Trade facilitating is a necessary trend for economic globalization. With the raising degree of global free trade, the needs for reducing and eliminating barriers of goods and factors, simplified trade procedure, and efficiency are becoming more notable. Establishing a high-performance trade system is the most important factor to the trade regime and the increase of international trade. Therefore, the studying of reinforcing trade facilitating is becoming increasingly important. This studying focusing on interests brought by trade facilitating to China and the Chinese custom`s policy and mechanism to improve it. Besides, this essay is trying to describe the situation from both theoretical and practical levels. The research finds out that trade facilitating is not only chances but also challenges to Mainland China. Chinese custom learns from developed countries and intensifies reform and abilities, to combine risk manage and custom clearance and to apply modern information technique for improving efficiency, so that Chinese custom can reach the requirements of trade facilitating. Out of reasons, like, small economic basis, relatively weak infrastructure, shortage of capital, and primitive, low manage thought and technique, China has its achievements only in the first stage. There is a gap between China and West countries. The reform and mechanism adopted by custom of People Republic of China is a kind of reference to custom of Republic of China. Further, this essay suggests that customs in cross-strait should set up a channel or reach a administrative arrangement to share custom information, to improve trade facilitating, and, in the end, to realize the goal of global free trade.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1930. / Vita. Published also as Teachers College, Columbia University, Contributions to education, no. 431. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: 96-105.

Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Civil Military Relations))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2004. / Thesis advisor(s): Donald Abenheim. Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-93). Also available online.

Brazil is currently immersed in the project of building a new common market, known as MERCOSUR, with its neighbors Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. It has largely been assumed that this project will produce economic growth and therefore be beneficial for the environment. However, this assumption has recently come into question, as a result of Brazilian and Argentinean efforts to regulate the environmental and health risks associated with retreaded tire imports. Despite the protests of environmentalists, MERCOSUR and WTO tribunals have now issued three separate decisions finding that these measures violate international trade rules. This dissertation examines whether these decisions were correctly decided in light of the relevant scholarly literature on the relationship between trade liberalization and environmental protection, and on regulatory competition theory. I argue that the test applied by WTO and MERCOSUR panels in trade and environment disputes gives insufficient weight to the lessons learned from this literature, and that future panels should adopt a new approach that explicitly draws on these lessons. I then attempt to apply this new approach to the retreaded tire dispute, based on my own examination of the relevant economic and scientific data, and individual interviews I conducted with representatives of the Brazilian government, the Brazilian tire industry, and MERCOSUR.

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Darbo objektas: Klaipėdos miesto valstybinių sporto organizacijų (VSO) specialistų veiklos raiška. Darbo tikslas: atskleisti Klaipėdos miesto valstybinių sporto organizacijų specialistų veiklos raiškos ypatumus. Šiandieninėje visuomenėje, kuriantis žinių ekonomikai, darbo rinkoje pagrindiniais veiksniais tampa žinios ir kompetencija. Todėl didelis dėmesys kreipiamas į žmogiškuosius išteklius, kurie yra didžiausias organizacijų turtas. Labai svarbu išsiaiškinti, kokios priežastys lemia kompetentingų specialistų trūkumą, jų darbinės veiklos neefektyvumą organizacijose. Šiame darbe siekta išsiaiškinti Klaipėdos miesto valstybinių sporto organizacijų specialistų veiklos raišką, kuri Lietuvos mokslininkų mažai tyrinėta. Darbe pateikta bendra literatūros apžvalga, atskleista organizacijos samprata ir jos klasifikavimas, išskirti specifiniai sporto organizacijos bruožai, akcentuojami esminiai Klaipėdos miesto valstybinių sporto organizacijų valdymo aspektai bei valstybinių organizacijų specialistų veiklos ypatumai. Tyrimas buvo atliktas siekiant išsiaiškinti, kaip Klaipėdos miesto valstybinėse sporto organizacijose specialistų veiklą reglamentuojantys dokumentai atitinka realizuojamą veiklą. Tyrimo atlikimui buvo panaudota dokumentų content analizė ir interviu metodas. Atlikto tyrimo pagrindu buvo suformuluotos išvados siekiant įgyvendinti magistro baigiamajame darbe išsikeltą tikslą. / Diploma object: Duty expression of governmental specialists in sports at Klaipeda’s city. Goal of the work: To reveal Duty expression of governmental specialists in sports at Klaipeda’s city. In nowadays society, when media economics is developing really fast, knowledge and competency is becoming one of the main factors in work society. Due to that one of the main treasure of the companies are human resources to which companies are paying great interest. One of the main questions to solve is, what are the reasons why there is a lack of current specialists, and why they so ineffective in various organizations. In this work I try to reveal Duty expression of governmental specialists in sports at Klaipeda’s city, to which Lithuanian specialists haven’t payed much attention. It includes literature reviews, revealing the conception of organization and classification as well as specific signs of it, organization of Klaipeda’s city sports and governing it, also peculiarities of activities if governmental sport specialists. All this has been done with a goal to find out, if all documented duties of sport specilists in Klaipeda’s city are really in power and are they in realization… To do such research I used Content analysis of the document and interviews. Due to research I have formulated the deductions in order to achieve main object of this master’s degree work.

This thesis explains how some organized crime outlaws, such as anti-Prohibitionists, the North American Mafia or La Cosa Nostra, outlaw motorcycle gangs, and Aboriginal street gangs, come to exist and thrive in Canadian society. It sets forth the historical development and nature of criminal organization laws in Canada, and compares the definition of “criminal organization” in the Criminal Code with other criminal law concepts, such as corporate criminals and white-collar criminals; conventional criminality or garden-variety predatory crime; terrorists; and criminal conspirators, parties, and accessories. It uses various concepts and assertions within criminological, sociological and psychological theories to explain the formation and perpetuation of the identity of individuals who engage in organized crime and who are members of organized crime groups. Aspects of social constructionism, social control and bond theory, differential association in the context of subcultures of violence, deviance and labelling, and social psychology theories are discussed to explain why some individuals, or some individuals who are criminals, become organized crime outlaws. Some of these reasons or explanations overlap and some complement one another. From these theoretical reasons or explanations, this thesis extracts a list of requisites that anti-organized crime measures should address in order to effectively combat organized crime. The conflicts among some of these requisites are set forth and reconciled, and the requisites are used to evaluate the present Canadian criminal organization provisions in the Criminal Code and to suggest non-criminal law as well as non-legal ways to effectively combat organized crime. After the application and discussion of each requisite, this thesis makes recommendations as to what anti-organized crime measures should include and how they should approach the problems posed by organized crime outlaws in this country.

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This organizational leadership thesis explored how becoming a learning organization could support Servus Credit Union's increased focus on sales to enhance the customer experience and adhered to the Royal Roads University Research Ethics Policy. An appreciative stance was applied within an action research methodology to enhance the understanding of what is involved in being a learning organization. Four interviews were conducted with external participants to learn from their experiences with learning organizations. An internal focus group was then conducted with Servus Credit Union District and Regional Managers to further explore what would be required to create an exceptional customer experience and to continuously improve. The following recommendations emerged from the research: involve employees in revitalizing the vision, mission, and values; integrate the vision, mission, and values into the performance management process; formalize a leadership development program; establish a cross-functional innovation team; and engage customers to understand their needs.