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Boeing Australia was awarded a contract by the Commonwealth of Australia to provide helicopter flight and maintenance training at Oakey Air Base, Quee...
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Abkommen zwischen der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft und Australien über Soziale Sicherheit; zeitlicher Geltungsbereich. Die am 1. Januar 2008 in Kraft getretenen Bestimmungen des Abkommens zwischen der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft und Australien über soziale Sicherheit sind nicht anwendbar auf einen vor diesem Datum gestellten Antrag auf Rückvergütung der von Ausländern an die Alters- und Hinterlassenenversicherung bezahlten Beiträge (E. 4).
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Art. 18 Abs. 3 und Art. 29quinquies Abs. 3 AHVG; Art. 4 Abs. 2 RV-AHV; Rückvergütung der von Ausländern an die Alters- und Hinterlassenenversicherung bezahlten Beiträge. Art. 29quinquies Abs. 3 AHVG zählt die Tatbestände einer Teilung der von den Ehegatten während der Kalenderjahre der gemeinsamen Ehe erzielten Einkommen ab...
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CAE Australia has been officially recognised by the Australian Defence Force as a certified Authorised Engineering Organisation (AEO). This certificat...
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Since then, I have been making sushi for my friends, who always congregate in the kitchen, fascinated by the sushi-making process. They always ask lot...
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The period since the end of the Cold War and particularly since > has seen a huge investment in many of these countries, both to expand ...
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Real exchange rates are a major short-run determinant of any country's capacity to compete. In this paper, we compute a unit-labour-costs-based real exchange rate for Switzerland for the period 1980-2006. This study uses manufacturing sector data on wages and labour productivity in Switzerland and twelve of its major trade partners and present detailed findings on relative labour costs and relative productivity trends. Our main findings are that, measured in these terms, the Swiss real exchange rate depreciated by some 9% in the period under analysis and that this improvement in competitiveness is essentially due to Swiss wage moderation. At a bilateral level, results highlight diverging trends: a significant gain of competitiveness is observed vis-à-vis Germany, Italy, the UK, Spain, A...
...-à-vis Germany, Italy, the UK, Spain, Australia and Japan while a loss of competitiveness occurred...
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The idea of profiting from biodiversity conservation may seem strange, but this is in fact an essential condition for mobilizing private investment in conservation. Without profit, business dies and markets stagnate, notes a major new study, Building Biodiversity Business, which has been underwritten by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources and Shell International. From forestry and fisheries to bioprospecting and ecotourism, biodiversity conservation can be profitable, the 164-page study suggests. It identifies business opportunities and proposals of concern to exporters, with particular emphasis on upcoming markets. The use of legally mandated biodiversity offsets is growing, and examples can be found in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Switzerland and the...