Not exact matches
The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business
model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from
state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious
growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower
growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.
Sheri Vandermause, CMIT Solutions head of franchise development
states: «We attribute our strong
growth to the strength of our business
model, the space in the market that we are in, and the fact that many talented executives are interested in having something of their own at this stage in their career — that allows them to see the direct benefits of their efforts.
Deng's
model of reform tolerated corruption between
state officials and business tycoons for the sake of rapid job
growth.
Jaiswal did a PhD in agricultural and biological engineering from Penn
State University, US, and conducted research in crop
growth modelling at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, US, and the
State University of Campinas, Brazil.
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Growth, FIN Finance, FMK Financial Markets, FOR Forecasting, GEO Economic Geography, GRO Economic
Growth, GTH Game Theory, HAP Economics of Happiness, HEA Health Economics, HIS Business, Economic & Financial History, HME Heterodox Microeconomics, HPE History & Philosophy of Economics, HRM Human Capital & Human Resource Management, IAS Insurance Economics, ICT Information & Communication Technologies, IFN International Finance, IND Industrial Organization, INO Innovation, INT International Trade, IPR Intellectual Property Rights, IUE Informal & Underground Economics, KNM Knowledge Management & Knowledge Economy, LAB Labour Economics, LAM Central & South America, LAW Law & Economics, LMA Labor Markets - Supply, Demand & Wages, LTV Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty, MAC Macroeconomics, MFD Microfinance, MIC Microeconomics, MIG Economics of Human Migration, MKT Marketing, MON Monetary Economics, MST Market Microstructure, NET Network Economics, NEU Neuroeconomics, OPM Open Macroeconomics, PBE Public Economics, PKE Post Keynesian Economics, POL Positive Political Economics, PPM Project, Program & Portfolio Management, PUB Public Finance, REG Regulation, RES Resource Economics, RMG Risk Management, SBM Small Business Management, SEA South East Asia, SOC Social Norms & Social Capital, SOG Sociology of Economics, SPO Sports & Economics, TID Technology & Industrial Dynamics, TRA Transition Economics, TRE Transport Economics, TUR Tourism Economics, UPT Utility
Models & Prospect Theory, URE Urban & Real Estate Economics.
Zhang Monan, an economist with the
State Council Information Center, noted a long - term trend of energy - intensive operations moving from industrialized coastal areas, as those regions shift to low - carbon
growth models.
So are the miracle wheat and rice of the Green Revolution, the technology of behavior modification proposed by B. F. Skinner, 1 and the computerized
model of the global ecology produced by the authors of The Limits to
Growth.2 This kind of reasoning operates within the limits of what is possible as defined by (1) the available material and human resources, (2) the laws of nature, and (3) the
state of knowledge at the time.
There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the
State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala
Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic
growth.
It presents the Kerala
model as something from which the Union Government and other Indian
states like UP and Bihar have to learn their lesson that without a basis in social development like literacy, health and women's education and social security there can be no participatory economic expansion which is necessary if economic
growth has to serve society.
Social development has already made a contribution to the economic development of the
state and he has a long quotation from his earlier writing to affirm that it is possible to develop a Kerala Model of Economic Growth on the foundation of its Model of Social Development by a new State strategy of «transforming its expenditure on education and health from merely a social welfare expenditure into an investment in human capital», and that in fact any other path of economic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resources&ra
state and he has a long quotation from his earlier writing to affirm that it is possible to develop a Kerala
Model of Economic
Growth on the foundation of its Model of Social Development by a new State strategy of «transforming its expenditure on education and health from merely a social welfare expenditure into an investment in human capital», and that in fact any other path of economic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resources&r
Growth on the foundation of its
Model of Social Development by a new
State strategy of «transforming its expenditure on education and health from merely a social welfare expenditure into an investment in human capital», and that in fact any other path of economic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resources&ra
State strategy of «transforming its expenditure on education and health from merely a social welfare expenditure into an investment in human capital», and that in fact any other path of economic
growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resources&r
growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resources».
Albania, which in 1967 became the world's first official atheistic
state, is now fast becoming a
model of religious
growth and an example to the rest of Europe, according to a senior Orthodox official.
«While we are proud of the progress and impact we have made in the last few years, in order to experience a new horizon of
growth, we must invest in our systems and overall economic
model to extend our promise to the most vulnerable, our partners and staff,» Moore
stated.
The latest acquisition is part of KBP's continued
growth model and means the leading franchisee owns 247 quick service restaurants in 10
states.
The American Association of Pediatricians statement on breastfeeding and the use of human milk (2005)
states, «Exclusive breastfeeding is the reference or normative
model against which all alternative feeding methods must be measured with regard to
growth, health, development and all other short and long - term outcomes.»
Our goal is to help the
state see the value of this
model and support its
growth.
The
model involves the
state identifying business sectors to target for
growth and recruiting developers to build facilities and seed them with anchor tenants who can in turn attract other related businesses to build a critical mass of related activity.
It appeared that he would make the economy, taxes and jobs central to his campaign, mentioning other
states like Florida, North Dakota and Texas — which have Republican governors — as
models for
growth and competitors for New York's jobs and citizens.
Until now, little was known in preclinical
models about the mechanisms that allow breast cancer cells to leave the latent
state and even less is known in patients,» explains Roger Gomis, head of the
Growth Control and Cancer Metastasis Lab.
