism and facilitated discussions on different approaches to local struggles for women's rights. The decades from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s witnessed this change in women's movements around the globe and in articulations of the feminist agenda, as Peggy Antrobus writes, "from one that has traditionally defined women's issues in terms of domestic violence and reproductive rights to one that sees every issue from the perspective of women and which has taken on broader issues, from militaris...
... relations of exchange between nations and regions had never existed. Another difficulty arises when ... and rationale for the Global Feminisms Project (GFP) at the University of Michigan, describing ho... the United States for Chinese feminists; France, Thailand, the Netherlands, and the LJnited States...
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... bias in the South African Frog Atlas Project: implications for conservation planning. Biodivers...-scale: Application to the Rhone basin (France). Geomorphology 125(3): 343-360. . Andrews, B.D., ...Mapping particulate matter in alpine regions with satellite and ground-based measurements: An e...
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Two technological hotspots: Silicon Valley (USA), and Sophia Antipolis (France) have been assessed for differences in entrepreneurs' fund raising strategies. The study analyzed different stages in the venture capitalist's (VC) investment decision process from the entrepreneur's perspective, not from the frequently examined VC's viewpoint. The qualitative study of nine cases compares the two different cultural contexts, where the parties negotiate the investment agreements. The results underline, that the different subcultures require markedly different entrepreneurial strategies for successful VC fundraising. The investment decision process leads to a faster investment in US companies than in the French examples. Entrepreneurs in both regions advised strongly against signing exclusivity...
...Sophia Antipolis was developed as a project of a new science park, a techno pole, from the vis...
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This paper reviews 726 academic research studies covering logistics and supply chain management (L&SCM) applications within a global context. Articles are analyzed according to their publication year and outlet, common themes, and countries or regions investigated. The sample was drawn from the ABI/INFORM Global database, which includes almost 1,800 journal titles. The review offers a starting point for researchers, graduate students, faculty members or practitioners examining international L&SCM applications. The article also draws attention to the wide array of global L&SCM studies conducted, their settings and viewpoints. Additionally, this paper highlights some of the most interesting works and draws attention to lesser-researched countries and regions of the world. The ...
... references for their particular research project or management task. For example, practitioners int... 2007), Finland (Kaynak and Eronen 2003), France (Guffond and Leconte 2000), Ghana and Guatemala (B...
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The healthcare score card databases do gallant work in organizing impossibly complex subjects. They gather and analyze enormous masses of data and create quantitative rankings and metrics based on dozens or hundreds of individual indicators. The healthcare score card also rank the individual states. As with the national score cards, the underlying theme is variation: The states perform well in some respects but poorly in others. There are also pronounced geographic patterns, with some states and regions performing uniformly well and others consistently scoring at the bottom. The Commonwealth Fund also has a state ranking score card: "Aiming Higher: Results From a State Score Card on Health System Performance, 2009," which uses 38 indicators of access, quality, costs, and health outcomes...
... the world's health systems." This massive project, which covered 191 countries, uses five comprehens...The report's top five countries are France, Italy, San Marino, Andorra, and Malta (among majo...
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... across the Indo-centric and Sinocentric regions, and to contrast them with a similar view of famil... Systems and Education) Compendium project. The CASE Compendium project reviewed literature o... Indian Firm," INSEAD case, Fountainebleau, France. . Bruun. O. (1993), Business and Bureaucracy in a...