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State Failure in Developing Countries and Strategies of Institutional Reform”, paper presented at the ABCDE Conference Europe

by Mushtaq H. Khan, Mushtaq H. Khan , 2002
"... Abstract: The analysis of state failure and the policy debate have been driven by two very different underlying views of what the state does. The first, which we call the “service-delivery ” view says the role of the state is to provide law and order, stable property rights, key public goods and we ..."
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economy begins to emerge. Dynamic transformation states have heavily intervened in property rights and devised rent-management systems to accelerate the capitalist transition and the acquisition of new technologies. State failure according to this view has been driven by the lack of institutional

WebOS: Operating System Services for Wide Area Applications

by Amin Vahdat , Thomas Anderson, Michael Dahlin, Eshwar Belani, David Culler, Paul Eastham , Chad Yoshikawa
"... In this paper, we demonstrate the power of providing a common set of Operating System services to wide-area applications, including mechanisms for naming, persistent storage, remote process execution, resource management, authentication, and security. On a single machine, application developers can ..."
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In this paper, we demonstrate the power of providing a common set of Operating System services to wide-area applications, including mechanisms for naming, persistent storage, remote process execution, resource management, authentication, and security. On a single machine, application developers can

1 WHAT DETERMINES ASSET MANAGEMENT APPROACHES IN THE SOCIAL RENTED SECTOR?

by Vincent Gruis, Nico Nieboer, Tim Brown
"... Throughout Europe and Australia, changes in housing policies and markets set considerable challenges for the asset management of social landlords. In the past, social housing was mainly concerned with the development of new dwellings. Management of the housing stock consisted first of all of day-to- ..."
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. To cope with these challenges, landlords have to develop new approaches towards their asset management. However, being a relatively new topic in the social rented sector, international research about the asset management of social landlords is scarce. Therefore, the ENHR Working Group on Housing

Land Rents and Ecological Management: A Note on the River Oder in 1997

by Prof Dr, Jürgen G. Backhaus , 1998
"... In drawing on modern finance theory, this note demonstrates the importance of financial instruments for large public sector projects. An explicit link to the theory of Henry George is made, and a public sector financing approach is being demonstrated by using the example of the Oder floodings in 199 ..."
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and dams along the river Oder, later also along the rivers Warthe, Netze and Plöne and draining these marshes along with the lake Madue. Similarly, a system of canals connecting most of these rivers with the rivers Spre and Havel was being put in place. The peace of Hubertusburg, of course, had concluded

The Firm as a Dedicated Hierarchy: A Theory of the Origins and Growth of Firms” The Quarterly

by Raghuram G. Rajan, Luigi Zingales - Journal of Economics , 2001
"... In the formative stages of their businesses, entrepreneurs have to provide incentives for employees to protect, rather than steal, the source of organizational rents. We study how the entrepreneur’s response to this problem determines the organization’s internal structure, growth, and its eventual s ..."
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In the formative stages of their businesses, entrepreneurs have to provide incentives for employees to protect, rather than steal, the source of organizational rents. We study how the entrepreneur’s response to this problem determines the organization’s internal structure, growth, and its eventual

Strategic asset management in the social rented sector: approaches of Dutch and English housing associations

by Vincent Gruis, Nico Nieboer, Andrew Thomas - Urban Studies , 2004
"... Summary. In England and the Netherlands, in response to changes in housing policy and the market, there is widespread enthusiasm for asset management in the social rented sector. A key issue in both countries is the development of a strategic approach towards the formulation of asset management plan ..."
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Summary. In England and the Netherlands, in response to changes in housing policy and the market, there is widespread enthusiasm for asset management in the social rented sector. A key issue in both countries is the development of a strategic approach towards the formulation of asset management

Resource Management in the Mungi Single-Address-Space Operating System

by Gernot Heiser, Fondy Lam, Stephen Russell - PROCEEDINGS OF AUSTRALASIAN COMPUTER SCIENCE CONFERENCE, PERTH AUSTRALIA , 1998
"... We present the accounting system used for backing store management in the Mungi single-address-space operating system. The model is designed such that all accounting can be done asynchronously to operations on storage objects, and hence without slowing down such operations. It is based on bank acc ..."
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We present the accounting system used for backing store management in the Mungi single-address-space operating system. The model is designed such that all accounting can be done asynchronously to operations on storage objects, and hence without slowing down such operations. It is based on bank

Compute Power Market: Towards a Market-Oriented Grid

by Rajkumar Buyya, Sudharshan Vazhkudai - In The First IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2001 , 2001
"... The Compute Power Market (CPM) is a market-based resource management and job scheduling system for grid computing on Internet-wide computational resources, particularly low-end personal computing devices. It transforms the metacomputing environment into a computational market wherein one can solve p ..."
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The Compute Power Market (CPM) is a market-based resource management and job scheduling system for grid computing on Internet-wide computational resources, particularly low-end personal computing devices. It transforms the metacomputing environment into a computational market wherein one can solve

Buying, Sharing and Renting Information Goods

by Hal R. Varian, Hal R. Varian - The Journal of Industrial Economics , 1997
"... . Information goods such as books, journals, computer software, videos, etc. can often be copied, shared, or rented. I outline various circumstances under which such sharing may increase or decrease producer profits. If a rental market is present, more copies will be sold at a lower price; I derive ..."
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. Varian, School of Information Management and Systems, 102 South Hall, University of Calif...

Human Resource Information Systems: A Current Assessment

by Gerardlne Desanctis - MIS Quarterly , 1986
"... Human resource information systems (HRIS) have become a major MIS subfunction within the per-sonnel areas of many large corporations. This ar-ticle traces the development of HRIS as an entity independent of centralized MIS, assesses its cur-rent operation and technological base, and consid-ers its f ..."
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Human resource information systems (HRIS) have become a major MIS subfunction within the per-sonnel areas of many large corporations. This ar-ticle traces the development of HRIS as an entity independent of centralized MIS, assesses its cur-rent operation and technological base, and consid-ers its
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