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| First Industrial Realty Trust Expands Into France | | 2008-07-14 16:42:00 | | First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: FR: 25.35, -1.27, -4.77%), a leading provider of industrial real estate supply chain solutions, today announced the opening of a new office in Paris, France. Paris is France's largest industrial real estate market, with nearly one-third of the country's total industrial space. Christophe Chauvard has joined First Industrial as country director for France and will lead new business development by providing logistics solutions to customers through the acquisition, development, redevelopment, leasing and property management of industrial real estate in the region. Mr. Chauvard reports to Jan Scheers, managing director of Europe.
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| | Dong Nai bans new industrial parks | | 2008-07-11 00:54:00 | | The Dong Nai Province People’s Committee will temporarily ban construction of new industrial parks as part of its efforts to limit pollution.
Provincial authorities will instead focus on upgrading infrastructure at IPs to attract domestic and foreign investors.
Local authorities also aim to lure investors to fill up vacancies on IP property. Priority will be given to environmentally friendly | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | El Indice de Producción Industrial (IPI) acelerando en negativo | | 2008-07-04 22:59:23 | | El Banco de España asegura que en el segundo trimestre «se ha producido una ralentización de la actividad respecto al primero». La entidad supervisora confirma el estancamiento de la economía española, ya que en el primer trimestre el PIB sólo creció un 0,3% en tasas intertrimestrales.Tras la drástica caída de la construcción ahora todas las miradas se centran en la industria como relevo. Sin embargo, las cifras demuestran que esta posibilidad es pura ficción .Índice de Producción Industrial (IPI)La producción industrial española descendió el pasado mes de mayo un 7,3% respecto al mismo mes del año anterior, un 5,5% descontando los efectos de calendario, lo que supone la mayor caída desde diciembre de 2001, cuando este índice retrocedió un 6,3% de acuerdo con la serie corregida de calendario elaborada por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE).El sector industrial acumula una perdida de actividad del 1,4% desde enero por el descenso en los bienes de consumo. E | | By: Rayando La Línea | | |
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| | | Crespi d'Adda, la joya del paternalismo industrial | | 2008-06-30 03:20:00 | | En el pueblo de Capriate San Gervasio en la Lombardía, se conserva uno de las mejores y más espectaculares obras fruto del paternalismo industrial de principios del siglo XX y finales del XIX. Crespi d'Adda es un barrio obrero (villaggio operaio) construido por la familia industrial Crespi al lado de su fábrica de algodón, su idea era satisfacer las necesidades de sus trabajadores dentro y fuera de la fábrica. Con este fin, todos recibían una casa con huerto en un barrio en el patrón se aseguraba que no faltara ningún tipo de servicio desde una iglesia pasando por una escuela, un hospital, un teatro, un campo de deportes,.... hasta una piscina climatizada.Todo empezó cuando el industrial Cristoforo Crespi y su hijo Silvio, tomaron la decisión de establecer en la orilla del río Adda, el pueblo ideal para sus trabajadores, este pueblo tendría la apariencia de un pequeño feudo donde el castillo del señor, la casa de los propietarios había sido construida a semejanza de un | | By: cabovolo | | |
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| Job vacancy HR Support – Industrial Division | | 2008-06-27 15:51:00 | | SCHNEIDER INDONESIA, PT
HR Support – Industrial Division
Responsible in supporting HR for Industrial including administration.
Requirements:
* S1 degree Industrial Engineering.
* Understanding Operational Management.
* Minimum 1 year experience in related job.
* Proficiency in English both verbal and written.
* Computer literate (Ms. Office).
* Initiative, high integrity, fast learning, and good analytical skill.
* Able to work under pressure with minimum super | | By: bursa Lowongan kerja karir terbaru | | |
| | | Nearly US$150 million for construction of Dinh Vu Industrial Park | | 2008-06-25 05:13:00 | | The Chairman of the People's Committee of the northern port city of Hai Phong on Jun 24 presented an investment licence for the project of construction and operation of Dinh Vu Industrial Park's infrastructure (phase II) to the Dinh Vu Industrial Park Join Stock Company.
The project with a total of investment capital of over US$146 million (equivalent to VND 2,338 billion) covers an area of more | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | Job vacancy Industrial Engineering | | 2008-06-22 16:07:00 | | Job Career Vacancy - Lowongan Kerja terbaru :DELPHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, PTINDUSTRIAL ENGINEER(Bekasi)Responsibilities:· Assists & developing operational methods, Visual aids, and work standards using various measurement techniques.· Make operation descriptions and performs the necessary calculations to complete studies and change routine or other systems of labor and material controls.· Confirm or recommend engineering changes implementation date to process, design | | By: Job Career Vacancy, Lowongan kerja karir | | |
| | Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) recruits 529 Managers | | 2008-06-11 23:51:57 | | Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI Bank)
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| | | Summer Industrial Training in Appin Knowledge Solution | | 2008-06-06 00:22:00 | | Appin Knowledge Solution, based in USA, is the Leader in Hi-Technology Certification
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| | Taiwanese firms praise industrial machinery expo | | 2008-06-05 10:08:00 | | Taiwanese companies have applauded Viet Nam for hosting the annual International Industrial Machinery and Equipment Expo, saying it is a valuable chance for them to expand their export markets and improve business efficiency.
The 5th International Industrial Machinery and Equipment Expo is taking place in Hanoi from June 5-8, attracting 128 domestic and international businesses, with 40 percent | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | International Industrial Machinery exhibition to kick off | | 2008-06-05 09:59:00 | | The 5th International Industrial Machinery exhibition will be kicked off at the Hanoi International Exhibition Centre from June 5 to 8. 210 booths of 128 companies will showcase various industrial products on an area of 4,389 sq.m.
This year’s exhibition is the industry’s biggest since Viet Nam joined the WTO in 2006. Vietnamese businesses are modernising their production processes to meet | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | Job vacancies Industrial Engineer - Allied Telesis International (Asia) Pte Ltd | | 2008-06-02 14:11:00 | | Job Vacancies :
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| | Nam Cau Kien Industrial Park licensed | | 2008-05-31 12:02:00 | | Authorities of the northern port city of Haiphong on May 30 granted an investment license for construction of the Nam cau Kien Industrial Park project, invested by the Shinec Shipbuilding Industry Joint Stock Company.
The Nam Cau Kien Industrial Park is located in Thuy Nguyen district, next to National Highways No 10 and 5.
In the first phase of the project which covers 263 hectares, Shinec | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | SEDULITY CERTIFIED INDUSTRIAL SUMMER TRAINING PROGRAME 2008 | | 2008-05-28 20:32:01 | | SEDULITY CERTIFIED INDUSTRIAL SUMMER TRAINING PROGRAME 2008Sedulity Solutions and Technologies presents Hi-Tech Certified summer Training Courses, which will increase your Technical Skills and give the Industrial approach for your better future prospects. These courses will be conducted by our Hi-Tech Industrial Trainers and they would like to share their vast experience through out the training. The concept for these courses are totally project oriented and dedicated to everyone from any stream who wants to work in IT Industry and for those also who want to grab the quality education in short duration. With the help of this training you would learn and get the basic concepts, Practical implementation, Hands on Tools and Utilities according to the contents, Discussions on Industrial Oriented approach, Case Studies, Some Video Demonstations, Presentations etc. These courses would also gives you the support for Placements in MNc's and other part of industry as well. So be a member of Sed | | By: Indian Internship | | |
| | Measures worked out for Dong Nai industrial development | | 2008-05-23 04:51:00 | | Southern Dong Nai province has worked out specific measures to boost the provincial industrial development.
