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The paper considers new heterodox theoretical contributions to the industrial policy debate in developing countries. Specifically it focuses on the challenge of "getting industrial policy right in circumstances where the country is run by flawed leaders presiding over a politically weak and internally fragmented state" (Change 2010). The paper covers new theoretical thinking on:1) institutions, their quality, how they came to be and the direction of the causality between institutional improvement and economic growth and wealth creation; 2) business state relations and the need to ensure that IP instruments are compatible with existing political power balances; and 3)the capacity and capability of the bureaucracy and the role it plays in ensuring that the state can be embedded with business but not captured by its interests. The paper concludes with some case study examples of interesting IP initiatives, which demonstrate some of this new IP thinking. Examples include the implementation of second best institutions; a process approach to IP in which industry and government make joint discoveries of areas of global competitiveness; thinking about IP at a specific product level; and the islands of excellence work around solutions in cases in which a bureaucracy is constrained.
See Policy Brief: Three new practical ideas in heterodox industrial policy thinking
The 2007 launch of the National Industrial Policy Framework (NIPF) and the Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP) could not have anticipated the impact that the global financial crisis of 2008/2009 and subsequent recession would wreak on South Africa's economy. With its strong focus on the manufacturing sector as a key driver of balanced development, the NIPF set a framework and an implementation mechanism – in the form of IPAP – for addressing cross-cutting and sector-specific constraints (and optimising opportunities) to put South Africa on a stronger growth path. As it turned out, it also assisted in shoring up the South African industrial sector against the worst effects of the recession, particularly through support for industrial upgrading, local procurement designations and export facilitation. This policy brief explores the intended outcomes of the NIPF and assesses some of the progress (and unintended consequences) achieved in implementing IPAP since 2008. It concludes with some recommendations on the need to do a full review of the impact and implementation of IPAP.
The roots of the industrial conflict in the North West province platinum mining belt in 2012 that led to the Marikana massacre cannot be found in the normal narrative of low wages and circular migrant labour entrenched under apartheid. Although South African miners earned far less than their equals in industrialised economies, their median wage was around twice as high as in other sectors in South Africa. Moreover, the miners' migration to the North West platinum mines in the past decade differed significantly from the historic oscillating migrancy enforced by apartheid legislation before 1994.
This paper assesses the factors behind the prolonged strikes in 2012 and 2014. It finds that the key issues were:
To a large extent, the experience of the platinum belt paralleled challenges faced worldwide, as the surge in metals prices that lasted from the early 2000s through 2011 led to rapid growth in many mines in relatively remote rural areas. In the North West however, responses to these challenges by employers, workers, communities and the state built on practices and perceptions developed as part of the colonial and apartheid migrant labour system that historically centred largely on mining. Taken together, these responses failed to create living and working environments able to support either sustainable growth in platinum mining or secure, decent work and vibrant communities.
Industrial development and climate change mitigation have historically been opposed to each other. This is reflected in the industrial and climate change policy frameworks in South Africa. As a result of these two opposing frameworks and the disruptive and complex nature of the necessary transition to a low-carbon economy, the emergence of a climate change regime is seen as a threat and a risk to industrial development. Without immediate and ambitious action, the dichotomy between industrial development and climate change mitigation is moreover due to amplify. This raises the need to overcome the limited prism of analysis focused on incompatibility. This policy brief aims to contribute to filling the gap by investigating the interplay between industrial and climate change policies, the compatibility of the two frameworks and the options to manage the transition. This policy brief first argues that South Africa's institutional arrangement and policy vision for industrial development and climate change are mainly mutually beneficial and provide an opportunity for a holistic approach. Second, the necessity for South Africa to position the country on short-term trade-offs associated with the cost of the transition is put forward. Third, the need for a strategic discovery and policy impact assessment process is ascertained.
Session 3: Regional manufacturing and industrial policy 2
Special economic zones (SEZs) emerged internationally as a policy to support industrial development in particular by providing for the introduction of targeted incentives and infrastructure. Internationally, despite their name, they are often effectively delinked from specific geographic areas in order to achieve these aims. This is especially useful where government wants to extend incentives to specific activities that lie outside designated zones, and where – as in South Africa – neither the provision of infrastructure nor spatial re-organisation of the economy are central aims of the SEZ programme.
The Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Programme (REIPPP) was established to encourage new entry into the market.
