An Example of Price Discrimination

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Discuss an example of price discrimination. Economics exists everywhere in our life. It plays an important role in explaining how the world works, how people behave in the society and how the government makes decisions on policies to deal with the relations with other countries. However, today I'm going to talk about something about "price discrimination", which, from my perspective, is the most wise and ...

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Analysis of Optimal Conditional Heteroskedasticity Model

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Abstract: Recently cryptocurrency markets have seen an immense growth. Bitcoin is one of the most popular cryptocurrencies accounting for the highest share of all cryptocurrency markets, even though it still remains rather unclear whether it resembles more to a currency, a commodity or an asset. Previous research has shown that Bitcoin is often used for investment purposes, a fact that suggests the importance of ...

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Do Competitive Workplaces Deter Female Workers?

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  Introduction The gender gap in the labour market exist whether you measure it by wages or promotions to name a few. Galor and Weil (1996) mention negative consequences of this is being "economic growth and fertility." In this area of researching their have been several papers all with different hypothesis's to explain why. The more recent being Niederle and Vesterlund (2007) stating ...

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Trade Patterns of Lithuania

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Introduction Trade among countries can be generally clarified as coming from the specialisation of countries in especially industries as moulded by the country's relative variable endowments. The development of trade specialisation after some time is a phenomenon that frequently reflects profound deep structural changes in the entire monetary system of a nation. After regaining independence in 1990, the reforms essentially changed Lithuania's economic relations with ...

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Trends of Transnational Companies

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In our today's world transnational companies (TNCs) play a crucial role in global economy as they are one of the biggest economic institutions. In this essay, I will give an explanation of what transnational company actually is, describe the main trends of TNCs activity and express my own opinion about transnational companies' future and compare it with the view of other views. To begin with, ...

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Indian Rupee against the U.S Dollars for a Five Year Period

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Indian economy is one of the most promising economies among the emerging markets in the world. The Indian economy underwent noticeable and a consistent growth for at least five to eight years from the beginning of the last decade. Though the present economic situation seems to have a declining trend due to administrative and political failures, Indian economy has the prospective for regaining its strength. ...

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Impact of Brexit on the Construction Industry

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Task Critically analyse the potential effects of the United Kingdom leaving the EU on a specific sector of the construction industry. Choosing just one sector of the construction industry, critically analyse the potential impacts on that sector of the UK's exit from the EU. Use economic theories and current economic data to explain and illustrate your arguments. Maximum 1000 words, excluding references. Presentation of Preliminaries ...

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WLB and WS of Employees in Nepalese Airline Companies

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CHAPTER IV Result and Discussion This chapter provides systematic presentation and analysis of primary data. Different statistical and regression model described in chapter three have been used for the study purpose. This section is divided into three sections. The first section deals with the presentation and analysis of the primary data and presents the results of questionnaire survey. The second section covers the analysis of ...

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How to Succeed in a Man's World

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Many people perceive women's rights movements as tactics to push for female power in society rather than female empowerment. Fundamentally, women's rights can be equated with human rights, and should be treated as so. Even though half of society is comprised of women, a majority of positions of authority and leadership are occupied by men. Women face many types of discrimination on a daily basis ...

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Price Controls and Pharmaceutical Drugs

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It is no secret that drug prices are on the rise. Pharmaceutical companies across the nation are gaining large profits through their hold on such a vital resource. Due to the qualities [m1]that characterize pharmaceutical drugs, companies are able to drive up prices without fearing sufficient decreases in profit. Corporate leaders are aware of their position because drugs are an inelastic good. Therefore, they are able to increase their ...

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The Power of Incentives

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The development of renewable energy technology has significantly contributed to the increase in the amount of renewable energy consumed in the United States. Today, Americans consume more than double the amount of renewable energy consumed in 1975 and the industry continues to grow. In November of 2016, renewable energy made up 10.6% of total energy consumption ("Total Energy Data Analysis", 2017). Current trends in the ...

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Analysis of Chile's Economy

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Introduction This paper looks at the developments that Chile as a country has achieved so far. It employs one on one interviews with citizens of Chile while also conducting research on available literature on whether the World Bank and the IMF have been instrumental in the development of Chile or not. With a population of 17.62 Million people as of 2013, according to statistics from ...

