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Reducing Global Poverty (Hardcover)
Barry B. Hughes, Mohammod T. Irfan, Haider Khan, Krishna B. Kumar, Dale S. Rothman, …
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This is the first volume in an ambitious new series-"Patterns of
Potential Human Progress"-inspired by the UN Millennium Development
Goals (MGDs) and other initiatives to improve the global condition.
The first and most fundamental of these goals-reducing poverty
worldwide-is the focus of this book. Using the large-scale computer
program called International Futures (IFs), developed over three
decades at the prestigious University of Denver Graduate School of
International Studies, this book explores the most extensive set of
forecasts of global poverty ever made-providing a wide range of
scenarios based on an authoritative array of data. It transcends
the "$1 a day" baseline measure of poverty and probes important
concepts like income poverty gaps and relative poverty. The
forecasts are long-term, looking 50 years into the future, far
beyond the 2015 date set out by the MDGs. They are geographically
rich, spanning the entire globe and drilling down to the country
level, including one of the most important global focal points,
India. The poverty forecasts in this book, and all the volumes in
the series, are fully integrated in perspective across a wide range
of human development arenas including demographics, economics,
politics, agriculture, energy, and the environment. Full of
colorful and thoughtfully designed graphs, tables, maps, and other
visual presentations of data and forecasts, this large-format
inaugural volume ensures that the "Patterns of Potential Human
Progress" series will become an indispensable resource for every
development professional, student, professor, library, and indeed,
country around the world.
This book gives a scientific and systematic approach to trading in
emerging stock markets. As professional traders do not trade purely
on the basis of the economic fundamentals, but also take into
account market movements generated by other factors (noise
trading), knowledge of technical analysis is important to anyone
who would like to participate successfully in the stock market.
Second, the existence of a skew towards reliance on fundamental
analysis at longer horizons suggests that models based on economic
considerations will be more important on the long run. Third, the
existence of a skew towards reliance on technical analysis at
shorter horizons suggests that models based on short term
considerations (noise) will be more important in the short term.
The present book gives a base for practitioners as well as students
to learn the tricks of the trade through examples and case studies.
This compact textbook is designed primarily for the undergraduate
students of printing technology and mechanical engineering. The
text introduces the concepts and techniques relevant to the
packaging of industrial, pharmaceutical and food products. It
covers package design concepts, with an emphasis on graphics and
colours. It also discusses the importance of glass as a packaging
material, label types and their design, bulk packaging and test
procedures to evaluate effectiveness for distribution and storage.
This second edition has been updated: chapter 7, "Plastics and
Speciality Packaging" has been completely overhauled and split to
introduce a new chapter on "Package Finishing and Security (Chapter
8). Besides undergraduate students, this book will also be useful
for diploma students of packaging, researchers and professionals in
printing and packaging field. Key features: A case study provides a
practical orientation. Review questions, arranged in a graded
manner, sharpen the analytical skills of the students. Solved
problems reinforce understanding.
This is the first volume in an ambitious new series-"Patterns of
Potential Human Progress"-inspired by the UN Millennium Development
Goals (MGDs) and other initiatives to improve the global condition.
The first and most fundamental of these goals-reducing poverty
worldwide-is the focus of this book. Using the large-scale computer
program called International Futures (IFs) developed over three
decades at the prestigious University of Denver Graduate School of
International Studies, this book explores the most extensive set of
forecasts of global poverty ever made-providing a wide range of
scenarios based on an authoritative array of data. It transcends
the "$1 a day" baseline measure of poverty and probes important
concepts like income poverty gaps and relative poverty. The
forecasts are long-term, looking 50 years into the future, far
beyond the 2015 date set out by the MDGs. They are geographically
rich, spanning the entire globe and drilling down to the country
level, including one of the most important global focal points,
India. The poverty forecasts in this book, and all the volumes in
the series, are fully integrated in perspective across a wide range
of human development arenas including demographics, economics,
politics, agriculture, energy, and the environment. Full of
colorful, thoughtfully designed graphs, tables, maps, and other
visual presentations of data and forecasts, this large-format
inaugural volume ensures that the "Patterns of Potential Human
Progress" series will become an indispensable resource for every
development professional, student, professor, library, and indeed,
country around the world.
Comprised exclusively of clinical cases illustrating current
strategies for obesity management across various types of
conditions, this concise, practical casebook will provide obesity
medicine specialists and all physicians who treat obesity with the
best real-world strategies to properly diagnose and treat patients
struggling with weight management. Each section includes a pair of
cases that open with a unique clinical presentation, followed by a
description of the diagnosis, assessment and management technique
recommended and employed, as well as the case outcome and clinical
pearls and pitfalls. Cases included in the first sections depict
issues involved in obesity management in metabolic syndrome,
cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance syndromes, genetic
predisposition, and type 2 diabetes. Subsequent sections present
cases highlighting particular management strategies, such as
psychiatric medication induced weight gain, behavioral
interventions, bariatric surgery and pharmacotherapy for obesity.
Pragmatic and reader-friendly, Obesity Management: A Clinical
Casebook is an excellent resource for physicians who treat
overweight and obesity and the complications of these conditions.
This volumes presents select papers presented during the
International Conference on Photonics, Communication and Signal
Processing Technologies held in Bangalore from July 18th to 20th,
2018. The research papers highlight analytical formulation,
solution, simulation, algorithm development, experimental research,
and experimental investigations in the broad domains of photonics,
signal processing and communication technologies. This volume will
be of interest to researchers working in the field.
This volumes presents select papers presented during the
International Conference on Photonics, Communication and Signal
Processing Technologies held in Bangalore from July 18th to 20th,
2018. The research papers highlight analytical formulation,
solution, simulation, algorithm development, experimental research,
and experimental investigations in the broad domains of photonics,
signal processing and communication technologies. This volume will
be of interest to researchers working in the field.
