Pre-empting protectionism in services - the WTO and outsourcing

Cross-border trade in services is growing rapidly, with both industrial and developing countries among the most dynamic exporters. Despite the substantial global benefits from such trade, the adjustment pressures created in importing countries could provoke a protectionist backlash-some signs of which are already visible in procurement and regulatory restrictions. The current negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda offer an opportunity to lock in current openness and preempt protectionism. This paper describes how a bold initiative under the General Agreement on Trade in Services can help secure openness.Decentralization,Enterprise Development&Reform,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,ICT Policy and Strategies,Banks&Banking Reform,ICT Policy and Strategies,Banks&Banking Reform,Governance Indicators,Health Economics&Finance,Knowledge Economy

Special Libraries, December 1966

Volume 57, Issue 10https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1966/1009/thumbnail.jp

Government Information Quarterly. Volume 7, no. 2: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Scientific and Technical Information Programs. Special issue

NASA scientific and technical information (STI) programs are discussed. Topics include management of information in a research and development agency, the new space and Earth science information systems at NASA's archive, scientific and technical information management, and technology transfer of NASA aerospace technology to other industries

Special Libraries, September 1976

Volume 67, Issue 9https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1976/1007/thumbnail.jp

Terahertz electrical writing speed in an antiferromagnetic memory

The speed of writing of state-of-the-art ferromagnetic memories is physically limited by an intrinsic gigahertz threshold. Recently, realization of memory devices based on antiferromagnets, in which spin directions periodically alternate from one atomic lattice site to the next has moved research in an alternative direction. We experimentally demonstrate at room temperature that the speed of reversible electrical writing in a memory device can be scaled up to terahertz using an antiferromagnet. A current-induced spin-torque mechanism is responsible for the switching in our memory devices throughout the 12-order-of-magnitude range of writing speeds from hertz to terahertz. Our work opens the path toward the development of memory-logic technology reaching the elusive terahertz band

Special Libraries, September 1962

Volume 53, Issue 7https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1962/1006/thumbnail.jp

Investing in times of austerity

European Member States that have signed the treaties on fiscal consolidation are now experiencing difficulties to finance infrastructure and social services. Following the treaties, governments must urgently reduce their loans since their annual budget deficit should not exceed 0.5% of GDP and total sovereign debt should be lowered to 60% of GDP. Moreover Eurostat recently expanded its definition of sovereign debt to include public-private collaboration and financial guarantees by public authorities. The private sector on the other hand is not using its huge amounts of cash to increase production and employment. Instead corporations increase dividends, buy back shares and pay for take-overs and mergers. The latter rarely create jobs and often destroy some. The financial sector invests in the stock market instead of in the productive economy. While the European treaties prohibit additional borrowing by MS, they do not exclude that governments generate higher income. This is possible by preventing the massive tax avoidance and evasion that was recently documented, estimated by the EC at 1000 billion euro annually. Europe should implement and extent actions against tax evasion decided by the OECD, the G20 and the US Treasury. They include automatic exchange of information on bank accounts in more than 40 countries; the BEPS tax Action Plan (OECD-G20, 2013); and, in the US, FATCA (2010) and retroactive actions against tax inversion already effective. Also, the EU should add the earnings in all nations of each multinational, and redistribute this sum to MS using objective criteria. All this does not require a change in legal tax rates in MS. Another lead is taxing capital that leaves the EU if resulting in lower taxation. Each MS should ban rulings that lower the tax revenue. By increasing their internal revenue MS can reduce their debt, and simultaneously finance economic growth, in order to 1) avoid the massive loss of jobs in the public sector decided under austerity policies; 2) remedy the waiting lists in social housing, affordable nurseries, old age homes, hospitals and care for handicapped and refugees, school buildings, insulation, maintenance of roads, canals and rail, green energy, water conservation, and the ridiculous shortage of proper personnel in internal revenue services, the police, justice departments and detention centres, in several MS. This immediate rise in employment will increase demand and business results (updated July 2015)

Special Libraries, March 1968

Volume 59, Issue 3https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1968/1002/thumbnail.jp

カイワ ダイアログ アンショウ ニ ジュウジ サセル ガイコクゴ シドウホウ ガ スピｰキングジ ノ テイケイ ヒョウゲン ノ シヨウ ト アンキ ガクシュウ ニ オヨボス エイキョウ ニ カンスル キソ ケンキュウ

PDF/A formatsAccess: via World Wide Web東京外国語大学大学院総合国際学研究科博士 (学術) 論文 (2016年4月)Author's thesis (Ph.D)--Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2016博甲第214号Bibliography: p. 183-195Summary in English and Japanese東京外国語大学 (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)博士 (学術