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Financial Implications of Natural Disaster in Pakistan

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3.1. Introduction In order to follow a controlled research process it is essential for a researcher to understand type of his research, and identify the material (data) that he will need to collect, and analyse, to answer his research questions and achieve research objectives (Dawson, 2002). Research methodology is a systematic way to solve research problems and achieve on some result and draw the conclusions. ...

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The Circular Flow Model Analysis

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The circular flow model is used to represent the monetary transactions in an economy. It helps to show connections between different sectors of an economy. It shows flows of goods and services and factors of production between firms and households. The circular flow of income is a model that helps show the movement of income and spending throughout the economy. In the economy, households help provide ...

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Impact of Globalization on Countries

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Globalization is a multifaceted phenomenon. The term Globalization is a controversial term and has been define in several different ways. Some concentrate on the monetary perspective and thus stress the worldwide economy standpoint, though some concentrate on the social parts of this phenomena and how globalization has effected different aspects of their culture, still others concentrate on the political parts of the structure of globalization, ...

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Gender Inequality in Business

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In today's business world, there has been a lot of change in the number of women participating in the labor force. For the past years, the number of women in the workforce rises dramatically. Unfortunately, women are still being treated lower than men when comparing their wages, and gender inequalities in the workplace have been very considerable. Women continue to earn considerably less than men, ...

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Arguments For and Against the Minimum Wage

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Use economic theory and supporting material to discuss economic reasons in favour and in disfavour of an imposition of a minimum wage. After careful and long consideration, the government in UK decided to implant a National Minimum Wage in April 1999. The wage is set to £3.60 per hour and £3.00 per hour for those who are 18-22 years old. (Economics Online 2017)The Low Pay ...

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Impact of Intersectionality on the Labor Force

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Question 1: How does the intersectionality of being a person of color and a woman affect them in the labor force? The term intersectionality is intended to understand the social categories of minorities such as class, race, and gender and how they intertwine and overlap with various interdependent systems of discrimination. It highlights the disregarded experiences of groups of minorities in several ways. Intersectionality provides ...

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Analysis of India's Service Sector

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The services sector is not only the dominant sector in India's GDP, but has also appealed significant foreign security tides, significantly backing to exports as well as provide large-scale employment. India's services sector covers a wide variety of activities such as trade, hotel and restaurants, transport, storage and communication, financing, insurance, real estate, business services, community, social and personal services, and services associated with construction. ...

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Conventional Versus Unconventional Monetary Policy

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Abstract This paper offers information regarding the different types of conventional and unconventional monetary policies. It supplies content that is relevant to how these different policies affect the markets. Specifically, this paper provides information on the three different policies that are used under conventional monetary policies, unconventional monetary policies, how they are compared and when to use the unconventional monetary policies. These policies are in ...

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Advice for Women in Business

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As you are beginning a career in business you will face many challenges as a woman. The best advice I can give you going forward in your career is to network, find mentorship, and demonstrate leadership roles effectively. It is evident that as women we are taken for granted in the business world and for that reason you need to work hard and demonstrate confidence. ...

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Economic Growth Models and Standards of Living

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Essay which examines: 1) Whether economic growth models can explain (and if so to what extent) international variation in the standard of living, and; 2) Whether there is economic convergence, that is, whether poor countries tend to grow faster than rich countries. Introduction Economic is an important factor in the development of every country. For countries, economics symbolize national power. Economic growth brings high income, ...

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Monopolistic Competition Market Structure with Astro Company

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All-Asian Satellite Television and Radio Operator, which is also well known as Astro, is a Malaysian media and entertainment broadcast company. It was founded by Tan Sri Ananda Krishnan and he started its service in Malaysia and Brunei in 1996 when there is the launch of MEASAT. According to Astro (n.d), the Astro provides satellite broadcast service with 22 television channel and 5 radio stations ...

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Decision Making-Waitlist Management

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Decisions are made by people every day. Each decision creates different effects that influences not only the decision maker themselves, but also the people directly or indirectly related to them. For example, the famous Butterfly Effect claims that a subtle movement can eventually cause a huge hurricane is also because within the chain of reaction, different decisions are made by different people according to their ...