The province attaches importance to shifting industrial structure with priority being given to potential major economic groups, encouraging investment in hi-tech industries and producing high value-added products.
Priority will also be given to development of key industries that have | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | MSc Industrial Microbiology/Genetic Engineering/Biochemistry Admissions @ DEVI AHILYA UNIVERSITY, Indore | | 2008-05-22 01:59:46 | | MSc Life Sciences MSc Industrial MicrobiologyMSc Genetic EngineeringMSc BiochemistryEligibility:At least II class Bachelors degree in respective discipline.Duration of the course: 2 years (Four Semesters).Application form can be obtained from the department by paying Rs. 300/- (in person) or Rs. 350/- (by post) in the form of DD in favor of the “Registrar, DAVV, Indore” payable at Indore.Application form may also be downloaded from our Website (http://www.davvbiotech.res.in/). Application form should be accompanied with a DD of Rs. 300/- in favor of “Registrar, DAVV, Indore” payable at Indore.Last date : June 25, 2008Please visit http://www.davvbiotech.res.in/ for the advertisement and further details.
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| | Market surges in late trade shrugging off weak industrial production data | | 2008-05-12 06:00:00 | | Frenzied buying in late trade helped market snap its five-day slide. Firm European and Asian markets boosted the sentiment. The S&P CNX Nifty galloped past the 5,000 mark. The market was highly choppy today.The market, which had opened lower tracking weak US markets on Friday, 9 May 2008, accentuated fall in afternoon trade triggered by dismal industrial production data.In Europe, the key benchmark indices in UK, France and Germany were up by 0.6% 1%. Asian markets reversed early losses to post gains today, 12 May 2008. Nikkei 225 Average (up 0.64% at 13,743.36), Straits Times index (up 0.70% at 3,184.19), Taiwan Weighted index (up 0.43% at 8,830) and Sanghai Composite index (up 0.37% at 3,626.98) advanced.The 30-share BSE Sensex was up 139.85 points or 0.84% to 16,876.92, as per provisional closing. Sensex gained 160.29 points at the day`s high of 16,897.36 hit in late trade. Sensex hit a low of 16,546.55 in early-afternoon trade. At the day`s low, Sensex lost 190.52 points.The broade | | By: Indian stock markets | | |
| | | INDUSTRIAL LABELS | | 2008-05-04 06:34:00 | | I'ts probably quite hard to find a label company that can customise and produce large quantities of labels at a time. Especially when you are in need of these for your businessLabel world do a good variety of labels like Wine Label, safety, medical & industrial ones.They are specialised in this field, so definitely worth a look at. | | By: Mummy Diaries | | |
| | | Overview of all industrial & technical skilled professions at Audi | | 2008-04-19 06:51:00 | | For the sixth time now, AUDI AG is participating in the national German “Girls’ Day”: The carmaker based in Ingolstadt is inviting around 280 girls from the region’s secondary schools to visit its Training Center in Hindemithstraße, Ingolstadt on April 24.“We want to make more girls enthusiastic about technology and show just how interesting and exciting technical and scientific careers can be and what good opportunities for development they offer,” says Dieter Omert, Head of Training at AUDI AG, commenting on the goals of “Girls’ Day.”From 9 a.m. to 1.30 p.m., around 200 girls from Hauptschulen (general-education secondary schools) and Realschulen (mid-level secondary schools) will be given an overview of all industrial and technical skilled professions at Audi. The girls will have a chance to talk to trainees and demonstrate their own abilities by producing small workpieces under expert supervision.Read more... | | By: Auto Blog India by Infibeam | | |
| | Indian Industrial production recovers from low levels | | 2008-04-12 02:54:00 | | February Industrial Production Index (IP) growth recovered to 8.6% year on year (yoy) from a low of 5.8% yoy in January, coming in above the consensus of 7.9% yoy, but continuing the single-digit growth trend which started in November, said Goldman Sachs. IP growth has moderated to 8.7% yoy year-to-date (ytd) in FY08 compared to 11.2% yoy ytd for the same period in FY07. The monthly sequential momentum picked up to 0.7% in February from 0% in January.Capacity expansion moderating: Capital goods grew by 10.4% yoy, faster than the one-time blip of 2.3% yoy last month, but slower than the 18.4% yoy growth in the first 10 months of the fiscal year. Consumer goods on the other hand, grew at 9.2% yoy, higher than 6% yoy in the first 10 months of the fiscal year, but mostly on a low base. For headline IP, there were some low base effects helping.The latest IP data shows that growth is continuing to moderate, rather than slow sharply. Key coincident indicators such as cellular subscriptions, t | | By: Indian stock markets | | |
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Porque creo que no puede hacerse el trabajo de hoy con los métodos y las herramientas de ayer y esperar mantenerse dentro del mercado mañana. Las nuevas tecnologías permiten el blog, una oportunidad incomparable para que las personas se comuniquen entre sí y las compañías puedan recibir respuestas a [...] | | By: Premios Blog del Dia | | |
| | Job Vacancy TBH Industrial & Marine Pte Ltd (Singapore) | | 2008-04-06 13:57:00 | | Job Vacancies:
Due to expansion, An established company dealing with Industrial & Marine products invites suitable candidates for:
Sales Engineers (Local & Regional)
Requirements:
-Diploma in Mechanical / Marine Engineering or equivalent Professional Academy
-Candidate that possess relevant...
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| | Granstar Motors & Industrial Corp.(Philippine Job Vacancy) | | 2008-03-29 22:47:00 | | Job Vacancies:
A well establish company in the Motorcycle industry with over 80 branches nationwide is looking for strong and motivated applicants from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao to fill-up following positions:
1. Area Operations Managers
Qualifications:
* Male, not more than 45 years old
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| | | News: Explosion in Dubai's industrial area | | 2008-03-27 18:55:00 | | When I worked in Dubai, traffic accidents were the things I was the most scared off. Fire was next on the hazards list.We knew that with the drought, heat, an almost constant wind and fire rescue services often taking a long time to shuffle through the traffic jams, there would be little chance of saving our houses or offices if a fire would break out.Two days ago a fire works factory exploded in the Al Quoz industrial area, and 83 warehouses were gutted in the blaze. This was the area we used to have our offices. (Full report)Here is a video of the actual blast:The fire spread to neighbouring warehouses.
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| | Licensing Requirements Eased for Use of Industrial Wireless Equipment in India | | 2008-03-21 08:11:20 | | Use of wireless in manufacturing environment is gaining interest in India. India has been quick in adopting technologies that seek to bypass progressive learning and wireless technology is one such. Wireless applications in industries are perhaps also the fallout of the research being done in India related to telecom domain. A number of Global IT solution providers and research institutions, such as the IIITB (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore) and IISC (Indian Institute of Science) are carrying out fundamental research that includes manufacturing domain. With several major global suppliers taking the lead in taking their present offerings, wireless applications in process and discrete industries are catching the attention of manufacturers. The manufacturers are not enthused as yet but are willing to listen and explore the alternatives proposed, albeit in a small way. They are beginning to appreciate ISA SP100 specifications and WirelessHART technology descri | | By: Indonesia Type Approval/homologation/Compliance ce | | |
| | S. Korean Industrial Bank opens Vietnam branch | | 2008-03-20 06:12:00 | | The Industrial Bank of the Republic of Korea (IBK) opened a branch in HCM City on March 19 aimed at serving its clients who have invested in Viet Nam.
