Krishna B Kumar
1) Knowledge-based economies and basing economies on knowledge: skills a missing link in GCC countries
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RAND
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (50 pages)
Language
EspaƱol
Description
While an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure is a crucial ingredient of a knowledge-based economy (KBE), a skilled labor force and a supportive institutional and business environment are equally important in that they facilitate an economy to use knowledge in a way that is appropriate to its level of development to increase productivity. Skills, education, and training are given their own importance in many countries, but...
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Publisher
RAND
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxx, 115 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
"Hedge funds are a dynamic part of the global financial system. Their managers engage in innovative investment strategies that can improve the performance of financial markets and facilitate the flow of capital from savers to users. Although hedge funds play a useful role in the financial system, there is concern that they can contribute to financial instability. The collapse of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) in 1998 raised awareness that hedge...
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Research report volume RR-650-ASAI
Publisher
RAND
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 PDF file (xi, 85 pages)) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Important changes are taking place in the health care sector that have implications for future supply and demand of anesthesiologists including expansion of coverage, an aging population, greater movement of women into the physician workforce, increasing cost pressures, and shifting modes of delivery. To determine what the implications of these changes might be for the anesthesiologist workforce, RAND Corporation researchers conducted a national survey...
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Research report volume RR-714-RF
Publisher
Rand Corporation
Pub. Date
May 2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
6) Strategies for private-sector development and civil-service reform in the Kurdistan Region - Iraq
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Series
Rand Corporation monograph volume MG1117-1
Publisher
Rand Corporation
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxiii, 106 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
This monograph provides strategies to increase private-sector employment, including ways to reemploy civil-service workers in the private sector, in the Kurdistan Region - Iraq. Prepared for and at the request of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), this monograph is based on a variety of research methods and analyses. These include a review of the existing literature, analyses of survey data, analysis of Kurdistan regional and Iraqi national...
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Publisher
RAND
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxiv, 107 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Comprehensive and reliable statistics are crucial for policy formulation in any region or country. The Kurdistan Region--Iraq (KRI) is hampered by the lack of such statistics as it aims to improve infrastructure, encourage private-sector development, attract foreign investment, and create a sustainable economy. The authors of this study, which was funded by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), interviewed officials in several KRI ministries, assessed...