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This document is about foreign workers in Japan, the evolution of immigration policy in this country, working … conditions and social security. In order to sustain the Japanese economy and its society, the United Nations, OECD, and the Japan … Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) have suggested that Japan should allow several tens of thousands of foreign workers to …
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Latin America and East Asia presented diversified performance in industrialization in the 1990s, and one of the crucial factors that made the contrast was the different degree of developing international production/distribution networks. This paper analyzes micro data of Japanese multinational...
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relations with Japan, and the tenth in the world. At that time just 14 countries had this kind of links with Japan. The Japanese …
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The purpose of this paper is to take a closer look at the process of natural gas market integration in the Southern Cone of South America. More specifically, the paper examines infrastructure and performance of the sector in Argentina, the effects that this sector has had on overall regional...
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The purpose of this paper is to take a closer look at the process of natural gas market integration in the Southern Cone of South America. More specifically, the paper examines infrastructure and performance of the sector in Argentina, the effects that this sector has had on overall regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653094
This paper reports the results of an experiment with secondary school students designed to improve their ability to reason, argument, and communicate using mathematics. These goals are at the core of many educational reforms. A structured pedagogical intervention was created that fostered a more...
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The book offers a clear-cut methodology to diagnose organizational strengths and weakness at the onset of development activities. With it, beneficiaries can respond to growing pressures from donors for accountable and sustainable use of funding.Abstract: Ofrece una metodología clara para...
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Recent improvements in the Internet are revolutionizing the way companies market their services. This book examines the effectiveness of e-mail promotion as a complement to marketing strategies used by booksellers.
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The One Laptop Per Child initiative is an educational program that aims at deploying millions of rugged, ultra low-cost, individually connected laptop computers to the majority of children in developing nations that today lack access to such devices.
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This paper presents results from a randomized control trial in which approximately 1,000 OLPC XO laptops were provided for home use to children attending primary schools in Lima, Peru. The intervention increased access and use of home computers, with some substitution away from computer use...
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