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IT Asset Management: A Pocket Survival Guide is a quick reference style guide, addressing such serious issues with a fresh and pragmatic approach. Aimed at IT professionals who have been tasked with putting in place Asset Management disciplines, it first provides a commonsense introduction to the key processes outlined in the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®), before proceeding to explain the various milestones of an Asset Management project.

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This guide is designed to ensure that a comprehensive overview of the relevant provisions of the acquis communautaire is available to policymakers, regulators, and other stakeholders in countries with a European vocation or those simply wishing to take the European Union (EU) regulatory model into account when devising their own national approaches. This guide outlines and summarizes the EU legislative framework governing corporate sector accounting and auditing. It is primarily intended for an audience with little prior knowledge of the EU. Consequently, rather than delving directly into the issues of accounting and auditing, the guide begins by giving a brief history and overview of the EU, its institutions and legislative processes in section one. In section two, the guide focuses on the development of the internal market, particularly in the areas of financial market integration and company law harmonization. Section three addresses the harmonization of accounting and auditing in the EU. Section four looks at the most pressing accounting and auditing issues for the EU.

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This report explores the rapid expansion of sustainability indices in emerging markets and the potential of these indices to support broader sustainability efforts. It looks at 17 emerging market sustainability indices, comparing and contrasting business models, sustainability objectives, and construction methodologies, and identifying obstacles in establishing a viable business model. Specifically, this report examines three related questions: 1) why are emerging markets sustainability indices being launched? 2) What role can these indices play in adding value for investors and other stakeholders? 3) How can index providers and other market players enhance the potential for emerging markets sustainability indices to add value to investors and other stakeholders? With this report, IFC wants to initiate a dialogue on a stronger and more durable business model for emerging markets sustainability indices. The study was commissioned by IFC in partnership with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency in addition to Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Norway; and was conducted by Esty Environmental Partners.

Access to Information --- Access to Markets --- Asset Management --- Business Environment --- Capital Markets --- Consumers --- Demographics --- Developed Countries --- Disclosure --- Economic Development --- Emerging Markets --- Emissions --- Enterprise Development & Reform --- Environment --- Environmental Economics & Policies --- Financial Sector --- Insurance --- International Finance --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Private Sector Development --- Profitability --- Recycling --- Securities --- Technical Assistance --- Transparency --- Venture Capital

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The focus of the paper is on five key financial stability issues in Emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs), which have been selected on the basis of their degree of materiality for a reasonably broad range of EMDEs; their implications for regulatory, supervisory or other financial sector policies; and the extent to which these issues are not already being addressed by other international work streams. The paper does not cover other financial stability issues that may also be relevant for EMDEs but are addressed in other G20/Financial Stability Board (FSB) work streams. Such issues include the management of sizeable and volatile capital flows; the design of policy measures to address the risks arising from systemically important financial institutions; the development of macro-prudential policy frameworks; the creation of effective resolution tools and regimes for financial institutions; strengthening the oversight and regulation of the shadow banking system; and reforming the functioning of over-the-counter derivatives and commodities markets. This paper focuses on five key financial stability issues in EMDEs: 1) application of international financial standards; 2) promoting cross-border supervisory cooperation; 3) expanding the regulatory and supervisory perimeter; 4) management of foreign exchange risks; and 5) developing domestic capital markets.

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North Sulawesi province is one of the most developed provinces in eastern Indonesia. Far-reaching development has taken place over the past ten years. Presently, North Sulawesi province has the second highest Human Development Index score in Indonesia, and its poverty rate is low in comparison with other provinces. Over the past decade, per capita gross regional domestic product (GRDP) has doubled and sub-national government spending has increased significantly. Nevertheless, there remain various development challenges to address as well as various potential resources and opportunities to pursue. North Sulawesi's performance in regional financial management has been relatively good, but discrepancies remain in the performance and capacity of different work units within each regional government and also between different regional governments in the province. To address challenges, take opportunities, and increase development performance, sub-national governments in North Sulawesi, particularly the provincial government, need to better utilize their fiscal resources. Clearer vision, mission, indicators and development targets must be accompanied by greater efforts to prepare a more directed budget, and to formulate higher quality programs and activities more consistent with planning targets. This report is an effort to assist North Sulawesi's sub-national governments to improve their regional financial management performance, to improve the quality of planning and budgeting, and finally to contribute to local development performance. The report results from strong cooperation between sub-national governments in North Sulawesi province, the Economics Faculty of Sam Ratulangi University, which was supported by CIDA, the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and the World Bank. North Sulawesi Province BAPPEDA (Head of the Regional Development Planning Agency) played an important role in facilitating the preparation of this report. It is expected that this report will benefit North Sulawesi's sub-national governments, sub-national governments elsewhere in Indonesia and the central government by serving as a reference for efforts to improve sub-national financial management performance and the regional development process. Finally, this report can contribute to better and more effective sub-national financial management and governance. Overall, North Sulawesi's strategic sectors (health, education, infrastructure and agriculture) are performing better than in other provinces in eastern Indonesia.

Accountability --- Accounting --- Agricultural Sector Economics --- Agriculture --- Asset Management --- Capacity Building --- Cities --- Data Collection --- Debt --- Debt Management --- Economic Development --- Education --- Education Finance --- Electricity --- Gross Domestic Product --- Health Economics & Finance --- Health Outcomes --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Human Capital --- Inflation --- Infrastructure Economics and Finance --- Infrastructure Finance --- Legal Framework --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Municipalities --- Natural Resources --- Price Stability --- Private Sector --- Public Health --- Public Sector Development --- Purchasing Power --- Quality of Education --- Revenue Sharing --- Sanitation --- Transparency --- Urbanization