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Petroleum in the World Economy

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According to an online-dictionary (merriam-webster.com) petroleum is an oily flammable bituminous liquid that may vary from almost colourless to black, occurs in many places in the upper strata of the earth, is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons with small amounts of other substances, and is prepared for use as gasoline, naphtha, or other products by various refining process. Oil was discovered in ancient times, but ...

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New Public Management and Health Sector Reforms

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Q. What is New Public Management? Explain the concept and application in relation to health sector reforms across developed and developing countries. 1. Introduction In the contemporary era, neo-liberal policies are given weightage attributing to their stance of limiting the work of government in the economy and its ability to introduce efficiency and effectiveness. We now witness an emerging trend of adopting neoliberal policies. The ...

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Does the WTO have a Future?

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Table of Contents An Overview of the WTO Mismatch in stated goals and achieved outcomes Failings in the current trade environment Labour Laws and Sustainability Power Disparity Trade Wars and Large Disputes Increased Preferential Trade Agreements Bureaucracy impeding progress The future of the WTO? Align with more powerful institutions Restructure WTO procedures Intervene in trade negotiations Empower developing nations References   ...

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Fairness under Transaction Costs

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Introduction While the Pareto efficiency criterion can be used to rule out inefficient allocations, it allows for very unequal distribution of welfare among the individuals. To the extent that extreme forms of inequality are seen as undesirable, this suggest a need to complement the Pareto efficiency criterion with some welfare distribution criterion. We do this below by introducing fairness in the analysis. ...

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Poor as Suppliers of Intellectual Property - Analysis

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In their Business Ethics Quarterly article, "The poor as suppliers of Intellectual Property: A Social Network approach to sustainable poverty alleviation", Shivarajan and Srinivasan observe that the base of pyramid model's view of the poor and their approach towards poverty alleviation needs to be extended or altered through an alternative model that considers the poor as the valuable suppliers of intellectual property rather than as ...

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Factors for Asset Price Increase

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Introduction In finance, we buy securities such as stocks or commodities hoping that the asset will increase in value. This is known as a long position. In mathematics, we usually use a positive number to signify this. For example, if there is a share of +1, that means there is a long one share. However, sometimes we borrow a security or commodity from others and ...

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Effect of Health Conditions on Labour Market Status

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Introduction The growth and development of every nation, region, metropolitan area and county depends on the quality of human resources. Tallman and Wang (1994) and Lin (2003) were of the view that quality human resources contribute to long-term economic growth. Forbes, Barker & Turner (2010) defined human capital as a set of attributes possessed by an individual that makes him or her able to contribute ...

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Reasons for International Economy Stagnation 1970s

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Discuss the reasons for the stagnation in the international economy during the 1970's. Introduction: Countries generate economic growth by increasing their production capacity of tradable outputs, by increasing the supply of labour, by reducing their expenses and by increasing the level of education. In other words, a decrease in the rate of production, trade, employment, innovation and an increase in costs/expenses would engender a ...

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The Disruption of Cartel on Oil Prices

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The disruption of cartel on oil prices A cartel is defined as a group of firms that collaborates to make output and price decisions (Smith 2016). The conditions that give rise to an oligopolistic market are also conducive to the formation of a cartel; in particular, cartels tend to arise in markets where there are few firms and each firm has a significant share of ...

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Fiscal Policy in Greece Since the Crisis

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Economics Assignment - Public Finance The conduct of fiscal policy in Greece since the crisis. The most recent financial and economic crisis hit the economy worldwide with Greece arguably being one of the worst effected countries in the European Union. Towards the end of 2009 Greece was in a recession and the countries budget deficit was 15.4% of Greece's annual output[1]. The country was hit ...

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Women in Business: Communication Skills

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Communication skills are key to climbing the corporate ladder and raising status in the workplace. Oftentimes, lack of communication skills will cost an employee crucial opportunities to get what they want such as the wage they believe they deserve or an important idea they would like to get across. Efficient communication also leads to good connections and networks, which are beneficial because it measures an ...

