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Procurement Plan 107736 AUG 09, 2016
This study considers the role of demand-driven changes arising from population aging and how they affect the pattern of international trade as well as trade and immigration policy. ... See More + An aging society can see a welfare-reducing reduction in its share of manufacturing output and this reduction is magnified by a decrease in trade costs (an increase in globalization). Immigration can ameliorate this outcome if it is directed toward younger immigrants. A unilateral tariff increase can also reduce firm delocation from an aging country, however, a reciprocated tariff increase will unambiguously harm the country with the older average population. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS7740 JUN 30, 2016
Chisik,Richard Asher; Onder,Harun; Qirjo,Dhimitri Disclosed
This paper assesses the relation between access to markets and cultivated land in Sub-Saharan Africa. Making use of a geo-referenced panel over three decades (1970-2005) during which the road network was significantly improved, the analysis finds a modest but significant positive association between increased market accessibility and local cropland expansion. ... See More + It also finds that cropland expansion, in turn, is associated with a small but significant increase in local gross domestic product. These results are suggestive of agricultural activities that develop at the extensive margin, which are mostly to serve local demand, but are not indicative of commercial agriculture that serves external markets. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS7729 JUN 27, 2016
Berg,Claudia N.; Blankespoor,Brian; Selod,Harris Disclosed
Implementation Status and Results Report ISR23915 JUN 20, 2016
Sangho,Yeyande Kasse
Ratings for the Agricultural Productivity and Sustainable Land Management Project (APSLMP) for Kenya were as follows: outcomes were moderately unsatisfactory, risk to development outcome was high, Bank performance was moderately unsatisfactory, and Grantee performance was moderately unsatisfactory. ... See More + Some lessons learned included: it was noted that many farmers were skeptical about the SLM technologies, especially the soil and water conservation measures like cut-off drains and terraces or any structures that ordinarily seemed to reduce the soil of land or was regarded as being labor intensive. Partnerships and links with larger projects can be challenging KAPSLMP was designed to operate under the shadow of Kenya Agricultural Productivity Agribusiness Project (KAPAP) in order to leverage on the institutional and support structures of KAPAP. Evidence shows that this approach has significant risks. Future SLM programs that adopt this approach should place increased emphasis on value chain assessment and risk management strategies. KAPSLMP project implementation was severely affected by funds release delays, which were due to convoluted flows and bureaucracy. Overall the monitoring and evaluation (M and E) should have followed the SMART principle - simple, measurable, accurate, reliable timely. See Less -
Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR3537 JUN 20, 2016
The high level of exports and their product and market concentration exposes the Democratic Republic of Congo to the economic fluctuations of the country's trade partners. ... See More + This paper uses the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development trade data set to analyze the Democratic Republic of Congo's export patterns for the period 1960-2014. The data confirm that the country's exports remain highly concentrated. The product concentration on minerals is high and reaches exceptional levels. The geographic concentration is also high, while there is a shift in destinations. Hence, EU27, traditionally the main market destination for the Democratic Republic of Congo, lost its importance to China for most of the past decade. This trend continued to increase in the past few years from 2010 to 2013. The clear prevalence of commodity products within the Democratic Republic of Congo's exports and the higher exposure to the Chinese economic cycle are sources of vulnerability. The empirical analysis indicates that the country's exports appear to be significantly sensitive to foreign demand fluctuations. This exposure increases the volatility of the country's macroeconomic framework to exogenous shocks, with negative consequences on growth in gross domestic product and on external balances. The analysis concludes that increasing the Democratic Republic of Congo's resilience requires product and market diversification of exports. This diversification requires improvements in the investment climate and business environment, with emphasis on skills and infrastructure. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS7700 JUN 07, 2016
Bou Habib,Chadi; Kebede,Ephraim Disclosed
Implementation Completion Report Review ICRR0020086 JUN 02, 2016
IEG Review Team Disclosed
Faced with a large and increasing obesity epidemic, the Mexican Government in the last years has increased efforts to prevent and control it. In October 2013, Mexico's Congress passed legislation imposing taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and calorie-dense foods of low nutritional value. ... See More + These taxes were part of a comprehensive strategy to prevent and control obesity, overweight and diabetes. In addition to fiscal policy and regulation, this strategy included other health promotion and prevention interventions as well as measures to ensure better access to effective health care services. The decision to implement this fiscal policy was the result of a long advocacy process in which different actors participated, including civil society organizations and government agencies, which provided needed evidence on the status of the epidemic and options to fight against it. The taxes were designed to avoid, as much as possible, the substitution of consumption of the taxed goods for other unhealthy foods and beverages not subject to taxation. These taxes have been successful in increasing both the fiscal revenues and the price of the products taxed. There is also evidence that they have reduced consumption, particularly of SSBs. The taxes seem to have the highest impact among people in the poorest quintiles of the income distribution, who had experienced the highest increase in consumption of the goods under taxation in the last years. A debate remains on the actual impact of the taxes, particularly on health outcomes. Thus it is important to continue monitoring the impact of the taxes through the development of price and volume indicators, based on publicly available data, as well as health outcome indicators. See Less -
