Substantial Performance in UK Law
- THE DOCTRINE OF SUBSTANTIAL PERFORMANCE: CONDITIONS AND CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
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New Methods for Forecasting Inflation, Applied to the US*
Models for the 12‐month‐ahead US rate of inflation, measured by the chain‐weighted consumer expenditure deflator, are estimated for 1974–98 and subsequent pseudo out‐of‐sample forecasting performan...... ... for 1974–98 and subsequent pseudo out- of-sample forecasting performance is examined. Alternative forecasting approaches for different information ... compared with benchmark univariate autoregressive models, and substantial out-performance is demonstrated including against Stock and Watson’ s ... ...
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Performance improvement. Part 1. Forget the acronyms
This two‐part article focuses on the need to ignore the many acronym‐based initiatives and programmes that tend to drive business performance. The author recommends that people must play a critical...
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Government Employment and Wages and Labour Market Performance
Government wage, benefit, and employment decisions are not taken on a profit‐maximizing basis, and have a substantial impact on aggregate labour market performance and unemployment. In a two‐sector...... ... The sign and size of the wage differential notwithstanding, government employment in most countries carries substantial additional advantages in terms of job security (in many cases, governments effectivel y offer employ- ment for life), as well as fringe bene®ts ... ...
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Funding Local Political Parties in England and Wales: Donations and Constituency Campaigns
The funding of political parties is an issue of considerable contemporary concern in the UK. Although most attention has been paid to the situation regarding national parties, the new funding regim...... ... their candidates were challengers whereas for Labour substantial donations aided its performance in marginal seats that ... ...
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An Analysis of the Value Added by Secondary Schools in England: Is the Value Added Indicator of Any Value?*
This paper argues that the value added score published for all publicly funded secondary schools in England is an unreliable indicator of school performance. A substantial proportion of the between...... ... A substantial proportion of the between-school variation in the value added score is ... paper is that the value added score should not be used as a performance indicator, but should be used to gain a better understanding of why the ... ...
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Clinical Audit in the NHS internal market: from peer review to external monitoring
Relations between managers and professionals in the public sector have often centred on the control of work performance. Work performance strategies and techniques have been transformed by recent p...... ... in the public sector have often centred on the control of work performance. Work performance strategies and techniques have been transformed by ... The paper concludes that purchasers have not made substantial progress in assessing work performance because of professional resistance ... ...
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Disclosure of Financial Information to Employees
It has long been recognised that one of the rights of owning shares in a company is to receive a written annual report on the current state of health of the company and its performance over the pre...... ... report on the current state of health of the com-pany and its performance over the preceding 12 months. Should this same right extend to employees? ... years of his working life with one company and therefore has a substantial vested in-terest in the performance and future survival of the company ... ...
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The UK Parliament and performance
Many governments across OECD countries now produce substantial amounts of performance information. This movement has increasingly become known variously as output- or outcome-based budgeting or gov...... ... and performance: challenging orchallenged?Carole Johnson and Colin TalbotAbstractMany governments across OECD countries now produce substantial amounts ofperformance information. This movement has increasingly become known vari-ously as output- or outcome-based budgeting or governance ... ...
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Production Improvement Using a Management Information
System
Reports on research which investigated the production deficiencies of a firm manufacturing plastic products, which was also engaged with the Teaching Company Scheme. Owing to inadequate information...... ... of their reports, written by Hamblin, was that the overall performance of these sectors was poor. It was discovered that production scheduling ... Table II also shows that a substantial amount of downtime was incurred because operators had to await colleagues ... ...
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