IBK was established by the Republic of Korean government 46 years ago to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
With the opening of the HCM City branch it expects to help a large number of RoK clients invest in Viet Nam. (VNA) | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | Industrial and urban developer No 2 reports share auction results | | 2008-03-17 20:52:31 | | The Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HOSE) recently reported the results of the share auction for Industrial and Urban Development Joint Stock Co No 2's 1,683,940 shares at the initial price of 30,000 dong per share on March 14 via the southern bourse.
The highest wining price was at 81,000 dong per share while the...
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| | Bulgarian Industrial Association has warned that the country's real estate sector and related industries should brace them | | 2008-03-15 10:32:00 | | Real estate market is saturated, Bulgarian news agency (BTA) quoted BIA chair Bozhidar Danev as saying. There were more than 20 000 unsold holiday apartments in Bansko and another 200 000 along Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, all of them built with bank loans that needed to be repaid, he claimed. Intercompany debt at the beginning of 2008 was roughly 100 billion leva, according to BIA estimates, which assumed that debt maintained its annual 20 per cent average growth rate from previous years. The figure exceeded 81 billion leva in 2006, but was only 34 billion leva in 2001. The combined value of the intercompany debt exceeded Bulgaria’s gross domestic product by 65 per cent, Danev said.
| | By: Bulgaria Real Estate News | | |
| | Industrial parks mushroom in southern province | | 2008-03-14 04:57:00 | | The administration of southern Dong Nai province has approved a project to build the Dau Giay industrial park, making it the 26 th of its kind so far in the province.
The freshly-approved 330 ha project has brought the total areas marked off for industrial parks in the province to over 7,000 ha.
The existing 25 parks have managed to lease out over 63 percent of their territory to investors, | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | Singapore: costliest industrial spot in Asia ex-Japan | | 2008-03-12 18:12:57 | | Singapore: costliest industrial spot in Asia ex-Japan
It rises 2 notches to take 12th place in the world
SINGAPORE has risen two notches to become the 12th most expensive industrial location in the world.
And excluding Japan, which is ranked third in the world, Singapore is the most expensive location in Asia, surpassing Hong Kong (23rd), Mumbai (26th) [...] | | By: singapore property real estate news blog | | |
| | Dia do Industrial do Café | | 2008-03-12 11:19:00 | | Hoje é Dia do Industrial do Café. Essa planta, que produz uma das bebidas mais apreciadas do mundo, é originária da África e chegou à América no século XVIII. Os franceses iniciaram plantações nas Guianas. A saída de sementes do país era proibida, mas o sargento paraense Francisco de Melo Palheta, em uma visita diplomática àquele país, conseguiu algumas sementes que foram trazidas em seu bolso. O café passou a ser cultivado no norte do Brasil em 1722 e foi se espalhando pelas demais regiões.As Máximas do Joe Baloo
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| | Market slips into the red after solid start as industrial growth slows; breadth negative | | 2008-03-12 07:09:00 | | Disappointing index of industrial production figures for January 2008 which hit the market in early afternoon trade dragged the market in red in late trade in contrast to strong start. The US Federal Reserve`s move to inject up to $200 billion of liquidity into strained credit markets triggered rally across Asian and European markets. 16 shares from the 30-member Sensex pack declined. Market breadth was negative. Shares from metal and software slipped while real estate stocks and select private sector banking stocks rose.The 30-share BSE Sensex was down 36.61 points or 0.23% at 16,086.54 as per provisional closing. Sensex lost 59.06 points at day`s low of 16,064.09 touched in late trade. Sensex hit a high of 16,683.37 in early trade. At the day`s high, the Sensex gained 560.22 points. The Sensex oscillated in a band of 619.28 points in the day in volatile tradeThe broader based S&P CNX Nifty was down 3.10 points or 0.06% at 4,862.80 as per provisional closing. It struck high of 5,0 | | By: Indian stock markets | | |
| | Hoa Binh to become industrial park hub | | 2008-03-11 05:44:00 | | Northern midland Hoa Binh province will put into operation 13 industrial parks by 2020.
Covering more than 2,660ha, the 13 parks will produce electronics, garments, electronic components, consumables and construction materials.
According to the province’s Industrial Park Management Board Director Do Hai Ho, the majority of parks will be located in Luong Son district, near the capital city of Ha | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | | Van Trung industrial park set up in Bac Giang | | 2008-03-05 10:31:00 | | Van Trung industrial park was set up in the northern province of Bac Giang on March 5.
The IP which covers 433 ha in Viet Yen and Yen Dung districts is expected to attract hi-technology and environmental-friendly industries.
The IP has a legal capital of 85.2 million USD, invested by Taiwanese Fugiang company. | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | Ca Mau to set up three new industrial zones | | 2008-03-05 04:39:00 | | The Prime Minister has given the nod to the southernmost province of Ca Mau to establish three more industrial zones. As planned, the 235ha Hoa Trung industrial zone (IZ) will accommodate old and new seafood processing plants in Ca Mau province.
The 515ha Nam Can IZ, which is currently home to a sea port and a shipyard capable of building the 30,000 tonne vessels, is projected to become a | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | Industrial Urban Development Co No 2 to auction shares | | 2008-02-26 17:15:44 | | The Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HOSE) recently announced that it would organise an auction for 1,683,940 shares at 10,000 dong par of Industrial Urban Development Joint Stock Co No 2 on March 14 at the initial price of 30,000 dong per share via the southern bourse.
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| | Industrial production value increases 16.3 per cent | | 2008-02-26 06:12:00 | | The national industrial production value in February was estimated at 46.4 billion VND, a 16.1 per cent year-on-year increase, but 12.2 per cent lower than the previous month.
The figure brought the production value in the first two months of this year to almost 99.29 billion VND, a 16.3 percent rise over the same period last year.
The State-own sector saw a 7.1 per cent year-on-year increase, | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | | Video: Humor negro y el Diseño industrial | | 2008-02-23 14:15:17 | | Una critica al diseño industrial en México
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| | Boston industrial facility on the block for $19M | | 2008-02-22 14:46:00 | | The 103,171 square foot cold storage facility is located at 1 Commercial St. in Sharon, an affluent Boston suburb. Situated on 9.97 acres, it is fully occupied by Preferred Freezer, the fifth largest Public Refrigerated Warehouse company in the country. The building is being offered for $185 per square foot or $24 per cubic foot.Regenstreif is a retail associate at Marcus & Millichap and specializes in the brokerage of single-tenant properties. In October 2007, he finalized the $66.5 million sale of the Mervyn's office building in the Oakland suburb of Hayward, Calif.
