Report on Workshop on Disaster Valuation: ECLAC's methodology and preparation of a revised training manual

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The Integrated Functional Coefficients (IFC) method for coastal resources valuation

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Valuation concepts and techniques with applications to coastal resources

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Manuel pratique d'évaluation de l'impact social, économique et environnemental des catastrophes

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Évaluation du financement public de la politique de protection sociale: Une lecture spéciale du Programme Ede Pèp

Sur demande du Gouvernement Haïtien, la Commission Économique des Nations-Unies pour l´Amérique Latine et la Caraïbe (CEPALC) a commandité une étude aux fins d’évaluer la situation actuelle du système de financement de la politique et des programmes de protection sociale en Haïti par l’État, et d’identifier les opportunités de mobilisation de nouvelles ressources.

Contribuição da avaliação formativa para o ensino/ aprendizagem da produção escrita em turmas numerosas

Tomando como objeto de estudo o processo de ensino-aprendizagem da produção escrita em turmas numerosas, este trabalho tem por objetivo investigar se os procedimentos de avaliação formativa associados a uma abordagem interacional de ensino-aprendizagem de língua são propícios ao desenvolvimento de competências redacionais nesse contexto pedagógico geralmente tido como absolutamente desfavorável. Para alcançar esse propósito, foi realizada uma pesquisa-ação em uma turma de setenta alunos de segunda série do ensino médio de uma escola particular de Belém, no decorrer da qual foi construída uma seqüência didática voltada para a produção de contos. Essa seqüência agrupou, em diversos módulos, atividades realizadas ora individual, ora coletivamente, ora em duplas, ora em grupos maiores, fundamentadas em procedimentos formativos e em uma perspectiva funcional de scrita. A pesquisa-ação envolveu todos os participantes na leitura e observação de numerosos contos e os levou a depreender os recursos utilizados por seus autores, a elaborar critérios de avaliação e identificar os descritores a eles associados, a análisar e reescrever as produções da turma, finalizando com a realização de um concurso de contos. No presente trabalho, após a discussão, por um lado, das concepções que permitem embasar um ensino/aprendizagem renovado da produção textual e, por outro, dos conceitos de turma numerosa e de avaliação formativa, os procedimentos metodológicos utilizados são apresentados e as atividades da seqüência didática são descritas e analisadas. Para responder de forma mais específica ainda às perguntas de pesquisa, também são apresentadas e cotejadas, em estudo de casos, a produção inicial e final de três participantes entre os que demonstravam, no começo, ter mais dificuldades para escrever um conto. Os resultados obtidos revelam que a adoção de procedimentos da avaliação formativa em turmas numerosas, tais como auto-regulação e auto-avaliação, aliados à perspectiva teórica de produção textual aqui proposta, podem, de fato, contribuir para o desenvolvimento/ aperfeiçoamento das competências textuais escritas de alunos de turmas numerosas.

"Evaluating the model of classification and valuation of disabilities used in Brazil and defining the elaboration and adoption of a unique model for all the country": Brazilian Interministerial Workgroup Task

The President of Brazil established an Interministerial Work Group in order to “evaluate the model of classification and valuation of disabilities used in Brazil and to define the elaboration and adoption of a unique model for all the country”. Eight Ministries and/or Secretaries participated in the discussion over a period of 10 months, concluding that a proposed model should be based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities, the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, and the ‘support theory’, and organizing a list of recommendations and necessary actions for a Classification, Evaluation and Certification Network with national coverage.

The secondary market for life insurance policies in the United States market evolution and product valuation

In this work we discuss the secondary market for life insurance policies in the United States of America. First, we give an overview of the life settlement market: how it came into existence, its growth prospects and the ethical issues it arises. Secondly, we discuss the characteristics of the different life insurance products present in the market and describe how life settlements are originated. Life settlement transactions tend to be long and complex transactions that require the involvement of a number of parties. Also, a direct investment into life insurance policies is fraught with a number of practical issues and entails risks that are not directly related to longevity. This may reduce the efficiency of a direct investment in physical policies. For these reasons, a synthetic longevity market has evolved. The number of parties involved in a synthetic longevity transaction is typically smaller and the broker-dealer transferring the longevity exposure will be retaining most or all of the risks a physical investment entails. Finally, we describe the main methods used in the market to evaluate life settlement investments and the role of life expectancy providers.

Brand formative design - development and assessment of product design from a future, brand and consumer perspective

With this dissertation research we investigate intersections between design and marketing and in this respect, which factors do contribute that a product design becomes brand formative. We have developed a Brand Formative Design (BFD) framework, which investigates individual design features in a holistic, comparable, brand relevant, and consumer specific context. We discuss what kinds of characteristics contribute to BFD but also illuminate how they should be applied and examine: rnA holistic framework leading to Brand Formative Design. Identification and assessment of BFD Drivers. The dissection of products into three Distinctive Design Levels. The detection of surprising design preferences. The appropriate degree of scheme deviation with evolutionary design. Simulated BFD development processes with three different products and the integration of consumers. Future oriented objectification, comparability and assessment of design. Recommendations for the management of design in a brand specific context. Design is a product feature, which contributes significantly to the success of products. However, the development of new design contains challenges. Design can hardly be objectified; many people have an opinion concerning the attractiveness of new products but cannot formulate their future preferences. Product design is widely developed based on intuition, which can be difficult for the management of design. Here the concept of Brand Formative Design can provide a framework which contributes to structure, objectify, develop and assess new evolutionary design in brand and future relevant contexts, but also integrates consumers and their preferences without restricting creativity too much.

The Divine Eye in Ancient Egypt and in the Midrash Interpretation of Formative Judaism.

This paper studies the “eye” as a religious phenomenon from the multiple traditions of ancient Egypt compared with rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity using a semiotic approach based upon the theories of Umberto Eco. This method was chosen because the eye is a graphic as well as a linguistic sign which both express religious concepts. Generally, the eye represented an all-seeing and omnipresent divinity. In other words, the god was reduced to an eye, whereby the form of the symbol suggests a meaning to the viewer or religious practitioner. In this manner the eye represented the whole body of a deity in Egyptian and the power of a discerning God in rabbinic texts. By focusing upon the semantic aspect of the eye metaphor in both Egyptian and rabbinic texts two religious traditions of the visually perceivable are analyzed from a semiotic perspective.