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Ebook Double dividend? Promoting good nutrition and sustainable consumption through healthy school meals

Submitted by puput on Fri, 01/22/2010 - 02:57

Public clamour for better school meals reached a peak in March 2005 after Jamie Oliver described in graphic detail, to a classroom of truculent London teenagers, the contents of chicken nuggets.

Responding to public demands for wholesale reform, the Government signalled a step change in school catering when it pledged in April 2005 to bring forward tougher school meals standards by the end of September 2005, to be implemented on a mandatory basis from the start of the next school year (2006-7) with support from a new ‘School Food Trust’. The Secretary of State for Education, Ruth Kelly, promptly established the School Meals Review Panel to advise on new standards for school meals. This panel recommended the adoption of the Caroline Walker Trust guidelines for school meals and the adoption of nine food based standards.

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Ebook Credit Market Turmoil, Monetary Policy and Business Cycles: an historical view.

Submitted by wulan on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 03:35

Credit market distress arises in its more virulent form only in certain monetary environments, and has its most extreme effects when it exacerbates a business cycle downturn. Policy questions about a central bank’s role as lender of last resort or regulator must be seen in the context of monetary policy.

The relatively infrequent nature of major credit distress events makes an historical approach to these issues particularly useful. Using a combination of historical narrative and econometric techniques, we identify major periods of credit distress 1875 to 2007, examine the extent to which credit distress arises as part of the transmission of monetary policy, and document the subsequent effect on output.

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Ebook Conceptualizing and Illustrating The Digital Lifestyle of Youth

Submitted by antoq on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 07:34

Adolescents are usually keen to adopt new technologies, especially those relatively accessible and valued by their peer group. Although, this statement is intuitively imbued with common sense, it does, however, require some deeper inquiry to assess to what extent there is lifestyle which may be labeled as digital within the teen and pre-teen sub-culture? And if it exists, what is the sociological and psychological meaning of being digital in these age groups? We start this article by discussing concepts such as culture/sub-culture and lifestyle. Further, the methodological aspects guiding the empirical part of this research are depicted and the results are discussed.

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