Gambling in America—An Overview
Gaming and Gambling in Japan: An Overview and Themes for Future Research
... variety of languages, including French. In the 1920s, mahjong became a sensation in the United States, where it was called ‘Pung Chow’ or ‘Game of Thousand Intelligences’. In 1920, Joseph Park Babcock published Rules of ...
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The Global Regulation of Gambling : a General Overview
... Sociology means that casino profits and state tax revenues suffer as a result.” 154 This area of research is contested, however, and the results are sometimes disputed in the literature. 155 Commenting on the ...
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INTERNET GAMBLING IN NEVADA: Overview of Federal Law Affecting Assembly Bill 466
... 7. Interstate Wagering Amendment of 1994. Lotteries played a unique role in our country’s early history, which included “financing the establishment of the first English colonies.” 205 In the colonial-era, America ...
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Gambling in Minnesota An Overview
... Former Minnesota House of Representatives researcher John Williams (2005) wrote that “while the urge to gamble is probably older than written history, in Minnesota the urge to suppress gambling is older than ...
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Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Overview of Risk
... Due to deforestation, the region has lost 61 million hectares, or 6%, of its forest cover between 1980 and 1990. An additional 5.8 million hectares, or 3% of the remaining total cover, was lost between 1990 and 1995. ...
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Credit Constraints in Latin America: An Overview of the Micro Evidence
... This paper summarizes and discusses new evidence on the nature, extent, evolution and consequences of financing constraints in Latin America; this evidence is drawn from a recent series of papers. The countries ...
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The Concise Tax Guide Overview on Taxes in Latin America
... Foreign Beneficiaries Argentine Source Income Tax Corporations, LLCs, Branches and other PEFEs Tax Rate Dividend, Revenues distributed by LLC, Branches or PEFEs 35%. Not subj[r] ...
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Youth Gambling in Croatia - Frequency of Gambling and the Occurrence of Problem Gambling
... have gambling-related ...serious gambling-related problems, as defined by the criteria of the Problem Gambling Severity Index – PGSI, by Ferris and Wynne ...had gambling experience, but that ...
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Shaping pathways to gambling consumption? An analysis of the promotion of gambling and non-gambling activities from gambling venues
... and gambling activities (Needham, 2014; Nowell, 2009), there appears to be a lack of research that systematically documents the extent and nature of these promotional ...
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Saving in Latin America and Lessons from Europe: An Overview
... Latin America and East Asia can be traced to secular developments affecting demographics, fiscal policy, growth, and marked regional differences in the extent of financial ...Latin America and is there ...
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2013 Labour Overview: Latin America and the Caribbean
... Labour Overview is “a very useful tool for monitoring the policies implemented and serves as a hub of exchange of experiences and ...Central America and the ...Latin America and the Caribbean, the ...
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2010 SOUTH AMERICA HOTEL MARKET OVERVIEW
... America itself. The town, with its multicultural and multiethnic heritage, offers an interesting array of tourist attractions, ranging from colonial architecture, museums, nightlife and its world famous cuisine. ...
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2008 Labour Overview: Latin America and the Caribbean
... Chile: Pension System Reform Targeting the Poor and Women In 2008, the Chilean government launched a major reform of the pension system based on individual capitalization and the private administration of pension funds, ...
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Labour. Overview Latin America and the Caribbean. ILO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
... Progress toward harmonizing concepts and methodologies of statistical data that facilitate international comparisons is directly related to the particular situation and development of the statistical system in each ...
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Quinte longitudinal study of gambling and problem gambling
... report gambling at least once a month in the past year to be classified as a problem gambler (no corroborating gambling behavior is required in the CPGI or ...problem gambling designation of ...
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Financial services and trade agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean : an overview
... 1994, primarily with trading partners within the Western Hemisphere, but also with the European Union and increasingly with countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The entry into force of the NAFTA between Mexico, the US ...
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Pathological choice: the neuroscience of gambling and gambling addiction
... affective decision making seen after injury to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. In humans, this task involves a series of choices between four decks of cards that offer gains and losses of varying amounts of money. A ...
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Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in Latin America: Overview and Assessment
... Latin America: the year the program was introduced, the type of worker covered, the amount of contributions, eligibility requirements to access the funds, income protection benefits, other benefits derived from ...
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Gambling Update Developing Issues for the Gambling Industry
... This multiple society lottery scheme had to operate within the limits imposed by the Gambling Act 2005 (the Act). The reason why it was regarded as strategically clever was that it did so in an entirely legal but ...
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Unemployment insurance savings accounts in Latin America : overview and assessment
... an overview of UISA's in Latin America presents several ...Latin America, some programs have been in place for a very short time (Chile, Ecuador) while others have more than ten years of history ...
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