A new model is presented for evaluating the performance of a Business Continuity Management System according to BS 25999. Performance is based fundamentally on the system’s Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery Plans. Typically, the performance of these plans is inadequately evaluated using a number of specific exercises at various intervals and, in many cases, with a variety of targe...

This paper presents a decision support technique to help decision makers study the influencing factors in the design of a hybrid solar-wind power system (HSWPS) for grid-linked applications. These factors relate mainly to political and social conditions, and to technical advances and economics. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to quantify the various divergencies of opinions, practi...

A range of health care services are tradable, in that consumers can travel abroad for treatment. In this paper we first estimate the gains from trade. An international price comparison of fifteen procedures reveals that there could be savings of around 1.4 billion dollars annually even if only one in ten U.S. patients choose to undergo treatment abroad. We then identify a key impediment to real...

OBJECTIVE According to policy commentators, decisions about how best to organise care involve trade-offs between factors relating to care quality, workforce, cost, and patient access. In England, proposed changes such as Emergency Department closures often face public opposition. This study examined the way communities respond to plans aimed at reorganising emergency services, including the tra...

edited by Olivier Cadot, Ana M. Fernandes, Julien Gourdon and Aaditya Mattoo “A welcome trend is emerging towards more clinical and thoughtful approaches to addressing constraints faced by developing countries as they seek to benefit from the gains from trade. But this evolving approach brings with it formidable analytical challenges that we have yet to surmount. We need to know more about avai...

There is increasing global concern about the potential impact of pandemic infections, including influenza, SARS and bioterrorist attacks involving infectious diseases. Many countries have prepared plans for responding to a major pandemic. In Australia, the Federal and State pandemic plans include measures such as contact tracing, ensuring availability of antimicrobials, quarantine and social di...

The recent EU/UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement is a complex treaty covering wide range of trade criminal law cooperation issues. It raises number legal issues, for instance as regards its effect, basis, termination or suspension, dispute settlement. This article examines the general issues relating to Agreement, discussing in particular attempts draw line under EU membership UK, placing relat...

In this paper, different levels and types of foreign trade enterprises in Shanghai are selected as samples to conduct a survey about information technology applications in order to analyze their status quo of informatization construction. Based on the results of the survey, this paper shows existing problems and constraint factors during the informatization construction process of foreign trade...