Malnutrition and its related symptoms are both frequent and
deleterious effects of cancer treatment. Despite the importance of
targeted nutritional interventions in ameliorating these effects,
however, publications providing up-to-date information on novel
nutritional approaches and strategies are lacking. This book is
intended to fill the void by describing and evaluating in detail
the nutritional strategies that may be employed to alleviate a wide
variety of cancer treatment effects. The guidance provided will
help to improve the survival and quality of life of cancer
patients, and has the potential to dramatically affect how
evidence-based clinical practice is established and improved over
the coming decade. The author is a distinguished expert in the
field who has more than 25 years of experience in oncology
nutrition and has been involved in establishing and implementing a
Clinical Nutrition Oncology Program.
A casebook that discusses all the mega mergers and acquisitions in
terms of value, that have happened in different industry sectors
such as pharmacy, technology, telecommunications, media and
entertainment, electrical and electronics, energy, finance,
consumer goods, metals, and automobile and airlines.
A casebook that discusses all the mega mergers and acquisitions in
terms of value, that have happened in different industry sectors
such as pharmacy, technology, telecommunications, media and
entertainment, electrical and electronics, energy, finance,
consumer goods, metals, and automobile and airlines.
Malnutrition and its related symptoms are both frequent and
deleterious effects of cancer treatment. Despite the importance of
targeted nutritional interventions in ameliorating these effects,
however, publications providing up-to-date information on novel
nutritional approaches and strategies are lacking. This book is
intended to fill the void by describing and evaluating in detail
the nutritional strategies that may be employed to alleviate a wide
variety of cancer treatment effects. The guidance provided will
help to improve the survival and quality of life of cancer
patients, and has the potential to dramatically affect how
evidence-based clinical practice is established and improved over
the coming decade. The author is a distinguished expert in the
field who has more than 25 years of experience in oncology
nutrition and has been involved in establishing and implementing a
Clinical Nutrition Oncology Program.
The Kurdistan Region of Iraq needs policy-relevant data to help
improve infrastructure, encourage the private sector, attract
foreign investment, and foster economic growth. The Kurdistan
Region Statistics Office needs to build capacity to collect the
data. RAND worked closely with the Office to build capacity by
preparing, conducting, and analyzing the first round of a survey of
the regional labor force.
This monograph provides strategies to reemploy civil-service
workers in the private sector and to increase private-sector
employment in the Kurdistan Region Iraq. The research is based on a
variety of methods, including analyses of survey data, analysis of
Kurdistan regional and Iraqi national documents and laws, and a
qualitative assessment of numerous conversations with government
officials and private-sector employers."
Deutsche Mittelbetriebe haben in jungster Zeit verstarkt damit
begonnen, Direktinvestitionen im Ausland zu tatigen. Die
Betriebswirtschaftslehre wird damit vor die Aufgabe gestellt,
diejenigen Probleme zu untersuchen, die sich im Zusammenhang mit
der Internationalisierung von Mittelbetrieben ergeben. Die
Voraussetzungen hierfur sind allerdings relativ ungunstig: Weder
liegt in der Betriebswirtschaftslehre bisher eine geschlossene
theoretische Konzeption zur Analyse der speziellen Probleme von
Klein-und Mittelbetrieben vor, noch ist die "Lehre von der
Internationalen Unternehmung" hierzulande bisher im grossen und
ganzen uber das Stadium der Rezeption angelsachsischer Forschungs
ergebnisse hinausgekommen. Vom Ansatz her blieb deshalb fur unsere
empi rische Untersuchung zunachst nur der Weg, Theorien, die fur
die amerikanischen "multinational corporations" entwickelt wurden,
auf die deutschen Mittel betriebe zu ubertragen. Es ist daher nicht
auszuschliessen, dass eine Reihe von Problemzusammenhangen, die fur
die Internationalisierung von Mittelbetrieben charakteristisch sein
mogen, schon vom Ansatz her nicht ins Blickfeld der Ana lyse rucken
konnten. Aus diesem Grunde kann die vorliegende Untersuchung auch
nur ein erster Schritt sein, der primar bezweckt, eine Reihe von
zentralen Fragen des Untersuchungsgegenstandes zu identifizieren
und mittelbetriebs spezifische Losungen der Praxis hierfur
aufzuzeigen. Daraus mogen sich dann auch Anregungen fur eine
Ausarbeitung der theoretischen und eine Erweiterung der empirischen
Grundlagen der Internationalisierung von Mittelbetrieben er geben.
Die Verfasser danken der Industrie-und Handelskammer Nurnberg,
insbeson dere ihrem Prasidenten, Herrn Konsul Senator Walter Braun
und Herrn Dipl. Volkswirt Richard Popp, Leiter der
Aussenhandelsabteilung, sowie den befragten Mittelbetrieben fur
ihre Kooperationsbereitschaft bei der Untersuchung."
Comprehensive and reliable statistics are crucial for policy
formulation in any region or country. The Kurdistan Region--Iraq is
hampered by the lack of such statistics as it aims to improve
infrastructure, encourage private-sector development, attract
foreign investment, and create a sustainable economy. This volume
examines how the Kurdistan Regional Government can assemble the
core elements of a quality data system.
Despite geographical closeness and many shared economic interests,
the United States and Mexico remain wary of one another, and many
factors have hindered their cooperation. This book focuses on how
the alliance between the United States and Mexico can be
strengthened through policies that could be adopted by both
countries1 administrations as they tackle common interests and
exploit new opportunities. One-liner: The United States and Mexico
remain wary of one another, and many factors have hindered their
cooperation. Both countries1 administrations can strengthen the
relationship as they tackle common interests and exploit new
opportunities.
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