Working Paper 106595 JUN 01, 2016
Bonilla-Chacin,Maria Eugenia; Iglesias,Roberto Magno; Suaya,Agustina Sara; Trezza,Claudia; Macías,Claudia Disclosed
This paper investigates differences in the composition of employment between exporting and non-exporting firms. In particular, it asks whether exporting firms hire more engineers relative to blue-collar workers than non-exporting firms. ... See More + In a stylized partial-equilibrium model, firms produce goods of varying quality and exporters tend to produce higher quality goods, which are intensive in engineers relative to blue-collar workers. Firms are heterogeneous and more productive firms become exporters and have a higher demand for engineers. The paper provides causal evidence in support of these theories using the Chilean Encuesta Nacional Industrial Anual, an annual census of manufacturing firms. The results from an instrumental variable estimator suggest that Chilean exporters indeed utilize a higher share of engineers over blue-collar workers. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS7686 MAY 31, 2016
Brambilla,Irene; Lederman,Daniel; Porto,Guido Disclosed
The objective of the Additional Financing for the Community and Social Development Project for Nigeria is to sustainably increase access of poor people to social and natural resource infrastructure services. ... See More + Negative impacts include: market stalls will result in increase in solid and liquid waste generation and air pollution of the surrounding environment; poor waste management may result to public health crisis; there may be incessant traffic obstruction along the adjoining road due to the market; activities of theft and burglary may increase especially, if they are open or unfenced shops/stalls; and fire incidence from the market may result to loss of life and property. Mitigation measures include: develop detailed specific mitigation measures with relevant costs implication that will need to be achieved during and after sub-project implementation; specify responsibilities and institutional arrangement that will be put in place to ensure that the mitigation measures are implemented; construct a borehole to ensure water supply; constitute a market committee for sanitation and hygiene; provide locally improvised speed breakers and road signage; and constitute a market committee for sanitation and hygiene. See Less -
Environmental Assessment SFG2188 MAY 18, 2016
Koleva,Antonia T. Disclosed
This paper documents new facts about the joint evolution of firm performance and prices in international markets and proposes a theory of firm dynamics emphasizing the interaction between learning about demand and quality choice to explain the observed patterns. ... See More + Using data from the Portuguese manufacturing sector, the paper documents that: (1) within narrow product categories, firms with longer spells of activity in export destinations tend to ship larger quantities at similar prices, thus obtaining larger export revenue; (2) older exporters tend to import more expensive inputs; and (3) revenue growth within destinations (conditional on initial size) tends to decline with market experience. The authors develop a model of endogenous input and output quality choices in a learning environment that is able to quantitatively account for these patterns. Counterfactual simulations reveal that minimum quality standards on exports reduce welfare by lowering entry in export markets and reallocating resources from old and large toward young and small firms. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS7667 MAY 10, 2016
Bastos,Paulo S. R.; Dias,Daniel; Timoshenko,Olga A. Disclosed
The development objective of the Himachal Pradesh Horticulture Development Project for India is to support small farmers and agro-entrepreneurs in Himachal Pradesh, to increase the productivity, quality, and market access of selected horticulture commodities. ... See More + This project has four components. 1) The first component, Horticulture Production and Diversification, aims to enhance horticultural competitiveness at the farm level by supporting access to knowledge, technology and finance in order to increase long term productivity and farm incomes in an environment marked by changing market patterns and increased climate variability.2) The second component, Value Addition and Agro-enterprise Development, aims to improve value realization at the farm level, promote investments in agribusiness, fostering backward and forward linkages in the value chains for horticulture products, support supply chain infrastructure that prevents wastage and value erosion; and enable secondary and tertiary processing that create higher value for the produce. 3) The third component, Market Development, aims to provide an improved platform for market-related information and intelligence, expand market access through alternative marketing channels, enhance transparency in the price discovery process, and improve market infrastructure. 4) The fourth component, Project Management, Monitoring and Learning, will ensure the effective implementation of the project activities and monitor and evaluate project implementation progress, outputs and outcomes, building on implementation experience. See Less -
Project Appraisal Document PAD1637 MAY 06, 2016
