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The World Bank Group has recently formulated new goals for ending extreme poverty and for boosting shared prosperity. The main elements of this new vision were laid out in the document entitled " A Common Vision for the World Bank Group, " which was discussed by the Bank's Executive Directors on March 21, 2013. This document sets a target to reduce extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030, and to p...

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E acquisition of new technology is a growing trend in the innovation and product development process, particularly in high-technology industries, as firms complement internal research and development efforts with aggressive acquisition programs. Yet, despite its importance, there has been little empirical research on the timing of acquisition decisions in high-technology environments. Should or...

Empirical data shows that current account has the property of mean-reversion and the speed of current account convergence is heterogenous across countries. In order to explore the factors which affect the current account adjustment speed of a small country, this paper builds up a model to study how current account would be affected by factors such as labor supply and monetary policies. We found...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have concluded that the development of polydipsia (PD, a daily water intake ≥ 21 ml) among captive Danish bank voles, is associated with the development of a type 1 diabetes (T1D), based on findings of hyperglycaemia, glucosuria, ketonuria/-emia, lipemia, destroyed beta cells, and presence of autoantibodies against GAD65, IA-2, and insulin. AIM AND METHODS We retro...

Tidal stirring of the seas in the neighbourhood of headlands, promontories and islands may concentrate sediments and result in the formation of tidal banks. At regular, smallscale promontories, symmetric bank development may occur. The situation at Portland Bill is examined in detail where bank development occurs preferentially in the antic1ockwise eddy to the east, resulting in the formation o...

We exploit the introduction and removal of a nation-wide bank branch licensing rule which sought to increase and equalize bank branch presence across Indian states to estimate the e¤ect of rural bank openings on poverty. Between 1977 and 1990, to qualify for a license to open a branch in a census location which already had one or more bank branches an Indian bank had to open four branches in lo...

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Secondary succession in degraded areas is little studied, especially where long-term observation of evolutionary processes is concerned. The aim of this work was to follow the qualitative and quantitative changes in vegetation throughout the regeneration process after fire in a cerrado with forest physionomy. The area under study is a reserve on CPPSE-EMBRAPA's farm, São Carlos region of São Pa...