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Funded Pensions, Labor Market Participation, And Economic Growth
White Papers Thus an increase in a fully funded pension raises aggregate savings even with a fixed participation rate since private savings are not crowded out one-for-one. When labor force participation is determined endogenously, a rise in the level of fully...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
SME Associations Call For EC-funded IT Training
News Benassi stressed that while there were private-sector-funded programmes, the funding of formal qualifications by proprietary companies should not be exploited by those companies to market their products.
[March 7, 2008, 10:30]
DFID-Funded Project Helps Ghanaian Women Take Control Of Health
White Papers So, the Department for International Development (DFID) funded Malaria Knowledge Programme at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine worked with over 20 local health care workers in three districts in Ghana to find ways to deal with the...
[May 20, 2005, 0:00]
VC-funded Start-up Takes On MS Sharepoint
News Jive Software, which has been self-funded and profitable until now, is expected next week to announce a $15m (£7.6m) investment from Sequoia Capital. Fuelled by a round of venture capital, Jive Software is pushing into the corporate technology...
[August 21, 2007, 13:33]
Benefits-Funded Strategies For Tax And Revenue Systems: Raising Revenue Without Raising Taxes
White Papers This paper discusses those indicators more fully, allowing decision makers to take into account the revenue potential that strengthening tax collections systems in their states could realize: a consideration for using a benefits-funded model.
[May 20, 2005, 3:00]
Government-funded Linux Software Arrives
News KDE, one of the major interfaces designed to make Linux slick looking and easier to use, has been upgraded, an effort that includes the first results of work funded by the German government. Germany's agency for information technology security...
[January 31, 2003, 10:04]
Strengthening Information Sharing - How To Get Your Homeland Security Project Funded
White Papers This webcast explains how CA is assisting customers in defining the appropriate infrastructure level technologies needed for the availability, security and sustainability of IT systems supporting information sharing and fusion center efforts.
[November 16, 2006, 0:00]
Enterprise Data Management Provider Sees Sales Of $1.2 Million From Microsoft-Funded Marketing
White Papers Solix is a leading provider of enterprise data management solutions. The company adopted support for SQL Server, and it found a ready market among its many customers who have heterogenous environments.
[September 5, 2007, 1:00]
Following The Money: An Analysis Of State-Funded New Economy Policies And Initiatives
White Papers This paper examines state policies and programs targeted at developing and supporting the new economy, in addition to analyzing the levels of state financial support for new economy programs and initiatives.
[May 20, 2005, 3:00]
Timex Corporation Windows 2003 Case Study: ISS/Andrews-Funded Project
White Papers Timex Corporation began life in 1854 as Waterbury Clock, one of the first makers of affordable timekeepers for working-class Americans. The key challenge for Timex was to maintain and extend its dominance in the jewelry and fashion-accessory...
[November 17, 2005, 23:00]
Workforce Training: Almost Half Of States Fund Employment Placement And Training Through Employer Taxes And Most Coordinate With Federally Funded Programs
White Papers Technological advances continue to transform the U.S.workforce, and workers must improve their skills to meet employers' changing needs. Many employers report difficulties in finding qualified workers, and many unemployed workers lack the skills...
[July 12, 2005, 6:00]
Covering New Americans: A Review Of Federal And State Policies Related To Immigrants' Eligibility And Access To Publicly Funded Health Insurance
White Papers This paper provides an overview of health coverage challenges facing immigrants, the federal rules regarding immigrants' eligibility for Medicaid and SCHIP, and state efforts to provide replacement coverage for immigrants who are ineligible for...
[May 20, 2005, 3:00]
Linux Lab Cuts Staff And Focuses On Legal Work
News Open Source Development Labs, an industry-funded consortium, has cut a third of its staff, lost its chief executive and scaled back some technical work. The group is funded by IBM, HP, Novell, Intel and several other computing companies.
[December 6, 2006, 14:09]
Re: Channel 4 Also Guilty
Talkback Channel 4 are not funded by a mandatory license and do not have all sorts of fair play and public service mandates. Ch4 are funded by advertising. I pay them nothing. I pay the BBC the licenses fee. I object to paying for a service that requires me...
[July 24, 2007, 15:08]
EU Prefers 'computer-aided' Patents
Talkback Oke so now we have to wait for the "EC-funded study on software patent". And what about the dinner for politicians in Ireland funded by Microsoft ? Great, smashing, very impresive! However the European Parlement already has a report about the...
[June 15, 2005, 9:26]
Who Pays???
Talkback This typifies thinking in government, both political and civil service, that programmes can be funded by various different organisations rather than tax payer funded government purse. The rather shuttered view that this displays clearly reveals...
[March 18, 2008, 14:54]
How Pension Financing Affects Returns To Different Generations
White Papers A pension system designed to be self-sustaining can be financed in two basic ways: on a "funded" or on a "pay-as-you-go" basis. In a funded system, contributions are used to purchase assets, which are saved to pay for future benefits.
[June 29, 2005, 3:00]
Open Source Consortium Wins EC Funding
News A European Commission-funded consortium has raised over three million Euros to fund a project testing the quality of open source software. Known as the Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS), it is half funded by its...
[October 23, 2006, 17:10]
Wikipedia, Ubuntu Founders Back 'open Education'
News Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth are backing a scheme to make publicly funded education materials freely available on the internet. According to the declaration, publishers and governments should make publicly funded...
[January 22, 2008, 16:39]
'Critical' Open Source Initiative To Crack Public Sector
News A UK government-funded initiative aims to accelerate the use of open source software within the public sector, through various activities including the creation of a government-specific code repository and a directory of open source providers.
[April 5, 2005, 17:10]
