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Forest Policy and Law for Sustainability within the Korean Peninsula

Park, Mi Sun; Lee, Hyowon - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 8, pp. 5162-5186

Since the early 1990s, sustainable forest management (SFM) has emerged as a paradigm of forest management on global, regional and national levels. In developing countries, avoiding deforestation is a preliminary step towards SFM. The Korean peninsula experienced severe deforestation and forest...

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Health Care in Sri Lanka : What Can the Private Health Sector Offer?

Govindaraj, Ramesh; Navaratne, Kumari; Cavagnero, Eleonora - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

this through a systematic collection and analysis of primary and secondary data on the provision, financing, and regulation … sectors. On financing, the review finds that private health expenditure is more than half of total health expenditure, mostly … regulatory framework, and in the enforcement of health regulations applicable to the private sector, as well as to create an …

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Modern Maritime Piracy: Countermeasures and Preventive Actions by the Greek Ocean (/deep sea) Shipping Industry

Bountri, Konstantina; Giziakis, Konstantinos - In: SPOUDAI Journal of Economics and Business 63 (2013) 3-4, pp. 15-25

The evolution of the maritime Piracy phenomenon constitutes of a top-priority issue for the global maritime community. In this work, the phenomenon of Modern Maritime Piracy as well as the analysis of current countermeasures and deterring strategies of pirate attacks are investigated and their...

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Legal framework as a trade barrier - evidence from transition countries : Hungarian, Romanian and Slovene examples

de Sausa, José; Disdier, Anne-Célia - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

Using the border effect approach, our paper examines the influence of the legal framework quality of the Central and Eastern European countries on international trade. This approach offers an evaluation of the borders? impact on trade. A market is fragmented when actual trade differs from the...

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Assessment of Land Governance in Bihar

Samanta, Debabrata; Jha, Jitendra Kumar; Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Land governance can be briefly described as how property rights to land, for groups or individuals, are defined, enforced, can be exchanged, and transformed. Land governance is argued to be a key to sustainable development and poverty reduction. In India, as well as in Bihar, land has enormous...

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Mineral Resource Trade in Chile: Contribution to Development and Policy Implications

Korinek, Jane - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2013

Mineral resources present a formidable source of wealth but a formidable challenge to regulate in order to maximize social welfare from their extraction. Some resource-rich countries, such as Chile, have been successful in developing their economies and managing their revenue streams...

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South Africa; Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes on Banking Supervision, Insurance Supervision, and Securities' Regulation

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010

In South Africa, long-term insurers experienced some strains during the financial crisis, but there were no crisis-related failures. The capital markets suffered sharp declines but no systemic failures. The three standards assessments have found the regulatory system fundamentally sound. The...

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Islamic Republic of Afghanistan; Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

The report describes the policy framework for the Interim Afghanistan National Development Strategy (I-ANDS) and the vision for Afghanistan's developments. It reviews the progress under I-ANDS, analyzes the macroeconomic environment, characteristics of poverty and the policy goals, assesses the...

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Italy; 2006 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Italy

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

This 2006 Article IV Consultation highlights that Italyâ€™s economy is enjoying a broad-based, if comparatively modest, cyclical upswing. Output is estimated to have grown by 1Â¾ percent in 2006â€”the strongest pace since the beginning of the decade. Inflation is close to that of the...

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Luxembourg; 2011 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Informational Annex; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director fo...

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011

An externally driven economic recovery has continued gathering strength in 2010 in Luxembourg. Executive Directors welcomed this development and the authoritiesâ€™ supportive fiscal policy in 2010 as well as their role in stabilizing the financial sector. According to the Financial Sector...

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