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This paper provides an overview of the telecommunications policy environment in Canada. Like Milner's (2009) article on New Zealand, this paper offers insights on international approaches to telecommunications policy. Canada's telecommunications history reveals a mix of private and public sector investment in regionally-based service providers. Canada did not have a single, publicly owned telecommunications carrier as was the case in Australia. Liberalisation of the telecommunications marketplace encouraged the development of competing infrastructures, with cable companies (traditionally focused on broadcasting distribution) and telephone companies now both providing wireline and wireless, voice, Internet and television services. Competition for wireline services remains regionally based, while wireless providers compete nationally. Although competition is intense, the broadband and wireless markets are highly concentrated. Competition in these markets has not resulted in extensive consumer choice, low prices or innovative services. Most Canadian consumers have access to broadband connectivity, but uptake rates now lag other OECD countries, for services that are slower and more expensive than those available in many other locations. Mobile phone penetration in Canada is on par with that of developing nations. The paper explores the characteristics of Canada's telecommunication markets, discusses the policy environment and notes that government has not offered a vision of a digital future for Canada. ; Middleton, C. (2011). Canada's Telecommunications Policy Environment. Telecommunications Journal of Australia. (61:4). pp. 69.1-69.14.

No more published. ; Stamped on half title: Consulado General de la Republica de Cuba, New York. ; Portacla -- Retrato del autor -- Carta autografa del Presidente de la República, general Menocal, al autor -- Cuba -- Retrato del Presidente de la República -- Mayor General Mario G. Menocal, Presidente de la República (biografía) -- Mapa, bandera y escudo de Cuba -- Geografia fisica y politica -- Historia -- La Prensa -- Politica -- Hacienda; reforma monetaria y estado del crédito público -- Sanidad y Beneficencia -- Inmigración -- Agricultura -- Azúcar -- Tabaco -- Ganaderia -- Mineria -- Industria y Comercio -- Aduanas -- Instrucción pública -- Obras públicas -- Poder Legislativo: Senado y Cånnara de Representantes -- Poder Judicial -- Ejército y Marina -- Policia -- Correos y Telégrafos -- Gobierno y Consejo Provinciales de la Habana -- Municipalidad de la Habana -- Habana -- Banca -- Ferrocarriles -- Vapores -- Los grandes hoteles -- Grandes empresas industriales y comerciales (monografias) -- Casinos y Clubs -- Centros regionales -- La representación de España en Cuba -- Las provincias -- Costumbres cubanas -- La mujer cubana -- Vida social -- Damas de la alta sociedad cubana (retratos) -- Album de retratos y biografías de altas personalidades cubanas -- Nuestros colaboradores. ; Print version: Pardos, Gerardo. Libro de oro hispano-americano. Volumen I. Edición de Lujo. Paris, Sociedad Editorial Hispano-Americana, 1917. OCLC 1871432.

Using the conceptual framework of a developmental state, forwarded by the Economic Commission for Africa, it was found that Ethiopia's democratic developmental state is unique and operates differently from the Malaysian developmental state model. Economically, Ethiopia has recorded staggering economic growth since it adopted the developmental state. The Malaysian developmental state was developed to be market-oriented and as a result Malaysia's GDP grew at 5.23 percent from 2005-2011. Malaysia's incidence of poverty declined from 49% in 1970 to less than 5% in 2000. Ethiopia has focused on a planned developmental state, without speeding the direction of industrialization, and has achieved an average 9.9 percent growth rate in GDP from 2005-2011. With economic growth, the poverty reduction measured by poverty head count in Ethiopia has declined from 41.9 in 2005 to 29.6 percent in 2011. Although Ethiopia's Human Development Index (HDI) has increased by 16% from 2005 to 2011, its HDI score is about 22% less than the average score of sub-Saharan countries. The poverty ratio of people living on less than $1.25 a day in Ethiopia is very close to about 30 percent. It means that those with low incomes have not benefitted from the staggering economic growth that much of the country has achieved in the last seven years.

Massive waves of migrants fleeing poverty & refugees fleeing war have had a considerable effect on receiving countries. Focus here is on the emergence of latent resistance in 22 countries (based on 1995 survey data) to the influx of migrants, manifested in the negative attitudes & exclusionist reactions of their citizens toward the foreigners: the more citizens with negative attitudes, the greater the public support for immigration restriction. In a cross-country examination of this situation, a distinction is drawn between economic immigrants & refugees in search of safety. Various theories, especially those of ethnic competition or threat & localist orientation, support the findings that ethnic majority individuals who were less educated, self-employed, poorly employed (manual labor), unemployed, & poor were more likely to feel negatively toward immigrants in general, though attitudes were far less negative toward refugees than economic migrants. Tables, Figures. J. Stanton

Includes bibliographical references. ; Frame of reference: education in a democratic society -- The relationship between teacher qualifications and supervision -- The induction and guidance of beginning teachers -- Professional improvement of teachers in service: a cooperative enterprise -- The special subjects in the modern school -- Music -- Art -- Physical education -- The special subjects in the modern school. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The synthesis of previously undescribed 22- and 23-deoxyanalogues of homocastasterone has been carried out, which makes it possible to obtain target compounds without replacing the carbon skeleton of the side chain. The key reactions in their synthesis were epoxy ring opening and radical debromination.

In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist and informants? Having first published a more standard ethnographic study about Morocco, Rabinow here describes a series of encounters with his informants in that study, from a French innkeeper clinging to the vestiges of a colonial past, to the rural descendants of a seventeenth-century saint. In a new preface Rabinow considers the thirty-year life of this remarkable book and his own distinguished career

Beijing presents a clear and gathering threat to Washington—but not for the reasons you think. China's challenge to the West stems from its transformative brand of capitalism and an entirely different conception of the international community.Taking us on a whirlwind tour of China in the world—from dictators in Africa to oligarchs in Southeast Asia to South American strongmen—Halper demonstrates that China's illiberal vision is rapidly replacing that of the so-called Washington Consensus. Instead of promoting democracy through economic aid, as does the West, China offers no-strings-attached gi

Intro -- Introduction -- 1. The Characters -- 2. The Contrast with Plato -- 3. The First Principle of The Prince -- 4. The Test of Truth -- 5. Machiavelli's Philosophy of Man -- 6. The Existence of Te (Moral Authority) -- 7. The Knowledge of Good and Evil -- 8. The Power of Trust -- 9. Arms and Laws -- 10. Love and Fear -- 11. Machiavelli's Ethics -- 12. Machiavelli's Metaphysics -- 13. Machiavelli's Epistemology -- 14. Machiavelli's Logic -- 15. Machiavelli's Life -- 16. The Formula for Success.

A new edition of a classic book on how World War II changed the face of labor in the US.