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World directory of industrial information sources
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ISBN: 9211063124 1417548746 Year: 2001 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] United Nations Industrial Development Organization


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Energy Consumption in Industry : 2000
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ISBN: 9264192549 Year: 2001 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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This publication presents annual energy consumption data in manufacturing sectors. Over the last 25 years, energy consumption has become just as important as energy supply for policy makers. There is a need for energy efficiency indicators and data to monitor developments in energy consumption and energy efficiency trends as they affect the environment. In order to analyse energy use and energy efficiency, it is essential to have disaggregated industry level consumption data. This publication provides such data. Time series of annual energy consumption are provided at the disaggregated manufacturing industry level for most of the OECD countries from 1990 to 1999 where available.

The transition to a colonial economy : weavers, merchants, and kings in South India, 1720-1800
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ISBN: 0521570425 0521056225 0511116454 0511018509 0511156219 051132913X 0511497415 128015313X 0511053614 1107113326 9780521570428 9780511497414 9780521056229 9780511053610 9780511116452 9780511018503 9780511156212 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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According to widespread belief, poverty and low standards of living have been characteristic of India for centuries. Challenging this view, Prasannan Parthasarathi demonstrates that, until the late eighteenth century, labouring groups in South India, those at the bottom of the social order, were in a powerful position, receiving incomes well above subsistence. The decline in their economic fortunes, the author asserts, was a process initiated towards the end of that century, with the rise of colonial rule. Building on revisionist interpretations, he examines the transformation of Indian society and its economy under British rule through the prism of the labouring classes, arguing that their treatment by the early colonial state had no precedent in the pre-colonial past and that poverty and low wages were a product of colonial rule. The book promises to make an important contribution to the economic history of the region, and to the study of colonialism.


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Research and development expenditure in industry 1987-1999.
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ISBN: 128003291X 9786610032914 9264095543 9264095365 Year: 2001 Publisher: Paris, Cedex, France : OECD,

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This annual publication presents R&D expenditure data (ANBERD) for 19 OECD countries, as well as a zone total for the European Union. The coverage of ANBERD has been extended to 58 sectors, including extended coverage of the services, starting with the survey year 1987.

Extended Producer Responsibility : A Guidance Manual for Governments
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ISBN: 926418600X 9786610029860 1280029862 9264189866 Year: 2001 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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Municipal waste has increased 22 % per capita from 1980 to 1997. At the same time, the difficulty of siting new waste disposal facilities has increased. While major progress has been made to lessen the per capita generation of air and water pollution over the past decades, waste generation is still on the rise. Faced with the increase of waste, many governments have reviewed available policy options and concluded that placing the responsibility for the post-consumer phase of certain goods on producers could provide a means to relieve certain environmental pressures, arising from post-consumer waste. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a policy approach under which producers accept significant responsibility - financial and/or physical - for the treatment or disposal of post-consumer products. Assigning such responsibility could provide incentives to prevent wastes at the source, promote product design for the environment and support the achievement of public recycling and materials management goals. Within the OECD the trend is towards the extension of EPR to new products, product groups and waste streams such as electrical appliances and electronics. This guidance manual represents one means to inform national governments about the potential benefits and costs associated with EPR.

The Lancashire working classes c. 1880-1930
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ISBN: 0199247382 0191714429 1280446714 0191554421 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon


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Corporate Bond Risk and Real Activity : An Empirical Analysis of Yield Spreads and Their Systematic Components
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ISBN: 1462325653 1452754233 1282026518 1451902719 9786613796295 Year: 2001 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This paper finds that the yield spread of investment-grade bonds relative to Treasuries, a proxy of default risk, predicts marginal changes in industrial production in the United States up to 12 months in the future, even upon controlling for a commonly used predictor such as the commercial paper spread. The paper also finds that systematic risk factors associated with the yield spread of investment-grade bonds to a variety of risk-free benchmarks - Treasuries, agency bonds, and AAA-rated bonds - have significant predictive content for future growth rate of industrial production at 3 to 18 months forecasting horizon, both in- and out-of-sample. Finally, a regime-switching estimation shows that the systematic risk component is also able to capture "industrial production business cycle" well.


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Short-Term Forecasting : Projecting Italian GDPone Quarter to Two Years Ahead
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ISBN: 146239230X 1452763356 1282107070 1451898797 9786613800428 Year: 2001 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This paper presents a "bridge model" for short-run (one or two quarters ahead) forecasting of Italian GDP, relying on industrial production and survey indicators as key variables that can help in providing a real-time first GDP estimate. For a one- to two-year horizon, it formulates and estimates a Bayesian VAR (BVAR) model of the Italian economy. Both the "bridge" and the BVAR model can be of great help in supplementing traditional judgmental or structural econometric forecasts. Given their simplicity and their good forecasting power, the framework may be usefully extended to other variables as well as to other countries.

The guilds of Ottoman Jerusalem
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ISBN: 9004119183 9786610464494 1417510439 1280464496 904740064X 9781417510436 9789047400646 9789004119185 9781280464492 6610464499 Year: 2001 Publisher: Leiden Boston : Brill,

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This reconstruction of the guilds that functioned in Jerusalem during the Ottoman period draws on the archives of the local court of Muslim Jerusalem, but also includes information on the Jewish and Christan communities. About 50 different guilds are described.

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