This issue of the international centre for settlement of investment disputes (ICSID) caseload: statistics (special focus - European Union (EU)) provides an overview of the ICSID caseload involving member states of the EU.
... Подробнее + It is based on ICSID cases registered as of March 1, 2014. This document looks at cases involving an EU member state as the state party to the dispute and illustrates the number of cases registered, the type of cases registered, the basis of consent to ICSID jurisdiction invoked in such cases, the economic sectors involved, and the geographic origin and type of investors involved in such cases. It also contains data on outcomes in arbitration proceedings involving an EU member state, including further information on disputes decided by tribunals and on settled or discontinued cases. It also contains data on outcomes in ICSID arbitration proceedings involving an investor from an EU member state, including further information on disputes decided by tribunals and on settled or discontinued cases. Finally, this document looks at the nationalities and geographic origins of arbitrators, conciliators, and ad hoc committee's members appointed in all ICSID cases. The analysis considers all ICSID cases involving an EU member state irrespective of their date of registration.
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This issue of the international centre for settlement of investment disputes (ICSID) caseload: statistics updates the profile of the ICSID caseload, historically and for the center's fiscal year 2014.
... Подробнее + It is based on cases registered or administered by ICSID as of June 30, 2014. This document illustrates: the number of cases registered under the ICSID convention and additional facility rules; the number of other cases administered by the ICSID secretariat; the basis of consent to ICSID jurisdiction invoked in registered arbitration and conciliation cases; the geographic distribution of ICSID cases by the state party to the dispute; and the economic sectors involved in ICSID disputes. It also contains data on outcomes in ICSID arbitration and conciliation proceedings, including further information on disputes decided by arbitral tribunals, data on discontinued ICSID arbitration proceedings, and outcomes to date in annulment proceedings under the ICSID convention. The nationalities and geographic origins of arbitrators, conciliators, and ad hoc committee members appointed in ICSID cases are also featured.
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This issue of the international centre for settlement of investment disputes (ICSID) caseload: statistics updates the profile of the ICSID caseload, historically and for the center's fiscal year 2014.
... Подробнее + It is based on cases registered or administered by ICSID as of June 30, 2014. This document illustrates: the number of cases registered under the ICSID convention and additional facility rules; the number of other cases administered by the ICSID secretariat; the basis of consent to ICSID jurisdiction invoked in registered arbitration and conciliation cases; the geographic distribution of ICSID cases by the state party to the dispute; and the economic sectors involved in ICSID disputes. It also contains data on outcomes in ICSID arbitration and conciliation proceedings, including further information on disputes decided by arbitral tribunals, data on discontinued ICSID arbitration proceedings, and outcomes to date in annulment proceedings under the ICSID convention. The nationalities and geographic origins of arbitrators, conciliators, and ad hoc committee members appointed in ICSID cases are also featured.
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This issue of the international centre for settlement of investment disputes (ICSID) caseload: statistics (special focus - European Union (EU)) provides an overview of the ICSID caseload involving member states of the EU.
... Подробнее + It is based on ICSID cases registered as of March 1, 2014. This document looks at cases involving an EU member state as the state party to the dispute and illustrates the number of cases registered, the type of cases registered, the basis of consent to ICSID jurisdiction invoked in such cases, the economic sectors involved, and the geographic origin and type of investors involved in such cases. It also contains data on outcomes in arbitration proceedings involving an EU member state, including further information on disputes decided by tribunals and on settled or discontinued cases. It also contains data on outcomes in ICSID arbitration proceedings involving an investor from an EU member state, including further information on disputes decided by tribunals and on settled or discontinued cases. Finally, this document looks at the nationalities and geographic origins of arbitrators, conciliators, and ad hoc committee's members appointed in all ICSID cases. The analysis considers all ICSID cases involving an EU member state irrespective of their date of registration.
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This issue of the international centre for settlement of investment disputes (ICSID) caseload: statistics updates the profile of the ICSID caseload, historically and for the center's fiscal year 2014.