Devolving property rights to local institutions has emerged as a compelling management strategy for natural resource management in developing countries. ... See More + The use of property rights among fishing cooperatives operating in Mexico's Gulf of California provides a compelling setting for theoretical and empirical analysis. A dynamic theoretical model demonstrates how fishing cooperatives' management choices are shaped by the presence of property rights, the mobility of resources, and predictable environmental fluctuations. More aggressive management comes in the form of the cooperative leadership paying lower prices to cooperative members for their catch, as lower prices disincentivize fishing effort. The model's implications are empirically tested using three years of daily logbook data on prices and catches for three cooperatives from the Gulf of California. One cooperative enjoys property rights while the other two do not. There is empirical evidence in support of the model: compared to the other cooperatives, the cooperative with strong property rights pays members a lower price, pays especially lower prices for less mobile species, and decreases prices when environmental fluctuations cause population growth rates to fall. The results from this case study demonstrate the viability of cooperative management of resources but also point toward quantitatively important limitations created by the mismatch between the scale of a property right and the scale of a resource. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS7662 MAY 05, 2016
Aburto-Oropeza,Octavio; Leslie,Heather M.; Mack-Crane,Austen; Nagavarapu,Sriniketh Suryasesha; Reddy,Sheila M.W.; Sievanen,Leila Disclosed
The objective of the Additional Financing for the Community and Social Development Project for Nigeria is to increase access by the poor to improved social and natural resources infrastructure services in a sustainable manner throughout Nigeria. ... See More + Some of the negative impacts include:(i) water logging and run-off may result from water wastage by children playing with the pump; (ii)waste water around the facility may become stagnant and a breeding factor for mosquitoes thereby increasing the incidences of malaria fever;(iii) the use of the hand pump by the community members on daily basis will be accompanied by generation and poor handling of solid waste; (iv) impatience at the borehole queue by community members may result to annoyance and fighting; there may be vandalizing of the installation; and (v) there may be poor water quality (salinity, PH and odour) as a result of non-compliance to drilling specification by the contractor. Some of the mitigation measures include: (a) develop detailed specific mitigation measures with relevant costs implication that will need to be achieved during and after sub-project implementation; (b) specify responsibilities and institutional arrangement that will be put in place to ensure that the mitigation measures are implemented; (c) providing detailed design criteria for specific mitigation measures to be implemented; (d) tracking to ensure the effectiveness of the mitigation measures at meeting the discharge standards; (e) integrating environment fully into the various activities of the proposed project and ensuring inclusion of environmental requirements into tender documents, continuing management and evaluation of the environmental performance of the project; and (f) provide implementation and monitoring schedule. See Less -
Environmental Assessment SFG2188 MAY 01, 2016
Koleva,Antonia T. Disclosed
There is a growing appreciation in economics that people have emotional vulnerabilities, commitments to social norms, and systematic irrationalities, which impact their decision making and choice in the marketplace. ... See More + The flip side of this is that human beings are susceptible to being manipulated by unscrupulous agents who are single-minded about marketing their services and wares. This paper reviews George Akerlof and Robert Shiller's book, Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception, alongside other writings in the field, and discusses how this research agenda can be taken forward. The paper shows how this new research can shed light on the ubiquity of corruption in so many societies, and proposes ideas for controlling corruption. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS7653 APR 27, 2016
Basu,Kaushik Disclosed
Measuring poverty requires adjusting nominal consumption (or income) into a real value of consumption, across geographic areas and over time. To this end, data on consumer prices are used to construct a price index. ... See More + There are a range of approaches to do this, from using the consumer price index, to survey-based unit values, which differ in the underlying sources of price data and methodologies for indexing. These different approaches can have large impacts on poverty measures and trends. Surprisingly little attention has been focused on this topic. This study reviews a range of issues and the evidence on how prices matter for measuring poverty, particularly in Africa. It draws on a wide literature, much from developed countries, and offers suggestions for future work in this area. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS7652 APR 26, 2016
Gaddis,Isis Disclosed
Although several studies have examined why overall price levels are higher in richer countries, little is known about whether there is a similar relationship at the urban and city level across countries. ... See More + This paper compares the price levels of cities in Sub-Saharan Africa with those of other regions by analyzing price information collected for the 2011 round of the International Comparison Program. Readjusting the calculated price levels from national to urban levels, the analysis indicates that African cities are relatively more expensive, despite having lower income levels. The price levels of goods and services consumed by households are up to 31percent higher in Sub-Saharan Africa than in other low- and middle-income countries, relative to their income levels. Food and non-alcoholic beverages are especially expensive, with price levels around 35 percent higher than in other countries. The paper also analyzes price information collected by the Economist Intelligence Unit's Worldwide Cost of Living Survey, and obtains a similar result, indicating higher prices of goods and services in African cities. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS7641 APR 14, 2016
Nakamura,Shohei; Harati,Rawaa; Lall,Somik V.; Dikhanov,Yuri M.; Hamadeh,Nada; Vigil Oliver,William; Rissanen,Marko Olavi; Yamanaka,Mizuki Disclosed