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| | Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust announces February distribution | | 2008-02-21 21:05:00 | | Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust ("PIRET") (TSXV: AAR.UN) is pleased to announce that its Board of Trustees has approved a cash distribution of $0.025 per trust unit for the period from February 1, 2008 to February 29, 2008. This distribution is the equivalent to $0.30 per trust unit on an annualized basis and will be paid on March 14, 2008 to unitholders of record at the close of business on February 29, 2008.The policy of Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust is to pay cash distributions on or ab | | By: Brand Mantra | | |
| | Industrial media consultant to take UK marketing experts to India | | 2008-02-21 00:56:00 | | John Fisher, specialist in industrial marketing, has become chairman of the City of London livery company for marketing professionalsHis programme for the year includes taking a group of members of the Worshipful Company of Marketorsto India for 10 days in November.The theme for his year of office is technology and marketing, which was launched by the guest speaker Dan Cobley, marketing director of Google UK, at the installation dinner. The thrust of Cobley’s address was that marketers need to | | By: Brand Mantra | | |
| | | | Ha Noi targets key industrial products | | 2008-02-12 05:44:00 | | More effective support of Ha Noi’s industrial development is needed in 2008, said Luu Tien Long, head of the city’s Department of Industry and deputy head of the management board for the Programme for Developing Key Industrial Products.In an interview with Viet Nam News, Long said the programme had been fruitful after two years of implementation"Most enterprises with products selected as key industrial products of Ha Noi have shown much higher production growth rates in the past two years," Long said."These products already have comparative advantages," he admitted. "We selected, recognised and gave them assistance to boost their growth rates, contributing more to the city’s overall industrial growth."The programme has selected 35 industrial products as key industrial products from 33 city enterprises approved by the Ha Noi People’s Committee. Of the key products, 17 were new to the list since the previous year.A People’s Committee report showed that several recognised enterp | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | Biotechnology Begins A New Industrial Revolution. | | 2008-01-20 22:09:00 | | With the advent of biotechnology a new age has arrived in the industrial sector. The industrial biotechnology is facilitating a new industrial revolution that can bring a cleaner future with better products at lower cost.The industrial biotechnology is revolutionizing the way we can produce energy, chemicals, electricity, hydrogen and other products. By harnessing nature’s unique ability to make biocatalyst, industrial biotechnology can now be employed to convert previously unusable agricultural waste products to energy and biodegradable products.Industrial biotechnology is widely applied in the industrial sector to manufacture various products such as biohydrogen, biopolymers, ethanol, nutritional oil, rayon, vegetable oil, vitamins.Students and researchers can get in-depth knowledge on various aspects of biotechnology from the books published by the National Institute of Science and Media.Joel Ball, is an eminent writer on biotechnology and science under the NISM publications.To kn | | By: The National Institute Of Science Media | | |
| | Biotechnology Begins A New Industrial Revolution | | 2008-01-20 22:08:00 | | With the advent of biotechnology a new age has arrived in the industrial sector. The industrial biotechnology is facilitating a new industrial revolution that can bring a cleaner future with better products at lower cost.The industrial biotechnology is revolutionizing the way we can produce energy, chemicals, electricity, hydrogen and other products. By harnessing nature’s unique ability to make biocatalyst, industrial biotechnology can now be employed to convert previously unusable agricultural waste products to energy and biodegradable products.Industrial biotechnology is widely applied in the industrial sector to manufacture various products such as biohydrogen, biopolymers, ethanol, nutritional oil, rayon, vegetable oil, vitamins.Students and researchers can get in-depth knowledge on various aspects of biotechnology from the books published by the National Institute of Science and Media.Joel Ball, is an eminent writer on biotechnology and science under the NISM publications.To kn | | By: The National Institute Of Science Media | | |
| | Database Modeling for Industrial Data Management: Emerging Technologies and Applications | | 2008-01-18 10:28:00 | | Author: Zongmin MaPaperback: 374 pagesPublisher: Idea Group Publishing Language: EnglishISBN: 1591406846(R)Collecting and presenting the latest research and development results from the leading researchers in the field of industrial database modeling, Database Modeling for Industrial Data Management: Emerging Technologies and Applications provides a single record of current research and practical applications in industrial database modeling. This book discusses the major aspects of databases for industry: data modeling, database models, and database applications in information systems. Readers of Database Modeling for Industrial Data Management: Emerging Technologies and Applications will gain a complete understanding of the notions, techniques, and methods related to the research and developments of industrial database modeling, which will serve as both a starting point and a reference for their research and developments. Zip Password: T0sT@rN@
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| | Industrial Solvent May Increase Risk for Parkinsonism | | 2008-01-13 07:44:51 | | (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to a common industrial solvent known as trichloroethylene may raise the risk for developing parkinsonism, a group of nervous system disorders with symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease, new research suggests.Although the study focused on people working close to a source of trichloroethylene (TCE), the solvent has been found in drinking water, surface water and soil near sites where it's used, the researchers noted.In the study, University of Kentucky researchers initially assessed three Parkinson's disease patients who'd been exposed to TCE at work for at least 25 years. Questionnaires were then sent to 134 of their factory co-workers.The researchers found that 14 former workers who worked close to the TCE source exhibited signs of parkinsonism. This included having significantly slower fine motor hand movements than people the same age who hadn't been exposed to TCE.Another 13 former workers who worked in the same area or slightly farther from the TCE so | | By: General Detoxification & Cleansing Blog | | |
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| | | The Industrial Revolution Unplugged: An Interview With Author Gregory Clark | | 2007-10-12 21:44:28 | | The topic below was originally posted in my blog the Intrepid Liberal Journal as well as the Independent Bloggers Alliance, The Peace Tree and Worldwide Sawdust.Our current world of globalization, technological advancement and the widening schism between rich and poor stems from the Industrial Revolution. Indeed, the Industrial Revolution is arguably the most important historical watershed in human history. So why did it happen in eighteenth-century England? Furthermore, how come the unprecedented economic growth it produced only served to make parts of the world even poorer?Conventional wisdom is that the Industrial Revolution resulted from the development of stable, political, legal and economic institutions in seventeenth-century Europe. Many assume factors such as geography, natural resources or exploitation were behind the Industrial Revolution. A decade ago, Jared Diamond postulated in his best selling and Pulitzer prize winning book, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, that natural endowments such as geography were largely responsible for differences in the wealth of nations.Gregory Clark, a professor of economics at the University of California, Davis as well as department Chair, is posing a direct challenge to Diamond and our longstanding belief of why the Industrial Revolution happened. In his recently published book, A Farewell To Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (Princeton University Press), Clark contends that culture not imperialism or geography explains the wealth and poverty of nations.His provocative book has garnered much attention and provoked considerable debate. Tyler Cowen of the New York Times wrote late last year that,“Professor Clark’s idea-rich book may just prove to be the next blockbuster in economics. He offers us a daring story of the economic foundations of good institutions and the climb out of recurring poverty. We may not have cracked the mystery of human progress, but ‘A Farewell to Alms' brings us closer than before."Still others take issue with Clark’s suggestion that culture is far more influential than institutions in generating economic growth. In a New York Times review in August, Robert P. Brenner, a historian at the University of California, Los Angeles is quoted as referring to Clark’s idea of genes for capitalist behavior as a “speculative leap.” Prior to even reading Clark’s book, conservative Andrew Sullivan wrote the following for his blog in August, “Conservatism has long posited that human nature has no history. But what if it does? What if genetic adaptation occurs more swiftly among humans than we once believed? This implies that human nature is actually more plastic than we have long thought - but generationally, not individually. It suggests that different populations may have not just different cultural but different genetic inclinations. It means that some populations may therefore have different skill-sets than others, and even different aptitudes with respect to complex systems like, liberal democracy, that require specific habits of mind and custom. It means that these facts about human societies across the globe may be somewhat stubborn things in the short term, if not in the long.If these ideas undermine parts of conservatism (its belief in unchanging human nature in history), they also entrench others (that societies cannot be abstracted from their moment in time or culture). These ideas also suggest, of course, that a place like, say, Iraq, will not soon muster anything like the skills and practices for a Western European democracy. These are my wild-eyed inferences from a book I have not yet read.