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Floods and spillovers: Households after the 2011 great flood in Thailand
Noy, Ilan; Patel, Pooja - School of Economics and Finance, Victoria Business School - 2014
In 2011, Thailand experienced its worst flooding in decades; it caused widespread damages, and a considerable loss of … thus measure the true impact of the disaster on income, expenditure, assets, debt and savings levels as well as labour …
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Prepositioning of supplies in preparation for a hurricane under potential destruction of prepositioned supplies
Galindo, Gina; Batta, Rajan - In: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 47 (2013) 1, pp. 20-37
Hurricanes are a type of natural disaster for which it is possible to plan for prepositioning of supplies to improve … the efficiency of the post-disaster relief effort. This paper develops a model for prepositioning supplies in such a … setting. Our model has a distinguishing feature the possible destruction of supply points during the disaster event. To gain …
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Sri Lanka; Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes for Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism and Mutual Evaluation Report on Anti-Money Laundering...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
The experts reviewed the institutional framework, the relevant Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) laws, regulations, guidelines, and other requirements, and the regulatory and other systems in place to deter money laundering (ML) and the financing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243975
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Infrastrukturentwicklung im europäischen Korridor Rotterdam-Genua: das INTERREG-IV-B-Projekt "Code 24"
Scheck, Christoph; Wilske, Sebastian - In: Schneller, öfter, weiter? Perspektiven der …
The growing mobility of the last years influences the development of economy, environment and space. In this context there are new areas of conflict both between transport and settlement development and between economy and environment. Extra high increases are expected in the multi-modal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266736
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Analysis of transportation and logistics processes for soybeans in Brazil
Fliehr, Olivia - Bundesforschungsinstitut für Lädliche Räume, Wald … - 2013
This study examines the relevance of Brazilian domestic transportation and logistics processes for agricultural bulk … impact of logistics and transportation on the competitiveness of soybeans in a national comparison, export processes starting … information from expert interviews. Experts belong to the transportation and logistics sector, to the sector of agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985835
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Trade Facilitation in Asia and the Pacific: An Analysis of Import and Export Processes, Studies in Trade and Investment 71
ESCAP, United Nations - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific …
This book is a synthesis of the results and implications from a series of product-specific import and export process analyses conducted in selected Asian countries. It provides a unique set of micro-level information on the nature, as well as the time and cost, of trade procedures involved in...
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Supply chain management in health sector in Thailand: a case study
Kritchanchai, Duangpun; Suwandechochai, Rawee - In: International Journal of Services, Economics and Management 2 (2010) 2, pp. 211-224
Logistics and supply chain management play an important role in Thailand industry. We believed that logistics and … hospital's internal supply chain and logistics system in Thailand by business process analysis. This paper also investigates …
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Haiti; Joint Staff Advisory Note of the Annual Progress Report on Implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
Falling international prices have helped lower Haiti’s inflation, but base money growth has continued to be higher than targeted in the program. The paper discusses Haiti’s Annual Progress Report on Implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. In the area of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245200
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Strategies and Financial Instruments for Disaster Risk Management in Latin America and the Caribbean
Miller, Stuart; Keipi, Kari - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005
discusses ex ante and ex post issues affecting disaster risk management. It also assesses how both types of measures can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216179
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School Resiliency and Social Capital of Regrouping Policy after Merapi Eruption in the Special District of Yogyakarta of Indonesia (A Case Study at Sd Umbulharjo 2, Sleman, Special...
Dwiningrum, Siti Irene Astuti; Widowati, Rani - In: International Journal of Asian Social Science 4 (2014) 4, pp. 510-525
Regrouping is a government?s policy to solve educational problems existing at the location of Merapi eruption by uniting / regrouping some schools in the eruption zone due to severe destruction at the former school buildings. The aims of the study were 1) to describe the process of regrouping...
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