Using data on the distribution of migrants from Africa, GDP growth forecasts for host countries, and after estimating remittance multipliers in recipient countries, this paper estimates the impact of the global economic crisis on African GDP via the remittance channel during 2009-2010. It forecasts remittance declines into African countries of between 3 and 14 percentage points, with migrants to Europe hardest hit while migrants within Africa relatively unaffected by the crisis. The estimated impact on GDP for relatively remittance-dependent countries is 2 percent for 2009, but will likely be short-lived, as host country income is projected to rise in 2010.
This publication focuses on the impact of tariff orders (distribution) issued by nine SERCs (state electricity regulatory commissions) in India during 2003/04, 2004/05, and 2005/06. The states covered are Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Delhi, Jharkhand, Kerala,Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal. The analysis has been undertaken based on data and information available up to January 2007. The book assesses whether the orders have resulted in reducing regulatory uncertainty and information asymmetry, and led to better performance of the distribution utilities. Different indicators have been used to assess the impact on consumption and access, efficiency, financial performance, competition, and consumer-related issues in the power sector of these states. In addition, various parameters have been studied to assess whether the regulatory systems follow the principles of good regulation in these nine states. br>The commercial loss (without subsidy) incurred by state power utilities increased from Rs 197 220 million in 2003/04 to Rs 221 290 million in 2004/05. In view of the huge losses being incurred by the utilities, the tariff determination function forms a central part of the reform process. A comprehensive survey of tariff orders issued by these SERCs for the distribution licensees has been undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of regulatory orders in the electricity sector. It assesses whether the orders have resulted in reducing regulatory uncertainty and information asymmetry and better performance of the distribution utilities. However, tariff orders are only one index of effectiveness of the regulatory commissions. It is recognized that there are many other important functions of the SERCs besides tariff-setting, and some of them have also been covered in this study.In addition, other documents available in the public domain, including the Power Sector Rating Report, prepared by the Ministry of Power, Annual Report on the Regulation in practice: impact of tariff orders on the Indian electricity sector Working of State Electricity Boards and Electricity Departments, 1 and the Report on Restructuring of APDRP (Accelerated Power Development and Reform Programme),2 were also studied.
This Book Assesses Th Eimpact Of Regulatory Reform In The Electricity And Telecom Sectors In This Context. This Book Will Be Useful For Those Who Shall Have To Comply With Reformed Statutes. It Will Be Particularly Useful To Policy-Makers, Regulators, Executives, Academicians, Researchers, Donors, Consultants And All Those Involved In The Design And Implementation Of Reform Programmes.
This book examines the afterlife of Partition as imprinted on the memories and postmemories of Hindu and Sikh survivors from West Punjab to foreground the intersection between history, memory and narrative. It shows how survivors script their life stories to reinscribe tragic tales of violence and abjection into triumphalist sagas of fortitude, resilience, industry, enterprise and success. At the same time, it reveals the silences, stutters and stammers that interrupt survivors’ narrations to bring attention to the untold stories repressed in their consensual narratives. By drawing upon current research in history, memory, narrative, violence, trauma, affect, home, nation, borders, refugees and citizenship, the book analyzes the traumatizing effects of both the tangible and intangible violence of Partition by tracing the survivors’ journey from refugees to citizens as they struggle to make new homes and lives in an unhomely land. Moreover, arguing that the event of Partition radically transformed the notions of home, belonging, self and community, it shows that individuals affected by Partition produce a new ethics and aesthetic of displacement and embody new ways of being in the world. An important contribution to the field of Partition studies, this book will be of interest to researchers on South Asian history, memory, partition and postcolonial studies.
Indian indentured emigration is among the most notable social phenomena of modern history, which sent over one million men and women to tropical sugar colonies in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. Indenture began in the 1830s and lasted till 1920; a period which finds little or no mention either in history textbooks or in literature. This book takes a closer look at some of the important narratives on indenture and evaluates them in order to highlight the experience of the indentured people across the plantation colonies in Fiji and in the Caribbean. The story of indenture is the story of betrayal, of trauma and of resistance. It is also a narrative of resilience, assimilation and acculturation. This book offers an in-depth literary study to reveal that there exists a language of indenture, one that permeates all the texts written on the subject. The texts speak to, and for each other, thereby revealing the indenture experience to the reader.