“ Yet Clark’s book also a difficult pill to swallow for liberals idealists like me who believe in activism to promote peace, justice and prosperity on a global scale. Personally, I believe factors beyond culture such as natural resources, geography and hostile neighbors are largely responsible for defining cultures. Hence, I further believe that activism is required to help influence those factors that shape cultures and hopefully facilitate worldwide prosperity and social justice.Putting my own misgivings about some of his conclusions aside, Clark’s book is compelling, scrupulously sourced and contains an abundance of remarkable facts. Clark graciously agreed to a telephone interview with me about his book. Below is a transcript of our conversation.******************************************************************************ILJ: Professor before we delve into the substance of your book let’s talk about why you embarked on this project in the first place. Why is it so important to establish why the Industrial Revolution happened?Clark: Well, the industrial revolution is actually one of those amazing puzzles of world history. And it’s something that’s up there with things like String Theory in physics and quasars in astronomy. It’s how we got here. It’s how we have the modern world. And the puzzle is why did it occur only 200 years ago when people were around for at least a hundred thousand years before that? One of the reasons it was fun to write this book is that you could actually explain this puzzle in terms that any intelligent person can understand and let them see why it is such an amazing puzzle about why history would take that particular form. Whereas with things like quantum mechanics I certainly know I’m never going to understand that stuff (laughs)!ILJ: I’m curious as to how you compiled the impressive historical data you utilized. Whether one agrees with your arguments or not, and I’m skeptical about some of your conclusions, the information you accumulated whether it’s last wills and testaments from men in the 1600s or pre-industrial fertility rates is quite astounding. I found myself transfixed by all the data presented in your charts and graphs. How did you obtain access to this data as well as economic surveys from hundreds of years ago?Clark: Well, I’m a specialist in English economic history. And that’s actually one of the countries that is the best documented, going way back to the middle ages. I’ve been working on this book for twelve years. I’ve been in this field for twenty-five years. And then the other thing is I actually love to read anthropology and that provided this whole other source of data. And then I’ve been teaching for the last fifteen years effectively world history courses. So the great thing is you gradually get exposed to more and more evidence and more and more materials. And what’s nice about this particular history is this is a very obscure corner of the academic realm.People are just not aware of how useful and interesting various bits of information we have from the past are. How we can estimate how literate the upper Roman classes were, or what was the speed of travel for information in the ancient world. We actually do know all these things so part of the fun of the book was to reveal to people that there is this amazing body of information about the past. So it’s partly my own research and partly just drawing on this huge body of knowledge that scholars in economic history and anthropology have assembled.ILJ: So you really were combining two disciplines: economics and anthropology?Clark: Yeah, I’ve always had an interest in anthropology and also particularly in socio-biology. When I was in graduate school at Harvard I listened to all sorts of lectures from evolutionary anthropologists. So for me it was fun just to try and bring different types of evidence and arguments together in this book and expand people’s idea of what economic history is about. It’s more than just boring stuff about prices and wages.ILJ: Professor, a reoccurring theme in your book, especially the first part of your book covering the pre-Industrial Revolution is what you term the Malthusian trap, named after Thomas Malthus who in 1798 wrote “An Essay On the Principle of Population.” For the benefit of those who haven’t read your book or the work of Thomas Malthus for that matter, what is the Malthusian trap?Clark: Well here is an interesting piece of intellectual history. Malthus was writing just as the world he was describing was coming to an end. It’s interesting that just as that world was ending he finally figured out its true nature. The problem with all societies prior to 1800 was that technological advance was very slow.In a world with slow technological advances and unrestricted fertility (or at least very modestly restricted fertility), when technological advances occur living standards are increased in the short run. But those increased living standards result simply in fewer people dying and more people being born, and that drives up the population. With a fixed land endowment that just drives wages down back to some kind of subsistence level.So in all of the world before 1800, technological advancements were absorbed into population growth. None of it got translated into any long-term increase of living standards. That’s the Malthusian trap that existed before 1800. And that produced a topsy-turvy world in which all our intuitions about what is good for society turn out to be wrong.ILJ: That leads to my next question. In Chapter five about life expectancy you note that the cultures in China and Japan respectively practiced superior hygiene then their European counterparts during the pre-industrial era. Did the Europeans, England especially, perversely benefit from inferior hygiene because their populations were kept down from plagues while the standard of living for those who survived, were enhanced?Clark: Yes, this is one of the paradoxes of history and an example of why this book is meant to be bold and controversial. It’s previously been known that England and the Netherlands had very high living standards compared to most pre-industrial societies in the eighteenth century. People have identified that with an idea of greater economic progress in those societies. What my book argues instead is that living standards were good there not because of any sophistication of their economies, but because of the nature of hygiene practices across different societies in the pre-industrial world.For a country like Japan living standards were only 1/3 or ½ of those in Western Europe. But that was because in Japan people bathed every day, and they carefully separated human waste products from people. When they used human waste in agriculture they carefully treated it to eliminate bacteria. They swept the floors of their houses. They swept the streets. Japan was a very orderly, hygienic society. But that has the perverse effect in a Malthusian world that you can live, you can sustain the population, at a much lower subsistence level. Material consumption can be much less, yet people still survive, and enough children can be born that the population can be replenished in each generation.Whereas if you look at pre-industrial Western Europe, these people lived truly filthy (laughs). Before 1800 in England, no one seems to have bathed! It was just a relatively rare activity. For example Samuel Pepys, who was a high English civil servant in the 1660s, kept a famously detailed diary for almost ten years. And he records every minutia of his life. That’s why it’s so fascinating for historians. In that entire time he records his wife having a bath once!ILJ: Yes, it was like a big event! (laughs)Clark: Yes, it’s a notable event! And he actually notes that she “pretends to becoming clean (laughs). But we’ll see how long that lasts!” And apparently she never again took another bath in this decade.ILJ: (laughs)Clark: And she wouldn’t let him come to bed with her that night because he was filthy. People didn’t bathe. Another thing is that in cities like London, what did people do with human waste? They stored it in their basement until it was emptied every few months by the night soil men. So they’re living on piles of shit in the richest areas of pre-industrial England. And Pepys again in his diary records going down into his basement when his neighbor’s waste storage has overflowed, and he’s stepping on turds!It’s just very interesting how little attention Europeans paid to hygiene and the book argues that everything in a Malthusian world that kills off the population – plagues, war, disease - actually ends up making the population richer because fewer people have to die because of the misery of every day life and material existence. We can actually see that English living standards in 1450 where double those of the 18th century even though there was much less technological advance. The reason for that is because the “Black Death” was raging across