Income inequality in oecd countries : what are the drivers and policy options?. by Hoeller, Peter

Table of Contents: “…The Distribution of Labor Income Isabell Koske, Jean-Marc Fournier and Isabelle Wanner -- Introduction and Main Findings -- Main Findings -- Cross-country Patterns and Recent Trends in Labor Income Inequality in OECD Countries -- The Role of Non-policy Factors in Shaping Labor Income Inequality -- Skill-biased Technological Change -- Globalization -- The Role of Structural Policies in Shaping Labor Income Inequality -- Education Policy -- Labor Market Institutions -- Minimum wages -- Wage bargaining -- EPL: overall stringency and gap between regular and temporary contracts -- Unemployment and social assistance benefits -- Active labor market policies -- Interactions between labor market policies and globalization -- Product Market Regulation -- Tax Policy -- Other Policy Issues.…”
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"Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa, and Global Health" / "℗ Ronald Labonte, Ted Schrecker, David Sanders, and Wilma Meeus."

Table of Contents: “…-- Poverty Reduction and Foreign Direct Investment -- International Finance, Tax Competition and Offshore Financial Centers -- Summary: Chapter Two -- Chapter Three: Health and Health Systems -- Introduction…”
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Biggs on finance, economics, and the stock market : Barton's market chronicles from the Morgan Stanley years / Barton Biggs. by Biggs, Barton, 1932-2012

Table of Contents: “…The Evolution of the Supply SideThe Tax Cut Misconception; Running the Movie of the Seventies Backward; The Piper Must Still Be Paid; A World That Has Lived beyond Its Means; The Valuation Dilemma for Equities; The Old President with the Right Intuitions; What Kind of People Are We?…”
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TEDTalks Robert Neuwirth - The Power of the Informal Economy / TED Conferences LLC.

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Your Money and Your Life : a Lifetime Approach to Money Management. by Aliber, Robert Z.

Table of Contents: “…Colleges Are the Best Bargains; 7. Minimizing the Bites of the Tax Collectors; 8. …”
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Winning strategies Hedrick Smith Productions.

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China’s Neighbors Who is Influencing China and Who China is Influencing in the New Emerging Asia.

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Causal inference / Paul R. Rosenbaum. by Rosenbaum, Paul R.

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Judging Bertha Wilson : Law as Large as Life. by Anderson, Ellen

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History -- FOREWORD: Bertha Wilson -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART ONE: The Preparatory Years: Life before the Bench -- 1 Growing Up: Daughter, Sister, and Student -- Family Life -- Church and School -- University Studies: War and Romance -- 2 The Clergyman's Wife -- Macduff: An Education for Living -- Conscience and Compromise -- On the Boundary: Immigration to Canada -- Ottawa on Her Own -- 3 Diligence at Dalhousie -- Sopping It Up: The Law Student as Sponge -- Classroom and Curriculum -- Social Life and Study Group -- Graduation and Articles -- 4 The Osler Innovations -- Establishing a Research Practice -- From Family Firm to Corporate Culture -- Developing Philanthropy: A Conservative Socialist at Work -- Courtroom Strategy: Texas Gulf Sulphur -- The Conscience of the Firm -- Public Commitments, Private Life -- PART TWO: On the Bench: The Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada -- 5 The Ontario Court of Appeal -- Appointment to the Court of Appeal -- On-the-Job Training: Making a Place -- Criminal Law: A Provocative Dissent -- Commercial Law: Consistency and Contextuality -- All in the Family -- The Human Rights Cases -- The Supreme Sacrifice -- 6 A Canadian Philosophy of Judicial Analysis -- Origins and Sources: The Personal and the Public -- Principled Contextuality -- The Charter: Principled Contextuality, National Feeling -- 7 The Supreme Court of Canada -- Inside the Court -- 8 Diversity at the Margins -- Multiculturalism: Theories of Human Rights -- Adverse Effects and Undue Hardship -- Immigration: Liberty and Security of the Person -- Freedom of Religion -- Wrongful Dismissal -- Equality, Citizenship, and Analogous Grounds -- Mandatory Retirement -- Minority Language Rights -- Aboriginal Law Developments.…”
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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language 15th International Conference, PROPOR 2022, Fortaleza, Brazil, March 21–23, 2022, Proceedings / edited by Vládia Pinheiro, Pablo...

