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additional unit of human capital, the production function of human capital starts to show decreasing returns to education after about 4.5 years of schooling. We can also interpret Figure 1 in another way. In fact, Figure 1 states that the effort (in terms of time invested in education) necessary to acquire an additional unit of human capital initially decreases with the stock of human capital already accumulated by an individual and subsequently increases. This means that an additional year of schooling

moment - with this very important phrase: ‘A PhD is a driving licence, not a lifetime project’. Andy provided me at many times with critical intellectual input and steady support, certainly at the difficult moments. Filip has contributed to the more political aspects and ideas of my work. At several occasions he pushed me to be ambitious in trying to get my texts published. Discussions with Alison were extremely inspiring, and she often made me feel that my work matters for reasons beyond this PhD. I

also in a situation of near-monopoly, because Microsft doesn't have any really competitors. Apple, which holds the second place in terms of market share, owns just approximately 9%. This high market share allowed Microsoft to invest in research, and develop some new technologies. The image of the compagny is also very positive. That's why this firm has a real political power. It is easy to understand that a company as Microsoft has more than an economic power, because the health of this organization

failure to make significant reforms in most areas, the destruction resulting from the hurricanes that ravaged the island in 2008, and the impact of the global financial and economic crisis on the Cuban economy. The latter has not only worsened the terms of trade facing Cuba because of the rise in the prices of food imports and the decline in the price of nickel exports, but has further reduced the limited access that Cuba had to international credits. In mid-2009, the government lowered the official

the world. An anonymous referee and Andrew Mold, Development Centre, OECD, provided very helpful comments. 4 © OECD 2010 OECD Development Centre Working Paper No.285 DEV/DOC(2010)2 PREFACE Over the last twenty years, economic and political power has been shifting towards emerging economies. A number of developing countries have become centres of strong growth, raising their shares of global income significantly, which has made them major players in regional and global affairs. Furthermore

foster knowledge creation, transfer and sharing as a major driving force of economic and social development. Progress has been steadily observed in areas related to education and ICT access and use but there is still a long way to go especially in terms of workforce development, which accounts for the main asset of the country. As such, digitizing and aggregating content as well as providing adequate access to a wide array of stakeholders (students, teachers, researchers, business owners, general

the early 18th century. A Modest Proposal also targets the calculating way people perceived the poor in designing their projects. The pamphlet targets reformers who "regard people as commodities".[4] In the piece, Swift adopts the "technique of a political arithmetician"[5] to show the utter ridiculousness of trying to prove any proposal with dispassionate statistics. Critics differ about Swift’s intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy. Edmund Wilson argues that statistically "the logic

following areas: Employment and the labor market, Social security, Income, Industrial relations, and working conditions. The aim of working conditions is to make sure that the law to treat a person differently on the grounds of their religion, belief, political convictions, race, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, civil status, handicap, chronic illness, age, the amount of time they work (full time or part time) or type of employment contract (temporary or permanent) doesn’t exist anywhere. It is

symbolizes the end of the Soviet bloc after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November and the beginning of the transformation process of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. For this transformation to be successful the CEE countries must undertake political and economic transition, as did Poland from 1990. Poland, which has inherited from a planned economy based on heavy industry and agriculture with many state-owned enterprises, known then hyperinflation which ruined its economy. For this reason, the

and it’s responsible to the people). In their minds, they wanted to create a democracy where everybody (men) takes part in the process of electing public officers (mayor, sheriffs…) b. The Fears They were afraid of political power in general. They knew that political power could be dangerous if it was badly used. That’s why they didn’t really trust professional politicians. At the same time, they didn’t trust the people (working class). The result of this fear appears in the Constitution