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Impact of the IS-LM Model

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"IS-LMentary"   The IS-LM model is one of the central tenants of the neoclassical movement and shows the relationship between interest rates, the real outcome, the market for goods and services, and the money market. It is one of the basic tools to know the economic policy and for that reason it is a necessary concept of macroeconomics. The X axis represents the level of ...

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The Earned Income Tax Credit and its Effects in the US

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The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) was incepted in the year nineteen hundred and seventy-five. The program is a tax cushion meant for both low-income and middle- income working individuals. It is aimed at offsetting payroll and income taxes and in the process, increase the amount of cash available for disposal. It has in recent years expanded considerably and currently; it is the most effective ...

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Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Business

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In order to come up with advice for women in business, it's important to consider struggles that women face within their jobs. Communication, discrimination, wages, and leadership are common conflicts that women face in the business world. Women struggle with communication with superiors, peers, men and other women in the workplace. Conscious and sub-conscience discrimination is also an ongoing issue for women in the workplace. ...

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Recession Definition and Causes

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Per the International Monetary Fund's Annual Report of 2009, the Great Recession is said to be the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression (International Monetary Fund Annual Report, 2009). The Great Recession officially began December 2007 and ended June 2009 and was a combination of different events that occurred sequentially, starting with the bursting of the housing market bubble due to large number of ...

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Introduction to Economics

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Economics seek to make sense of the economic problem; it is a discipline in which people try to figure out how to organize production and economies so that the max number of wants can be met. Economics is the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth. Today I'll be talking about 3 different economies and the procedure they use to ...

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History of Occupational Segregation

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Occupational Segregation In the business world, gender discrimination undoubtedly is a hot topic as well as a tough problem. Such kind of discrimination leads to an unbalanced distribution of occupations in the workplace. Occupational segregation mainly involves channeling men and women into different occupations, or disproportionately into different occupations, or at different levels within the same industry. People tend to classify occupations to men's jobs ...

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Qatar National Vision 2030

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The development and achievement of all social and economic aspects in modern communities depend on long-term goals from the country. The leaders must develop their countries by adopting the good working, clear vision and proper planning. Qatar national vision began in October 2008. The vision work to establish a strong link between the present and the future providing a standard high living for all people ...

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Impact of Unexpected Depreciation on Current Account Balance

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Consider a country that has experienced near full employment but, due to the openness of its economy, is unable to deal with its persistent and large CA deficit in its balance of payments. Due to unexpected political events, the country unexpectedly witnesses a depreciation of its currency which analysts believe will help to improve its CA balance. Explain and illustrate how an unexpected depreciation of ...

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Impact of the Economy on Shipping Industry

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Potential Risks, Costs and Returns of the Global Economy in 2017 (and Beyond), the Likely Impact upon Global Shipping Industry and Methods to Take Advantage of Opportunities Whilst Minimising Threats Indian Navy The Global Economy has been in the doldrums in the last decade and has not completely recovered from the financial crisis of 2008. The crisis that began with the sub-prime market in the ...

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Shareholder Value Analysis of GSK

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Executive summary This report serves two purposes. Firstly, it provides a valuation and analysis of GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) using Shareholder value analysis (SVA) method. Secondly, it examines the GSK-Novartis's oncology-vaccines asset swap through the lens of competitive advantage. The SVA method produces an equity valuation of £84,854m for GSK, compared to the actual market capitalization of £77,015m as of January, 17th 2017, the SVA-based valuation ...

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How Competition affects Social Preferences

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Does competition affect social preferences in the context of a bargaining game? Abstract In the first part of this paper, we have a generally review about several typical experiments and their results. Then based on the empirical study, especially the achievement of Güth et al. (1982) and Fischbacher et al. (2009), we have a full discussion on how competition affects social preferences in the context ...

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Hotel Organisational Analysis

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The Organisations Status and Size in Relation to the Irish Economy Dooley's Hotel is a privately owned 3 star hotel and has been run by the Darrer family for nearly 70 years. They are a member of the Select Hotels of Ireland and have won a Certificate of Excellence from Tripadvisor in 2012. They operate in the private sector as a private limited company. Dooley's ...

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Airline Employee Work-Life Balance

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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW A literature review is a concise overview of what has been studied, argued and establishes about a topic, it also entails about the major findings as well as reviewing the tools and techniques used by the previous studies. This chapter provides review of related literature associated with Work Life Balance of individuals employed in Nepalese Airline Companies. This chapter is divided ...

