scholarly journals Socio-economic benefits of weather and climate services in Europe

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Perrels ◽  
Th. Frei ◽  
F. Espejo ◽  
L. Jamin ◽  
A. Thomalla
Keyword(s):  
Economic Benefit ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Climate Services ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Weather And Climate ◽  
The World

Abstract. There is a rising interest around the world for a better understanding of the economic and social value added of weather services. National hydro-meteorological services and international cooperative bodies in meteorology have ever more to justify their use of public budgets. Furthermore, the development of hydrological and meteorological services is to a large extent steered by expectations regarding the eventual benefits of the envisaged new developments. This article provides a compact overview of the impediments for uptake of socio-economic benefit (SEB) studies, methods and results of SEB studies to date. It also discusses some pitfalls and crucial steps to enhance a broader uptake of SEB studies.

scholarly journals The Reaping Economic Benefits from Unemployment among White Collar Professionals in Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-22
Author(s):  
Mahnoor Shakeel ◽  
Salwa Jadoon ◽  
Nazia Bashir
Keyword(s):  
Economic Benefit ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
The Other ◽  
Working Population ◽  
Potential Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Face Aging ◽  
The Way

Since 1960 world has witnessed a change in the composition of population where developed countries have face aging working population and on the other hand developing countries like Pakistan has been blessed with young working population that has shown the way of potential development in every field .It has been further complemented by the fact that world has entered into “human age” where the driver of development is believed to be the talented individuals rather than capital. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the way Pakistan can adopt to cash the unemployment among its white collar professionals to gain economic benefit on the part of Pakistan as well as to the individuals themselves. The study reaches to the conclusion that skill mobility can provide the means for Pakistan to integrate into the world and generate capital for its development.

Why continue sharing: Determinants of behavior in ridesharing services

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 725-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocío Arteaga-Sánchez ◽  
Maria Belda-Ruiz ◽  
Alejandro Ros-Galvez ◽  
Alfonso Rosa-Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Continuance Intention ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The World ◽  
Managerial Implications

The sharing economy is revolutionizing the way consumers use goods and services. The aim of this study is to understand consumer motivations to be satisfied and to continue using ridesharing services. With this aim, we modify and extend the expectation–confirmation model by including social value as an additional factor to those previously studied in the literature. Data were collected from 258 users of BlaBlaCar, one of the world leaders in ridesharing services. Social value positively affects satisfaction and has the second strongest total effect on continuance intention among the motivations in our model. Our results highlight that satisfaction of ridesharing users is driven by service quality, perceived usefulness, environmental impact, trust, and social value; and that all those factors joined for economic benefits affect continuance intention directly or indirectly through satisfaction. These results have important theoretical and managerial implications.

scholarly journals Taking stock of the socio-economic benefits of weather and climate services in South Asia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Suckall ◽  
Marta Bruno Soares
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Climate Services ◽  
Weather And Climate ◽  
Current Emphasis

<p>The use of scientific information about future weather and climate offers enormous potential for society to better manage the risks associated with climate variability and change. There has been significant investment in weather and climate services (WCS) initiatives over the past years, however empirically based evidence of the socio-economic benefits that can be yield from such services is very limited. Furthermore, understanding and capturing the real benefits of WCS is key to ensure continue investment and funding of WCS as well as to enable adaptive management of such services. In this paper, we conduct a review of the literature of WCS evaluations in South Asia. We systematically document and analyse empirical evidence as reported in the academic and grey literature to highlight: (1) the scale and scope of WCS that have been evaluated in the region; (2) the methodological approaches that have been used to monitor and evaluate the benefits of WCS initiatives on the ground; and (3) the socio-economic benefits of WCS categorised under a triple bottom line approach that takes into consideration economic, social and environmental benefits of the WCS under analysis. The paper explores these findings and highlights key areas that warrant further discussion and research. These include, the disconnect between developing and implementing WCS and effectively capturing and recording the benefits that can be yield from WCS; the current emphasis on assessing and capturing economic benefits whilst social and environmental benefits are largely ignored and/or not accounted for; and the need for robust methodologies that enable adequate and holistic evaluations of the benefits that can be generated within the WCS and across the triple bottom line.</p>