This publication provides an assessment of new developments and recent trends on competition advocacy based on an innovative and comprehensive conceptual framework that builds on practical implementation by authorities across jurisdictions. ... See More + It systematically reviews different objectives of advocacy, the tools that authorities have been employing to these ends, the scope of legal mandates on the basis of which authorities develop these tools and the strategies with which authorities achieve tangible impacts for consumers and the broader economy. Against this background, the third chapter of this book further presents the individual results of advocacy initiatives awarded at the World Bank Group's and International Competition Network's Competition Advocacy Contest for 2014/15. The final chapter extracts the key lessons learned from successful competition advocacy initiatives, drawing on the results from all awarded stories under the Annual Competition Advocacy Contest and the experience of the World Bank Group in implementing competition policy projects and providing support to competition advocacy in 40 countries worldwide. See Less -
Working Paper 104806 APR 13, 2016
Goodwin,Tanja K.; Martinez Licetti,Martha Disclosed
To carry out their various missions (collecting revenue, facilitating trade, and ensuring security), many customs administrations have established a risk management unit. ... See More + In developing countries, however, because of the lack of dedicated human and material resources, intelligence and risk analysis remain insufficiently developed. In view of the lack of resources, this paper proposes a simple methodology aiming at detecting risky import operations. The mirror analysis first helps to identify and target products or sectors with the greatest risk. Based on the examination of customs declarations patterns (data mining), it is possible to identify and target higher risk economic operators (importers and customs brokers). When implemented in Madagascar, this method has helped to reveal probable fraud cases in the present context of customs reform. Estimates suggest that, in 2014, customs fraud reduced non-oil customs revenues (duties and import value-added tax) by at least 30 percent. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS7625 APR 06, 2016
Chalendard,Cyril Romain; Raballand,Gael J. R. F.; Rakotoarisoa,Antsa Disclosed
Domestic capital markets are a vital source of stable, sustainable finance, and underpin a private sector associated with employment and economic growth. ... See More + Yet capital markets are underdeveloped across the emerging-market world, leading to illiquidity, elevated transaction costs, and other inefficiencies. Development banks can help foster stronger capital markets through local bond issuances, partial credit guarantees, anchor investments, risk sharing, and securitization assistance. See Less -
Brief 106017 APR 01, 2016
Molders, Florian; Pace,Jordan Townswick Disclosed
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sentralt, god service, heis,
Beliggenheten. Flott terrasse og utsikt fra restaurant.
Dette hotellet er perfekt beliggende i.fht. Firenzeopplevelser ! Kjekt å spise frokost på takterassen som har utsikt mot Duomo mm.
En godt hotell. Mer sentralt kan man neppe bo i Firenze. Koselige med frokost på takterrassen.
Flott utsikt over Ponte Vecchio og sentrum fra frokostsalen. Beliggenheten er sentral i forhold til de fleste severdighetene i byen. Kun en heis og denne benyttes som oftest av personalet og de har humoristisk nok skiltet trappene med "Fitness stairs". Litt irriterende når du har dårlig tid og må dra all bagasjen ned trappene. Ikke et sted for folk med dårlige ben..
Vi har hatt en utrolig bra helg i flotte omgivelser. Hotellet er virkelig utmerket, med god kvalitet på service, rommene og mat. Likevel er det beliggenheten som er det beste; Med utsikt mot elven og mindre enn 100 meter både fra Ponte Vecchio og Uffizi. Nei
Fantastisk hotel midt i smørøyet. Alt for harde madrasser i sengene.Ikke uthvilt om morgenen p.g.a av det.
Beliggenhet og standard var utmerket. Godt utvalg på frokostbordet. flott spisesal Nei
at det lå så sentralt og fasilitetene: hadde store soverom og fine bad og veldig hyggelig, smilende betjening og god frokost i vakker sal hotellet hadde fine, brede senger som som holdt seg på plass uten å skli fra hverandre, men madrassene var steinharde, burde hatt 5 cm overmadrass, dette var slitsomt for ryggen.
Florence is such a beautiful city with so much to see and do. Hotel Berchielli is a beautiful hotel, in a perfect location, with a wonderful helpful staff - a very nice place to come back to and relax after a day oftouring.
The location was excellent, the room was clean, and the staff was great. Breakfast was also superb. The rooms were a bit outdated.
It is my fourth stay. The location of the hotel could not be bettered.The room standard is excellent for comfort. Nothing comes to mind.
I liked the location. The hotel is beautiful and the people who work there are friendly and very helpful. The room was clean and had all I needed for the night I stayed there. The taxi for the airport was there in 3 minutes. Probably my review should say excellent rather than good. The drain in the shower was slow. I forgot to mention that to the front desk employees. I'm sure they would have fixed that if I had let them know.
excellent position. Spacious room. friendly but efficient staff no
We were a short walk for the sites of Florence from Ponte Vecchio to the Uffizi Museum! Restaurants and cafes were plentiful and the staff was extremely helpful.
We enjoyed the Hotel Berchielli very much. It was located right on the Arno. We literally opened our windows and could see the Ponte Veicchio Bridge. The location was fabulous. We were close to the Uffize Gallerie and the Duomo. The hotel was a little on the older side, which gave it some european charm. However, the bathrooms had recently been renovated and were modern and clean. During my stay I left behind a shawl I had purchased. We called the hotel figuring it was long gone and the hotel had it for me. We were impressed with the honesty of the staff. The hotel also provided a full breakfast buffet on their second floor dining room. Just around the corner from the hotel is the stop to catch the tour bus of the city. Try to take a day trip to Tuscany if you have the time it was wonderful. I would definitely recommend this hotel and stay here again. One last tip... remember to close the shutters on your window while in Italy it will reduce the noise level.
The location plus how clean the room and bathroom.