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Major Subprime Crisis

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CHAPTER-III DATA BASE AND METHODOLOGY The excellence of any empirical research mainly depends on the choice of database and suitable methodology. The study covers 10 years time period from 2005 to 2015 when major subprime crisis occurred in the USA and Indian financial sector was mostly exposit to it. Our research work completely dependent on the secondary source of data. So the common limitations of ...

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John Rawls' Maximin Principle and Social Protection Schemes

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1. Introduction Ever growing rate of poverty in various economies around the globe have been alarming for national level governments of different countries. While it has become difficult to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of eradicating long term chronic poverty, national as well as international agencies have been making various attempts to fight against poverty. In such a situation, the role and the significance ...

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Delaware Ecological and Economic Sustainability

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Title of Grant: Ecological and economic sustainability in water, energy, and food in Delaware's changing coastal climate Theme Name: Social, Economic and Policy Dimensions. A) Status and overview. Overarching statement (2-3 lines; max five sentences) The social, economic, and policy dimension team propose research, educational, and outreach activities that seek to solve what has be called the "last mile problem" -whereby technological "solutions" are developed ...

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Impact of Brexit on Marmite

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Option 1: Microeconomics Brexit is a short term for "Britain Exit." On Thursday 23rd June 2016 a referendum was conducted that saw a popular vote cast to have Britain leave the European Union. The European Union is a trade union of 28 European countries that was meant to ensure political and economic partnership within the region. The main objective for which the union had been ...

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Impact of College Degree on Gender Wage Gap

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Can a college degree shrink the gender wage gap in urban China? An empirical analysis based on CHIP 1995 and 2013 Abstract: Based on the data set of CHIP 1995 and 2013, this paper estimates the rate of return to higher education for male and female by using extended Mincerian equation, and investigates how a college degree affects the gender wage gap by exploiting the ...

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Efficiency of Different Market Structures

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Question 1 Since the recent Great Recession of 2007-2009, there has been increasing disillusionment with the free market system. Briefly define "free market system" and identify and describe at least three of its major concepts or attributes. Then, critically analyze the view that the free market system is the best and only realistic alternative for determining the allocation of resources ...

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Impact of Gross Job Losses

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Task 1 Changes in the number of jobs are the net result of decreases or increases in the employment opportunities that are available in all sectors of the economy. The role of Business Employment Dynamics (BED) reports is to track and report such changes within private business establishments. Gross job gains result from the increases in employment opportunities that result from the expansion of existing ...

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A Study of the Efficiency of Indian Banks - A DEA analysis

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Introduction: The structure of Indian banking has evolved greatly over the recent past, and with removal of ₹500 and ₹1000 from circulation, it is hard to fully understand the change in efficiency on the banks operating in India in the future. This study aims to provide a benchmark of efficiency using the DEA approach so that that the results of the future can be compared ...

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Literature on Industrial Concentration

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Review of empirical literature on industrial concentration Suttons work looks at the numbers of firms in the market and their shares of production in the market and the relationship between that in a different oligopoly models where a small number of firms controls the majority of the market share, the study also looks at the difference between horizontally, homogenous and vertically differentiated products. The work ...

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Anthem Cigna Merger Block

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 US federal court blocks $48bn Anthem-Cigna merger Article (https://www.ft.com/content/56a0e9e2-ee6a-11e6-930f-061b01e23655) United States District Court earlier had rejected two of the health insurance industry mergers, including Aetna, Humana, Anthem and Cigna merger. United States Ministry of Justice filed to stop these two acquisitions in July last year. US antitrust officials considered that the acquisition would reduce competitiveness and increase premiums. If these two merger cases approved, major ...

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Impacts and Benefits of Outsourcing

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In recent decades, outsourcing American jobs has become common practice in order for companies to stay competitive in the global market and for them to cut costs to make larger profits. Current research and statistics are also suggesting that outsourcing will continue and even increase in the future as these types of business relationships are becoming more standardized and commonplace in today's global economy. The ...

