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Slovak Republic : Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes-Fiscal Transparency Module—Update

International Monetary Fund - 2003

From this study, it is noted that accounting, classification, and reporting of fiscal operations would benefit from the establishment of a state treasury, and a number of measures were recommended. The report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) concluded that key weaknesses in budget...

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Hungary : Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes—Data and Fiscal Transparency Modules—Updates

International Monetary Fund - 2003

This report presents update on the Observance of Standards and Codes—Data and Fiscal Transparency Modules for Hungary. Hungary continues to observe the Special Data Dissemination Standards’ specifications for the coverage, periodicity, and timeliness of all data categories, including the...

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Fiscal Transparency in EU Accession Countries : Progress and Future Challenges

Allan, William - 2003

This paper discusses the findings of fiscal transparency reports on standards and codes (ROSCs) for most EU accession candidate countries. Emphasis is given to the need to establish effective and accountable medium-term budget frameworks to establish policy credibility and anchor adjustment...

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Promoting Fiscal Transparency the Complementary Roles of the Imf, Financial Markets and Civil Society

Petrie, Murray - 2003

This paper explores initiatives to date by the IMF, financial markets, and civil society organizations to assess and utilize information on fiscal transparency. The results of surveys and interviews of rating agency analysts and surveys of civil society organizations on their level of awareness...

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Fiscal Transparency, Political Parties, and Debt in OECD Countries

Dreyer Lassen, David; Alt, James E. - 2003

Many believe and argue that fiscal, or budgetary, transparency has large, positive effects on fiscal performance. However, the evidence linking transparency and fiscal policy outcomes is less compelling. To analyze the effects of fiscal transparency on public debt accumulation, we present a...

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LCAs of a polycrystalline photovoltaic module and a wind turbine

Zhong, Z.W.; Song, B.; Loh, P.E. - In: Renewable Energy 36 (2011) 8, pp. 2227-2237

This study compares the environmental impacts of a polycrystalline photovoltaic (PV) module and a wind turbine using … PV module and wind turbine, and compares their impacts to those of the other stages in the life cycles. The comparison … large quantities of waste are recycled, the potential savings can be quite large, while with the PV module, small quantities …

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An effective Seebeck coefficient obtained by experimental results of a thermoelectric generator module

Hsu, Cheng-Ting; Huang, Gia-Yeh; Chu, Hsu-Shen; Yu, Ben; … - In: Applied Energy 88 (2011) 12, pp. 5173-5179

network. Two different clamping forces are applied to the TEG module to observe the contact effect. Throughout the experiments … module performance. In addition, a thermal resistor network, which is used to calculate the exact temperature difference … for better understanding characteristics of the behavior of the TEG module operating in the actual conditions we provided …

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Spatial optimization of an underhood cooling module – Towards an innovative control approach

Khaled, Mahmoud; Harambat, Fabien; Hage, Hicham El; … - In: Applied Energy 88 (2011) 11, pp. 3841-3849

positioning in the vehicle’s cooling module. This analysis also elucidates how to act on the different parameters influencing heat … cooling module by positioning different heat exchangers, in both the driving and stop phases of the vehicle. The ultimate aim … consumption. Compared to a reference “in-series” configuration of the cooling module HXs (in which the different HXs are …

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Monitoring the Influence of Chemical Composition of Electrical and Dielectric Properties of Special Glasses

Jozef, Psota; Ondrej, Bošák; Vladimír, Labaš; … - In: Research Papers Faculty of Materials Science and … 19 (2011) 30, pp. 9-15

The paper deals with the results of experimentally determined influence of the chemical composition change of pure Ge-Se-Te glasses systems with the rare earths elements additions (Pr, Er and Ho in oxide or pure metal form) on electrical and dielectric properties of the glasses. We used...

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Analytical model of parallel thermoelectric generator

Liang, Gaowei; Zhou, Jiemin; Huang, Xuezhang - In: Applied Energy 88 (2011) 12, pp. 5193-5199

contact resistance is just like the increase of the TE module’s internal resistance, which leads to the deceases of output …

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