Europe in that period.ILJ: Just to follow up on that, if I interpret the data you present correctly, those who survived, and you coined the phrase “survival of the richest” in your book, enjoyed a superior standard of living because there were less people to divide the wealth among and they passed that wealth onto their descendants. Your contending that passing on wealth to offspring facilitated a culture of patience because for them survival wasn’t contingent upon immediate consumption. Do I have that right?Clark: Yes. Pretty much. One of the implications of this Malthusian existence, and this is deeply embedded in this Malthusian picture of the world, is better economic conditions allow people to be more successful reproductively. Within any of these societies there is a huge range of living standards. There are very poor people and very rich people. Those rich people, because they enjoy so much better material consumption, should be able to produce many more surviving children. The way this happens is you have more living space, you have more food, more changes in clothing. You have cleaner water. So we would expect in this society we would have a Darwinian element. Only two children will survive to adulthood in any period of the pre-industrial world because the population can only change slowly. But amongst the rich you’ll have many more than two children surviving. Among the poor, many fewer. And we can observe this process when reviewing 16th and 17th century England. It’s a very strong process.So the rich are taking over this society biologically. That leads to the question, does this get transmitted from one generation to the next? If you have the rich in one generation, are their children also likely to be rich? Are their children also likely to be successful economically and reproductively? It turns out we can show in England that’s the case.This raises the intriguing possibility that if the rich are different from the poor, either culturally or genetically, then this process may be gradually transforming society because the rich and their descendants are taking over all the positions in society. So if it was a genetic advantage the rich had, there may actually be genetic changes in this long Malthusian interval between the arrival of settled agriculture and the Industrial Revolution.It turns out we have very clear evidence of changes in peoples preferences over this long pre-industrial interval. The example the book gives is that people were becoming more patient as the Industrial Revolution approached. The measure of patience in these pre-industrial societies is the interest rates? Because the interest rate tells you much you have to reward people to own land or own houses. How much do you have to pay them not to consume immediately, but instead own that asset and wait for future consumption? If you go back to ancient Babylon they had mortgage markets but the interest rates were typically twenty to twenty-five percent. If you go to medieval Europe their interest rates were ten to twelve percent for things like land. By the eve of the Industrial Revolution the return on land in England dropped to about four percent. So in the pre-industrial world interest rates seem to indicate the amount of patience people are exhibiting.ILJ: One element of your book I found ironic is your challenge to Adam Smith, considered the founding father of capitalism, who in 1776 published The Real Wealth of Nations. Smith postulated that the rule of tyrants and their institutions undermined incentive for productivity because the ruling class ultimately confiscated any wealth that was produced. You contend that pre-industrial England had plenty of incentive for producers, such as limited government and low taxes, yet prosperity still wasn’t generated. Hence, Smith who is identified with the ethos of limited government actually postulated that the ruling class can positively or negatively influence economic policy with activist government. Why do you believe Adam Smith was wrong about that?Clark: Well, since I’ve published the book I’ve come under criticism from intellectual historians. So, I think what I should be careful to identify it’s the modern image we have of what Smith was about, rather than Smith himself. I’m not a historian of economic thought, so what I mainly want to emphasize is the message we’ve taken from Smith, the Smith we’ve constructed.Smith is regarded as arguing that growth results from getting the correct economic incentives, which results from getting the right set of economic institutions. That’s really an incredibly strong founding principal of modern economics, the idea that people really are at base the same everywhere. If you can only get the incentives correct, then economic growth will result. So, the book strongly takes issue with that.I’m saying that economists have had to construct a false history of the world. They’ve had to imagine a pre-industrial past that is, you know, a cross of Brave Heart and Monty Python’s Holy Grail and all the bad movies about medieval England. An image of rape, and pillage, disorder and violence, and serfs groaning under the weight of the lords emerged about medieval England.My knowledge of medieval history, and this is one of the areas I’ve studied in detail, shows that picture is just unsustainable. If the World Bank was to now score medieval England against modern economies in any objective way, in terms of what are the incentives for production and for innovation, medieval England would score much more highly than somewhere like modern Sweden – which is a very rich and successful society. One way that shows up is, for example, in the average government tax rate for medieval England? It’s one percent. In low tax America we’re closer to forty percent, and in places like Sweden they’re even close to sixty percent in terms of how they’re taking from any extra earnings of the average wage earner.Medieval England had absolute price stability. It had almost no government debt. It had very strong security of property. People who invested in land in local villages, who needed a ten percent return in order to make that investment, had absolute property security. We can see through the course of 500 years that lots of these land plots were transferred properly from one legal owner to another. They had a free market. And they had huge incentives. If you produced you ate, if you didn’t produce you starved. For example we can see from the records that in 1316-17, in the last great famine that England experienced, poor people died and the rich lived (laughs).ILJ: (Laughs)Clark: You had every incentive to acquire assets in this world. Assets could be the difference between life and death. And yet this was still a world with very, very slow economic growth. Almost none. So one of the things the book is saying is look, modern economics in some sense is a cult. It’s like pre-modern medicine, where you keep repeating these same ineffective treatments. They keep failing. In the book I provide lots of other instances where good economic institutions are not associated with economic growth. That’s why I’m saying there has to be some other thing required, and what the book is arguing is that there really are important cultural processes that take place before you get modern economic growth. If we neglect that we’re never going to understand the true nature of economic growth. And so we really need to move away from incentive explanations, and what the book is saying is that history is illuminating about this and we really need to know more about that history.ILJ: Now if I interpret your book correctly, it’s your provocative contention that the industrial revolution happened in England ahead of Japan, China, India or her European rivals because of a cultural evolution instead of institutions established by the ruling class. Specifically this cultural evolution encompassed what we would term middle class or bourgeoisie values of thrift, hard work, nonviolence, negotiation and patience. Couldn’t one argue however that what really gave the English a leg up on their rivals was their superiority at imperialism, colonization and subjugation of other peoples for their material benefit?Clark: Well, it is absolutely the case that the English were very successful colonists in this area. But the book is at pains to stress that the Industrial Revolution was home grown. It is the result of people in England innovating, introducing new processes in a way that they did not do earlier, as a result of changes in the culture. Not as a result of better incentives. And the book does acknowledge that events outside England, particularly England’s great access to food supplies from the Americas, its access to cotton from colonies, helped magnify that process. But the book strongly stresses that the break, the move toward higher productivity growth rates, is really a homegrown feature of England.Further I go on to look at the relationship between England and India in the nineteenth century. India was England’s great colony in this period. Everything the English did, they didn’t mean it this way, but everything they did should have led to the industrialization of India. They were not systematically exploiting India. They were in fact offering India the enormous possibility of becoming the second great industrial power in the world. That didn’t happen, but it wasn’t because of anything the British did. It was because of what happened internally in India. Because of India’s weak responses to the new incentives the British Empire offered. And so the book says look, it’s not that the imperialists had any kind of good motives, it’s not that we should admire them in anyway, but in the case of something like British imperialism, it was actually, if you believe modern economics, it was actually a force for rapid world economic development and that Britain gained very little directly