The Regulatory Entities Capacity Building project review of the renewable energy sector includes:
The South African Ports Regulator, established in terms of the National Ports Act 12 of 2005 is a relatively new institution. Time taken to establish the institution has meant it has only recently begun to be effective. Over the past three years it has flexed its regulatory muscle with significant revisions to the tariff book and pricing proposed by the National Ports Authority. Studies have been conducted on the tariff adjustments and the stakeholder submissions to the Ports Regulator. However, limited work has been done on the effectiveness of the regulator.
TIPS's assessment the regulation of ports in South Africa includes:
Ports Regulation: Are we achieving the objectives of the Ports Act? Comparisons with Ports Regulators from India, Australia and elsewhere (19 November 2013). Presentation by Dr Sheila Farrell, Imperial College London:
This paper forms part of a broader research project TIPS has been involved in around common regional industrial policies. It looks at three examples of regional integration: the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the European Union and Mercosur. The focus is on understanding the drivers and motivation for regional integration in different parts of the world. It looks into how integration was supported and directed, and specifically how these blocs deal with issues of common industrial policies. It aims to assist in understanding the supply and demand for deepening regional integration and how integration options and approaches can be designed to respond to highly specific contextual circumstances.
The absence of growth in intra-SADC trade in industrial products since the tariff phase-downs were initiated prompted by the ratification of the SADC Protocol on Trade in 2000 continues to generate interest amongst policymakers and other stakeholders as it appears that removal of market access constraint alone is not a sufficient panacea. While the paper observes that failure to make the factors of production such as labour, capital, enterprises and technology fully mobile across the region has contributed to continued supply side constraints, it is the failure to implement industry specific measures arising from an industrial policy that is the primary reason for poor industrial sector response to market opportunities in the region. Through a review of trade and industrial policies in the EU, ASEAN, NAFTA, MERCOSUR and SADC, the paper makes observations that could be lessons for SACU as it develops its industrial policy.
Countries in Southern Africa have only recently begun considering the possibility of jointly developing comprehensive industrial policies under the auspices of regional integration bodies such as the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). Regional co-operation in industrial policy design and implementation has the potential to both identify and capitalise on the productive synergies that exist between states, and to enhance the integrated performance of industrial sectors across borders.
Author: William S. Mbuta
The Zambian economy has undergone profound reforms in the last two decades. It has transited to a market economy from the previously centrally planned economy. As part of the economy-wide reforms, the country's industrial and trade policies have also been re-oriented to suit the needs of the market-oriented economy. This paper therefore reviews the evolution of Zambia's industrial and trade policies from 1964, when the country gained independence, to 2009. This period is divided into two: the first period being before the reforms in 1991, and the second period being 1991 – 2009.
The paper focuses on the conduct of trade and industrial policies in Malawi, their linkages and impacts on the performance of the trade and industry sectors. The study establishes that Malawi has gone through three stages of trade and industrial policy. From focusing on the production and trade of a few agricultural commodities during the colonial era, the authorities shifted, in the post-independence era to industrialise through import substitution policies. Following poor economic performance in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Government adopted economic liberalisation policies under the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) which, in fact, caused manufacturing activities to decline during the SAPs period. Substantial policy reforms ensued aimed at enhancing the performance of trade and industry. Government has adopted and applied a range of policy measures aimed at boosting investment and export incentives and regional integration and miscellaneous trade agreements were pursued to expand the market. In spite of steps towards a favourable policy environment, little progress has been made in particular areas such as that of the diversification of exports.
This paper looks at the nature and extent of linkages between trade and industrial policies in Zimbabwe. The paper establishes that the trade and industrial policies are interlinked in Zimbabwe. The study indicates that trade policy is one of the implementation strategies of the industrial policy - further illustrated in this paper specifically using the example of the clothing and textile industry. The policies are strongly linked in that one focuses on production capacities and the other provides a platform for the exchange of the goods produced. Also, the paper highlights the fact that the two policies are dependent on regional integration.
The paper recommends that the country needs to create a conducive macroeconomic environment for the economic agencies. It is critical to restore and increase the country's normal capacity utilisation and other sectoral linkages such as the agriculture, mining, tourism and construction which have been under severe stress in the past ten years. The paper suggests that while a strong focus has been placed on priority industries, the country must also give priority to other products.