... Подробнее + It is based on cases registered or administered by ICSID as of June 30, 2014. This document illustrates: the number of cases registered under the ICSID convention and additional facility rules; the number of other cases administered by the ICSID secretariat; the basis of consent to ICSID jurisdiction invoked in registered arbitration and conciliation cases; the geographic distribution of ICSID cases by the state party to the dispute; and the economic sectors involved in ICSID disputes. It also contains data on outcomes in ICSID arbitration and conciliation proceedings, including further information on disputes decided by arbitral tribunals, data on discontinued ICSID arbitration proceedings, and outcomes to date in annulment proceedings under the ICSID convention. The nationalities and geographic origins of arbitrators, conciliators, and ad hoc committee members appointed in ICSID cases are also featured.
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This issue of the international centre for settlement of investment disputes (ICSID) caseload: statistics (special focus - European Union (EU)) provides an overview of the ICSID caseload involving member states of the EU.
... Подробнее + It is based on ICSID cases registered as of March 1, 2014. This document looks at cases involving an EU member state as the state party to the dispute and illustrates the number of cases registered, the type of cases registered, the basis of consent to ICSID jurisdiction invoked in such cases, the economic sectors involved, and the geographic origin and type of investors involved in such cases. It also contains data on outcomes in arbitration proceedings involving an EU member state, including further information on disputes decided by tribunals and on settled or discontinued cases. It also contains data on outcomes in ICSID arbitration proceedings involving an investor from an EU member state, including further information on disputes decided by tribunals and on settled or discontinued cases. Finally, this document looks at the nationalities and geographic origins of arbitrators, conciliators, and ad hoc committee's members appointed in all ICSID cases. The analysis considers all ICSID cases involving an EU member state irrespective of their date of registration.
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This paper uses a three-step Bayesian cross-entropy estimation approach in an environment of noisy and scarce data to estimate behavioral parameters for a computable general equilibrium model.
... Подробнее + The estimation also measures how labor-augmenting productivity and other structural parameters in the model may have shifted over time to contribute to the generation of historically observed changes in the economic arrangement. In this approach, the parameters in a computable general equilibrium model are treated as fixed but unobserved, represented as prior mean values with prior error mass functions. Estimation of the parameters involves using an information-theoretic Bayesian approach to exploit additional information in the form of new data from a series of social accounting matrices, which are assumed were measured with error. The estimation procedure is "efficient" in the sense that it uses all available information and makes no assumptions about unavailable information. As illustration, the methodology is applied to estimate the parameters of a computable general equilibrium model using alternative data sets for the Republic of Korea and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики WPS7174 JAN 01, 2015
Today's global knowledge economy requires governments, education systems, and schools to closely monitor a variety of educational outcomes, including student achievements.
... Подробнее + A national assessment of student achievement in key curriculum areas contributes to this effort by addressing issues relating to: quality; equity; provision; and change. Part one is designed to assist national assessment teams in performing analyses of data normally carried out in a national assessment. Part two focuses on the development of scales to describe student learning. The item and test analysis (IATA) software described in this volume uses item response theory (IRT) to analyze test data. It was designed to offer a user friendly way to address two major statistical considerations related to national assessments: (a) to increase the usability and interpretability of test scores and (b) to establish meaningful and consistent scales on which to report scores.
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The China Contaminated Site Management Project development objective (also the global environmental objective) is to improve the countrys capacity for managing site contamination, and demonstrate identification and cleanup of sites contaminated with POPs and other hazardous chemicals in an environmentally sound manner.
... Подробнее + The Project will include activities at both national and provincial levels. Chongqing municipality and Liaoning province as pioneers with strong commitment and ownership for managing contaminated sites have been selected as the two demonstration areas among four municipalities or provinces (Requests of Expression of Interest were sent to 11 provinces and municipalities), which expressed interest to participate in the Project. The project itself is an environmental remediation and risk reduction effort which aims at supporting the Chinese governments efforts to improve its capacity for managing contaminated sites, and demonstrate identification and cleanup of sites contaminated with POPs and other hazardous chemicals, and thus has significant positive environmental and social benefits through eliminating POPs pollution sources at demonstration sites and enhancing environmental quality of the project area.