from its colonies. Most of Britain’s gains actually came from Britain’s internal processes of economic change.ILJ: It seems to me you have adroitly combined elements of the classic nature/nurture divide. You’re contending that the intrinsic human characteristics of a growing economy were nurtured in England and became part of that society’s DNA – that so called middle class values were passed on almost genetically. And then around eighteen hundred, after years of this cultural development, a critical mass was achieved and the industrial revolution happened. But wasn’t pre-industrial Japan a civil society with laws and customs that resembled England’s? Couldn’t it be argued that England had advantages transcending culture over the Japanese such as a more powerful imperial empire? I know you’re saying it’s home grown and you do acknowledge in your book some of the outside cultural advantages England had. But couldn’t one argue that those outside forces were even more powerful than what was homegrown since there was many parallels between Japanese and English society?Clark: Oh yes. The interesting thing is that there were actually surprising parallels between England and Japan in this period. But what the book says, I want to emphasize, is that the Industrial Revolution was going to occur somewhere. There were a bunch of societies that all seemed to be moving in the same direction. One of them was going to achieve the breakthrough into modern industrial society. And there were element also of luck and accidents in that. But England on most of these dimensions was the society that had moved furthest along.So if you compare England and Japan you can see similar kind of processes in England and Japan. But that Japan looks like England three hundred to four hundred years earlier. The book is contending that if England never had an Industrial Revolution, then likely somewhere like Japan within three hundred or four hundred years would’ve actually made that breakthrough towards a modern world. There were just accidents of British history that gave the English the lead, and one of them was that the demographic system in pre-industrial England really created an enormous reproductive advantage for the upper classes. In Japan, their demographic system only created a modest advantage for the Samurai class. Consequently, there wasn’t the same kind of cascade downward into the merchants and mechanics ranks of the excess children of the upper classes that you get in someone like England. And so the book is still sympathetic to accident and contingency, but it’s saying you can still see a pattern. Another feature of England is the incredible stability of the English economy. It’s actually internally very boring from the Middle Ages on.ILJ: (Laughs)Clark: And that’s one of the reasons England is so incredibly well documented is because nothing ever gets destroyed! (laughs)ILJ: (Laughs)Clark: Even the Civil War results in almost no destruction for the economy … the Civil War of 1642. So one of the things this allows is for these basic demographic processes that are changing the composition of the English population to be much more rapid than in other societies where there is more disruption, invasion, chaos which disrupts these demographic processes. But the basic thing the book emphasizes is that this was a common trend across long settled agrarian pre-industrial societies. That China, Japan and England are not that different by the time you get to 1800 but England is further along in this process.ILJ: Your postulating that only long established stable societies develop the necessary cultural characteristics for economic growth. It seems to me that a society’s economic development is influenced by so many variables, such as geography, access to fresh water, whether or not a society has been conquered or how long they’ve been subjugated, profoundly influences whether or not that society develops the cultural characteristics needed for economic growth. For all the impressive data your presenting - and it should be noted that your peers do not dispute your data, they’re very impressed by what you’ve done - isn’t it a leap of logic to say that culture is the cause of economic growth instead of those variables determined by fate which influence culture? How can we really know if it’s the chicken or the egg?Clark: Oh yeah. This is always a problem. Again, to be clear the book is saying when we look at the modern world it’s beginning to resemble again the world pre- 1800. The great actors of economic life are beginning to look like those of 1800. It’s Europe and European offsprings. East Asia and East Asian offsprings that are becoming the world’s great economic powers again, and that looks exactly like the world before 1800.But the argument of the book is that was because the long histories of these societies gave them an enduring cultural advantage in terms of modern economic competition. The puzzle then that comes up is why did these societies have such long histories of agrarian settlement. That’s when you might say that maybe Jared Diamond could be right in terms of saying geographical advantages these places had in the beginning gave them much longer access to settled agrarian society. And so when you come down to it, the book seems to be posing a mechanism by which these societies have an advantage that is completely different from the one that Jared Diamond suggests. But in the end, I will admit, you can still think geography played a role. But not current geography. Now it turns out we’re in a world where most societies have equal access in terms of geography and the possibilities of economic growth. Maybe some landlocked African economies don’t. But most, a huge number do have equal access now. But I am not denying there maybe geographical advantages in the distant past that may have moved groups from hunter gatherers to agrarian societies in Europe and in China much earlier than in other parts of the world.ILJ: Fair enough. Professor Clark you’ve been very generous with your time. A final question if I may sir. Assuming all your conclusions about the importance of culture in facilitating the industrial revolution are correct, what lessons can we draw from history as we try to influence economic growth in the underdeveloped world in the 21st century?Clark: Well, the lesson is unfortunately a little pessimistic. But I think one thing that is important is that for fifty years institutions like the World Bank have been applying the same kind of medicine. And it’s like pre-industrial doctors, you try bloodletting, and when it doesn’t work, you conclude let’s do more bloodletting.ILJ: (Laughs)Clark: And there is this emphasis now, it seems, a very strong emphasis, on achieving good government in a bunch of African societies which really have a hard time maintaining Western style governments. But yet when you look you see someone like China growing very rapidly with a very corrupt government, terrible social institutions, and the rule of law really evaded on a massive scale (laughs).ILJ: (Laughs)Clark: And so when you see this you think maybe to focus all your energies on institutions is not the way to go. What the very clear problem, say, within these African societies, is that even inside production enterprises it’s very hard to get people to cooperate in production in a way that makes workers have high value. And the shocking thing that’s occurred recently is that in Zambia and Malawi, where Chinese entrepreneurs have moved into these very poor African countries, wages are much lower now then they are in most of China. But they’ve actually been importing Chinese workers in factories in sub-Saharan Africa.ILJ: That’s ironic.Clark: And encountering a lot of local opposition. The puzzle then is it seems just very hard to get people to cooperate effectively in production in these societies. I think that says this is an area where we really must examine what is going on here. One interesting idea is that the nature of modern technology is very demanding in terms of how careful workers have to be, how exactly they have to follow rules. So one thing to think of is there any way to develop other technologies more forgiving of the cultural histories of these societies? Another thing to look at is if we expose workers more to the kind of Western high income economic life and send them back would that actually help in changing workers attitudes and changing the economic life of those societies? But I don’t have any simple recipe for economic growth, and anyone who does is someone you should avoid.ILJ: (Laughs)Clark: I do think that we’re looking in the wrong place, and have been systematically. And it’s the ideology of economics that pushes us there but it’s very clear that it is the wrong place. So it’s at least worth considering, given the true constraints, what can we do? How can we operate? What are the processes we can set in place? And if we are going to solve the problem of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, the solution is going to come in a very different form then the followers of Adam Smith are going to accept.http://www.relaywave.com/pingRelayWave.php
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| | AMB Property Acquires Industrial Development Project In UK | | 2007-10-06 17:48:00 | | AMB East London Distribution Park is a 320,000 square foot two-building development project located adjacent to a major highway that connects Central London to the M25, London's Orbital. Guy Jaquier, AMB's president, Europe & Asia, said, "Our expansion to the United Kingdom further establishes AMB as a major provider of industrial distribution space in strategic markets integral to global trade. AMB has entered the UK with a high-quality development property designed to provide our customers with superior functionality and modern specifications in the high-demand Greater London area."
