Supporting Micro and Small Scale Enterprises: What Can Be Learned From Donor Programs? [PDF]
, 1991 This paper summarizes the evaluations of micro and small scale enterprise projects financed by the U.S. Agency for International Development, the European Investment Bank, the International Labor Office, the United Nations Capital Development Fund, the ...
Meyer, Richard L.
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What Is RSIE? – Recursive Symbolic Intelligence Engine (Public Explainer v1.0)
This document provides a high-level public overview of RSIE (Recursive Symbolic Intelligence Engine), a patented symbolic cognitive framework designed by Michael Aaron Cody in 2025. RSIE enables post-LLM cognition using motion-derived logic, recursive compression, and symbolic emergence.This explainer outlines its structure, purpose, and intellectual ...
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Computational Analysis of the Menu of U.S.-Japan Trade Policies [PDF]
We have used the Michigan Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model of World Production and Trade to calculate the aggregate welfare and sectoral employment effects of the menu of U.S.-Japan trade policies.
Drusilla K. Brown +2 more
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Globalization and the Returns to Speaking English in South Africa [PDF]
This paper takes a novel approach to trying to disentangle the impact of globalization on wages by focusing on how the return to speaking English, the international language of commerce, changed as South Africa re-integrated with the global economy after
James Levinsohn
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When Knowledge Is Not Enough: HIV/AIDS Information and Risky Behavior In Botswana [PDF]
The spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is still fueled by ignorance in many parts of the world. Filling in knowledge gaps, particularly between men and women, is considered key to preventing future infections and to reducing female vulnerabilities to the ...
James Levinsohn +2 more
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Enhancing the Benefits for Developing Countries in the Doha Development Agenda Negotiations [PDF]
This is a position paper dealing with the major issues of the Doha Round negotiations that are of importance for developing countries. It was prepared for circulation prior to the Cancun Ministerial Meeting of the WTO. It provides recommendations for WTO
Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M. Stern
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Trade Policy Issues and Policy Options for Japan and the United States: Introduction and Overview [PDF]
Introduction and Overview of the Symposium.
Gary Saxonhouse, Robert Stern
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Speech, Speaker and Speaker\'s Gender Identification in Automatically Processed Broadcast Stream [PDF]
, 2006 This paper presents a set of techniques for classification of audiosegments in a system for automatic transcription of broadcast programs. The task consists in deciding a) whether the segment is to be labeled as speech or a non-speech one, and in the ...
Nouza, J., Silovsky, J.
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Gains from Trade and Fragmentation [PDF]
This paper discusses the welfare effects, on groups, countries, and the world, of fragmentation. Fragmentation here is defined as the introduction of a technology that permits a production process to be split into separate parts, with the fragments able ...
Alan Deardorf
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Global Market Integration and National Sovereignty [PDF]
In this paper, we first trace the evolution of the global trading system from the 19th century to the present-day GATT/WTO arrangements, calling attention to the key roles of reciprocity and nondiscrimination, and we note how the system is now challenged
Andrew G. Brown, Robert M. Stern
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