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First published in 1999, this volume, the first to be published in
on Jubilee 2000, describes the plight of 52 of the poorest nations
in the world and puts in detail the case for radical cancellation
of past inert debt. The cost and benefit of this remission and the
groundbreaking concordat of peoples and governments that could
accompany it are examined in detail. It contains critiques of the
economic bases of the World Bank and IMF approaches to debt
management in developing economies, as manifested in structural
adjustment programmes and their maintenance, misuse of excess
reserves and the methods used to carry out restructuring and
development projects. The British anti-slavery campaign saw a
mobilisation of public opinion for a great cause. Using this as a
source of inspiration, public opinion must again be mobilised for
what amounts to the greatest opportunity for justice, compassion
and forgiveness facing us all at the beginning of a new millennium.
First published in 1999, this volume, the first to be published in
on Jubilee 2000, describes the plight of 52 of the poorest nations
in the world and puts in detail the case for radical cancellation
of past inert debt. The cost and benefit of this remission and the
groundbreaking concordat of peoples and governments that could
accompany it are examined in detail. It contains critiques of the
economic bases of the World Bank and IMF approaches to debt
management in developing economies, as manifested in structural
adjustment programmes and their maintenance, misuse of excess
reserves and the methods used to carry out restructuring and
development projects. The British anti-slavery campaign saw a
mobilisation of public opinion for a great cause. Using this as a
source of inspiration, public opinion must again be mobilised for
what amounts to the greatest opportunity for justice, compassion
and forgiveness facing us all at the beginning of a new millennium.
This book spans several disciplines, bringing together elements of
mathematics, computing, psychology, finance, and artificial
intelligence. Using an agent-based approach, I have developed a
comprehensive model which is used to model and predict financial
contagion. The innovative feature of my approach may be the
application of Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche. By
investigating the neurosis mechanism as it applies to participants
in financial markets, I analyze, in detail, the destructive impact
of the herding effect.
Portfolio selection is an important research topic in the field of
finance, but typically, existing portfolio models cover a single
investment period and are static, while real-world investors
operate dynamically over multiple periods. So multi-period
portfolio selection models have been studied widely in recent
years. This book mainly discusses the efficient frontier of the
mean-VaR model for multi-period portfolio selection, and the
algorithm and model for multi-period portfolio selection including
uncertainty. Its main contents are as follows: firstly, effective
solutions are given for the mean-VaR model for multi-period
portfolio selection, and the efficient frontier problem is
discussed. We then introduce credibility safety standards-based
multi-period portfolio selection and fuzzy entropy-based
multi-period portfolio selection models. We also present an
empirical study for the two types of model.
On November 12th, 2001, China entered into the WTO in the capacity
of a developing country. This was an important step in implementing
China's fundamental policy of opening itself to the outside world,
and has created excellent conditions for its further participation
in international trade and economic globalization. But in recent
years, a new trend has appeared in world trade: some developed
countries have created a barrier to others entering their home
markets for new trade by imposing a higher environmental quality
standard than that of developing countries. They utilize a high
environmental standard as an entry condition, in order to restrict
imports, with the result that the traditional trade barrier has now
been supplemented by a new environmental barrier - a "green trade
barrier." Concerning the above issues, firstly, this book presents
the background in which green trade barriers appeared in
international trade, and then we analyze their basic
characteristics and multi-faceted influences on China's export
trade. After all the analysis, we suggest some potential
countermeasures on both the micro and the macro levels to overcome
green trade barrier
On a March afternoon in Cleveland, St. Bonaventure battled powerful
Kentucky for 40 minutes and two overtimes in the first round of the
2000 NCAA Tournament. Though the Bonnies would lose that day, the
moments that accompanied that game provided St. Bonaventure's proud
alumni a vast sense of pride. For a men's basketball program that
was once considered an elite entity, it was fulfilling return to
glory. No one could have envisioned then that St. Bonaventure
basketball would endure lowest of lows almost exactly three years
later. The St. Bonaventure basketball scandal of 2003 created
national headlines and rocked to its core a proud institution. The
university president schemed to allow an ineligible player, by NCAA
standards, on the court, leading to series of damning events.
Victories were forfeited, a team in turmoil quit on its season,
several of those involved were fired and a the president of the
board of trustees, ripped by his role in the sorry state of
affairs, committed suicide. As student-managers, we closely
witnessed the circumstances that led to the upheaval. We were in
the locker room, the coaches offices and on the team bench. We were
there for all the corruption, deceit and greed. We were there when
an ill-conceived plan came tumbling down in the harshest of manners
and St. Bonaventure's lost ways became a punchline across the
country.
Ever since it was founded, China's stock market has experienced a
cycle of boom and bust. Some investors earn money from it, while
many others suffer enormous losses. In recent years, the overall
performance of China's stock market has been like a roller coaster.
The entire stock market is full of speculation. Among all the
factors related to this book, we decided to pay special attention
to the impact of QFII (Qualified Foreign Institution Investor)
trading in the market, because a large number of foreign
investments can accelerate the development of the capital market.
However, the impact of the QFII system on the host country is still
a topic of debate among scholars. As a result, we focus on
quantitative methods to analyze its impact. Methods for estimating
the log- likelihood function and the filtered values of the
time-varying volatilities and correlations are also provided. The
key part of this book is focused on the most commonly used
GARCH(1,1) model in terms of its goodness-of-fit and forecasting
accuracy. we chose the Chinese market as the object of this study,
in view of its special status of the Chinese market within the
world economy.
This book discusses several popular crisis origin theories, such as
the failure of monetary policy, abuse of financial derivatives,
failure of supervision, the global economy imbalance, the imbalance
of the American economic structure, and so-called "excessive"
saving in emerging economies. We find that the recent financial
crisis is closely linked to the operation of the dollar standard,
and we also study its inherent vulnerability, and that of the US
monetary policy. Finally, we conclude that the operation of the
dollar standard was a primary cause of the financial crisis.
The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a structured technique for
dealing with complex decisions. Rather than prescribing a "correct"
decision, the AHP helps decision-makers find one that best suits
their goal and their understanding of the problem - it formalises a
method for making decisions that people are already intuitively
trying to apply mentally. This book introduces AHP, and a further
development, which called Analytic Network Process (ANP). A case
study is given to show how ANP can be applied, together with a
short tutorial on a software tool, Superdecision, which can be used
to implement the ANP.
This book introduces the history and new development as well as the
criticism of all the psychological schools include Structuralism,
Functionalism, Psychoanalysis, Behaviorism, Humanism, Gestalt,
Existentialism and Cognitivism. As a complementary to the main part
of this book, personality test and European IQ test are given in
the appendices. It is worth reading for those who are interested in
psychology and researching in the area of psychology
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