Threats to the Economic Security of Russia in the Context of Trends in the Development of Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 112-125
Author(s):  
Alexander I. Selivanov ◽  
Vladimir G. Starovoitov ◽  
Dmitriy V. Troshin
Keyword(s):  
National Economy ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Economic Crime ◽  
African Continent ◽  
New Developments ◽  
External Threats ◽  
National Economic ◽  
The World ◽  
National Economic Security

Situation and value of the African continent on the economic and social cardmap of the world dynamically changes and will continue to change throughout all the 21st century with strengthening of the Africa positions in the world. In Russia all the complex of threats and problems which arise owing to political and economic transformation of Africa is not adequately estimated. The scientific literature on economic security issues presents an expanded set of internal and external threats to the national economy that goes beyond the traditional areas of the shadow economy, corruption, economic crime and related segments, including the internal economic stability of the national economy and inter-country competition, the quality of state strategic management, studies of the specifics of ensuring economic security in the conditions of the sixth technological order, intercultural communication and their impact on the economic relations between countries, etc. Incomplete use of such approach to strategy for the countries of Africa creates additional threats and risks for Russia. An analysis of security problems in Africa revealed that studies of economic security in the context of African development trends in Russia are conducted in an unsatisfactory volume, not always taking into account the results of new developments in the field of ensuring economic security. Even the large shifts happening on the African continent, forecasts of this dynamics sometimes are poorly known to experts of a profile of economic security, and many experts of an economic profile including working in the African subject often do not accurately distinguish problems of “economic cooperation” and “the Russian – African relations”, on the one hand, and “economic security of Russia” – with another. In this regard the new scientific problem is proved: need for deeper analysis of trends of economic and social development in Africa as an important component of a system of ensuring national economic security of Russia in the current period and in the future into account the new developments in the sphere of economic security. The main directions of activating scientific research and concentration of practical efforts to increase national economic security, neutralize threats and reduce risk for Russia in the designated context are formulated.

Battlefields from Event to Heritage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Carman ◽  
Patricia Carman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Critical Security Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The World ◽  
War And Conflict ◽  
Modern War

What is—or makes a place—a ‘historic battlefield’? From one perspective the answer is a simple one—it is a place where large numbers of people came together in an organized manner to fight one another at some point in the past. But from another perspective it is far more difficult to identify. Quite why any such location is a place of battle—rather than any other kind of event—and why it is especially historic is more difficult to identify. This book sets out an answer to the question of what a historic battlefield is in the modern imagination, drawing upon examples from prehistory to the twentieth century. Considering battlefields through a series of different lenses, treating battles as events in the past and battlefields as places in the present, the book exposes the complexity of the concept of historic battlefield and how it forms part of a Western understanding of the world. Taking its lead from new developments in battlefield study—especially archaeological approaches—the book establishes a link to and a means by which these new approaches can contribute to more radical thinking about war and conflict, especially to Critical Military and Critical Security Studies. The book goes beyond the study of battles as separate and unique events to consider what they mean to us and why we need them to have particular characteristics. It will be of interest to archaeologists, historians, and students of modern war in all its forms.

scholarly journals The Social Balance Sheet as Part of the Annual Report in Financial Institutions. A Case Study: Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3075
Author(s):  
Miguel Ángel Martín Valmayor ◽  
Beatriz Duarte Monedero ◽  
Luis A. Gil-Alana
Keyword(s):  
Annual Report ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Economic Value Added ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Balance ◽  
Corporate Social

In this paper, we examine the concept of the social balance sheet (SBS) and its evolution in corporate social reports that large companies have to issue today in their yearly statements. The SBS allows companies to evaluate their compliance with corporate social responsibility during a specific period and quantify its level of accomplishment. From a methodological perspective, this research analyzed the information that should be contained in the SBS report comparing economic value added (EVA) with other social value added statements (SVA), analyzing also in detail the case of Spain’s Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) bank as one of the pioneers in offering social reports. Along with this study, their metrics following EVA were recalculated and a more academic SVA statement was proposed for this specific case.

