This second report gave an important empirical basis for realization of the analysis in the third report.

Theory and empirical evidence

C. Empirical evidence on costs and benefits

Theory and empirical evidence Have already taught us.

And that ecology is necessarily relative, historical and empirical.

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What is science but the empirical pursuit of the truth?

However, there are both theoretical and empirical reasons for doubting this conclusion.

The UNIDO industrial statistics database is also the empirical basis for UNIDO technical cooperation and research activities and in particular for the Industrial Development Scoreboard, for the database on productivity and the preparation of competitiveness surveys.

However there does not appear to be any empirical study on this issue.

One doubt, as regards international law in particular, concerns the empirical means deployed.

In her view, the existence of NEPAD enabled OECD to interact with Africa and carry out the mutual review process on the basis of a report that was an independent analysis and an assessment based on empirical data.

(iv) Providing an empirical basis for national and international efforts directed at the prevention and control of crime, by analysing trends in conventional and transnational crime, reporting on the measures taken and determining the areas of priority concern

The arguments in favour of intervention are made on both theoretical and empirical grounds.

(b) ORDEM96 is a semi empirical engineering model developed by NASA Johnson Space Center.

What is Buddhism but 2,500 years of empirical observation as to the nature of mind?

Step 2. Select potential comparators for study using the criteria and empirical considerations as necessary.

Practitioners use a variety of formal and informal empirical methods with varying skill. And, in my forthcoming book Economics Rules, I criticize economics training for not properly equipping students for the empirical diagnostics that the discipline requires.

From the scientific point of view, the main problem is a lack of knowledge. Despite many hundreds of well functioning nuclear power plants, our understanding of nuclear forces is only empirical, and empirical knowledge is always imperfect.

Within the framework of cooperation between WTO and UNCTAD, such empirical work was being initiated jointly.

There was little empirical evidence of ISO 14001 certificates being rejected by clients in developed countries.

However, analytical and empirical evidence regarding the correlation between OFDI and enterprise competitiveness, especially SMEs, remains limited.

Empirical evidence shows that many firms, after expanding their participation in global markets, are worse off than before.

It is expected that the study will provide UNDCP with an operational instrument with a stronger empirical foundation.

Several experts said that UNCTAD should focus on a conceptual and empirical analysis of packages of positive measures.

Sessions were conducted on several theoretical and empirical issues related to technology policy and economic and technological development.

Once these empirical foundations were established, the World Bank would be in a better position to demand greater accountability.

V. CONCLUSION Considerable theoretical and empirical knowledge has developed in relation to primary and secondary approaches over many years.

In the first part, the project will review the empirical literature on productivity analysis and the methods of measuring productivity.

As yet, not much empirical evidence exists about the actual costs and benefits of EMS, especially not in developing countries.

b The yields are estimated using empirical equations, but there is no single agreed formula for the determination of yields.

38. The conclusions drawn by the Special Rapporteur were speculative in nature, rather than being based on any convincing empirical evidence.

Comparative analyses of empirical studies of mental disorders have shown a consistent pattern across a variety of societies and social contexts.

UNDCP has made substantial progress in enhancing its empirical database on illicit crop cultivation through improved survey methodologies and objective assessments.

An assessment of these impacts would require empirical work at a highly disaggregated level (country specific and product or sector specific).

He felt that empirical research was needed in the field of energy on the possibilities and expected consequences for developing countries.

It was recognized that there was little experience with the implementation of ISO 14001 and very little empirical research on it.

The second phase of the project will combine those theoretical inquiries with empirical studies to produce workable future scenarios for international organization.

At the international level, it may be feared that the methods adopted to combat this delinquency are of a rather empirical nature.

The relation between the HDD index (see annex I) and fuel consumption for space heating was derived through simulations and empirical analyses.

Empirical studies suggest that there is an optimal level of migration that stimulates pursuit of higher education at home and spurs economic growth.

Recent theoretical and empirical work by Helpman, Melitz and Rubinstein took explicitly into account the determinants of the existence of an external sector.

With a view to measuring the economic cost of corruption in various aspects, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has conducted several empirical studies.

The experts expressed some concern regarding the potential trade implications of ISO 14000, while recognizing that empirical evidence was necessary in this respect.

Despite the difficulties in undertaking empirical research in the area of peace and security, the World Bank Institute recently published an article examining an empirical link between governance and security issues in which it was noted that the quality of domestic institutions, including the control of corruption, was strongly linked to organized and other crime.