This paper aims to establish the links between the industrial policy and the trade policy in Botswana. The paper finds that after gaining independence the Botswana government has deliberately targeted industrialisation as a strategy to overcome the high concentration of economic activities and welfare of the country centred on diamonds. The strategy aimed at creating an enabling environment for the establishment, growth and development of particular types of firms through financial support. The government also centered trade policy in negotiating for preferences for Botswana's products whilst securing import requirements at competitive prices. There is evidence, nevertheless, that the formulation of trade policy, such as tariff policy, was largely disengaged from Botswana's industrial policy considerations. Commitments under SACU and SADC affect Botswana government's use of trade policy for own purposes.. Partly combined moreover with the cession of industrial policy to South Africa for most of the pre- and post-independence period, the study generally concludes that the link between the Industrial policy and trade policy has been weak.
This paper argues that perspectives characterizing the trajectory of China's economic reforms as "reversing course" are misleading by not recognizing the current stage of Chinese industrial development and the policy initiatives adopted to steer the country towards widely-stated national objectives. As such, the paper aims to contribute to the growing analysis of lessons learned from China's development experience by highlighting the evolving nature of institutional mechanisms and policy instruments in banking and finance, industry and technology to promote learning and to deepen independent national productive capacities as part of a concerted "big push" by domestic firms up the economic value chain in strategic sectors.
The paper begins by first analyzing the key lessons learned (positive and negative) from China outlined by three recent World Bank working papers, before addressing the key oversight of these works, in setting out China's institutional 'toolbox' of policy instruments behind its ambitious, yet evolving, WTO-tailored industrial policy strategy.
South Africa has a peculiar industrial structure given its factor endowments:
production is capital intensive in sectors and concentrated in capital intensive sectors despite an abundance of unskilled labour. Part of the reason for this phenomenon lies in the development process of South African industry: it grew around the mining sector and its core sectors remain close to the minerals endowment up until today.
A possible explanation for this path dependent development is the existence of forward and backward linkages between sectors that drive
industrial development. We use an SVAR approach with realistic identification assumptions from input-output relations 'following a paper by
Abeysinghe and Forbes (2005)' to estimate the effect of linkages between sectors on sectoral growth performance.
South Africa has a peculiar industrial structure given its factor endowments: production is capital intensive in sectors and concentrated in capital intensive sectors despite an abundance of unskilled labour. Part of the reason for this phenomenon lies in the development process of South African industry: it grew around the mining sector and its core sectors remain close to the minerals endowment up until today.
A possible explanation for this path dependent development is the existence of forward and backward linkages between sectors that drive industrial development. We use an SVAR approach with realistic identification assumptions from input-output relations - following a paper by Abeysinghe and Forbes from 2005 that analysed trade linkages between Asian countries - to estimate the effect of linkages between sectors on sectoral growth performance. Impulse response analysis allows us to estimate the impact of a shock in one sector on other sectors of the economy and therefore points toward the 'pulling power' of various sectors of the South African economy.


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ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Board of Directors of The Coca-Cola Company today approved the Company's 51st consecutive annual dividend increase, raising the quarterly dividend 10 percent from 25.5 cents to 28 cents per common share. This is equivalent to an annual dividend of $1.12 per share, up from $1.02 per share in 2012. The first quarterly dividend is payable April 1, 2013, to shareowners of record as of March 15, 2013.
The increase reflects the Board's confidence in the Company's long-term cash flow. The Coca-Cola Company returned $9.1 billion to shareowners in 2012, through $4.6 billion in dividends and $4.5 billion in share repurchases, bringing to $24.9 billion the amount returned to shareowners through dividends and share repurchases since Jan. 1, 2010.
The Board today also elected Ahmet C. Bozer, President, Coca-Cola International, and Steven A. Cahillane, President, Coca-Cola Americas, as Executive Vice Presidents of the Company, and J. Alexander "Sandy" Douglas, Jr., Global Chief Customer Officer, as a Senior Vice President of the Company. These Board elections are effective immediately.
Bozer, Cahillane and Douglas each assumed their current roles effective Jan. 1 as part of the Company's new global operating structure announced last July.
Bozer, 52, oversees Coca-Cola International, which consists of the Company's Europe, Pacific and Eurasia & Africa operations. Before assuming his current role, Bozer served as President, Eurasia & Africa Group, where he led the Company's business activities in more than 90 countries.