Science of Ayurveda medicine has grown in importance in the modern society in the areas of disease prevention and treatment. Sandhana Kalpana is an age-old drug fermentation process offered by Ayurveda science. Asava-Arishta is regarded as a special formulation since it contains self-produced alcohol that serves as self-preservative. These are indicated in various diseases and have medicinal as well as nutritive value. These are having longer shelf life, quick absorption, and maximum bioavailability. Sandhana is the fermentation process of liquids along with drugs by keeping them in a closed vessel for a specific period at a constant temperature. It is a unique dosage form in which acidic and alcoholic fermented formulations are prepared called Asava and Arishta, the main alcoholic products of Sandhana Kalpana, well known from the Vedic period and quite popular among Ayurvedic physicians due to its medicinal as well as nutritive values. Compared to other preparations these are having longer shelf life, quick absorption, and maximum bioavailability. Arishta is prepared with the decoction of herbs in boiling water while Asava is prepared by directly using fresh medicinal herbs juice. Asava-Arishta represents a unique concept and classical Ayurvedic pharmaceutical dosage forms. Polyherbal formulations named on the prominent ingredient Aloe vera (Kumari) which is used to treat a variety of disorders to obtain better therapeutic results.
Her strong sense of self reduced by an overpowering love-sickness that she can do little to contain, Avidha finds her commitment to the cause beginning to thin...After all, the Bhopal gas tragedy is no longer news. The dwindling band of her activist friends - journalists, lawyers and NGO members - with whom she has been fighting the Supreme Court verdict effectively nullifying Union Carbide's legal and moral responsibility towards the gas-leak survivors, have their own problems and different thresholds for compromise. Impeachment is an insightful portrayal of the complex power dynamics between the representatives of the Indian legal system, the educated liberal classes who lent support to the survivors of Bhopal, and the same victims, who do not have the financial means or the legal knowledge to defend themselves.
Advances in Diabetes Management: A Case Compendium is a collection of cases involving various disorders and complications of diabetes. Divided into 29 chapters, each one features a case study on a particular aspect of diabetes followed by a review of evidence. This book includes cases of both type one and type two diabetes and associated conditions, from polycystic ovarian syndrome to neuropathy and life-threatening foot infections. Chapters on new insulin pumps and bariatric surgery highlight the latest advances in the management of diabetes. Drawing on the experience of expert diabetologists and enhanced by full colour images and illustrations throughout, Advances in Diabetes Management: A Case Compendium is a valuable reference helping clinicians and trainees remain up to date with developments in the field. Key Points Guide to the latest advances in the field of diabetes management Collection of cases with review of evidence Full colour images and illustrations throughout
This Book Assesses Th Eimpact Of Regulatory Reform In The Electricity And Telecom Sectors In This Context. This Book Will Be Useful For Those Who Shall Have To Comply With Reformed Statutes. It Will Be Particularly Useful To Policy-Makers, Regulators, Executives, Academicians, Researchers, Donors, Consultants And All Those Involved In The Design And Implementation Of Reform Programmes.
This publication focuses on the impact of tariff orders (distribution) issued by nine SERCs (state electricity regulatory commissions) in India during 2003/04, 2004/05, and 2005/06. The states covered are Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Delhi, Jharkhand, Kerala,Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal. The analysis has been undertaken based on data and information available up to January 2007. The book assesses whether the orders have resulted in reducing regulatory uncertainty and information asymmetry, and led to better performance of the distribution utilities. Different indicators have been used to assess the impact on consumption and access, efficiency, financial performance, competition, and consumer-related issues in the power sector of these states. In addition, various parameters have been studied to assess whether the regulatory systems follow the principles of good regulation in these nine states. br>The commercial loss (without subsidy) incurred by state power utilities increased from Rs 197 220 million in 2003/04 to Rs 221 290 million in 2004/05. In view of the huge losses being incurred by the utilities, the tariff determination function forms a central part of the reform process. A comprehensive survey of tariff orders issued by these SERCs for the distribution licensees has been undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of regulatory orders in the electricity sector. It assesses whether the orders have resulted in reducing regulatory uncertainty and information asymmetry and better performance of the distribution utilities. However, tariff orders are only one index of effectiveness of the regulatory commissions. It is recognized that there are many other important functions of the SERCs besides tariff-setting, and some of them have also been covered in this study.In addition, other documents available in the public domain, including the Power Sector Rating Report, prepared by the Ministry of Power, Annual Report on the Regulation in practice: impact of tariff orders on the Indian electricity sector Working of State Electricity Boards and Electricity Departments, 1 and the Report on Restructuring of APDRP (Accelerated Power Development and Reform Programme),2 were also studied.
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