The effort to stabilise the financial system in Japan: an outline and the characteristics of the programme for financial revival. Bruegel Working Paper 2015/02, 18 March 2015

This Working Paper provides an overview of the Programme for Financial Revival announced in October 2002 in Japan. The programme aimed to dramatically reduce the large amount of non-performing loans that remained until the end of the 1990s. In addition to solving the problem of bad loans, the Programme for Financial Revival aimed to build a strong financial system. For this purpose, the programme comprised three pillars: 1) creation of a new framework for the financial system, 2) creation of a new framework for corporate revitalisation, 3) creation of a new framework for financial administration. The Japanese experience suggests that despite its delayed introduction, this programme may be considered successful in going some way to drastically reduce non-performing loans and stabilise the financial system. Japan’s financial problems and their resolution since the 1990s provide a number of lessons for other economies, particularly for Europe in relation to the difficulties over the euro.

Challenges to the Patent System in face of Open Hardware

Dannie Jost gave a presentation outlining some of the challenges to the patent system presented by open source hardware at the "Open Knowledge Festival", under the topic stream treating open design, hardware, manufacturing and making; September 19, 2012; Helsinki, Finland. This topic stream generated considerable discussion, and it serves to educate an audience that is usually very adverse to patents and copyright, and helps the researcher understand the issuing conflicts surrounding emerging technologies, in particular digital technologies, and the maker movement (digitally enabled).

Education of the Mexican American in the United States : progress and stalemate /

Stamped on t.p.: ED230352.

Materials for the study of the Soviet system; State and party constitutions, laws, decrees, decisions, and official statements of the leaders, in translation.

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The credit system in colleges and universities.

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The doctorate in education; an inquiry into conditions affecting pursuit of the doctoral degree in the field of education.

Vol. 2 by H. E. Moore, J. H. Russel, and D. G. Ferguson.

An answer to Lord Sheffield's pamphlet, on the subject of the navigation system : proving, that the acts deviating therefrom, which His Lordship censures, were beneficial to our trade and navy, in the last war, and ought to be renewed in the present /

"Memorial of the merchants of London": p. [72-75].

Review, historical and political, of the late revolution in France, and of the consequent events in Belgium, Poland, Great Britain, and other parts of Europe.

Mode of access: Internet.

Instruction manual for preparation and submission of revised estimate of cost of completing the interstate system in accordance with Section 104(b)5, Title 23, U.S. Code, Highways /

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History and development of the pension system for teachers in the United States.

Thesis (M.A.)--Univ. of California. May, 1917.

Gravitation: an elementary explanation of the principal perturbations in the solar system.

Mode of access: Internet.

The prison-house unmasked : in a letter to Her Most Gracious Majesty shewing that arrest and imprisonment for debt are violations of Magna Charta, and therefore illegal : and also the cruelty and inutility of the present system.

Mode of access: Internet.