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- Monetary Policy Rules and Inflation Targets in Emerging Economies: Evidence for Mexico and Israel
- This paper analyses the main determinants of monetary policy in two emerging economies: Mexico and Israel. Due to the share feature of these countries facing currency and financial crises this study consider the alternative to incorporate a financial variable such as the level of foreign reserves in the reaction function...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Learning as Work: Teaching And Learning Processes In The Contemporary Work Organisation
- The skills debate in many European countries has for many years been preoccupied with the supply of qualified individuals and participation in training events. This emphasis is reflected in the sources of systematic data currently available to policy-makers and academics in the field. However, case study work suggests that qualifications...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- A Preliminary Investigation Into The Institutionalisation Of Skill Formation And Firm Size
- For the last three decades there has been a tendency in most of the older industrial countries to see SMEs Small And Medium Sized Enterprises as 'Failing' to invest in training. Nowadays, there have voices which have questioned this belief, not least from within the small business community. This is...
- White papers 2005-12-14
- Exporting, Linkages And Productivity Spillovers From Foreign Direct Investment
- This paper analyses productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment using firm level panel data UK manufacturing industries from 1992 to 1999. Spillovers are investigated through horizontal, backward and forward linkages, distinguish spillovers from export oriented vs. domestic market oriented FDI Foreign Direct Investment, and allow for differing effects depending on...
- White papers 2006-03-10
- The Role Of Exports And Foreign Linkages For FDI Productivity Spillovers
- In this paper we analyse productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment using firm level panel data UK manufacturing industries from 1992 to 1999. We investigate spillovers through horizontal, backward and forward linkages, distinguish spillovers from export oriented vs domestic market oriented FDI Foreign Direct Investment, and allow for differing effects...
- White papers 2004-01-28
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- News: Gissings appointed by Leicester University.
- The University of Leicester has appointed Gissings to provide full services to its final salary pension scheme. Gissings has been administering the university's pension scheme since 1998. It was re-appointed for administration work and was also appointed to provide actuarial services previously provided by...
- Research articles 2004-08-23
- Leicester University Hospitals Pathway PFI.
- Serco joint venture appointed preferred bidder for Leicester University Hospitals Pathway PFI Serco Group plc's ("Serco") joint...
- Research articles 2005-03-18
- Dino-eating pterosaur evolved in unusual way
- An international team of researchers has just identified a new dinosaur-eating pterosaur that soared through the Jurassic skies 160 million years ago, according to a study released this week. Christened Darwinopterus modularis, meaning "Darwin's wing composed of interchangeable units," the new flying reptile honors the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's...
- News items 2009-10-14
- Did Jefferson Have Jewish Ancestor?
- Israel Faxx News Services Thomas Jefferson may have had a Jewish ancestor, a new genetic study suggests. The New York Times reported Wednesday that researchers studying the third U.S. president's Y chromosome found it belongs to a lineage that is rare...
- Research articles 2007-03-02
- Bank of England considering explicit rate forecasts: deputy governor
- LONDON AFP — The Bank of England, Britain's central bank, is considering making explicit interest rate forecasts, the bank's Deputy Governor for Monetary Policy Rachel Lomax said in a speech on Wednesday, the Financial Times reported. Citing the publication of interest rate forecasts by the central banks of Norway,...
- Research articles 2007-02-28
- Frontline NHS staff defy swine flu vaccination guidance
- A third of frontline nurses say they will not get immunised against swine flu when the vaccine becomes available later this year, a snapshot survey by HSJ's sister magazine Nursing Times has revealed. Top among the reasons for rejecting the vaccine are concerns about its safety, and a perception of...
- News items 2009-08-17
- Pick of the week
- Garbage The not-at-all rubbish featherweight rockers celebrate a top-five single with their first proper tour. All sold out, save for: Tonight 7pm, Manchester Labatt's Apollo (0161-242 2560); Sun 7pm, London Brixton Academy (0171-924 9999/0171-278 0932) Terrorvision The new album is a gas, and live...
- Research articles 1996-03-22
- Homicide probers name award for Green
- The prestigious International Homicide Investigators Association, holding its 10th annual symposium this week in Las Vegas, has named its top annual award after a retired Oakland police homicide section commander. The first-ever Terence J. Green Distinguished Homicide Professional Award will be presented to Sir Alec Jefferies of...
- Research articles 2003-09-08
- Student apartment buildings on the increase.
- Apr 10, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Developers Romanza and Becton have separate plans to build student apartment buildings in Carlton, Victoria. Romanza, formerly Rhema Developments, plans to build a $A147 million, three-building complex at 140 Leicester Street, strategically located...
- Research articles 2003-04-11
- Winning Hearts and Minds: British Governments, the Media and Colonial Counter-Insurgency, 1944-1960. (book reviews)
- Winning Hearts and Minds: British Governments, the Media and Colonial CounterInsurgency 1994-1960 by Susan L. Carruthers (London and New York: Leicester University Press, 1995, pp.xi + 307, 45 [pounds sterling] hb, 6.99 [pounds sterling] pb). Colonial counter-insurgency has become a relatively well-worked field in recent...
- Research articles 1997-07-01
- Your money: Saved from crippling debts
- WORRIED dad Gordon Tempest- Hay has already opened a cash ISA to make sure his children will have a university education. "State funding is getting less and less," said Gordon, pictured with Cameron, six, and Paige, nine. "And this way they might also avoid the crippling debts...
- Research articles 2002-09-15
- Your Money: COLLEGE'S OUT
- pounds MORE than half of 16-to 21-year-olds say they would prefer to start earning money straight away rather than go to university, an Alliance & Leicester study found. Four in 10 said the idea of building up debt while at college was putting them off going.
- Research articles 2007-08-19
- Welcome to Martin Powell
- Martin Powell has been appointed Chief Executive of The Concrete Society and will take up his post in early January. He has most recently been general manager of business performance at Lafarge Aggregates for their UK multi-site ready-mixed concrete operations and served as director of two joint-venture businesses. Martin...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
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