«Discovering the factors involved in granuloma control vs those not able to control bacterial
growth is a critical step in potentially developing treatments that could «freeze» granulomas into a protective
state in the two billion latent carriers,» explains Grace Peng, Ph.D., Director of the NIBIB program for Mathematical
Modeling, Simulation and Analysis.
Researchers in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas
State University have validated a
model showing
growth in Kansas for the habitat of the troublesome lone star tick.
Bettencourt and his colleagues at Arizona
State University (A.S.U.), Dresden University of Technology in Germany and New Mexico's Santa Fe Institute,
modeled the
growth of a city according to three categories of factors: material infrastructure (road surfaces, electrical cable, etc.), human needs (such as total energy consumption and housing) and patterns of social activity, including total bank deposits, research and development, new cases of AIDS and new patents filed.
We will leverage
state - of - the - art bioinformatic and biological approaches for investigating how these factors interact in combination to regulate axon
growth during RGC development and test the potential of such factors for regenerating RGC axons in a rodent
model of optic nerve injury.
In this study, we apply an empirical
growth and yield
model for loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) to the southeastern United
States in an effort to predict the impacts of changing climate
You'll find information on the
state's
growth model («student
growth percentiles»), student learning objectives (SLOs), how the new evaluation system influences tenure, how summary ratings inform professional development, and more.
The Department of Education last week selected the first
states that will be allowed to use a «
growth model» to determine adequate yearly progress for schools under the No Child Left Behind Act.
In order to improve implementation of the NCLB law, President George W. Bush's second secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, allowed
states to apply to participate in pilot projects to try out changes to the law, including a
growth -
model pilot that let
states consider student progress in rating schools instead of comparing different cohorts of students to one another.
Much media hype surrounded the announcement that
states would be able to use
growth models, but early in 2007 only three
states had been approved, with two more receiving approval contingent on department endorsement of their testing systems.
The Department of Education has approved 15
states» requests to use «
growth models» to measure achievement.
Since charter schools do not receive any facility funding from the
state of Texas, without our district partnerships our
growth model showed that we could only fund raise enough to open 11 campuses.
He also urged
state lawmakers to authorize the use of a transparent
growth model to see how well schools are really doing to improve student achievement.
Miller adds that Spellings has not allowed
states to use
growth models as an «escape hatch.»
The Commission on Education for Economic
Growth,
modeled after a similar national panel that Governor Hunt headed for the Education Commission of the
States, was appointed in October 1983 by the Governor...
In his eight years as Minnesota's governor, Tim Pawlenty's «push against the teachers union grew stronger,» Sherry writes, and he called for tying teacher pay to performance, bringing up the
state's standards, and urging
state lawmakers to authorize the use of a transparent
growth model to see how well schools are really doing to improve student achievement.
Given these USDOE restrictions, one might think that the only option is for
states and districts to choose a sparse
growth model, such as median student
growth percentiles (SGPs), that only controls for past student exam scores in estimating student
growth.
Given these results, a modified two - step value - added
model may be a workable compromise for
states and districts that would like to implement a proportional
growth model but also seek to comply with the federal guidelines on
growth measures.
Six of the nine
states participating in the U.S. Department of Education's
growth -
model pilot project provided information to the EPE Research Center detailing the number of schools making adequate yearly progress, or AYP, under...
Yes, Margaret Spellings allowed for a «
growth model pilot» when she was secretary of education — but schools still had to get all students to proficiency within three years, an unrealistic standard in
states with a meaningful (and rigorous) definition of proficiency.
In our recent article for Education Next, «Choosing the Right
Growth Measure,» we laid out an argument for why we believe a proportional growth measure that levels the playing field between advantaged and disadvantaged schools (represented in the article by a two - step value - added model) is the best choice for use in state and district accountability sy
Growth Measure,» we laid out an argument for why we believe a proportional
growth measure that levels the playing field between advantaged and disadvantaged schools (represented in the article by a two - step value - added model) is the best choice for use in state and district accountability sy
growth measure that levels the playing field between advantaged and disadvantaged schools (represented in the article by a two - step value - added
model) is the best choice for use in
state and district accountability systems.
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, for instance, conditioned waivers in her «
growth model» pilot on
state plans to ensure student
growth to proficiency on
state tests within three years.
Permit
states to use «
growth» or «value added»
models, which track the progress of individual students over time.
Currently, he is working on contrasting between
state growth model approaches and developing new gap trend and
growth metrics for cross-test comparison and validation.
While promising economic
growth in rural
states, this
model doesn't directly address the needs of rural high school students who aren't within driving distance of, or willing to relocate for, good jobs in their
state.
States ought to be able to use a
growth model so long as the
growth expectation year by year gets youngsters to college / workplace readiness at the end.
In 2009, most
states lacked basic data systems linking teachers to their students over time, and few had
growth models in place that could be used to measure teacher performance.
«Educators are being held at such a high - stakes level with testing, MCAS [
state standards - based assessment], and
growth models.
For example, a few
states use longitudinal
growth models that, in as careful a way as possible, measure the «value added» by a given school in the course of a year.
Policymakers in these
states may not have carefully considered the issues associated with applying the SGP approach, or more generally, any «sparse»
growth model, in the context of an evaluation system.
Such improvements are well - recognized with 15
states already authorized to use
growth models for their accountability under NCLB.
After originally capping participation at 10
states, and approving just eight, department officials this week opened eligibility for the
growth -
model pilot project to all qualified
states.