NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES GROWTH IN REGIONS Nicola Gennaioli Rafael La Porta Florencio Lopez de Silanes Andrei Shleifer Working Paper 18937 http://www.nber.org/papers/w18937 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 April 2013 We are grateful to Jan Luksic for outstanding research assistance‚ to Antonio Spilimbergo for sharing the structural reform data set‚ and to Robert Barro‚ Peter Ganong‚ and Simon Jaeger for extremely helpful comments. Shleifer
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Ilocos Region ∙ Geography of Ilocos The Ilocos region or Region I (Ilokano: Rehion ti Ilocos‚ or Deppaar ti Ilocos ; Pangasinan: Rihiyon na Sagor na Baybay na Luzon (Region at the Northwest Coast of Luzon)) is a Region of the Philippines and is located in the northwest of Luzon. It borders to the east the regions of the Cordillera Administrative Region and Cagayan Valley and to the south the region of Central Luzon. To the northwest is the West Philippine Sea. The region is composed of four provinces
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Reverse brain drain ‚ which refers to the migration issue‚ whereby human capital moves in reverse from a more developed country to a less developed country that is developing rapidly‚ which is commonly defined as ‘brain drain’. It is also termed as a logical outcome of a calculated strategy‚ where migrants accumulate savings‚ also known as remittances‚ and develop skills overseas that can be used in their home country.[1] Reverse brain drain can occur when scientists‚ engineers‚ or other intellectual
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HISTORY OF CIVIL AVIATION Air transport is the most modern‚ the quickest and the latest addition to the modes of transport. Because of speed with which aero planes can fly‚ travel by air is becoming increasingly popular. As far as the world trade is concerned it is still dominated by sea transport because air transport is very expensive and is also unsuitable for carrying heavy‚ bulky goods. However‚ transportation of high value light goods and perishable goods is increasingly being done by air
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Embry-Riddle aeronautical university worldwide | Aviation Infrastructure in Africa | ASCI 645: Airport Operations and Management | | Luisandro Ramos | Professor Dr. Russel Chandler | | Abstract: The performance of the African aviation industry is still lagging behind those of the rest of the world. Nonetheless‚ demand for air transport has increased steadily over the past years with passenger numbers and freight traffic growing by 45% and 80% respectively. Over the period 2010
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action has been widespreadly used and as a result reverse discrimination has been arising alongside it to counter affirmative action. Affirmative action has been put in place so that the minorities that have been subjected to discrimination have an equal opportunity in American life. Likewise‚ reverse discrimination has been implemented for those who are in the majority and have been discriminated based on gender or race. (Greenawalt‚ 1979) Reverse discrimination would not have to have come into action
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identified‚ creative evaluation needs more concentration covering all the aspects including little details as well. However‚ an idea that seem to be less creative or where less efforts were seen may prove more complex as in this case. This is where the Reverse Brainstorming model proved most useful. It means that an idea which may initially seem easy to implement becomes more complicated when analyzed. The group felt that due to the number of variable factors involved in this problem‚ no solution could
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REVERSE MORTGAGE LOAN Senior Citizens are an increasing component of the Indian society and dependency in old age is increasing in the country. Most senior citizens have spent a life time working‚ providing and saving. They have built a home‚ brought up their children‚ often giving them the best possible education‚ got their children married and are now retired from service. While on one hand‚ there is significant increase in longevity and low mortality‚ on the other hand‚ cost of good
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REGION 13 Caraga is an administrative region of the Philippines‚ on the northeastern portion of the island of Mindanao‚ designated as Region XIII. The Caraga Region was created through Republic Act No. 7901 on February 23‚ 1995. The region is composed of five provinces: Agusan del Norte‚ Agusan del Sur‚ Surigao del Norte‚ Surigao del Sur and Dinagat Islands; six cities: Bayugan‚ Butuan‚ Cabadbaran‚ Surigao‚ Tandag‚ Bislig; 67 municipalities and 1‚311 barangays. Butuan City is the regional center
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The purpose of the Chain of Command is to install structure‚ discipline and respect into newer enlisted soldiers. Each branch has its own secretary that assigns forces under their jurisdictions to unify and specific combatant commanders they perform missions and report back to their chain of command. The chain of command starts with the Commander-in-Chief and works its way down to the lowest ranking private in the Army. Within the military‚ the chain of command is a method for leading and communicating
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