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Оценка состояния окружающей среды E4666 DEC 15, 2014
The World Bank conducted this study of the potential for Open Transport Data in St. Petersburg as part of the preparations for the Improvement of Urban Transport Systems Project in Russia.
... Подробнее + It is principally intended for use by the St. Petersburg transportation authorities, the Federal Ministry of Transport and the Project Implementation Unit in considering and implementing open data as part of the new systems being developed as part of the Project. There are already good examples of transport information systems in St. Petersburg. Most of this information is not currently available for external use, but in the cases where it has been made available, for instance by the Agency 'Organizer of Transportation' for real-time bus information; this has been welcomed and well-used by citizens and authorities, despite some current limitations. Within the St. Petersburg component of Improvement of Urban Transport Systems Project there are plans for more transport information systems, including parking information, traffic management and passenger information systems. The conclusion of this report is that the social, economic and environmental benefits of the St. Petersburg project would be enhanced by the greater availability and use by travelers and others of the information collected by these planned systems. Making the information available as Open Transport Data and allowing it to be used for development of innovative third-party applications would be a relatively easy and cost-effective way of leveraging the planned investment to ensure that the information reached the largest number of travelers. Doing so will maximize the desired behavioral changes that drive the benefits and improve the overall return on investment.
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This paper on Development Technology sector of Information and Communication (ICT) in Guinea Bissau reminds us that after more than a decade of political instability that has resulted in a deterioration of the entire infrastructure, Guinea Bissau has held successful presidential elections in May 2014 and the formation of a new government in June 2014.
... Подробнее + In this context, the Unit of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has prepared sectoral notes presenting an assessment of the ICT industry, analyzing the obstacles to growth, recalling the significant potential of the contribution of the sector to Guinea-Bissaus Economy - emphasizing the importance of synergies between infrastructure - with a list of recommendations for the assessment of authorities. This sectoral Note aims to highlight the need for considering ICT as a driver of economic growth and a pillar which supports a program of economic development and reduction of poverty.
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The term "open data" is generally understood to be data that are made available to the public free of charge, without registration or restrictive licenses, for any purpose whatsoever (including commercial purposes), in electronic, machine-readable formats that ensure data are easy to find, download and use.
... Подробнее + National Statistics Offices (NSOs) have the potential to play a pivotal role in the implementation of open data initiatives. As producers and curators of data, the objective of making high quality data more accessible and usable is consistent with their guiding principles. NSOs indicate, in research conducted in support of this report, that one of the difficulties they encounter is that the technology they use to publish - or electronically distribute - data for public use is not compatible with open formats. They also indicate that common software packages used for open data portals do not accommodate the data formats and metadata they produce. Two key concerns related to data dissemination products are addresses: (1) Can such products designed primarily for NSOs satisfy requirements for an open data initiative?; and (2) Can such products designed primarily for open data satisfy the requirements of NSOs? Furthermore, data reuse, both by data experts and the public at large, is key to creating new opportunities and benefits from government data. The following recommendations are made to improve the overall utility of data publication platforms to NSOs and the open data community: improve technical documentation; ensure public Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and endpoints are interoperable; presentation of metadata and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) must conform to W3C standards; natural language search and metadata faceting should be standard; structural metadata and hypercube support are core NSO requirements; dashboards and visualisations are necessary for user engagement; and develop data engagement tools for improving data-quality and reuse.
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Some of the headings included in this issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG) daily economic news are as follows: financial markets; high income economies; and developing economies in Europe and Central Asia.
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Some of the headings included in this issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG) daily economic news are as follows: financial markets; high income economies; and developing economies in East Asia and Pacific and Europe and Central Asia.
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Some of the headings included in this issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG) daily economic news are as follows: financial markets; high income economies; and developing economies in Europe and Central Asia and Latin America and Caribbean.
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The China Contaminated Site Management Project development objective (also the global environmental objective) is to improve the countrys capacity for managing site contamination, and demonstrate identification and cleanup of sites contaminated with POPs and other hazardous chemicals in an environmentally sound manner.
