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Tropical forests are estimated to release approximately 1.7 PgC per year as a result of deforestation. Avoiding tropical deforestation could potentially play a significant role in carbon mitigation over the next 50 years if not longer. Many policymakers and negotiators are skeptical of our...
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The Productivity Commission's final research report, released December 2004, responds to a request by the Australian Government to examine the contribution that national reform of building regulation has made and further reform could make to the performance of the building and construction...
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Rules of origin arrangements under the Australia–New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (CER) were referred to the Commission for examination and report by May 2004. The request stemmed from concerns that Australian and New Zealand firms were having difficulty achieving the...
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From Decentralisation of Planning to Peoples Planning - Experiences of the Indian States of Kerala and West Bengal by … Charvak, 2000: The Discussion Paper attempts a comparison of the process of decentralisation of planning in the two States …) as well as the KSSP experiment (from Science Popularisation to Local Level Planning) is also given. The study concludes …
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the core of the model is the adaptive planning equation. Other equations are presented and discussed as well. The model is … tested by ex post forcast and then some policy simulations are discussed. …
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Managers are often told that formal planning helps. It is useful to examine whether this is good advice. Thus, I … applaud this effort to study marketing planning in New Zealand. Nevertheless, I find it difficult to accept the conclusions … drawn by the authors of “Marketing Planning in New Zealand” (MPNZ). I am concerned with the definition of marketing planning …
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over time. However, the Commission identified a number of policy areas that can serve to exacerbate price pressures over …
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fundamental elements for their planning and management. An important matter could be to define the Mediterranean City, not only …
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Individuals and organizations have operated for hundreds of years by planning and forecasting in an intuitive manner … those problems. However, informal planning and forecasting are expensive activities; this raises questions about their … superiority over informal planning and forecasting. Furthermore, critics of the formal approach claim that it introduces rigidity …
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In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries, three years after publication of the Commission’s...
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