Bozer began his career with The Coca-Cola Company in 1990 as a Financial Control Manager in Atlanta then moved to Turkey in 1992 as Region Finance Manager. In 2000, he became President of the Eurasia Division and six years later assumed responsibility for the Russia, Ukraine and Belarus Division. In 2007, with the addition of the India and South West Asia Division under his responsibilities, he was named President of the Eurasia Group. In 2008, with the merger of the Eurasia and Africa Groups, he assumed Group Presidency of the Eurasia and Africa Group.
Cahillane, 47, oversees Coca-Cola Americas, which consists of the Company's North America and Latin America operations. Before assuming his current role, Cahillane served as President and CEO of Coca-Cola Refreshments (CCR), an operating unit representing nearly 90 percent of the North American business of The Coca-Cola Company.
Prior to leading CCR, Cahillane was President of Coca-Cola Enterprises' (CCE) North American business. He has spent his entire career in the beverage industry in North America and Europe, including leadership roles at Coors and InBev. Labatt USA, and Interbrew UK and Ireland. In 2007, he was appointed President of the Europe Group for CCE and in 2008 he was named President of CCE's North American Business Unit.
As Global Chief Customer Officer, Douglas, 51, leads strong, strategic relationships with customers around the world to ensure that Coca-Cola is known globally as an organization that delivers world-class value and service to customers. He also continues to lead the North America franchise strategy. Prior to this appointment, he was President of the Coca-Cola North America Group.
Douglas joined The Coca-Cola Company in January 1988 as a District Sales Manager for the Foodservice Division of Coca-Cola USA and has held positions of increasing responsibility. He was named Vice President of Coca-Cola USA in 1994, and was appointed President of the North America Retail Division in 2000.
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The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is the world's largest beverage company, refreshing consumers with more than 500 sparkling and still brands. Led by Coca-Cola, the world's most valuable brand, our Company's portfolio features 16 billion-dollar brands including Diet Coke, Fanta, Sprite, Coca-Cola Zero, vitaminwater, Powerade, Minute Maid, Simply, Georgia and Del Valle. Globally, we are the No. 1 provider of sparkling beverages, ready-to-drink coffees, and juices and juice drinks. Through the world's largest beverage distribution system, consumers in more than 200 countries enjoy our beverages at a rate of more than 1.8 billion servings a day. With an enduring commitment to building sustainable communities, our Company is focused on initiatives that reduce our environmental footprint, support active, healthy living, create a safe, inclusive work environment for our associates, and enhance the economic development of the communities where we operate. Together with our bottling partners, we rank among the world's top 10 private employers with more than 700,000 system associates. For more information, visit Coca-Cola Journey at www.coca-colacompany.com, follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/CocaColaCo or check out our blog, Coca-Cola Unbottled, at www.coca-colablog.com.


text: TV / VideoFCC Takes Up Low-Power Radio to Add Diversity to AirwavesBut could it just be a diversionary tactic?By Katy Bachman |November 30, 2012 ShareBy Katy Bachman |November 30, 2012 Share Coincidences in Washington? Try this. Just when the Federal Communications Commission is circulating a draft order to loosen media ownership rules, it voted today to take final steps to create lower-power FM radio, a new class of noncommercial radio stations aimed at increasing diversity on the radio airwaves. While the two FCC actions may seem unrelated, they are connected by a long-standing debate in Washington about whether there is adequate ownership diversity among the nation's airwaves. Recent data from the FCC shows it is lacking, with people of color owning just 3.6 percent of full-power TV stations and 8 percent of radio stations. On the one hand, lower-power radio promises to increase diversity on the airwaves by allowing communities and organizations to operate hundreds of low-power, noncommercial radio stations. But the media ownership order being circulated, critics argue, would have the opposite effect by lifting the cross-ownership ban on owning radio and newspapers in all markets and TV and newspaper in the top 20 markets. The connection was not lost on the FCC, which scheduled the low-power radio item today as a counterpoint to mounting criticism from public interest groups, unions and civil rights organizations ratcheting up their objections to the draft media ownership order. To kick off the meeting, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski departed from commission procedure and brought in a little political muscle, handing off the podium to two lawmakers, one from each side of the aisle, who worked on the 2010 law clearing the way for the creation of community radio. "We are going to start this meeting in a most unusual way," Genachowski said, introducing Reps. