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Carving Santa and Mrs. Claus
With 270 color photos, concise instruction, and detailed patterns, Ken Blomquist takes the carver through every step required to successfully complete wooden figures of Santa and Mrs. Claus. Guidelines for creating a unique surface texture, painted details, and Santa's bag of gifts are all supplied.
Carving Scandinavian Santas
Using step-by-step instructions, 258 color photos, and detailed patterns, Ken Blomquist takes readers through all the steps necessary to carve and finish a Scandinavian Santa. It is designed with a rucksack full of gifts and a walking staff. Instructions and illustrations direct carving a scenic, snow-covered landscape with a fir tree. This project will be an exciting challenge for novice and advanced carvers alike.
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A Model on Knowledge and Endogenous Growth
The authors present a model of endogenous growth in which the main engine of economic development is knowledge. Using a two-sector closed economy model that comprises of a conventional goods-producing sector and a research and development sector, their model incorporates two key aspects of knowledge: technology and human capital. Steady-state equilibrium conditions show that the growth rate of per capita income hinges on the growth rate of human capital. While the growth rate of human capital has been previously shown to affect the growth of the economy in transition between steady states or balanced growth paths, the authors are the first to link the growth rate of human capital to the steady-state growth rate of productivity and output per worker. Furthermore, this result does not exhibit scale effects or policy invariance, both of which have been longstanding concerns with the predictions of endogenous growth models developed in the 1990s.
Learning-by-doing, Learning-by-exporting, and Productivity
"The empirical evidence on whether participation in export markets increases plant-level productivity has been inconclusive so far. The authors explain this inconclusiveness by drawing on Arrow's (1962) characterization of learning-by-doing, which suggests focusing on young plants and using measures of export experience rather than export participation. They find strong evidence of learning-by-exporting for young Colombian manufacturing plants between 1981 and 1991: total factor productivity increases 4-5 percent for each additional year a plant has exported, after controlling for the effect of current exports on total factor productivity. Learning-by-exporting is more important for young than for old plants and in industries that deliver a larger percentage of their exports to high-income countries. "--World Bank web site.
Recovery Operations Field Manual
The recovery process is the longest, hardest and costliest part of any emergency response, and the failure to properly prepare and plan for it will be what the public remembers of the event. No one course or book can provide the magic bullet to avoid the perils following every serious event, but this publication is a quick guide and reference document to assist the public works professional in preparing, planning and developing efficient response activities and written plans--while maintaining continuity of government, as well as of operations, and focusing on elements of internal and external communication.
Regulatory Effectiveness
"The authors review a number of studies on the effectiveness of utility regulatory agency and governance arrangements for the electricity industry, particularly for developing countries. They discuss governance criteria and their measurement, both legal frameworks and surveys of regulatory practice. They also discuss the results from econometric studies of effectiveness for regulatory agencies in the electricity and telecommunications industries and compare these with the results from econometric studies of independent central banks and their governance. The authors conclude with a discussion of policy implications and of priorities for information collection to improve understanding of these issues. "--World Bank web site.
