AUGUST 2007‚FIRST DRAFT Services provisions in regional trade agreements: stumbling or building blocks for multilateral liberalization? Carsten Fink World Bank Marion Jansen* WTO Paper presented at the Conference on Multilateralising Regionalism Sponsored and organized by WTO - HEI Co-organized by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) 10-12 September 2007 Geneva‚ Switzerland The views expressed in this paper are the authors’ own and cannot be attributed to the World Bank‚ the WTO
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States Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural BusinessCooperative Service FIBS Research Report 141 Shared-Sewices Cooperatives Abstract This report describes the general structure and operations of shared-services cooperatives and discusses some of the benefits accorded to their owners. This report will provide some insights for business people and public servants interested in organizing a shared-services cooperative. It discusses how they are organized and how they operate. This
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Service: A Duty? A Benefit? Or Both‚ Or Perhaps Neither? While the choice of service to your country‚ on a national‚ state‚ or local government level‚ is an admirable and important endeavor‚ the choice must be driven by one’s own conscience. To think globally‚ or for the good of the nation and even for the future – cannot be forced. To compel someone to serve their country‚ as with the military draft(conscription)‚ is a non effective notion that will neither guarantee the strength and quality
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beginning to lose its position. Service marketing is one leading new approach to marketing. Four main characteristics of services defined by Kotler et al. (2009) are intangible‚ perishable‚ variability and inseparability (see Appendix A). Thus‚ Booms and Bitner (1982) turn services marketing into 7Ps by adding people‚ physical evidence and process. According to Vargo and Lusch (2004)‚ a paradigm shift in the marketing discipline that is service-dominant logic(S-D logic) and can be captured in
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Services Marketing A service is the action of doing something for someone or something. It is largely intangible (i.e. not material). A product is tangible (i.e. material) since you can touch it and own it. A service tends to be an experience that is consumed at the point where it is purchased‚ and cannot be owned since is quickly perishes. A person could go to a café one day and have excellent service‚ and then return the next day and have a poor experience. So often marketers talk about the nature
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Operations Management History The Role of Services in an economy Operations Management: Set of activities that create value in the form of goods and services‚ Timeline of OM: Crafts Manufacturing Industrial Revolution (1770 England): • Invention of steam engines‚ replaced human power • Started with textile industry • Increased use of refined coal Division of Labor (1776‚ Adam Smith) Standardized parts (1800‚ Eli Whitney)‚ interchangable parts Steam Ships (1807) Telegrapgh (1844
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R. Akkiraju‚ J. Farrell‚ J.Miller‚ M. Nagarajan‚ M. Schmidt‚ A. Sheth‚ K. Verma‚ "Web Service Semantics - WSDL-S‚" A joint UGA-IBM Technical Note‚ version 1.0‚ April 18‚ 2005. http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/projects/METEOR-S/WSDL-S Web Service Semantics - WSDL-S Technical Note Version 1.0 April‚ 2005 Authors (alphabetically): Rama Akkiraju‚ IBM Research Joel Farrell‚ IBM Software Group John Miller‚ LSDIS Lab‚ University of Georgia Meenakshi Nagarajan‚ LSDIS Lab‚ University of Georgia Marc-Thomas
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The service industry forms a backbone of social and economic development of a region. It has emerged as the largest and fastest-growing sectors in the world economy‚ making higher contributions to the global output and employment. Its growth rate has been higher than that of agriculture and manufacturing sectors. It is a large and most dynamic part of the Indian economy both in terms of employment potential and contribution to national income. It covers a wide range of activities‚ such as trading
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How has New Public management (NPM) affected the public services? To what extent has its impact been beneficial? The development of ‘new public management’ (hereafter NPM) over the past 20 years is one of the most striking international trends in public administration. It is important to mention that the rise of NPM is linked with other four megatrends in that period‚ namely: - Attempts to slow down government growth and spending (Dunsire and Hood 1989 cited in Hood 1991‚ p.3);
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