A Personal View from Colette Bowe

At the Oxford Media Convention, Damian Tambini interviewed Dame Colette Bowe, the outgoing Chairman of the board of Ofcom. This is an edited extract from that interview

1999-2000 IFPRI Annual Report

CONTENTS: (1) MESSAGE FROM THE OUTGOING CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES / Martin Piñeiro (2) MESSAGE FROM THE INCOMING CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES / Geoff Miller (3) DIRECTOR GENERAL'S INTRODUCTION / Per Pinstrup-Andersen (4) THE LIFE CYCLE OF MALNUTRITION / Stuart Gillespie and Rafael Flores (5) ERADICATING MALNUTRITION: Income growth or nutrition programs? / Lawrence Haddad and Harold Alderman (6) RESEARCH & OUTREACH Environment and production technology Food consumption and nutrition Markets and structural studies Trade and macroeconomics Communications (7) A 2020 VISION FOR FOOD, AGRICULTURE, & THE ENVIRONMENT (8) COLLABORATION (9) PUBLICATIONS (10) FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (11) BOARD OF TRUSTEES (12) PERSONNEL (13) FUTURE HARVEST 1999 DONORS (PDF 7K)

CLOSING REMARKS—SEVENTH VERTEBRATE PEST CONFERENCE

On behalf of the Council of the Vertebrate Pest Conference, I thank you all for your very apparent interest in the papers and your cooperation in making the Conference a success. The sophistication of vertebrate pest-control methods has come a long way since our first Conference, in 1962. Our outgoing Chairman, Mr. Charles C. Siebe, has acknowledged the fine contributions to this Conference made by so many, including personnel from the County Agricultural Commissioner Offices in California. And we now acknowledge Charlie\u27s fine leadership for the past two years in this organization, known as the Vertebrate Pest Conference

Accounting for secrets

The Soviet dictatorship used secrecy to shield its processes from external scrutiny. A system of accounting for classified documentation assured the protection of secrets. The associated procedures resemble a turnover tax applied to government transactions. There is evidence of both compliance and evasion. The burden of secrecy was multiplied because the system was also secret and so had to account for itself. Unique documentation of a small regional bureaucracy, the Lithuania KGB, is exploited to yield an estimate of the burden. Measured against available benchmarks, the burden looks surprisingly heavy

SISTEM INFORMASI KEARSIPAN POLITEKNIK NEGERI PADANG BERBASIS WEB

The resulting of system is a web based application executed, it can be accessed by many users at the same time trough each on computer from browser by accessing the specified address. The users of this system consists of a head, department chairman, the general secretary of the department and administration of department, this system is build using PHP programming language and MySql database server. Advantages of this system is that it can save paper (paperless) and storage physical space. On this system can monitor incoming mail, incoming mail was processed, outgoing mail and letters that have been in the disposition that is in Polytecnic with available in online then this system becomes more effective performance and efficientl

Barnes Hospital Bulletin

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Accounting for Secrets

The Soviet state counted people, resources – and secret papers. The need to account for secrets was a transaction cost of autocratic government. This paper finds archival evidence of significant costs, multiplied by secrecy’s recursive aspect: the system of accounting for secrets was also secret and so had to account for itself. The evidence suggests that most Soviet officials complied most of the time. Numerous instances also imply that careless handling could take root and spread locally until higher authorities intervened. The paper uses the case of a small regional bureaucracy, the Lithuania KGB, to estimate the aggregate costs of handling secret paperwork. Over the period from 1954 to 1982, accounting for secrets makes up around one third of this organization’s archived records. This figure is surprisingly large, and is the main new fact contributed by the paper. There is much time variation, some of it not easily explained.Accounting; Dictatorship; Norms; Secrecy; Soviet Union; Transaction Costs

State of New York Public Employment Relations Board Decisions from August 25, 2004

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