Economics

The World Bank?s purpose is to help borrowers reduce poverty and improve living standards through sustainable growth and investment in people. In fiscal 1998, the Bank made strong headway in implementing the Strategic Compact,1 aimed at increasing development impact and playing its part in the fight against poverty more effectively. The Board of Executive Directors reviewed two progress reports on the compact in fiscal 1998 that documented improvements in the quality, ti...

Excerpt: Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries in the world and a leading source of revenue for many developing countries. According to the World Tourism Organization, tourism is among the top five “exports” for 83% of countries and the top export for almost 40%. Tourism has one of the highest rates of job creation, both directly within the industry and in related areas. Tourism also helps bring in foreign currency, providing a more consistent source of income...

Excerpt: The specific examples of chaotic systems discussed in the main text- the logistic map, the damped, driven pendulum, and the Lorenz equations- are all dissipative. It is important to recognize that nondissipative Hamiltonian systems can also exhibit chaos; indeed, Poincare made his prescient statement concerning sensitive dependence on initial conditions in the context of the few-body Hamiltonian problems he was studying. Here we examine briefly the many subtleti...

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