The location is fantastic. The breakfast is very good: nice staff, quick service and good food. Some bathroom amenities were missing (empty boxes on arrival and never replaced), there was not a single free socket to plug in the computer. All in all the room felt like an OK 3-star rather than 4.
The staff are delightful and the setting is superb. The bathroom was dated and could do with being replaced sooner rather than later.
hospitality of the hotel staff...
The luxury comfort and the old world charm overlooking the river. Very romantic with good shopping and great resturants Leaving the hotel
The staff was gracious and accommadating from start to finish. Paid breakfast buffet was hot and fresh. Great stay! Will return.
Great location , cool hotel, They had a problem with the internet which was not solved while we were there. We were there for business and therefore that was a big problem. I do not think that hotels understand how important is Internet these days. If they have a problem, they should come with alternative solutions. The internet was offered free, which was good, but............. did not work! Hopefully it was just a bad luck.
the location the service the politness
Very accommodating staff. Very clean and stylish hotel. Great breakfasts and great central location.
Excellent hotel and very convenientl;y positioned in Florence. Only issue is price casued by the weakness of the pound against the Euro.
It was a great location The staff were not very welcoming and informative. There was a really unpleasant smell during our entire two day stay. Hotel lacked atmosphere.
Staff was helpful and very nice, Willing to help with anything you needed help with. Great location!
A truly contemporary experience that was refreshing after being immersed in the Renaissance architecture and art of Florence. Excellent location right on the Arno. The staff was very efficient if not overly warm and friendly. They were often understaffed (problem with management) with people lined up at the front desk w/ only one young woman trying to serve everyone. We felt well cared for by the hotel, through many email communiques, a beautiful, quiet room, and a lovely bottle of champagne to celebrate our anniversary. We are in our 50s, travel extensively, and found that the other guests were much younger; acted entitled, and rude. This is no fault of the hotel, just who their clientele attracts....we might try another Lungaro property next time.
it was comfortabl
I loved the buzz, atmosphere and staff in the fusion/ restaurant bar - I loved the double shower.- Clean sheets every night pure heaven!! Hotel too cold- breakfast poor choice - lack of info re the facilities at sister hotels without asking - waiting for water to come through system ( a bit strange)
Location is excellent and staff were very helpful and nice.
The young staff was very welcoming and the location at a place like Florence was attractive. Room furniture was interestingly designed but not well looked after; one leg of the study chair was about to fall off. Wireless reception was practically unavaliable, one had to chase reception.This is not understandable at this time and age and at such a relatively highly priced hotel.
attentive staff
Very nice room, excellent location. Room over Ponte Vecchio was very noisy at night with drunks and football fans performing in the street below, and rubbish trucks early morning. Rooftop terrace which was main attraction was closed as soon as it started to rain, despite being fully covered.
Location was excellent, close walk to all sites. Great beds and bedding. Stairs in the floor corridor could use railings.
Clean, romantic, elegance, perfect I have booked one of your hotel and the others in Vinince through online by credit card, your hotel manager asked for accomodation payment when we leave, the others aggred that we have paid on line, we booked hote online all the time, once confirmed and prepaid by credit, we will never asked for payment when we leave, if so, it should not happen in such stand hotel like you. We keep the cash recipts till our credit card statement to approve "double paid" situation.
accomodations, staffs, views, location, and etc....everything you could come up with ideas about a nice hotel nothing
This hotel is great, the location is central to everything you need in Firenze. The roof top bar is a great place to have a drink and watch the sun set over the Arno. The staff made our stay even better with smiles, great english and good knowledge of the area. Our first room was small, and luckily for us the hot water did not work and we got upgraded to a room on the 2 floor. One of the best rooms i have ever stayed in.
Design and style of hotel. Very good level of staff. Location.
Easy access to my family
Everything, as usual No
Conveniently located for sight seeying and shopping, good restaurant.
excellent location for week-end travellers, helpfull staff and good standard of comfort and cleanliness
Museums, Galleries, Eating (rather expensive) and Shopping I think you as a Company should make it quite clear when booking as our bedroom would have been very small and it would have been very noisy, if we had not have changed it. It was very expensive for the room you put us in!!!
Location,ambience,service all top notch.
The location is brilliant. The bar very nice. The restaurant Borgo San Jacopo is very expensive and now worth the money but the view at their balcony is brilliant. The service staff at the hotel were quite sour. The standard rooms are very small.
great location, nice satff rooms a bit small, elevators too small
Fantastisk beliggenhet. Gangavstand til shopping,kultur,restauranter, severdigheter. Supert. Litt lite bad.
Svært hyggelig betjening. Behjelpelig med billettbestillinger til museer etc. Pent og hyggelig rom. Fantastisk takterrasse med utsikt til Ponte Vecchio. Beliggenheten kan ikke bli bedre. En myk overmadrass til sengene. Ost og skinke til i tillegg til den kontinentale frokosten.
Beliggenhet Frokosten i hotellet ved siden av ikke så bra Dessuten er frokostene i Italia altfor dårlige for nordmenn
Beligenhet De bør fikse varmen på rommene (det var ganske kaldt der) og også fikse varmtvanns tilførsel. Noen ganger var det ikke varmt vann på morgenen.
