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Di Pietro, William R. - In: Expert journal of economics 3 (2015) 3, pp. 161-166

The paper proposes that national morality is an important variable for explaining national anti-trafficking policy. It uses cross country regression analysis to see whether or not empirically national morality is a determinant of anti-trafficking policy. The findings of the paper are consistent...

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Globalization, Information Revolution, and Their Relations to Education : Emphasizing J.F. Lyotard's View

Bagheri Noaparast, Khosrow - 2012

According to the information revolution, the most important characteristic of knowledge is to be sought in this equation: knowledge = information. This involves reducing different facets of knowledge to quantitative information which leads to knowledge legitimacy crisis. In addition, having a...

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Brave New World : A Literature Review of Emerging Donors and the Changing Nature of Foreign Assistance

Walz, Julie; Ramachandran, Vijaya - 2011

This paper investigates the scale and scope of emerging donors, many of which are developing economies themselves. Annual aid flows from new donors (so-called non-DAC donors) vary greatly and are somewhere between $11 billion and $41.7 billion, or 8 and 31 percent of global gross ODA. The new...

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The Teaching of Science and Ethics : A Multidisciplinary Approach

McGowan, Alan H. - 2011

At the liberal arts college where I teach, many of our science courses intertwine ethical and political issues with the science. We have a very small science and mathematics department, and are not able to present a traditional science curriculum. There are also no science requirements; we have...

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The Spirit of Global Belonging : Perspectives from Some Humanity-Oriented Icons

Farooq, Mohammad Omar - 2010

Many forces are making the world increasingly smaller and a movement for global citizenship is underway. Better …-belonging (aka belonging to the world) ought to be widely embraced. In this brief essay, we explore the need for the spirit by …., world renowned for the struggle against racism, Mohandas Gandhi, a well known spiritual and political leader from India, and …

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NCAA : Amateurism Policies and the International Student

Kaburakis, Anastasios - 2010

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has recently amended a bylaw to allow international students who have played alongside professionals to compete for University sports teams. Dr. Anastasios Kaburakis, an Attorney who had proposed such an amendment in past research, explains the...

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Services Provision and Temporary Mobility : Freedoms and Regulation in the EU

Bertola, Giuseppe; Mola, Lorenza - 2010

International posting of workers and mobility of self-employed service suppliers lie between outright migration and trade in goods: their regulation, for both distributional and market correcting purposes, is not as difficult to harmonize as that of labour markets, but personal mobility is more...

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Portfolio Trackers, Comparative Analysis

Kadish, Peter - 2013

There are many attractively-designed portfolio-tracking websites, which often come as an addition to brand-name portals, each attempting to offer unique and useful features for portfolio analysis. However, we should not confuse marketing and functionality. Portfolio trackers claim that they...

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Valuing Headquarters (HQS) : Analysis of the Role, Value and Benefit of HQS in Global Value Chains

Bloom, Michael; Grant, Michael - 2012

This report explores the growing importance of corporate headquarters in a world of global value chains. It examines … headquarters around the world and in Canada. It concludes with suggestions as to how governments may encourage headquarters to … locate in Canada. Governments around the world are keen to attract headquarters to their jurisdictions for a variety of …

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The Internationalization of R&D

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012

In the past decade, policymakers and others in a number of developed countries have expressed concern that firms in their countries appear to be increasingly locating their R&D facilities outside the home country. For example, in Foray and van Ark (2007), we read: “There are concerns expressed...

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