How to use national MPIs as a policy tool: from metrics to policy by United Nations Development Programme, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative

“…<p><em>How to Use National MPIs as a Policy Tool: From Metrics to Policy</em> is a comprehensive guide developed by UNDP and OPHI to help policymakers leverage the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) beyond mere measurement, using it as a practical tool to shape public policy.…”

Analog smart I/O pads by Tan, Shyue Mei.

“…Electrostatic discharge (ESD) is one of the leading causes of microchip failure during manufacture as well as field and consumer use [National Semiconductor Corporation]. ESD is an increasingly significant problem in integrated circuit design as increasing pin counts and faster circuit speeds compound the need for more and better reliable ESD protection. …”
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Secularization versus religious revival in Eastern Europe: Church institutional resilience, state repression and divergent paths by Northmore-Ball, K, Evans, G

“…Despite continuing for over two decades, the debate about the nature of the trends in religiosity in post-Communist Eastern Europe remains unresolved: some arguing that these countries are undergoing the same process of secularization as the West, while others insist that the entire region is experiencing a religious revival. Using national sample surveys from the early 1990s to 2007 to examine the change in demographic predictors of religiosity, we show that Catholic and Orthodox countries are experiencing different trends, the first group displaying evidence of secularization and the second of revival, and that these two different trends are likely to derive from the legacies of state repression and the differing abilities of the churches to resist such repression. …”

Bilateral Trade Welfare Impacts of India’s Export Ban of Non-Basmati Rice Using the Global Partial Equilibrium Simulation Model (GSIM) by Fathelrahman, Eihab, Osman, Raeda, Hoag, Dana Loyd Keske, Sixt, Gregory N., Strzepek, Kenneth

“…The study utilized the global simulation model (GSIM) to analyze the effects of trade restrictions on industries. The model uses national product differentiation to assess trade policy changes at global, regional, or national scales. …”
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Trade Policy Options for ASEAN Countries and Their Regional Dialogue Partners: “Preference Ordering” Using CGE Analysis by Chia, Wai-Mun, Ji, Xianbai, Rana, Pradumna B., Li, Chang Tai

“…Countries have been motivated to explore alternative trade policy options. Using national real gross domestic output (GDP) gains estimated by the GTAP model to construct “preference ordering” for ten Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and their six regional dialogue partners, this paper comes up with several findings. …”
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Sure (EM)-Autometrics: An Automated Model Selection Procedure with Expectation Maximization Algorithm Estimation Method (S/O 14925) by Kamarudin, Nur Azulia

“…Then, an empirical comparison of four model selection techniques was conducted using national growth rates and water quality index (WQI) data. …”
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