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Increasing South Africa's contribution to global trade in craft
Sugee, Nadia - 2008
's contribution to global trade is increased. The South African Government has recognized the importance of the craft sector from the … just less than 1 % of global trade in craft because of a number substantive issues constraining it. These include amongst … trade. This is compounded by the fact that the vast majority of enterprises are rural in origin and the support systems do …
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Technology Transfer, Reaching the Market for Geopressured-Geothermal Resources
Wys, J. Negus-de - 2006
Technology transfer to the industrial sector for geopressured-geothermal technology has included diverse strategies, with successes and obstacles or roadblocks. Numerical data are tabulated in terms of response to the various strategies. Strategy categories include the following: feasibility...
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The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and the Great Lakes economy: Challenges and opportunities
Hanson, D.; Molburg, J.; Pandola, G.; Taxon, T.; Lurie, G. - 2008
This paper deals with the market for SO{sub 2} emission allowances over time and electric utility compliance choices. For currently high emitting plants ( 2.5 lb SO{sub 2}/MMBtu), the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) provide for about twice as many SO{sub 2} allowances to be issued per year...
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Susanville Geothermal Investigations, California, Supplemental Technical Data
2007
The city of Susanville, in response to an unemployment rate exceeding 20 percent and other related community needs, has embarked on a comprehensive effort in community and economic development. To improve the local job market, an effort is underway to enhance the competitive position of the...
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International petroleum statistics report, September 1993
2009
oil stocks, demand, and trade in OECD countries. World oil production and OECD demand data are for the years 1970 through … 1992; OECD stocks from 1973 through 1992; and OECD trade from 1982 through 1992. Data for the United States are developed … published sources including International Energy Agency publications, the EIA International Energy Annual, and the trade press …
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Distributional effects of the fiscal impact of power plant siting. [Nuclear power plants]
Vogt, D.P.; Bjornstad, D.J. - 2009
Classical economic base analysis is grounded in the concept that export activity drives the local economy and that economic impacts due to development can be traced to changes in the export base. Local government activities are frequently treated as a consequence of economic change, but no...
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Implications of lifting the ban on the export of Alaskan crude oil: Price and trade impacts
2008
world. Because of this limitation, quantitative results were limited to Alaskan crude oil prices. All other price and trade … world. The model-generated results cover both crude and product prices as well as petroleum trade flows. The quantitative …
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Evaluating the potential impact of transmission constraints on the operation of a competitive electricity market in Illinois.
Cirillo, R.; Thimmapuram, P.; Veselka, T.; Koritarov, V.; … - Decision and Information Sciences; Univ. of Illinois - 2008
Despite the current adequacy of the generation and transmission system in Illinois, there is concern that the uncertainties of electricity restructuring warrant a more detailed analysis to determine if there might be pitfalls that have not been identified under current conditions. The problems...
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Approximate option pricing
Chalasani, P.; Saias, I.; Jha, S. - 2009
As increasingly large volumes of sophisticated options (called derivative securities) are traded in world financial markets, determining a fair price for these options has become an important and difficult computational problem. Many valuation codes use the binomial pricing model, in which the...
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Supplement to the Annual Energy Outlook 1993
2008
The Supplement to the Annual Energy Outlook 1993 is a companion document to the Energy Information Administration`s (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook 1993 (AEO). Supplement tables provide the regional projections underlying the national data and projections in the AEO. The domestic coal, electric...
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