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| | Weirdest Industrial Sculptures Place in Prague | | 2007-09-25 23:03:00 | | Right at Nadrazi Holesovice station (metro, bus and tram - there are no more options) at Holesovice. There used to be a driver's school. Don't know if it is still here. But I think there's a pub (or bar or club) here now. They are growing these sculptures for years... very successfully. And I lied in the title. This is not the Weirdest Industrial Sculptures Place in Prague now. There's a street exhibition at Andel (also a bus, metro and tram station). There are sculptures made of old computers and various home appliances. They are over 3 metres high and from what I remember they are in the shapes of prehistoric animals. I should go there again and take a picture of them so you can compare which place is weirder. Hope they will not be gone on weekend.PS: I took this shot over a curved tram window, thus the blur in some places. | | By: Prague Daily Photo | | |
| | Industrial Facility | | 2007-09-21 06:31:00 | | Kim Colin et Sam Hecht ont fondé le sudio de design produit Industrial Facility en 2002 à Londres. Ippei Matsumoto les a rejoint ensuite en tant que designer senior.
Ils viennent de créer une collection de produits de stockage nomades pour LaCie, où les connexions sont cachées derrière des capots amovibles. Très sobre et très élégante, cette collection se nomme Little Disks comprend des disques durs de 30 à 250 Go et un graveur de DVD.
De facture plus vintage, Ippei Matsumoto a conçu une calculatrice pouvant se connecter à un ordinateur pour IDEA, reprenant les touches d'un pavé numérique.
Kim Colin and Sam Hecht founded the product design studio Industrial Facility in 2002 in london. Ippei Matsumoto joined them later as a senior designer.
They just created for LaCie a collection of nomadic storage products, where connexions are hidden behind a removable door. very sleek and elegant, this collection is named Little Disks and comprises 30 to 250 Gb hard drives and a dvd | | By: blog.palast, the blog for creative minds | | |
| | New Cherokee Industrial Development | | 2007-09-14 17:45:48 | | The Cherokee Development Authority recently announced Cherokee Farms industrial park.
Cherokee Farms is being developed as (5) five freestanding industrial buildings ranging in size from 10,400 square feet to 14,400 square feet. The project is near the Cherokee County Airport which is undergoing expansion to accommodate corporate jets. The expansion will also increase apron [...] | | By: Maxsell Real Estate | | |
| | La producción industrial en Andalucía cae un 4,8% | | 2007-09-08 22:18:48 | | La producción industrial española registró una progresión en el mes de julio, del 1,3% interanual, según datos corregidos en variaciones estacionales, tras una progresión del 2% en junio, informó el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE).En los primeros siete meses del año, la producción industrial aumentó un 3,1%. En el mes de julio, la producción de bienes y consumo subió 2,8% (+3,8% para los bienes duraderos y +2,4% para los bienes no duraderos), 7% para los bienes de equipamiento, y retrocedió 0,3% para los bienes intermedios y 4,6% para la energía.De enero a julio, el alza fue de 3,5% para los bienes de consumo (9,9% para los duraderos y 2,4% para los no duraderos), 7% para los bienes de equipamiento y 2,3% para los bienes intermedios. La producción industrial, por el contrario, retrocedió 1,5% en la energía.La producción industrial subió en el mes de julio en catorce comunidades autónomas, especialmente en Extremadura, donde creció un 23,2%, y sólo bajó e | | By: Rayando La Línea | | |
| | The Industrial Revolution | | 2007-09-06 13:16:07 | | Voices mutter empty promises from the world beyond - the one that keeps turning beyond the window with everyone doing their little bit to keep pushing with palms and feet on wheels, keys and mice. The world is spun from promises. The music of the spheres recites dates, statistics and payments. The cog turns another notch. Black coffeemud and chained cigarettes oil the machine, otherwise grinding and whining at full steam as soon as I'm awake - earlier than I intended, like Wellington saying 'hallo' to a red fizzing dawn. London burns with low calorie chatter while the Luddites hide in daytime TV caves like chaos magicians playing with nylon and Oyster cards just enough to make it all work for them, nothing more. I am not a mouse in a wheel. I am not a God turning the lever. I am a man in a world that spins, regardless of my promises, regardless of whether I push it or not - my own music on loop bidding "get it done, get it done". The world spins, on and on, regardless. Everything is | | By: The Boy Who Could But Didn't | | |
| | Industrial Shelving | | 2007-08-26 03:37:00 | | CarGuyGarage.com sells some great industrial shelving that is of course fabulous for garage storage, but also works for numerous other applications. I use industrial shelving in my Pilates studio to hold free weights, weighted bars, medicine balls, magic circles, and other pieces of exercise equipment. I also use the shelving to store books and inventory items for sale to my customers. It sure comes in handy!a PPP sponsored postTags: Pay Per Post, carguygarage.com, industrial shelving, lynda lippin
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| | Industrial part of Prague right in the centre of Prague | | 2007-08-15 23:07:00 | | You may not tell that this is less than 3 minutes away from the centre of Wenceslas square, the most known square in Prague. The building to the right from the chimney (not in the picture) is a bowling and a snooker place. We were there quite often during my high school years as we have our school right over street (in Panska street).I'm just watching document about photographer Jan Parik on tv. He does a lot of interesting stuff but his best would be Kafka's Prague exhibition. With beautiful black and white photos of Prague - almost unchanged from the times Franc Kafka lived here.Well, I like Kafka's novels. They are so nicely strange :) Unfortunately Franc Kafka is way too merchandised in Prague.Speaking of what's on tv, before this document about Jan Parik was a short about Madrid. And when I hear Madrid I think Dsole and Madrid Daily Photo :)This photo was taken with Canonet QL17 and Kodak Tri-X 400 (exposed at 800 ISO) and thus I'm adding it to my Canonet QL17 series :) | | By: Prague Daily Photo | | |
| | | The Industrial Information Technology Handbook | | 2007-08-02 19:50:00 | | Author: Richard ZurawskiPaperback: 1936Publisher: CRC (November 29, 2004) Language: EnglishISBN: 0849319854 The Industrial Information Technology Handbook focuses on existing and emerging industrial applications of IT, and on evolving trends that are driven by the needs of companies and by industry-led consortia and organizations. Emphasizing fast growing areas that have major impacts on industrial automation and enterprise integration, the Handbook covers topics such as industrial communication technology, sensors, and embedded systems. The book is organized into two parts. Part 1 presents material covering new and quickly evolving aspects of IT. Part 2 introduces cutting-edge areas of industrial IT. The Handbook presents material in the form of tutorials, surveys, and technology overviews, combining fundamentals and advanced issues, with articles grouped into sections for a cohesive and comprehensive presentation. The text contains 112 contributed reports by industry experts | | By: GanEden For Books | | |
| | | Prestongrange Industrial Museum, East Lothian | | 2007-07-21 15:36:42 | | Prestongrange Museum lies between Musselburgh and Prestonpans in East Lothian eight miles from the centre of Edinburgh. The museum lies on an industrial site which employed more than 1000 in its heyday. The Visitor Centre is open from 11am - 4pm every day from April to October. There is a cafe and toilets in the Visitor Centre and you can borrow a recorder and headphones to do an audio tour of the site. Outwith these hours you can either download the tour to your mp3 player or dial a number from your mobile phone.
The Hoffman Kiln, constructed in 1937, could bake 30,000 bricks in its 24 chambers during the fifty hour long firing session.
Hoffman Kiln
The Cornish Beam Engine enabled the 128 metre deep “Great Seam” to be mined without flooding as it could pump 45 million litres of water a day. The Engine was built in Plymouth in §853 and brought to East Lothian in 1874. During its 71 year working life at Prestongrange it only had to be shut down twice for repairs. | | By: Europe a la Carte Blog | | |
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