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) and Lee Terry (R-Neb.). "[It's] a big step to empower community voices, promote media diversity and enhance local programming." Even though the procedures voted on by the FCC would pave the way to process more than 6,000 applications from communities and minority groups sitting at the agency, it will not divert criticism of the draft media ownership order that blasts the agency for offering what's basically a giveaway to big media owners. "[The FCC's action] doesn't answer our critique," said Matt Wood, policy director for Free Press, which earlier this week held a press conference with several unions and civil rights groups to protest the FCC's draft order. "It's hard to attack [lower-power FM radio], but it doesn't address the harmful impact of the rule changes. The FCC is saying 'look over here' while ignoring the powerful impact the media ownership rules have on diversity." Sharehttp://adweek.it/2kATH60 copy Adweek Adweek


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SXSW Interactive – Monday, March 10, 2008
Mar 10 2008
It's been a long, fun filled day at SXSW Interactive today. So this post won't be as meaty as my previous SXSW post. I met tons of people today and many people who know me and who I know from twitter. It was so cool to have so many people come up to me and say, 'hey, aren't you @aruni on twitter?' I guess I kind of stand out in a crowd. 🙂 I probably gained about 30 followers just from tweeting about the panels I attended. Here's a quick overview because honestly I'm kinda worn out:
The Care and Feeding of Your Startup
This panel was made up of some local entrepreneurs from Unwired Nation as well as a venture capitalist from Texas based DFJ Mercury and a couple of others. Some key insights:
- Someone needs to serve as the "Belief Engine" for your startup which I took to mean the "evangelist" but I thought that was a unique way of saying it.
- Make sure your product fits into your users way of life and they don't have to drastically change what they are doing
- Understand if your concept is a feature or a business. It could be a feature that expands into a business.
- You should aim to exceed investor's expectations.
- 9 out of 10 entrepreneurs can't go the distance so they really should identify a strong mentor.
- Make sure the people you hire have 'karmic velcro' which means they have the fortitude to stick around when the going gets tough.
- There are 3 key people you need in a start-up. 1 in charge of product, 1 handling business development who can close the early deals, and 1 evangelist.
- It's not appropriate to go to VCs in the first 2 years of a business, because in the first 2 years you are still assessing the market risk. Almost all the VC deals that occurred with Web companies in early stage have not worked out and they are struggling to get their money back.
- Keep two sets of books. One you show your investors and one with even more aggressive numbers that you aim for internally.
True Stories from Social Media Sites
This panel was moderated by Guy Kawasaki, who was so kind to put my blog near the top of his new AllTop Moms site. It was notably a panel of 5 women and 1 guy. Two of the women were twitter pals so when I got up to ask a question and say 'hi' one of them was tweeting about me.
I had my son with me at this panel because he's home for Spring Break so I wasn't able to take a lot of notes or do many tweets because half way through he wanted to play a game on my phone! He actually did really well, scribbled a bit, and then drew a funny looking dinosaur who he felt the need to show was pooping. Such a funny kid! He wanted me to go up to the mic and say something, but when I tried to get him to come with me, he got shy…he is only afterall 5 1/2.
The panelists discussed their great and not-so-great experiences using social media. What funny and sometimes unbelievable stories they shared!
I met up with my husband after that panel and we took our son for a late lunch at Bennigan's and then he took him home, and I went to the BlogHaus to network with more bloggers.
Online Adulation: Use Don't Abuse Your Fans
This panel had an editor from CNET as moderator and some pretty fabulous bloggers including the infamous Dooce whose current post is called Fueled Entirely by Advil.
I was sitting next to Wendy Piersall from eMoms at Home during this panel and she was twittering away. She had her laptop so she could do it much faster than I could so I let her take over so go read her twitter stream if you want to read all about it.
Went back to the Bloghaus after this panel and met none other than Darren Rowse (aka Problogger). Someone took a picture of us and said he'd email it to me so I'll post it when I get it…assuming he remembers.
Conversation Starters
This event was hosted by DELL and Federated Media and they booked the entire Iron Cactus restaurant on 6th and Trinity. Richard at DELL was the lead blogging rep from DELL, who I had met a few weeks earlier at an Austin Tweet Up.
Because I'm twitter friends with Kim Haynes, I volunteered to help with registration since it was an RSVP only event. Of course, that meant I had access to extra drink tickets and people wanted to get to know me!
The key speakers were top blogger and FastCompany.tv producer Robert Scoble (aka Scobleizer) and Shel Israel of Global Neighborhoods.
