Temps pour Agir : l'analyse des régimes de la concurrence dans des pays sélectionnés d'Afrique de l'Ouest; volume II: Burkina Faso, Mali, Sénégal et Togo

Volume I en anglais: Time for action : analysis of competition law regimes of select West African countries; volume I: the Gambia, Ghana and Nigeri

Report of the Symposium Political Economy Constraints in Regulatory Regimes in Developing Countries, Mar. 22-24, 2007, New Delhi

The CUTS (Centre for Competition, Investments & Economic Regulation) project has the objective of undertaking focused research, and advocacy on political economy constraints in implementing effective competition and regulatory regimes in developing countries. The report reviews the CUTS project to date and covers sessions, paper presentations, and proceedings in detail, of the international Symposium. Cross cutting themes that emerged were: political will as a necessary condition; consumer advocacy and empowerment as crucial; the importance of creating a culture of competition; developing countries context and criteria are different, and customization is necessary

Eat With Us: Insight into Household Food Habits in a Time of Food Price Volatility in Zambian Communities

Dramatic food price rises in Zambia followed the global food price crisis of 2008 and caused long?term damage to the lives and livelihoods of many low?income families. This article provides a view on what food was and is now on people's tables and explains how sudden increases in the price of food and other essentials has in some cases permanently altered what people eat, despite subsequent falls in prices. This article traces how change to what people can put on the table affects both individual and community wellbeing in terms of nutrition, taste and food heritage

Strengthening constituencies for effective competition regimes in select West African countries (7Up4 Project) : final project report

The main aim of the 7Up4 project was to raise the capacity of national stakeholders on competition policy and law issues, so that they could contribute towards the process of competition reforms. Governments need to provide greater attention and support to competition enforcement processes. This two-year project entitled ‘Strengthening Constituencies for Effective Competition Regimes in Select West African Countries’, known as the 7Up4 project (being the 4th in the series of 7Up projects), was implemented in seven countries: Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo

Time for action : analysis of competition law regimes of select West African countries; volume I: the Gambia, Ghana and Nigeria

Volume II in French: Temps pour Agir : l'analyse des régimes de la concurrence dans des pays sélectionnés d'Afrique de l'Ouest; volume II: Burkina Faso, Mali, Sénégal et Togo“A Time for Action” undertakes in-depth analyses of Burkina Faso, the Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo, two of which (Ghana and Nigeria) do not yet have a comprehensive competition law. Chapters also include assessments of competition in the agricultural sector. The project aimed to help countries refine their competition regimes, as well as to develop a roadmap for effective implementation. The issues captured by the country reports describe their status quo in relation to competition law and policy and its implementation in the project countries. These status quo conditions indicate needs for change

Michelle Strout's Research Statement

loped one such run-time reordering technique called full sparse tiling. More importantly I have shown how the effect of sparse tiling and other run-time reordering techniques can be described at compile-time. Both contributions are discussed in greater detail below. Full Sparse Tiling for Gauss-Seidel I developed full sparse tiling [2] for Gauss-Seidel, a popular iterative solver for sparse systems of linear equations. Full sparse tiling performs a run-time reordering of computations across the GaussSeidel convergence iterations to improve inter-iteration data locality as well as improving intraiteration data locality and exploiting parallelism [3]. Experimental results indicate that parallelizing Gauss-Seidel with full sparse tiling can result in better performance than using an owner-computes strategy, which is the typical parallelization method used for irregular applications. Compile-Time Composition of Run-Time Data and Iteration Reorderings Run-time reorderings are implement