Performing Rights Society. Responsible for distributing money to musicians from the fee radio stations pay them for playing any music.
Poverty Reduction Strategy. The PRS approach, launched by the World Bank and IMF in 1999, emphasises participatory, country-owned national development strategies for reducing poverty. In the PRS process, a country is supposed to assess the nature and causes of poverty in the country, prioritise macroeconomic, structural and social policies according to their impact on poverty, and select and track outcome indicators. They are required to produce a PRSP - Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper - in order to access HIPC multilateral debt relief, and PRGF and IDA concessional lending. In the meantime, the countries write I-PRSPs - Interim-PRSPs - which outline the country's existing strategy and describe the process for developing a full PRSP.
Probationary Research Student If you do not have a BPhil but are to be admitted on the basis of other qualifications, your initial status will be that of Probationary Research Student (PRS). Students normally spend a year as a PRS before applying for Transfer to DPhil.
The Performing Right Society - PRS collects licence fees for the public performance and broadcast of musical works in the United Kingdom and distributes this money to its members - writers and publishers of music
Polski Rejestr Statkow. Polish ship classification society.
Abbreviation for 'Personal Response System', a system for wireless communication using infra-red signals to collate and display multiple responses to questions, for example by students in a lecture or class. A PRS system requires three elements: individual handheld voting devices, a receiver and a computer with PRS software uploaded.
Performing Right Society www.prs.co.uk
Premium Rate Services. Premium Rate Services (PRS) are products and services which can be accessed by dialling special telephone numbers. Customers pay for the product or service, as well as the telephone call itself, through their normal telephone bill. An industry group known as ICSTIS (Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services) decides on how those call revenues are allocated between the various companies involved.
Poverty Reduction Strategy. Introduced at the IMF/World Bank annual meetings in September 1999, PRSs are supposed to involve civil society and development partners and to direct the efforts of the international community towards realising poverty reduction goals.
President of the Royal Society
PRICE REPORTIING SYSTEM. A SET's real-time market trading data display system directly linked to the Automated Trading System for the Stock Exchange of Thailand (ASSET system). The PRS provides trading information on both individual stocks and sectors information. This information arrangement is suitable for data vendors, brokerage firms, and institutions which need to use the market data for their day-to-day business operations, externally redistributing such data to their clients with their company-developed software, and updating market movements for investment decision.
PROVISIONING REQUIREMENTS STATEMENT. The PRS (DD Form 1949-2) is a document that gives the contractor specific guidance on the exact provisioning information required by the government. It provides the methods to be used in the generation of provisioning data, and the range and depth of required data.
Project Read Succeed. Whole-language strategy for teaching reading, one-on-one: child hears patterns; early intervention program for at-risk first graders