I met so many twitter buds at Conversation Starters, including the famous Chris Brogan, and throughout the day that it would take me all night to type up their names. Already, this post is longer than I thought it would be!
Stay tuned for my next SXSWi post on Tuesday's events.Author: Aruni | Filed under: blogging, conferences, entrepreneurship, networking, social media | Tags: AllTop, AllTop Moms, chris brogan, Darren Rowse, DELL, dooce, emoms at home, Federated Media, Global Neighborhoods, guy kawasaki, online adulation, problogger, Richard at DELL, Robert Scoble, Scobleizer, Shel Israel, social media, south by southwest, sxsw, sxsw interactive, unwired nation, wendy piersall | 2 Comments »


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November 17,2000
President Signs The Social Security Number Confidentiality Act Of 2000
On November 6, 2000, the President signed into law H.R. 3218, the "Social Security Number Confidentiality Act of 2000" (Public Law 106-433).
As enacted, the law:
- Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to take necessary action to ensure that Social Security account numbers (including derivatives of such numbers) are not visible on or through unopened mailings of Government checks or other drafts.
- Applies to all mailings of checks or other drafts issued on or after the date which is 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
- Provides that the Secretary upon enactment shall commence procedures to gradually implement the amendments made by this Act in advance of the effective date.
Reporting Requirement
- Provides that not later than 1 year after the date of enactment and annually thereafter for each of the next 2 years, the Secretary shall transmit to each House of the Congress a report describing the manner and extent to which the Treasury is meeting the requirement to phase in implementation.
NOTE: As of October 2000, the SSN on Social Security checks is not visible through the envelope window.


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Given a field $F$ and a polynomial $P \in F[x]$ such that $P$ is irreducible over $F$. Let $L_P$ be the splitting field of $P$ and $F$. Does $\operatorname{dim}_F({L_F}) = \deg(P)$ hold?
If looking for a the minimal polynomial of $\alpha$ in a field $F$ is it sufficient to find a polynomial $P$ which is irreducible over $F$ and $P(\alpha) = 0$?


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DBF Manager is easy to use.
DBF Manager has enjoyable and intuitive user interfaces, that makes it easy to use by both novice users and computer professionals.
DBF Manager is suitable for dbf file structure management tasks
You can easy add, rename, and delete fields in your dbf files by using table structure designer
Open, view and modify .ndx, .cdx, .ntx, .mdx index files
The .cdx, .mdx, .ndx, .ntx index files contain and maintain pointers to records in the table (.dbf) file and is organized according to the index key values. An index file is separate from but associated with a .dbf file. So, you should open a .dbf file firstly and then associated index file(s) if needed.
Unlike .cdx/.mdx files that open automatically when the associated table is opened, you must open a .ndx/.ntx file explicitly using program's Index Manager dialog box (File->Index manager menu item).
Index files are only relevant for searching in the DBF – you really don't need them (i.e. you CAN read the .dbf data file without the index file). Removing the index file might break you application though.
Filter records using most of all Clipper/Foxpro functions
You can limit the records that you access to only the data you want by using temporary filter condition. You can set a separate filter for every open table.
DBF Manager can be used for generating powerful enterprise-level reports
The business customers can use the visual report designer (with a complete set of layout and design controls), to design highly formatted, interactive, and professional looking reports. Reports can be exported and repurposed to the electronic formats used by most end users (e.g. PDF and Excel).
DBF Manager can convert your dbf file data to popular file formats
You can export dbf file data to dbf, sql, csv, txt, xls, html file formats.
DBF Manager can import data from widespread file formats
Use built-in import wizard for importing data from xls, txt, csv, xlsx, xml, dbf file formats.
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As people age it seems as though they get cold easier.
"There are several reasons elderly people get cold easier than younger people," said Dr. Don Hodson of Marion Family Physicians, LLC. "Some of those reasons are medical."
Hodson said blood pressure medication can often cause people to feel cold because the same beta-blockers in the meds that artificially dilate blood vessels to reduce blood pressure also increase circulation which makes one lose heat faster.
Another reason is that some are not or cannot be as active as they once were due to medical issues, he said. Combined, those factors can cause elderly people to feel the cold sooner.
"Being more active can help turn on the body's internal furnace," Hodson said. "When you are active or exercise it increases circulation but it also generates body heat."


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