... Подробнее + The Project will include activities at both national and provincial levels. Chongqing municipality and Liaoning province as pioneers with strong commitment and ownership for managing contaminated sites have been selected as the two demonstration areas among four municipalities or provinces (Requests of Expression of Interest were sent to 11 provinces and municipalities), which expressed interest to participate in the Project. The project itself is an environmental remediation and risk reduction effort which aims at supporting the Chinese governments efforts to improve its capacity for managing contaminated sites, and demonstrate identification and cleanup of sites contaminated with POPs and other hazardous chemicals, and thus has significant positive environmental and social benefits through eliminating POPs pollution sources at demonstration sites and enhancing environmental quality of the project area.
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Оценка состояния окружающей среды E4666 OCT 01, 2014
The Second Integrated Growth Poles Project (CIP) is an initiative of the Government of Madagascar to reduce poverty through economic growth in some regions with high potential.
... Подробнее + Various activities to develop tourism and exports in these two regions are currently under study. Indeed, by ripple effect, these sectors will promote the creation of new jobs and the development of income-generating activities that benefit the local and national economies. Apart from the impacts related to actual installations, it is already possible to advance some possible impacts: 1) Disturbances of aquatic ecosystems associated with the downstream temperature variation of a hydroelectric dam; 2) Risks of water use conflicts, including possible risks of water-use conflicts in case the hydroelectric dam Sahavanona would be selected; 3) Water pollution Risks; 4) Environmental impacts related to civil works; 5) Displacement risks if there is crop fields drowned in the reservoir. However, this impact is unlikely because the height of the planned dams is low; 6) For solar energy, also note the accumulators explosion risks and pollution risks associated with used batteries.
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Оценка состояния окружающей среды E4612 OCT 01, 2014
Soil pollution has become a serious health and environmental threat in China, contaminating the food chain with heavy metals, fertilizers and pesticides, persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and solvents; and polluting groundwater and surface waters.
... Подробнее + The Chinese Government has become aware of the serious socioeconomic risks resulting from soil pollution and carried out China's first soil pollution survey from April 2005 to December 2013. The survey covered all arable land, partial forest land, grassland, unused land, and construction land with a total area of about 6.3 million square kilometers. On April 17, 2014, the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) and Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) jointly issued a Communique on results of this survey. It states that soil pollution in some regions is severe, soil quality of arable land is worrying, and soil environment problems in abandoned industrial and mining sites are prominent. The overall percentage of sample points exceeding the screening threshold in the country is estimated at 16.1 percent. About 33 percent of sample points in highly polluting industries, Industrial Parks, abandoned industrial sites, and mining areas, 20 percent in arable land, 26 percent in wastewater irrigation areas and 20 percent in the land along highways show contamination. The main contaminants found are heavy metals (cadmium, nickel, arsenic, cuprum, mercury, lead, chromium, zinc) and organic pollutants (hexachlorocyclohexane-HCH, dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane-DDT, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons-PAHs). These results demonstrate the extent of the country's land pollution problems. On one hand, this poses environmental and health risks in Chinas most densely populated areas, on the other hand, this is an obstacle to redevelopment, and urban and rural economic growth.
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The Second Phase of the Integrated Growth Poles and Corridor Project (CIP) of Madagascar is an initiative of the Government of Madagascar to reduce poverty through economic growth in some regions with high potential called Growth Poles and Corridors Project.
... Подробнее + It is subject to environmental and social assessment scrutiny in a way that upcoming investments cause the least possible environmental and social damage and provide maximum benefits to the environment and the people living within the vicinity of the target areas. All precautions have been taken to avoid as far as possible, that a person or property is harmed during and after the implementation of the Project. However, some displacement will probably be inevitable for some identified subprojects. In all cases, planned resettlements are of small scale and will affect only a limited number of households. Thus the Government of Madagascar has prepared a Resettlement Policy Framework (RPF) to clarify the principles guiding resettlement, organizational arrangements and design criteria to be applied to the project. This is actually a mitigation tool used whenever the location of a project, the content of its components and its impact on the populations perspective displacement and land acquisition are not precisely known. The identified sub-projects that are likely to cause resettlement are: 1) Roads and urban roads; 2) Energy; 3) Madagascar Business and Infrastructure Fund (MBIF) and Communal operation of integrated support (OCAI) sub-components.
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