Moving people to deliver services / / Aaditya Mattoo and Antonia Carzaniga, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780357703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, DC : , : A copublication of the World Bank and Oxford University Press, , [2003]; copyright 2003
• ISBN: 1-280-08649-1; 9786610086498; 0-8213-8908-4; 0-8213-8365-5; 0-585-46564-9
• Descrizione fisica: xi, 244 pages : illustrations ; ; 23 cm
• Collana: Trade and development series.
• Altri autori (Persone): MattooAaditya; CarzanigaAntonia (Antonia Giulia)
• Disciplina: 382/.9
• Soggetti: Banks and banking, International; Financial services industry - Developing countries
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction and Overview; Notes; References; The Economics, Law, and Policy of Mode 4; The Stakeholders' View; The Regulators' Perspective; Index; Back Cover
• Sommario/riassunto: The WTO is today dealing with an issue that lies at the interface of two major challenges the world faces, trade liberalization and international migration. Greater freedom for the "temporary movement of individual service suppliers" is being negotiated under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). Conditions in many developed economies - ranging from aging populations to shortages of skilled labor - suggest that this may be a propitious time to put labor mobility squarely on the negotiating agenda. Yet there is limited awareness of how the GATS mechanism can be used to foster liber

Self and non-self in early Buddhism / / Joaquín Pérez Remón

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910963176803321
• Autore: Pérez Remón Joaquín
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: The Hague ; ; New York : , : Mouton, , [1980]; ©1980
• ISBN: 9783111752020; 311175202X; 9783110804164; 3110804166
• Edizione: [Reprint 2012]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Collana: Religion and Reason ; ; 22; Religion and reason ; ; 22
• Classificazione: BE 8520
• Disciplina: 294.3/422
• Soggetti: Ātman; Anātman; Buddhism - Doctrines
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Bombay) under the title: The Anattavāda in the Suttapiţaka.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-387) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Sources and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART ONE: The Existential Self -- 1. Preliminary Remarks -- 2. Atta as Man's Highest Value -- 3. The Self as the Moral Agent -- 4. The Self and Moral Evil -- 5. Towards Perfection -- 6. The Self and Perfection -- 7. The Self as Related to Kamma and Rebirth -- 8. A Brief General Assessment of the First Part -- PART TWO: The Metaphysical Self -- 9. The Doctrine of Anattā Can Coexist With the Reality of Attā -- 10. The Doctrine of Anattā Taught Through the Denial of Positive Terms -- 11. The Doctrine of Non-Self Taught Through the Predication of the Negative Term Anattā -- 12. Asmimāna, Sakkāyadiṭṭhi, Sassatavāda and Ucchedavāda -- 13. Self and Non-self After Liberation -- 14. Recapitulation -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Glossary of terms -- Table of Scriptural Passages Commented or Quoted -- Index of Names and Subjects
• Sommario/riassunto: Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, ; theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.