Table of Contents: “…Resources and Evaluation -- UlyssesNER-Br: a corpus of Brazilian legislative documents for named entity recognition -- A test-suite for the evaluation of Portuguese-English machine translations -- MINT - Mainstream and Independent News Text corpus -- Fakepedia Corpus: a flexible fake news corpus in Portuguese -- A targeted assessment of the syntactic abilities of Transformer models for Galician-Portuguese -- FakeRecogna: A new Brazilian corpus for fake news detection -- Implicit opinion aspect clues in Portuguese texts: analysis and categorization -- CRPC-DB A discourse bank for Portuguese -- Challenges in annotating a treebank of clinical narratives in Brazilian Portuguese -- PetroBERT: a domain adaptation language model for oil and gas applications in Portuguese -- SS-PT: A stance and sentiment data set from Portuguese quoted tweets -- Natural Language Processing Tasks -- ZeroBERTo - leveraging zero-shot text classification by topic modeling -- Banking regulation classification in Portuguese -- Automatic information extraction: a distant reading of the Brazilian Historical-Biographical Dictionary -- Automatic recognition of units of measurement in product descriptions from tax invoices using neural networks -- Entity extraction from Portuguese legal documents using distant supervision -- Sexist hate speech: identifying potential online verbal violence instances -- Book genre classification based on reviews of Portuguese-language Literature -- Combining word embeddings for Portuguese named entity recognition -- BERT for sentiment analysis: pre-trained and fine-tuned alternatives -- Fostering judiciary applications with new fine-tuned models for Legal Named Entity recognition in Portuguese -- Natural Language Processing Applications -- Using topic modeling in classification of Brazilian lawsuits -- PortNOIE: A neural framework for Open Information Extraction for the Portuguese language -- Tracking environmental policy changes in the Brazilian Federal Official Gazette -- A transfer learning analysis of political leaning classification in cross-domain content -- Integrating question answering and text-to-SQL in Portuguese -- Named Entity Extractors for new domains by Transfer Learning with automatically annotated data -- PTT5-Paraphraser: Diversity and meaning fidelity in automatic Portuguese paraphrasing -- Speech Processing and Applications -- A protocol for comparing gesture and prosodic boundaries in multimodal corpora -- Forced phonetic alignment in Brazilian Portuguese using time-delay neural networks -- Brazilian Portuguese speech recognition using Wav2Vec 2.0 -- A corpus of neutral voice speech in Brazilian Portuguese -- Comparing lexical and usage frequencies of palatal segments in Portuguese -- Lexical Semantics -- Extracting valences from a dependency treebank for populating the verb lexicon of a Portuguese HPSG grammar -- CQL grammars for lexical and semantic information extraction for Portuguese and Italian -- Drilling Lexico-Semantic Knowledge in Portuguese from BERT -- Short Papers -- The systematic construction of multiple types of corpora through the Lapelinc Framework -- Revisiting CCNET for quality measurements in Galician -- Identifying literary characters in Portuguese: Challenges of an international shared task -- Should I buy or should I pass: e-commerce datasets in Portuguese -- Best MsC/MA & PhD Dissertation -- Abstract meaning representation parsing for the Brazilian Portuguese language -- Enriching Portuguese word embeddings with visual information.-.…”
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Crafting a nation : one craft beer at a time. / Free Mind Productions ; written & directed by Thomas Kolicko ; produced by Thomas Kolicko, Courtney Cobb, Deana McDonald.

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Democratic constitutional design and public policy : analysis and evidence / edited by Roger D. Congleton and Birgitta Swedenborg.

Table of Contents: “…Mark Crain -- Federalism : a constitutional perspective / Dennis C. Mueller -- Common tax pool problems in federal systems / Brian Knight -- Judicial independence and economic Growth : some proposals regarding the judiciary / Lars P. …”
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Democracy in action Cambridge Educational (Firm).

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George W. Bush and John Kerry Debate (10/13/2004) ABC News Productions.

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Recent Developments in Normative Trade Theory and Welfare Economics edited by Binh Tran-Nam, Makoto Tawada, Masayuki Okawa.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part I The Gains from Trade under Non-standard Assumptions -- Chapter 2. …”
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Energy efficiency and renewable energy supply for the G-7 countries, with emphasis on Germany / prepared by Jon Strand. by Strand, Jon

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Planning our future libraries : blueprints for 2025 / Kim Leeder & Eric Frierson, editors.

Table of Contents: “…Planning Our Future Libraries: Blueprints for 2025 -- Contents -- Introduction -- Embracing Participation -- Reimagining Spaces -- Building New Infrastructure -- Leading for the Future -- References -- Part 1: Embracing Participation -- Chapter 1: Redesigning Library Services Again: Revising Buckland's Manifesto -- Bucklandâ€?…”
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Waqf in Central Asia : four hundred years in the history of a Muslim shrine, 1480-1889 / R.D. McChesney. by McChesney, R. D., 1944-

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Investing for Growth How to make money by only buying the best companies in the world - An anthology of investment writing, 2010-20. by Smith, Terry

Table of Contents: “…The Telegraph, 22 November 2013 -- It's déjà vu all over again -- Financial Times, 6 December 2013 -- Annual letter to shareholders 2013 -- Fundsmith, January 2014 -- Just the facts when weighing investments -- Financial Times, 24 January 2014 -- Shale: miracle, revolution or bandwagon? …”
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Concise Encyclopedia of Investing. by Stevens, Robert E.

Table of Contents: “…REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST (REIT)REAL RATE OF RETURN; RETAINED EARNINGS; RETURN ON EQUITY (ROE); RISK; S; S&P/TSX COMPOSITE INDEX; SAVINGS AND LOANS (S&L) ASSOCIATION; SAVINGS BONDS; SECURITIES; SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (SEC); SECURITIES INVESTOR PROTECTION CORPORATION (SIPC); SELLING; SHAREHOLDERS; SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS; SPECULATOR; STATE REGULATORS; STOCK; STOCK INDEX; STRIPS; SYSTEMATIC RISK; T; TAX; TAX-DEFERRED RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS; TAX REFORM ACT OF 1986; TERM LIFE INSURANCE; TICKER TAPE; TREASURY BILLS (T-BILLS); TREASURY BONDS (T-BONDS)…”
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