The loggia was a perfect place to enjoy a drink before dinner with lovley views and a cooling breeze. A fraction of the price for drinks on any of the Piazza's, quite a treat The stairs with a heavy suitcase, the lift didnt go to to floor we were on
The atmosphere was homey and the staff were very helpful and friendly.The Breakfast was wonderful as was our server. The location was perfect.
It was in a central area of Rome where you could wallk to most attractions. The rooms were clean. A good breakfast was provided.
Nice and big hotel room. Staffs are friendly. There is one young lady who can speak English fluently. We enjoy our stay here. Wifi internet is free of charge but you have to come outside of your room to the common area in order to get the signal. Hotel's location is a bit far from Train Station. In the hotel website, it said that Bus Line C will take you closed to the hotel. In fact, there is no bus line C. There are C1, C2 and C3. Each line will go to the different route. We suggest to use Bus Line D (Bus Stop is right in front of the train station. The bus looks like Mini-Bus in Orange Colour) and get off at Cirello stop. Then, it will about 5 minutes walk.
The location was excellent, and it was an "authentic" building, not a modern, boring hotel.
Very unique. Largest hotel room we have ever stayed in. Excellent comfort for a 500 yr old building. Maked us feel like royalty. On the bedside table was two sets of earplugs. Only needed one as my wife is very hard of hearing. This was a sign of things to come. Our room was on second floor, close to the action. The partying goes on til 2-3 am, but thats normal for all of Italy. I got used to it!.
The hotel had been sympathetically restored to it's original grandeur of a 15th century Palace which made it an amazing hotel to stay at.
Close to the city center but not in the hubbub of the tourist part of town. The staff was extremely helpful and accommodating with all questions and requests. They also serve a good simple continental breakfast which is just enough to get your day going. And there are excellent restarants and dining nearby as well. Room was very large but felt more like a hostel setting. The antique furniture made the room appear dated, stodgy and bare. However, the bathrooms were roomy and newly remodeled allowing for soaking or shower preference after a long day exploring Florence. There were two single beds pushed together to form a larger bed and one of the mattresses was a little worn out with an indentation which accounted for restless nights. Considering we were just sleeping here and not spending a great deal of time in the hotel, this is a great value compared to other hotels in the area.

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Anyone have a recommendation for a company that provides interesting trips to Cambodia, Burma, Laos and Vietnam? Planning to go over the Christmas break for 10 to 12 days. Not looking for a luxury tour, but not hostels. Off the beaten path OK.
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Are you looking for a group tour or just a company to do the planning and booking for you? In 10 days, you are obviously not going to 4 countries. Most of us here are independent travelers. SE Asia is a very easy place to travel around on your own.
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smartours.com has good prices
also affordableaisa.com
affordabletours.com good general comp site
zicasso.com luxurylink.com for upscale custom non group
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We could likely travel on our own. I just thought it might be less expensive to book with a company that included air travel and some hotel deals. Our chief interests are in Cambodia and Laos. I have been to Hanoi, but would like to see another small part of Vietnam. Obviously we cannot do more than a cursory visit to the area, focusing on the highlights. Some tour companies will customize a trip for you so you don't have to travel with a group. We did that with a local company in Peru that made all the arrangements and we sometimes hooked up with groups for specific tours. I'm just not sure where to start.
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A tour company like Smartours might be able to get you better airfare, but you'll likely do better on hotels on your own. Tour companies often use hotels that are not in great locations, so the "great deal" on the price comes with another price - wasting your time and money geting to the areas of the city you want to be in. One of the other disadvantages of tour companies is that they tend to move fast, so you miss what you went to these countries for - to see a different way of life.
Start by deciding what is most important to you in these countries. If Cambodia and Laos are your top priorities, stick with those two in a mere 10 days. In Cambodia, the premier site is Angkor. You will want three full days (four nights) to see just the so-called major temples. Buy yourself a copy of Dawn Rooney's book. "Angkor: A guide to Cambodia's Wondrous Temples" to help you decide if you need even more time there. Take a look at a guidebook to Cambodia and decide if you also want to spend a day or two in Phonm Pehn.
In Laos, you'll want time in Luang Prabang, not less than three full days and you may well want more time.
Take a look at our photos of these places at www.marlandc.com as the photos may help in your decision-making.
Once you know what interests you most you can look at logistics and decide whether you want a tour or an agency to set things up for you, but you need to know what you want first.
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I used Tonkin travel for my trip to Vitenam, and whilst I did book some of my own hotels they got me great rates on flights and some hotels ( I just picked out what I wanted them to book for me) I couldn't get anywhere near the price they quoted on 2 of the hotels, so in some cases they do save you money on hotels. Just because youbare using a tour operator doesn't mean you have to book tour guides etc, I again booked these independently.
For Laos and Cambodia I booked everything myself but for Burma I asked Santa Maria to arrange everything ( mainly because I am short on time at the moment and we have very limited time in Burma so wanted to pack loads in)
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The first time I went to Cambodia and Laos I went on Intrepid tours. The last time I went to Vietnam I used Tonkin. But southeast Asia is very easy to do on your own with a good guidebook or two.
