The bank said the agriculture sector registered the largest needs (27% of the total), followed by housing (18%), social protection (16 %) and transport (12%). (This story has been corrected to fix first-year re
Investment decisions of family firms in the three largest euro countries: the role of the financial crisisThis study aims to investigate the impact of family ownership on the investment-cash flow sensitivity relationship. Our main hypotheses are tested through fixed effects regression analysis on panel...
Now his dream has come true.The power of the Yangtze River, which is the world's third longest river, has been harnessed by the Three Gorges Dam. 如今,他的理想变成了现实,世界第三长河——长江的水力已经被三峡大坝很好地利用了。 The Three Gorges Dam, which is the biggest construction project...
“VCE is the outstanding result of the long-standing and successful partnership between EMC and Cisco. VCE continues to lead the converged infrastructure market and is one of the fastest growing companies in the history of IT. By allowing companies to focus on business innovation instead of techno...
Various aspects of social relationships have been examined as risk factors for mortality. In particular, most research has focused on either loneliness or social disengagement. We aimed to extend the current research by adding a group-level segregation m
Although the number of GDP looks beautiful, it does not reflect the quality of the economy. China's economic weekly launched this year's "GDP ranking of the provinces, regions and municipalities in Guizhou" (the "happiness index") shows that although the
Pipe Dreams: The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline in Central Asia, the World's Largest Private Construction Effort, Promises to Bring Much-Needed Foreign Cash to the Three Countries It Traverses: Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey. but, as R......
Based on Dworkin (1972), Elvebakk defines paternalism as “the interference with a person’s liberty of action justified by reasons referring exclusively to the welfare, good, happiness, needs, interests or values of the person being coerced’’ (Dworkin, 1972). This happens without the ...
quickly,to get new trends and styles into stores and online as soon as possible,and it comes at a high social and environmental cost.Keeping production costs low means they can make their clothes cheap,using cheap labour in unsafe working conditions,and in countries with bad...
The label(标签) Made in China is one that is becoming increasing common in shopping centers all over the world. In the United States shoppers at Wal-Mart the nation’s largest retailer(零售商) have a wide selection of products mostly produced in Chi