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Trump's Immigration Policies: Implications

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Since the election of President Trump, American immigration policy has come to reflect an increasingly draconian, anti-immigrant perspective. Between Trump's trademark pledge to build a wall on the Mexican border, his harsh crackdown on deportations as well as his inchoate, legally fraught attempts ban immigration from majority-Muslim nations, the scapegoating of immigrants (both documented and undocumented) has come to represent a fundamental cornerstone of both ...

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Concepts and Definitions in Economics

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Supply and demand Supply and demand are perhaps one of the most fundamental concepts of economics and it is the backbone of a market economy. Demand refers to the product which has more value in the market. Supply represents to the price of a product according to it's value. The correlation between price and how much of a good or service is supplied ...

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Is Microfinance a Neoliberal Fairytale? Article Analysis

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Due to the article ¨Is Microfinance a neoliberal fairytale¨ (Bunting, March, 9th, 2011), microfinance has gone from being a unique aid reserved for poor people to be a common aid for all kinds of people and organizations. Since its creation has expanded worldwide with incredible speed. In just one decade the microfinance has accumulated large amounts of money. According to responses from the economist of ...

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Analysis of Canada's Healthcare System

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Canadian Health Care Canada is regarded as having one of the best health care services systems in the world. All Canadians residents are eligible to health care irrespective of income and health. However, like any benefit, there are a few exceptions that are governed in the policies of the provincial or federal governments. Although this system benefits Canadians immensely, there are still some people debating ...

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Questions and Answers on Canada's Economic Model

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  The Government of Canada has introduced a transition plan to raise the age of eligibility for Old Age Security from 65 to 67 years. Using the issues discussed in this course, discuss the pros and cons of the government's plan. Be sure to include a discussion of Canadian demographics and the implications for the OAS system. Plans to rise the age of ...

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Example of a Sustainable Brewery

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Deschutes Brewery Introduction Gary Fish started the brewery with humble beginnings in 1988 in downtown Bend, Oregon. He named his bar after the Deschutes river that flows through his town. His company philosophy in the beginning was "We want people to feel like this is, in a lot of ways, theirs." In 1993 he had to move in to his first facility, because the ...

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Pakistan and Green Revolution

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Introduction: Literature Review: The agriculture sector has played an important role in the economic development of the developing world and in this regard, the developing world has witnessed the massive progress in crop production over the time span of last half century even under scenario increasing land prices and land scarcity. Consequently, It can be viewed from this fact that cereals crop production has seen ...

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Importance of Inventory Management

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Q1) Point out how inventory has received a lot attention in recent years. Particular attention has been given to management of inventory, which is considered one of the most overlooked sources of hidden cash. Some evidence suggests that better inventory management can potentially account for almost half of the savings from working capital optimization. A1) The inventory received lots of attention in recent years because ...

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Trends in Offshoring

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The advancing digitization of processes and workflows is already influencing today our daily actions - such as the nature of our communication and our social and in particular the functioning of our business and work. How will this be in the future? Speculated and discussed in this context is about numerous possible short- and long-term consequences (Lin, 2016). A central aspect is growing Inequalities on ...

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Impact of Oil Prices on Unemployment

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The dependence on oil has increased in many nations as a result of increasing industrialization and oil has been the factor of many crises as well as many wars. However, this assignment examines how the oil price shocks affect the unemployment rate. Our main objective is to see whether a change in the oil price will affect a change in unemployment rate at a later ...

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Autarky and Economics Questions and Answers

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 Question 1 (a). Write down the problem of an agent that maximizes ex-ante utility in autarky. Find the conditions that characterise the allocation in autarky. Explain how the allocation changes with β. Autarky is a situation where no trading takes place between agents. Each agent needs to provide for his own needs in an autarky, ie he independently chooses the amount of I that he ...

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Benefit-Cost Ratio in Healthcare Services

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  When you think of going to the hospital or calling an ambulance, it is difficult to not think about the costs included with those services. All of the money spent does in fact go to good use in the hospital because the cost to run and maintain the machinery and equipment is very high. It can be so great that supplies are scarce therefore ...