Management Concept of Modern Distance and Open University: Taking Consideration to Social Responsibilities and Operating Performance

2011 ◽  
Vol 268-270 ◽  
pp. 1613-1618
Author(s):  
Fan Li ◽  
Fei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Economic Benefit ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Operating Performance ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Open University ◽  
Social Responsibilities ◽  
The World ◽  
Management Concept ◽  
Development Tendency

Paying more attention to economic benefit but less to social responsibility is a problem faced by many Radio & TV universities in China. As the most successful distance education university in the world, the Open University of UK provides much experience on management model. Favorable benefit and well development tendency are gotten by hammering at shouldering community responsibilities and winning public praise with quality. The management strategy of it would make contributions to the development of China’s Radio & TV universities.

Plan for the development of specialized climate forecasting in NEACC

2021 ◽  
pp. 101-111
Author(s):  
S.V. Emelina ◽  
◽  
V.M. Khan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Optimal Strategies ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Climate Services ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Climate Risks ◽  
The North ◽  
Weather And Climate ◽  
North Eurasia

The possibility of developing specialized seasonal forecasting within the framework of the North Eurasia Climate Centre is discussed. The purpose of these forecasts is to access the impacts of significant large-scale anomalies of meteorological elements on various economic sectors for the timely informing of government services and private businesses to select optimal strategies for planning preventive measures. A brief overview of the groups of climatic risks in the context of the impacts on the socio-economic sphere is given according to the Russian and foreign bibliographic sources. Examples of the activities of some Regional Climate Centers that produce forecast information with an assessment of possible impacts of weather and climate conditions at seasonal scales on various human activities are given. Keywords: climate services, regional climate forums, weather and climate risks, North Eurasia Climate Centre

Assessment of the positions of the exporting countries of agri-food products on the world market according to their role in global value chains

2021 ◽  
pp. 8-14
Author(s):  
Elena Yu. Frolova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
World Market ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Agricultural Exports ◽  
Export Policy ◽  
The World

The place in the rankings of agricultural exporting countries in world trade is estimated in terms of the volume of imports and exports of raw materials and food. However, to assess the efficiency of agricultural exports, it is important to analyze the value added of exported goods produced in the country. The position of the exporting country in global value chains is derived from the type of agricultural production, which in turn depends on the level of development of the national economy, the availability and breadth of use of modern high technologies. The article examines the concept of the development of world agriculture from the point of view of the formation of global value chains, set out in the report of the UN World Food Organization [1] in comparison with the political decisions of such countries as India and the People’s Republic of China in the development of agricultural and food exports. The paper analyzes the risks associated with the consolidation of developing countries as suppliers of agricultural raw materials, as well as the conditions and action plan that allow the country-exporter of agricultural raw materials to move to higher levels in the global value chains on the world market. This experience should be considered to make comprehensive and effective decisions on the formation of the export policy of agricultural products and food of the Russian Federation, considering the food security of the country.

scholarly journals Administration Of E-Invoicing Value Added Tax(Comparative Study between Indonesia and Australia)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Riki Tenardi ◽  
Titi Muswati Putranti
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Technology System ◽  
Australian State ◽  
The World ◽  
Directorate General ◽  
Ministry Of Finance ◽  
Depth Interviews

Technological changes in tax administration especially VAT have also changed the way tax authorities around the world implement e-invoice tax, one of which is Australia. The Ministry of Finance of the Directorate General of Tax (DGT) Indonesia responded to this in 2013 by creating a VAT administrative technology system called the Electronic Tax Invoice (e-Faktur). This study aims to determine the administration of Indonesian e-Faktur by looking at the Australian e-invoice as a benchmark and to find out the problems of e-Faktur in Indonesia after implementation. This research method is a qualitative method with techniques in the form of literature studies and in-depth interviews with informants. The results of this study are that the e-Faktur of the system in Indonesia is different from the understanding of the existing e-invoicing in the literature and the Australian state. Australian e-invoicing system neglects sending data in the form of digital data (PDF) and sending via email. E-Faktur was found to still have problems after its application such as access which was always problematic because of the network, the insecurity of VAT data, and the costs that still arise due to the application e-Faktur such as the still printing of documents and inefficiency. The conclusion from this study is that there are still fundamental differences between the administration of Indonesian and Australian e-invoice.

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