Human capital as a resilience strategy in the Pamirs is the subject of Case Study 3, to bring into focus human resilience there, to supplement the considerations elsewhere in this book of the challenging mountainous environment in Peru, Nepal, the Philippines and Ethiopia; the global mountainous ...
After looking at damages caused by the typhoons that are recorded in MEDIC, we decided to use the Philippines as a representative for this disaster event type in our example. Missing values for some countries indicators were imputed with a K-Nearest-Neighbour imputation algorithm. This approach ...
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when one party insists on international arbitration, as did the Philippines in the SCS, the other party may be more likely to reject the legitimacy of arbitration, which is what China did. Bilateral settlement makes it easier for parties to bring pre-Westphalian practices and history into settlem...
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In another effort to save costs the company streamlined its purchasing Processes, for example, by reducing the number of packaging suppliers on a global basis from 50 to 5, saving an- other $100 million a year in the process, Next, McNerney introduced the Six Sigma pro- cess, a rigorous...
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For example, the coefficient of harvest shocks in March is -0.418, which is significant at the 1% level. This means that if 10% of these households' land suffers from a below-average harvest, they decrease their consumption by 4.2% of the sample average of total consumption. Although the ...