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We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry (narrow off-shoringʺ) is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way in which off-shoring is measured may matter considerably. The positive relation between off-shoring of intermediates and productivity growth is there with our direct measures based on input-output data but disappears when either a broad measure or the Feenstra-Hanson off-shoring measure employed in other studies are used instead.

I offer four ways to reinforce Birch's precautionary principle so it can be used effectively and practically in deciding which animals to cover by legislation for humane treatment: (1) add one more credible indicator of sentience to the BAR rule; (2) use phylogenetic classification, not the outdated Linnaean classification, to test which animal clades have sentience; (3) disentangle the pain of suffering from sentience; and (4) reconsider the sentient status of decapods and insects to remove potential inconsistencies in the proposed framework.

Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der ukrainisch-russischen Beziehungen in den Jahren 1992 bis 1995 und stellt eingehend den Verhandlungsverlauf bezüglich des Abschlusses eines bilateralen Freundschafts- und Kooperationsvertrags dar. Der Autor beleuchtet in diesem Zusammenhang die Konfliktpunkte zwischen beiden Ländern. Wenngleich es bislang noch zu keinem endgültigen Durchbruch bei den Verhandlungen gekommen ist, so ist doch nicht zu verkennen, daß Rußland heute in höherem Maße als früher zur Anerkennung der Unabhängigkeit und territorialen Integrität der Ukraine bereit ist. (BIOst-Mrk)