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Effect of FTA on Palm Oil

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LITERATURE REVIEW The effect of the Free Trade Agreements (FTA) multiplication to a nation's general exchange particularly palm oil was portrayed by Ernawati et al. (2006). The reproduction demonstrates that a decrease of tax on export and import affects associated nation. The palm oil request has affected by cost, similar to the cost of substituted items, for example, rapeseed oil and soybean oil; export and ...

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Advertisements on YouTube

25 Jul 2017

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  "How YouTube TV Could Help Google Finally Crack the TV Ad Market"by Mike Shields (2017, March 1)   Advertising is an imaginative and fast-moving industry that utilisations different media outlets to inspire individuals to purchase products and services and change their mentalities, reaches and motivate massive audiences. This industry's growth increases rapidly because of the changing social patterns and economic liberalisation that are happening ...

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Influence of Zakat, Infak and Sadaqah

25 Jul 2017

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THE INFLUENCE OF DISTRIBUTION OF ZAKAT, INFAQ AND SADAQAH (ZIS) ON MUSTAHIQ WELFARE IN INDONESIA   Abstract: Zakat, sadaqah, and infak is a medium income distribution has taught Islam which aims to assist and relieve the burden of the House of mustahik, particularly the poor and needy. The purpose of this study was to examine and measure the influence of zakat, infak and ...

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Examining Canadian Dollar to US Dollar for Five Year Period

25 Jul 2017

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There has been a revolution in US business practices. Several factors have combined to force significant change to the US economy, and the resultant changes on company production costs/techniques and location has forced a bifurcation of the workforce and the business community. The United States has been drawn into the world economy, and as such must compete globally for sales of its goods and services. ...

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Should Individuals be Free to pursue Economic Interest?

25 Jul 2017

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"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." Adam Smith's revolutionary Wealth of Nations has ever since driven our understanding of how individual freedom to pursue self-interest can enhance societal wellbeing. It seems ideal, to those who prize personal liberty, that individuals should have the autonomy ...

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Cooperation and Contribution on a framework of Public Goods

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Cooperation and Contribution on a framework of Public Goods Game (PGG) Introduction Essentially, the typical public goods game (PGG) consists in a model of public spending for a community (e.g. roads, pools, bridges), where players could invest their money in the good and the profit would be the surplus redistributed equally for all individuals (Silva, 2007). Many public goods games have been used to investigate ...

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Does Austerity Work?

25 Jul 2017

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Critically evaluate claims that austerity is the most effective strategy to counter a recession. Austerity is one of the most controversial economic policies, not only because there is an ongoing debate between academics and policy makers about its effectiveness and consequences, but also because it effects the life of millions and have caused many political and social turmoil when implemented. The advocate of this policy ...

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Romania Economic Analysis

25 Jul 2017

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Romania is a complex country with mainly influential geographic features. The country does use its own language, Romanian, but also often uses other tongues. Romania and its people are affected by the geographic features and also the political and economic choices and laws made by their type of government and population. Geographic: Romania is located in Europe. It is bordered by the following countries, Hungary, ...

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How Does a Country's History Determine Income Level?

25 Jul 2017

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How far does the ancestry of a country's citizens determine its income level and growth rate? Is it more important than where that country stood in 1500? Introduction While substantial evidence support that quality of institutions affect the development of a country, many literatures also suggest a role for ancestral factors in determining economic outcomes of a country. Spolaore an Wacziarg (2013) mentioned that history ...

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Factors Affecting Balance of Payment

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Keywords: factor affecting balance of payment, influences bop 'An important factor which influences the Balance of Payments of a country is the exchange rate of its currency vis-a- vis other major currencies.' Briefly explain this statement. The balance of payments (BOP) is defined by the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) as follows "The balance of payments is a record of a country's international transactions with ...

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Skilled Labour Shortage Causes

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Keywords: labour shortage problems, labour shortage causes   2.1 Introduction Workers can recognize as skilled workers only after they obtained accreditation of CIDB (Construction Industry Development Board). In order to obtain accreditation by CIDB, the worker will have to pass the test or courses that will be organized by some authorized bodies, such as ABM (Akademi Binaan Malaysia) and so forth. The skilled labour shortage problem has ...