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If my son, 26, and I planned a trip on our own, what gateway city should we fly into -- Bangkok? -- (we're from the Midwest) and would we need to return to that city to fly back? Would we fly from country to country or take bus or train? Any hotel recommendations in Cambodia and Laos? (I'm giving up on Burma!) Not sure how much of Vietnam we could see. Whole trip needs to be under 2 weeks. Discovered that SmarTours doesn't have any tours going over the Christmas break. Thanks to all for some of the suggestions. I'm thinking we may have to cobble something together on our own...
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Bangkok is usually the least expensive gatway city to SE Asia. You can fly out of a different city, but check to see what makes sense in terms of price. Flying is the most efficient way to get around. Where the budget airline, Air Asia, flies it's quite cheap. If you opt to go to Siem Reap and Luang Prabang, the Bangkok Air Discovery pass will lower you airfare costs, as those are expensive places to fly to.
Overland travel can be slow. There are trains in Thailand, but not really in Cambodia or Laos. I'd leave VN for another trip - you just don't have time.
It's easy to put this together on your own. Since you'll be flying into Bangkok an itinerary of Bangkok, Siem Reap and Luang Prabang would fill your two weeks quite nicely. If you want to go this Christmas, you need to get reservations soon for flights and especially for a place to stay in Luang Prabang.
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Kathie: Thank you so much for your advice. Do you have a suggestion for a place to stay in Luang Prabang or Siem Riep? My son wants to go to Bangkok ( I lived there 2 years in 1969 and was back 10 years ago) so he would be happy for a day or two there at the front and/or back of the trip. I'm more interested in accommodations that have some local flavor rather than a Hilton or Holiday Inn type place.
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What price range per night?
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Looking for hotels in a moderate price range. I haven't checked out travel guides yet (I work full time) so I have no idea what the offerings are. We can't afford luxury spots, but don't want bottom of the barrel. Looking for quirky, charming, different places to stay, clean, safe, convenient -- sometimes a tall order.
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Moderate doesn't tell us much. Dollars per night?
Here, look at these websites:
for places in Cambodia and Laos.
For Thailand, www.sawasdee.com as well as the two above.
Note that tax and service adds 15-18% but the booking sites often include it in their price (read the fine print to be sure). Most prices on these websites include breakfast, which is well worth it, as otherwise, hotel breakfasts are pricey ($16-20 pp), lavish buffets.
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(Posted by David Jackson; photo by Jeff Fusco, Getty Images)
David's journalism career spans three decades, including coverage of five presidential elections, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2000 Florida presidential recount and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the White House for USA TODAY since 2005. His interests include history, politics, books, movies and college football -- not necessarily in that order. More about David
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Almost all of these comments are obviously from the Planned Parenthood Network and/or their supporters. Ya'll need to get your facts straight and stop repeating the mantras from Planned Parenthood. They make money off of sex, so it is a conflict of interest for them to be pushing sex education on middle and high school students!
Since Heritage Keepers has never been taught at Wando High School, it must have been the "safe sex" education taught that was incorrect and had medically inaccurate information. Suicide is not even part of Heritage Keepers curriculum. Even the teacher from Fort Moultrie in the article admits that East Cooper schools have teachers willing to teach middle and high schools "safe sex", including the instructions on dental dams for oral sex.
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With the CDC reporting that almost 75% of teens (17 and younger) nationally surveyed are not having sex, it would seem that the adults in their lives would be supportive of abstinence rather than condemning it and pushing them into sexual activity to match with what is coming out of Planned Parenthood, the Department of Education, the media and Hollywood.


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Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
Ron McLaren, Director, e-Skills Management Ltd
Ron explained what SFIA is, how it came into being, and why it is a worldwide success among IT users and service companies. He also touched on how SFIA is used (for example by BCS) and gave us an insight into how employees should be viewed as assets.
PDF version
of this presentation is available.
An introduction to CCPM - The biggest change to project management for 40 years
Gary Palmer, Critical Point Consulting
Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) is fast emerging as a major improvement in project management, dramatically improving project speed and predictability. Although currently relatively little known in the UK, it has become well-established and highly successful in America, India and Japan, and is predicted to become the dominant project management methodology within the next few years.
Gary Palmer described how CCPM changes many project management practices and behaviours, and by these changes removes the in-built inefficiencies in 'traditional' project management, enabling projects to run faster and with more effective protection against uncertainty, whilst providing much improved visibility of progress and monitoring both at the single project and multi-project (programme and portfolio) levels.
PDF version
of this presentation is available.
Branch AGM, followed by the new president of BCS
Roger Marshall, BCS President
Roger Marshall talked about his theme for his presidential year, Engagement with Students and Young Professionals. Roger first explained how he fits into the BCS Governance Structure. He then talked enthusiastically about his vision, mission, strategic priorities, values, challenges and key initiatives.
Powerpoint version
of this presentation is available.
