Brazil was one of the first to successfully scrap the old Washington Consensus model of debt service and budget cuts, paying off its loans with the International Monetary Fund in the first few years of the Lula presidency.
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The FT used the Office for Budget Responsibility's (OBR) own model to reach this conclusion.
Dr Neelamegham suggests that the model could be improved by incorporating budget or marketing information that was not available to her.
The instant demo model also makes sense for big budget commercial software -- imagine if you could try a new video editing suite online, for instance.
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Former Clinton White House budget director Alice Rivlin worked closely with him on the model, and it was refined after further collaboration with Sen.
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They see President Obama's Budget announced "dead on arrival" in Congress, and they see our chancellor deliver his Budget to a rapt Parliament, and they know which model would suit them better.
To demonstrate this, Messrs Godley and Martin feed the assumptions of America's Congressional Budget Office for growth and fiscal policy into their own economic model.
The worrying parallel is not that Argentina is a country with a strong Italian heritage, or that it was once rich but has become relatively poorer, but rather that it adopted an extreme variant of the old Italian model: high inflation, high public spending, high budget deficits and frequent devaluations.
The company has kept a nearly three-year-old model, the iPhone 3GS, on the market to appeal to budget-minded buyers, including prepaid users.
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Careers that are built on the risks that can be taken with lower budget films may never have the chance to blossom under this cut-throat new model.
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The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has a rating system for developers, called the Capability Maturity Model, that takes into account ability to produce quality software on time and on budget.
You may have missed that Compaq nc2400 ultraportable business laptop among the slew of notebooks we reported on yesterday, but according to Laptop magazine, those on a budget looking to travel light should probably give the 3.6-pound (with battery) model from HP a second look.
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Cendant's Super 8 budget entry knows that it, too, needs local know-how in China and figures its franchising model is the way to get it.
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