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Author: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: measuring, devices, weighing, requirements, tolerances, technical, specifications
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 1995-10
ISBN-10: 0788124641
ISBN-13: 9780788124648
This handbook is designed to be a working tool for the weights & measures official, the equip. mfr., installer, & repairman. It conforms to the concept of the primary use of metric measurements by citing metric units before inch-pound units where both units appear together, & placing separate sections containing requirements in metric units before corresponding sections containing requirements in inch-pound units. Covers: liquid-measuring devices, milk meters, water meters, mass flow meters, liquid measures, graduates, dry measures, odometers, taximeters, etc. Tables.
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Author: Martin Ravallion
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: efficiency, social, aggregate, measuring
Number of Pages: 29
Published: 2003
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Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Keywords: glance, entrepreneurship
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2011-06-01
ISBN-10: 9264095764
ISBN-13: 9789264095762
Entrepreneurship at a Glance is a new, recurrent publication that presents an original collection of indicators for measuring the state of entrepreneurship along with explanations of the policy context and interpretation of the data. This publication also includes special chapters that address measurement issues, and solutions, concerning entrepreneurship and its determinants. In this first issue the special topics covered are: business demography and green entrepreneurs. This new publication is a product of the OECD-Eurostat Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme, which is a long-term program
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Author: Samia Amin
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: service, delivery, measuring, tools, new, served
Number of Pages: 454
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0821371851
ISBN-13: 9780821371855
This publication presents tools and techniques for measuring service delivery in health and education and people's experiences from the field in deploying these methods. It begins by providing an introduction to the different methodological tools available for evaluating the performance of the health and education sectors. Country specific experiences are then explored to highlight lessons on the challenges, advantages and disadvantages of using different techniques to measure quality in a variety of different contexts and of using the resulting data to affect change. This book is a valuable r
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Author: Deepa Narayan-Parker
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: perspectives, disciplinary, cross, empowerment, measuring
Number of Pages: 501
Published: 2005-05
ISBN-10: 0821360574
ISBN-13: 9780821360576
Poverty reduction on a large scale depends on empowering those who are most motivated to move out of poverty?-poor people themselves. But if empowerment cannot be measured, it will not be taken seriously in development policy making and programming.Building on the award-winning 'Empowerment and Poverty Reduction' sourcebook, this volume outlines a conceptual framework that can be used to monitor and evaluate programs centered on empowerment approaches. It presents the perspectives of 27 distinguished researchers and practitioners in economics, political science, sociology, psychology, anthropo
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