The Border Management Programme in Central Asia: Explaining the European Union's Choice of Implementing Partners. Bruges Regional Integration & Global Governance Papers 3/2014

Between 2003 and 2014 the European Union’s (EU) Border Management Programme in Central Asia was implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). However, the latter’s implementing responsibilities have just come to an end, with the next phase of the programme to be implemented by an EU member state consortium. This paper seeks to explain why the EU chose the UNDP to implement the programme in the first place; why the programme was redelegated to the UNDP over successive phases; and why, in the end, the EU has opted for a member state consortium to implement the next phase of the programme. The paper will draw on two alternative accounts of delegation: the principal-agent approach and normative institutionalism. Ultimately, it will be argued that both the EU’s decision(s) to delegate (and redelegate) implementing responsibilities to the UNDP, and its subsequent decision to drop the organisation in favour of an EU member state consortium, were driven for the most part by a rationalist ‘logic of consequentiality’. At the same time, a potential secondary role of a normative institutionalist ‘logic of appropriateness’ – as a supplementary approach – will not be discounted.

Factor Markets in Applied Equilibrium Models: The current state and planned extensions towards an improved presentation of factor markets in agriculture. Factor Markets Working Paper No. 23, February 2012

This paper describes how factor markets are presented in applied equilibrium models and how we plan to improve and to extend the presentation of factor markets in two specific models: MAGNET and ESIM. We do not argue that partial equilibrium models should become more ‘general’ in the sense of integrating all factor markets, but that the shift of agricultural income policies to decoupled payments linked to land in the EU necessitates the inclusion of land markets in policy-relevant modelling tools. To this end, this paper outlines options to integrate land markets in partial equilibrium models. A special feature of general equilibrium models is the inclusion of fully integrated factor markets in the system of equations to describe the functionality of a single country or a group of countries. Thus, this paper focuses on the implementation and improved representation of agricultural factor markets (land, labour and capital) in computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. This paper outlines the presentation of factor markets with an overview of currently applied CGE models and describes selected options to improve and extend the current factor market modelling in the MAGNET model, which also uses the results and empirical findings of our partners in this FP project.

1977 census of governments : volume 3, public employment : number 3, labor-management relations in State and local governments, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.

Mode of access: Internet.

Labor-management relations in the southern textile manufacturing industry.

Mode of access: Internet.

FHWA study tour for highway safety management practices in Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.

Mode of access: Internet.

Management deficiencies in environmental enforcement : "forceless enforcement" : hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, June 19, 1991.

Shipping list no.: 93-0101-P.

Management possibilities in Douglas fir forests,

"Embodies the results of a three-year study ... under a grant from the Charles Lathrop Pack forestry foundation ... [The] purpose is to bring together a body of knowledge regarding the inventory factors of timber stands and to outline a procedure for studying them."--Introd.

Heat dispersion in physical estuarine models : report 2, experiments in the Delaware River model, report 2 of a series /

Prepared for Office, Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C.

Identification of traffic management problems in work zones. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Office of Research, Washington, D.C.

Labor-management relations in the southern textile industry : hearing before the Subcommittee on Labor-management Relations of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, eighty-first Congress, second session.

"Part 2."

Hazardous waste management facilities in the United States /

EPA/530/SW-146.2.

Hazardous waste management facilities in the United States : 1977 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Migratory nongame birds of management concern in the Northeast /

Includes bibliographical references.

Resolution Trust Corporation : implementation of the management reforms in the RTC Completion Act : report to Congressional committees /

"B-257544"--P. 1.

Solid waste management systems in the rural southeast /

Mode of access: Internet.