HOW EFFECTIVE ARE PARENTS' PROFESSIONAL GOALS ON INDIVIDUALS?

Millennium Development Goals: How are we doing?

At a global summit held in the year 2000, world leaders committed themselves to strive for the attainment by 2015 of a set of 8 far-reaching developmental mileposts known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Unlike previous global agreements (for example, the Alma Ata 'Health for All by the Year 2000' declaration), the MDGs were specifically tied to numerical benchmarks consisting of 21 ...

How Effective are Emission Taxes

*Ishikawa: Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo 186-8601, Japan. Fax: 81-42-580-8195; E-mail: [email protected]. Kuroda: Nagoya Gakuin University, Seto, Aichi 480-1298, Japan. Phone: 81-561-42-0350; E-mail: [email protected]. We are grateful to an anonymous referee, seminar participants at Nagoya Gakuin University and RIETI and the participants of Kobe COE One-Day Conference on Labor M...

How Effective Are Institutional Reforms?

Comment on “How effective and efficient are multiobjective evolutionary algorithms

In a recent paper by Tang, Reed and Wagener (2006, hereafter referred to as TRW) a comparison assessment was presented of three state-of-the-art evolutionary algorithms for multiobjective calibration of hydrologic models. Through three illustrative case studies, TRW demonstrate that the Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm 2 (SPEA2) and Epsilon Dominance Nondominated Sorted Genetic Algorithm ...

THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS How Realistic Are They?

In its Millennium Declaration of September 2000, the United Nations (UN) adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to be reached in 2015 through concerted efforts worldwide. According to UN calculations, the estimated costs in terms of additional development aid of meeting the MDGs in all countries vary from US$121 billion in 2006 to $189 billion in 2015. It appears that while Asia is we...