Pensions in the Middle East and North Africa : Time for Change. by Robalino, David A.

Table of Contents: “…-- Improving the Institutional Configuration, Administration, and Regulation of Pension Systems -- Management of the Public Pension Funds -- Lessons from International Experience in Pension Fund Management -- Pension Fund Management in the Middle East and North Africa Region -- Improving the Management of Public Pension Funds: Constraints and Opportunities -- Progress to Date and Prospects -- Countries in the Early Stages of Reform -- Countries in Motion -- Countries Leading Pension Reform -- Demographic Indicators -- Methodology for Demographic and Employment Projections -- Life Expectancy, Total Fertility Rate, and Population Projections -- Labor Force Projections -- Unemployment Projections -- Economic Effects of the Demographic Transition -- Coverage Rate Projections -- Main Parameters of Pension Schemes in the Middle East and North Africa -- Tax Treatment of Pension Systems -- Basic Formulas and Mathematical Results Used in the Analysis -- Equivalence of the Standard Defined-Benefit Pension Formula and the Formula Used in a Points System -- Rates of Return in Earning-Related Schemes -- Demographic and Financial Data on Pension Funds -- Provisions of the Draft Law on the Public Pension Scheme in the West Bank and Gaza -- Average Population Growth Rate, by Region, 1960-2002 -- Old-Age Dependency Ratio, by Region, 1960-2003 -- Average Population Growth Rate in Middle East and North African Countries, 1960-2002 -- Young- and Old-Age Dependency Ratios in Middle East and North African Countries, 2000 -- Life Expectancy and Total Fertility Rate in Middle East and North African Countries, 1985 and 2002 -- Estimated Difference in the Average Growth Rate of the Working-Age and Dependent Populations in Middle East and North African Countries, 2000-20 -- Projected Growth Rate of the Labor Force in Middle East and North African Countries, 2002-30 -- Key Macroeconomic Indicators in Select Middle East and North African Countries, 1993-2003 -- Banking and Credit as a Percentage of GDP in Select Middle East and North African Countries, 2002 -- Domestic and External Debt as a Percentage of GDP in Select Middle East and North African Countries, 2002 -- Market Capitalization and Credit to the Private Sector as a Percentage of GDP in Select Middle East and North African Countries, Various Years, 2000-2 -- Turnover as a Percentage of GDP in Select Middle East and North African Countries, Various Years, 2000-2 -- Coverage of the Mandatory Pension System in Select Middle East and North African Countries -- Projected Coverage Rate in Middle East and North African Countries, 2003-30 -- Gross Replacement Rate as a Percentage of Average Earnings in Select Middle East and North African Countries -- Net Replacement Rate as a Percentage of Average Earnings in Select Middle East and North African Countries.…”
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Sustainable power technologies and infrastructure : energy sustainability and prosperity in a time of climate change / Galen J. Suppes, Truman S. Storvick. by Suppes, Galen J., Storvick, Truman S., 1928-2016

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High-Profit IPO Strategies : Finding Breakout IPOs for Investors and Traders. by Taulli, Tom

Table of Contents: “…BusinessManagement; Executive Compensation; Certain Relationships and Related-Person Transactions; Principal and Selling Stockholders; Description of Capital Stock; Shares Eligible for Future Sale; Index to Consolidated Financial Statements; Miscellaneous Sections; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Balance Sheet; Some Fundamentals; Historical Costs; Accrual Accounting; Balance Sheet Overview; The Assets; Cash and Cash Equivalents; Marketable Securities; Accounts Receivable; Allowance for Doubtful Accounts; Inventory; Taxes; Prepaid Expenses; Property and Equipment; Restricted Cash; Goodwill.…”
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High-Profit IPO Strategies : Finding Breakout IPOs for Investors and Traders. by Taulli, Tom

Table of Contents: “…BusinessManagement; Executive Compensation; Certain Relationships and Related-Person Transactions; Principal and Selling Stockholders; Description of Capital Stock; Shares Eligible for Future Sale; Index to Consolidated Financial Statements; Miscellaneous Sections; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Balance Sheet; Some Fundamentals; Historical Costs; Accrual Accounting; Balance Sheet Overview; The Assets; Cash and Cash Equivalents; Marketable Securities; Accounts Receivable; Allowance for Doubtful Accounts; Inventory; Taxes; Prepaid Expenses; Property and Equipment; Restricted Cash; Goodwill.…”
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Give me liberty! : an American history / Eric Foner. by Foner, Eric, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…The American Revolution, 1763-1783 -- Taxing the colonies -- Taxation and representation -- Liberty and resistance -- The regulators -- The road to revolution -- The Townshend crisis -- The Boston massacre -- Wilkes and liberty -- The Tea Act -- The Intolerable Acts -- The coming of independence -- The Continental Congress -- The Continental Association -- The sweets of liberty -- The outbreak of war -- Independence? …”

Operations Research Proceedings 2014 Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), RWTH Aachen University, Germany, Septem...

