Making Women's Voices Count in Community Decision-Making on Land Investments

The adverse impacts of commercialization and largescale land acquisitions in the global South are often disproportionately borne by women. The loss of access to farmland and common areas hit women harder than men in many communities, and women are often excluded from compensation and benefit schemes. Women's social disadvantages, including their lack of formal land rights and generally subordinate position, make it difficult for them to voice their interests in the management and proposed allocation of community land to investors. While the development community and civil society have pushed for standards and safeguard policies that promote the meaningful involvement of rural communities generally in land acquisitions and investments, strengthening the participation of women as a distinct stakeholder group requires specific attention.This working paper examines options for strengthening women's participatory rights in the face of increasing commercial pressures on land in three countries: Mozambique, Tanzania, and the Philippines. It focuses on how regulatory reform—reforms in the rules, regulations, guidelines, and procedures that implement national land acquisition and investment laws—can promote gender equity and allow women to realize the rights afforded by national legal frameworks and international standards. The paper stems from a collaborative project between World Resources Institute and partner organizations in the three countries studied

Notes on Cloud computing principles

This letter provides a review of fundamental distributed systems and economic Cloud computing principles. These principles are frequently deployed in their respective fields, but their inter-dependencies are often neglected. Given that Cloud Computing first and foremost is a new business model, a new model to sell computational resources, the understanding of these concepts is facilitated by treating them in unison. Here, we review some of the most important concepts and how they relate to each other

Financial Deregulation and Economic Growth in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland

Advocates of financial regulation, Arestis and Demetriades, argue that financial liberalisation does not impact on financial market efficiency and the allocation of investment. Results in this study find that Czech, Hungarian and Polish firms are subject to scrutiny when applying for credit. The firm’s ability to provide collateral, the potential of the proposed investment project and individual financial backgrounds are all factors that are used before loans are offered, and it likely that allocational efficiency is strengthened in these circumstances, and not weakened. Stiglitz has the view that financial repression improves the quality of the pool of loans. Results here indicate that companies in these countries previously had very limited access to credit while government owned companies and government projects received the bulk of credit. After deregulation it became apparent that the quality of the pool of loans was very poor. This study supports Shaw’s assertion that financial deregulation improves financial deepening.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/40190/3/wp804.pd

Financial Deregulation and Economic Growth in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland

Advocates of financial regulation, Arestis and Demetriades, argue that financial liberalisation does not impact on financial market efficiency and the allocation of investment. Results in this study find that Czech, Hungarian and Polish firms are subject to scrutiny when applying for credit. The firm’s ability to provide collateral, the potential of the proposed investment project and individual financial backgrounds are all factors that are used before loans are offered, and it likely that allocational efficiency is strengthened in these circumstances, and not weakened. Stiglitz has the view that financial repression improves the quality of the pool of loans. Results here indicate that companies in these countries previously had very limited access to credit while government owned companies and government projects received the bulk of credit. After deregulation it became apparent that the quality of the pool of loans was very poor. This study supports Shaw’s assertion that financial deregulation improves financial deepening.Transition Economies, Industrial Development, Financial Deregulation, Economic Growth, Eastern Europe

Tree-Chain: A Fast Lightweight Consensus Algorithm for IoT Applications

Blockchain has received tremendous attention in non-monetary applications including the Internet of Things (IoT) due to its salient features including decentralization, security, auditability, and anonymity. Most conventional blockchains rely on computationally expensive consensus algorithms, have limited throughput, and high transaction delays. In this paper, we propose tree-chain a scalable fast blockchain instantiation that introduces two levels of randomization among the validators: i) transaction level where the validator of each transaction is selected randomly based on the most significant characters of the hash function output (known as consensus code), and ii) blockchain level where validator is randomly allocated to a particular consensus code based on the hash of their public key. Tree-chain introduces parallel chain branches where each validator commits the corresponding transactions in a unique ledger. Implementation results show that tree-chain is runnable on low resource devices and incurs low processing overhead, achieving near real-time transaction settlement

HotMobile 2008: Postconference Report

HotMobile 2008 presented a two-day program on mobile computing systems and applications. The authors focuses on the sessions on sensors, modularity, wireless, security, systems, and screens. The mobile device is the most amazing invention in history and that it has had the largest impact on human kind. Because mobile phones combine mobile devices with ongoing developments in software and communication technologies, they have the potential to change the way people think and act

Sistem Himpunan Korum dan Masalah Resolusi Konflik Terdistribusi

The aims of this study are (1) to analyze relaxation of the characteristics of distributed mutual exclusion problem of various problems of widening conflict resolution in distributed system, (2) to develop coterie set system in solving any types of conflict resolution in distributed system, (3) to analyze coterie set to solve the distributed conflict problem. The method used was literary study by collecting research materials through library journals that relevant with the subject matter i.e. quorum set system and various problems of distributed conflict resolution. The results of the research indicated that mutual exclusion (mutex) can be solved with coterie, k-mutex problem can be solved by using k-coterie, read-writer problem can be solved by using bicoteri, restricted resources problem can be solved by using (m,h,ki)-coterie. For restricted and various resources matter can be constructed with disjoint and simple uniform (m,h,k)-coterie

TRAINING STRATEGY IN ROMANIAN AND MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES

Training is a planned process to change attitudes, knowledge and behaviors through experience gained through study in order to get optimal performance in a frame or range of business activities. In this system, is to develop individual skills to meet workforce needs, present and future organizations. Through efficient on-one training program is aimed at: Improving individual performance, team and organization in terms of quality, speed and overall productivity; Improved operational flexibility by extending the range of qualifications held by employees; Reduced recruitment costs through retraining; Attracting quality employees by offering them training and development opportunities, raising their level of competence and skill area, making it possible to achieve a greater satisfaction in work; Increasing interest by encouraging their employees to identify with the task and organizational goals; Developing a positive culture in the framework of the organization; Reduce accidents by training workers in the field of labor; Creating a more receptive attitude to change, giving people the knowledge and skills they need to cope with new situations; Ensure maximum quality customer service. Given all these benefits, training should not be considered a luxury but a necessity. His goal is to help the organization achieve its goals by adding value to its key resource: the employees.training strategy, employees, training companies, budget