Our Branch AGM preceded this talk. Doug Edworthy, Graham Crane and Andrew Norris were re-elected to their respective officer roles as Chair, Secretary and Treasurer.
Where is the UK IT Industry going (part 2)?
An open discussion hosted by Doug Edworthy, Chair of BCS Sussex
Following on from the success of our open discussion in May, we held a follow up session to continue the debate about the problems facing the IT industry in the UK. Unusually, the specific topic for debate was decided by an onlne vote by our members, from a choice of 6 options. The chosen topic was
The Promise of Cloud Computing
in which we debated the practicality of Cloud Computing for SMB's, schools and government based in a rural area of the UK where fibre-optic is not available.
Data Protection – the escalating cost of getting it wrong
Clive Bonny, MD Strategic Management Partners, and Richard Jeynes, MD Voyager Solutions
The Information Commissioner is significantly increasing the focus on investigating the performance of companies against the regulations. Last year over £10 million in penalty fines were imposed by the ICO for failings in information systems and governance. More recent powers have increased potential fines up to £500,000, with the added problem of public listing, reputational damage, and compulsory audits for some sectors. Data managers, data controllers and data processors are all in the firing line.
This presentation provided an understanding of Data Protection and its associated responsibilities. Delegates were shown how to assist their organisations in managing the regulatory issues, and how to assess and mitigate risk.
Where is the UK IT Industry going?
An open discussion hosted by Doug Edworthy, Chair of BCS Sussex
The first in a series of open house "round table" discussions, where members and non-members had the opportunity to debate the topic of the evening (which is just the starting point to get us going) as well as any other matters relating to our industry which affect us. Doug Edworthy was in the hot seat to oversee the proceedings.
Many people feel that the UK IT industry is going through worrying times. Some areas of concern are:-
Overseas outsourcing
The cloud changing the landscape of many IT departments
How green is our industry?
Is teaching kids to write an app really programming?
Data security
Does the UK IT industry still hold its pre-eminent position on the world stage? We led the field with the pioneering work done at Manchester University (Baby) and Cambridge University (EDSAC), we had the first commercial computer installation LEO (Lyons Electronic Office), not forgetting Sinclair's revolutionary ZX80, 81 and Spectrum, and the BBC Micro.
How far, if at all, have we fallen behind the USA, India and the rest of the world?
There was plenty to discuss on all of these subjects, so the evening was most interesting.
Four Presentations by Brighton University Postgraduate Students
1. Does the Shape of an Euler Curve Affect the Comprehension of an Euler Diagram? Andrew Blake.
Andrew Blake is investigating the properties of diagrams that might affect user comprehension. A variety of shapes are used to draw Euler curves. Circles, ellipses, squares and rectangles are among the most common. Currently there is a lack of insight within the research community regarding which of these shapes optimise comprehension of Euler diagrams. With this in mind we present the provisional results of an empirical study designed to address this gap in knowledge.
2. Data mining in the online advertising industry. Maria Diapouli.
Maria Diapouli is engaged on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership project between the University and Crimson Tangerine Ltd, known as Crimtan. The company is an online advertising provider working for clients such as Marks and Spencer, Santander and Sky to provide precise audience targeting, campaign optimisation and reporting. This project aims to develop innovative data mining and modelling techniques to enhance customer segmentation and profiling process enabling the company to optimise web advertisement performance.
3. Creating Believable, Emergent Behaviour using a Synthetic Psychology Approach. Micah Rosenkind.
Micah Rosenkind's PhD project aims to make simulated characters in interactive real-time software scenarios more believable by increasing the personality of their behaviour. To do this he implements biologically-inspired artificial life (A-life) mechanisms into their control mechanisms, inspired by the thought experiment "Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology" by cyberneticist and neuroscientist Valentino Braitenberg.
4. Digital Signage for Ubiquitous Annotation. Marcus Winter.
As applications of ubiquitous annotation rapidly evolve from static content delivery to dynamic, social, user-generated content, the user experience for accessing and creating annotations still involves touchpoints with static displays that cannot show dynamic content and need to be scanned with a mobile device before they reveal up-to-date information. In this brief presentation, Marcus Winter will discuss user experience problems with static display touchpoints and set out a research agenda for dynamic display touchpoints that can show state information, interaction feedback and aggregate data to encourage and support interaction with ubiquitous annotation services.
Cloud Security, Social Networking and BYOD
Peter Wood, Chief Executive Officer, First Base Technologies LLP
Everyone is talking about three big issues: cloud security, social networking and 'bring your own device' (BYOD). Peter Wood has been asked to speak on these subjects and numerous related topics over the past year, but never on all three at once. Working with a variety of multi-national organisations has shown Peter that conventional security thinking has failed to address the challenge that the product of these areas has presented us - so how do we deal with this brave new world?
Peter is a world-renowned security evangelist, speaking at conferences and seminars on ethical hacking and social engineering. He has appeared in documentaries for BBC television, provided commentary on security issues for TV and radio and written many articles on a variety of security topics.
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University of Sussex
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