IN 1993 THE ADMINISTRATION’S first job was to get the economy moving. The deficit reduction package enacted that year helped to reduce interest rates and restore business confidence. Since then the Federal deficit has been cut by more than half, and the economy has expanded robustly. The next task is to complete the work of deficit reduction. In 1995 and 1996 the Administration and the Congress...

the purpose of this study is to identify challenges of digital resources in academic libraries of kerman province. research methodology is descriptive- survey, a questionnaire is used for gathering data. research sample includes 41 librarians of kerman libraries and their managers. results show that economic challenges, in order, are:  infrastructures and equipment purchasing, printed and digit...

Facing the influences of economic globalization, China timely seizes opportunities, deals with challenges and promotes the development of human resources and public sector reform. I. Timely seizing opportunities 1. Problems resulted from China’s human resources development and public sector reform; 2. Positive influences of economic globalization; 3. Timely seize favorable opportunities to make...

Why do studies that examine population aging always come to the same conclusions? Regardless of whether these studies focus on Japan or Germany, Northern Europe or Southern Europe, the developed economies or emerging market economies, they typically suggest that countries will confront a labor shortage which undermines economic growth and that they will confront rising pension and health care c...

We argue that China’s journey towards a market economy is far from being finished. Instead, in many areas, reforms have been delayed and economic problems accumulated. There are six major reforms that have to be accomplished in the near future in order for the economy to stay on the trajectory of growth. Meanwhile, the current reformers face more and bigger challenges than their predecessors, i...

D EMONSTRATIONS by citizen groups against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Seattle (29 November–3 December, 1999) and more recently against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, DC (16–17 April, 2000) raise issues about the legitimacy of globalisation processes. To examine key domestic institutional challenges posed by globalisation, this paper focuses on ...

Macroeconomic forecasting is a very difficult task due to the lack of an accurate, convincing model of the economy. The most accurate models for economic forecasting, “black box” time series models, assume little about the structure of the economy. Constructing reliable time series models is challenging due to short data series, high noise levels, nonstationarities, and nonlinear effects. This ...

Professor of Management and Director of Research Income and Enterprise, School of Management. Research areas include job-related well-being, employment relations, and human resource management. Professor Wood was previously at the Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield where he was Deputy Director and Research Chair and a Co-Director of the University’s ESRC (Economic and Social ...

VANET are becoming active area of research and devel- opment because it has potential to increase road safety, convenience and comfort to drivers & passengers. A Lot of research work on VANET have done in area of Quali- ty of Service (QoS), routing and security. These concepts relate the facing challenges for technology in VANET. We present a overview of challenges in VANET. Firstly ,we have di...

VANET are becoming active area of research and devel- opment because it has potential to increase road safety, convenience and comfort to drivers & passengers. A Lot of research work on VANET have done in area of Quali- ty of Service (QoS), routing and security. These concepts relate the facing challenges for technology in VANET. We present a overview of challenges in VANET. Firstly ,we have di...