Table of Contents: “…Experimental Validation of an Enhanced System Synthesis Approach -- Stochastic Dynamic Programming Solution of a Risk-Adjusted Disaster Preparedness and Relief Distribution Problem -- Solution Approaches for the Double-Row Equidistant Facility Layout Problem -- Simulation of the System-Wide Impact of Power-to-Gas Energy Storages by Multi-Stage Optimization -- An Approximation Result for Matchings in Partitioned Hypergraphs -- On Class Imbalancy Correction for Classification Algorithms in Credit Scoring -- The Exact Solution of Multi-Period Portfolio Choice Problem with Exponential Utility -- On the Discriminative Power of Tournament Solutions -- An actor-oriented approach to evaluate climate policies with regard to resource intensive industries -- Upper Bounds for Heuristic Approaches to the Strip Packing Problem -- An Approximative Lexicographic Min-Max Approach to the Discrete Facility Location Problem -- Effects of Profit Taxes in Matrix Games -- Extension and application of a general pickup and delivery model for evaluating the impact of bundling goods in an urban environment -- Optimizing time slot allocation in single operator home delivery problems -- Robust Scheduling with Logic-Based Benders Decomposition -- Optimal Adaptation Process of Emergency Medical Services Systems in a Changing Environment -- Strategic network planning of recycling of photovoltaic modules -- Designing a Feedback Control System via Mixed-Integer Programming -- Fair Cyclic Roster Planning - A Case Study for a Large European Airport -- Why Does a Railway Infrastructure Company Need an Optimized Train Path Assignment for Industrialized Timetabling? …”
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How Legal Marijuana Is Working in Colorado / The Reason Foundation (Firm).

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Who has the Right to Vote? A History / Makematic.

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Energy pricing policies for inclusive growth in Latin America and the Caribbean / Guillermo Beylis and Barbara Cunha. by Beylis, Guillermo, Cunha, Barbara

Table of Contents: “…Notes; Reference; Chapter 3 Fiscal Cost of Energy Pricing Policies; Introduction; Measuring Fiscal Costs: The "Price-Gap" Approach; Price-Gap Results; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Economic Impacts of Energy Pricing and Subsidy Reforms; Introduction; Analysis; Main Findings; Final Considerations; Notes; References; Chapter 5 Distributional Impacts of Energy Pricing; Introduction; Methodology and Implementation; Distributional Impacts of a Price Increase in Gasoline and Diesel; Distributional Impacts of a Price Increase in Liquefied Petroleum Gas.…”
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Legisprudence : a new theoretical approach to legislation : proceedings of the Fourth Beneloux-Scandinavian Symopisum on Legal Theory / edited by Luc J. Wintgens.

Table of Contents: “…THE SENSELESS LAWGIVER I: THE CASE OF REDUCED TAXES; V. THE SENSELESS LAWGIVER II: THE CASE OF FINANCIAL LIBERATION; VI. …”
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Making Mr. Right.

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How Estonia Built a Digital-First Government (4/29/18) / MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.

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High-Profit IPO Strategies : Finding Breakout IPOs for Investors and Traders. by Taulli, Tom

Table of Contents: “…BusinessManagement; Executive Compensation; Certain Relationships and Related-Person Transactions; Principal and Selling Stockholders; Description of Capital Stock; Shares Eligible for Future Sale; Index to Consolidated Financial Statements; Miscellaneous Sections; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Balance Sheet; Some Fundamentals; Historical Costs; Accrual Accounting; Balance Sheet Overview; The Assets; Cash and Cash Equivalents; Marketable Securities; Accounts Receivable; Allowance for Doubtful Accounts; Inventory; Taxes; Prepaid Expenses; Property and Equipment; Restricted Cash; Goodwill.…”
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The Invisible Line : Land Reform, Land Tenure Security and Land Registration. by Dekker, Henri A. L.

Table of Contents: “…SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF LAND REGISTRATION -- 7.1 Title Insurance -- 7.1.1 An Extraordinary System of Insurance -- 7.1.2 Title Companies -- 7.1.3 Indemnification by Title Insurance -- 7.2 Main Characteristics of Land Registration -- 7.2.1 Documents and Customs -- 7.2.2 Titles or Deeds -- 7.2.3 What is the Purpose? …”
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Rural China : Economic and Social Change in the Late Twentieth Century. by Fan, Jie

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Health For Sale.

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The beat beneath my feet.

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Financial accounting for dummies / Maire Loughran. by Loughran, Maire

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Ignore the hype financial strategies beyond the media-driven mayhem / Brian Perry. by Perry, Brian

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Business and populism : the odd couple? / edited by Magnus Feldmann, Glenn Morgan.

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