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Founded by Edgar F. Allen in 1922 in Elyria, Ohio as The International Society for Crippled Children, today Rehabilitation International (RI) is a global network promoting and implementing the rights, inclusion and rehabilitation of people with disabilities. From the beginning, the organization dedicated itself to assist disabled people, doing so by providing direct services, by disseminating information, and by influencing political decisionmaking. Uniquely, it has been a cross-disability, cross-disciplinary, and international organization from the start. Further, in its first decade as in its eighth, conceiving and publicizing bills of rights were a key feature of the organization's mission.

For patriotic citizens, living in their native country is intrinsically preferable compared to living in the diaspora. In this paper, we analyze the implications of such a patriotic lock-in in a world with international migration and redistributive taxation. In a formal model of redistribution with international migration and fiscal competition we derive the main hypothesis: that countries with a more patriotic population should have higher redistributive taxes. Using ISSP survey data and combining them with OECD taxation data, we find robust evidence suggesting that a) higher patriotism is associated with higher tax burdens, and b) this relation is stronger for the upper-middle range of the income distribution. ; Die individuelle Entscheidung, dauerhaft im Ausland zu leben, wird sowohl von finanziellen als auch von nicht-monetären Aspekten beeinflusst. Patriotismus (Heimatbindung) ist einer dieser nicht-monetären Faktoren, der zwischen den Ländern aber auch innerhalb eines Landes variiert. Ausgehend davon analysieren wir zunächst theoretisch die Auswirkungen von Patriotismus auf den Steuerwettbewerb zwischen zwei Ländern. In der ersten Stufe des Spieles entscheiden die Individuen, ob sie auswandern oder nicht und in der zweiten Stufe erheben die Länder vom hoch-produktiven Anteil der Bevölkerung (unabhängig vom Ursprung der Individuen) Steuern zur Umverteilung. Wenn die ursprüngliche Bevölkerung (vor Migrationsbewegungen) in Land A im Durchschnitt heimatverbundener als die in Land B ist, reagiert sie weniger elastisch auf den Steuersatz. Im Gleichgewicht führt daher höherer (durchschnittlicher) Patriotismus zu höheren Steuersätzen. Im zweiten Teil überprüfen wir diese Hypothese empirisch, indem wir ISSP-Surveydaten und OECDSteuerdaten zusammenführen. Im Ländervergleich besteht für gleiche relative Einkommen ein positiver Zusammenhang zwischen Patriotismus und Steuerbelastung.

Metadata only record ; Winrock International is a nonprofit organization that works all over the world. The mission of this organization is "to empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity, and sustain natural resources". Winrock mainly focuses on three areas. The first is empowerment and civic engagement, which includes civil society strengthening, women's empowerment, and youth leadership & education. The second focus area is enterprise and agriculture. This area includes agriculture, Wallace Center at Winrock International, U.S. programs and volunteer assistance. The last area of focus is environment, forestry, energy, & ecosystem services. This area covers a broad range of programs and services such as clean energy, ecosystem services, and forestry & natural resource management. The funding partners include domestic and international nongovernmental organizations, government agencies, private foundations, individuals, corporations, and educational institutions.

This entry considers the history of INGOs in the last two centuries and suggests possible venues for future research. ; Cette entrée revient sur l'histoire des organisations internationales non gouvernementales au cours des deux derniers siècles et propose quelques pistes de recherche.

This entry considers the history of INGOs in the last two centuries and suggests possible venues for future research. ; Cette entrée revient sur l'histoire des organisations internationales non gouvernementales au cours des deux derniers siècles et propose quelques pistes de recherche.

This entry considers the history of INGOs in the last two centuries and suggests possible venues for future research. ; Cette entrée revient sur l'histoire des organisations internationales non gouvernementales au cours des deux derniers siècles et propose quelques pistes de recherche.

This entry considers the history of INGOs in the last two centuries and suggests possible venues for future research. ; Cette entrée revient sur l'histoire des organisations internationales non gouvernementales au cours des deux derniers siècles et propose quelques pistes de recherche.

This entry considers the history of INGOs in the last two centuries and suggests possible venues for future research. ; Cette entrée revient sur l'histoire des organisations internationales non gouvernementales au cours des deux derniers siècles et propose quelques pistes de recherche.

The New Trade Theory predicts that international trade lowers prices for consumers and expands the choices available to them. This study shows that both predictions may no longer hold once adjustments in the retail sector are taken into account. I present a new model of retailing in general equilibrium and explore its implications for a number of different shocks. The results demonstrate that retail assortments may remain constant if consumers have a low preference for diversity, and that consumer prices can even rise if the retail density is sufficiently low.

The New Trade Theory predicts that international trade lowers prices for consumers and expands the choices available to them. This study shows that both predictions may no longer hold once adjustments in the retail sector are taken into account. I present a new model of retailing in general equilibrium and explore its implications for a number of different shocks. The results demonstrate that retail assortments may remain constant if consumers have a low preference for diversity, and that consumer prices can even rise if the retail density is sufficiently low.

This text is the introduction to the international relations review (Paris — Geneva) on "Latin America in international relations". He gave a brief overview of the historical history on the issue and the prospects opened up by the articles in this dossier. ; International audience ; This text is the introduction to the international relations review (Paris — Geneva) on "Latin America in international relations". He gave a brief overview of the historical history on the issue and the prospects opened up by the articles in this dossier. ; Ce texte constitue l'introduction au dossier de la revue Relations internationales (Paris - Genève) consacré à "L'Amérique latine dans les relations internationales". Il présente un bref tableau de l'historiographie sur la question et les perspectives ouvertes par les articles réunis dans ce dossier.

The concept of globalization refers to the growing interdependence of countries, resulting from the increasing integration of trade, finance, investments, labor markets and ideas in one globalmarketplace. The most important elements of this process are the international trade and the cross-border investment flows. Economic globalization has increased the specialization of workers, while the companies compete in global markets. Even globalization has recently become a common topic in academic discourse, many economists focused, from the 1980s and 1990s, in addition to globalization, on regionalization - the growth of networks of interdependence within multinational regions of the world. The recent decades arecharacterized by the fact that the world trade grew faster than world output, which implies that an increasing share of world GDP crosses international borders. The trend is explained, mostly, by thesubstantially declining of the trade barriers during the same period, as a result of successive trade negotiation rounds under the auspices of the GATT/WTO, unilateral trade liberalization and regional tradeagreements. Even there are global connections between all the countries, the strongest political and economic integration is being created within a few specific regions of the world: Europe, North America and East Asia.

Angelo,Stefanini:University of Bologna Paolo,Giovenali:Azienda Ospedaliera di Perugia Patricia,Fobair:Stanford University ; Over the past few decades, there has been growing support for the idea that cancer needs an interdisciplinary approach. Therefore, the international cancer community has developed several strategies as outlined in the WHO non-communicable diseases Action Plan (which includes cancer control) as the World Health Assembly and the UICC World Cancer Declaration, which both include primary prevention, early diagnosis, treatment, and palliative care. This paper highlights experiences/ideas in cancer control for international collaborations between low, middle, and high income countries, including collaborations between the European Union (EU) and African Union (AU) Member States, the Latin-American and Caribbean countries, and the Eastern Mediterranean countries. These proposals are presented within the context of the global vision on cancer control set forth by WHO in partnership with the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), in addition to issues that should be considered for collaborations at the global level: cancer survival (similar to the project CONCORD), cancer control for youth and adaptation of Clinical Practice Guidelines. Since cancer control is given lower priority on the health agenda of low and middle income countries and is less represented in global health efforts in those countries, EU and AU cancer stakeholders are working to put cancer control on the agenda of the EU-AU treaty for collaborations, and are proposing to consider palliative care, population-based cancer registration, and training and education focusing on primary prevention as core tools. A Community of Practice, such as the Third International Cancer Control Congress (ICCC-3), is an ideal place to share new proposals, learn from other experiences, and formulate new ideas. The aim of the ICCC-3 is to foster new international collaborations to promote cancer control actions in low and middle income countries. The development of supranational collaborations has been hindered by the fact that cancer control is not part of the objectives of the Millennium Development Goals (MGGs). As a consequence, less resources of development aids are allocated to control NCDs including cancer.

This thesis is composed of three essays. The first one examines cases in which there is a large shift in a country's net foreign asset position due to the re-valuation of its foreign assets and / or foreign liabilities. The second essay studies the dynamic effect of positive shocks in different types of government spending on the real exchange rate of the European Monetary Union (EMU) countries. The last essay studies the dynamic response of real wages to positive shocks in five different types of government spending using annual data in a panel formed by EMU countries. ; Revised versions of Chapters 2, 3 and 4 are published as journal articles: Chapter 2: The Anatomy of Large Valuation Episodes, Review of World Economics, 145(3): 489-511, October 2009. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10290-009-0026-1 ; Chapter 3: Fiscal Shocks and the Real Exchange Rate, (with Philip Lane), International Journal of Central Banking, 9(3):1-32, September 2013. http://www.ijcb.org/journal/ijcb13q3a1.htm ; Chapter 4: Fiscal Shocks and Real Wages, International Journal of Finance & Economics, 17(3): 203-220, July 2012. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijfe.452/pdf ; TARA (Trinity?s Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie

This paper develops a proposal for an international multilevel competition policy system, which draws on the insights of the analysis of multilevel systems of institutions. In doing so, it targets to contribute bridging a gap in the current world economic order, i.e. the lack of supranational governance of private international restrictions to market competition. Such governance can effectively be designed against the background of a combination of the well-known nondiscrimination principle and a lead jurisdiction model. Put very briefly, competition policy on the global level restricts itself to the selection and appointment of appropriate lead jurisdictions for concrete cross-border antitrust cases, while the substantive treatment remains within the competence of the existing national and regional antitrust regimes.