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How Scarcity and Choice Impact Supply and Demand

23 Mar 2015 24 Jul 2017

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Keywords: scarcity and choice, supply and demand Did you ever wonder what makes products cost as much as they do and why the cost seems to fall and rise for no particular reason? The truths behind the supply and demand cycle are market factors that affect the price of products which the buyer probably never wonders about. The most important factor is in determining the price of ...

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Perfect Competition Characteristics

23 Mar 2015 21 Jul 2017

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Keywords: perfect competition essay, perfect market essay There are four types of market structures are Perfect Competition, Monopoly, Monopoly Competition and Oligopoly. Long run is the period of time that the firms are able to adjust the variable cost and fixes cost. In the long run, seller has sufficient time to enter or exit the market but need to base on the profits. Short run is not ...

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Importance of Facility Location

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Keywords: facility location importance, location strategy benefits Logistics and the supply chain involve many complex activities which require optimal strategic decisions in order to operate efficiently and effectively. Logistics managers are under a great amount of stress as the industry is ever changing. Management needs to adjust and improve all activities being conducted. Facility location is a crucial element in the supply chain and has a great ...

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OLI Model Explained

23 Mar 2015 21 Jul 2017

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Keywords: oli model, oli advantages, oli theory, dunning oli model The OLI theory stated that entry mode decisions are determined by the composition of three sets of advantages as perceived by enterprises: - ownership advantages - advantages that are specific to the nationality and nature of the company-owner; - location advantages - advantages arising from the fact that various locations can provide different resources, institutions and regulations ...

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Importance of Floriculture in Indian Economy

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Keywords: status of floriculture in india, floriculture industry india Introduction In India, floriculture is emerging as an important commercial crop. A lot of importance has been given to this sector due to its multiple uses, satisfying the aesthetic needs of the people, creating more employment, ensuring higher rate of returns to rural people and facilitating earning more foreign exchange. More specifically, they are being used as raw ...

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How Does a Market Economy Deal with Scarcity?

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Keywords: market system vs command system scarcity This is about how the market system and the command economy try to cope with the economic scarcity. In the market system, producer produces goods that the market demanded with the resources owned by the producer without the intervention of the government. Whereas in the command economy, the government owned all the resources, make choice on allocating the resources to ...

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Role of IMF in Pakistan

23 Mar 2015 21 Jul 2017

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Keywords: role of imf in pakistan economy First of all we should understand Pakistan's economy and on what factors it depends. In that we can easily understand the role of IMF on our economy. 1. INTRODUCTION A. Economy of Pakistan The economy of Pakistan is the 27th largest economy in the world in terms of purchasing power, and the 48th largest in absolute dollar terms. Pakistan is the second largest economy in South Asia. Pakistan's ...

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Cause of Price Rise in India

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Keywords: causes of price rise, causes of rising prices The value of a rupee does not stay constant when there is inflation. The value of a rupee is observed in terms of purchasing power, which is the real, tangible goods that money can buy. When inflation goes up, there is a decline in the purchasing power of money. Causes for rise in prices in India (A)Demand Pull ...

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SWOT Analysis Indian Pharmaceutical Industry

23 Mar 2015 21 Jul 2017

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Keywords: swot analysis of indian pharmaceutical industry Strengths 1. India is regarded as having an edge over China in terms of qualified, English-speaking manpower and fair protection of intellectual property rights supported by well-developed judicial system. (Appendix IV gives more information on IPR status in India). 2. India has skilled scientists/technicians/management personnel at affordable cost leading to low cost of innovation/ manufacturing/capex costs/ expenditure to run cGMP ...

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Population and Poverty Essay

23 Mar 2015 21 Jul 2017

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Keywords: population growth and poverty Poverty is often said to be one of the biggest problems which faces our society today. This sentiment is echoed by the millennium development goals as set out by United Nations (UN) in which the first goal is the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger. Poverty and population growth are said to be interrelated and the impacts of a growing population on ...

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PESTLE Analysis of Telecom Industry

23 Mar 2015 21 Jul 2017

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The telecom services have been recognized the world-over as an important tool for socio-economic development for a nation. It is one of the prime support services needed for rapid growth and modernization of various sectors of the economy. Indian telecommunication sector has undergone a major process of transformation through significant policy reforms, particularly beginning with the announcement of NTP 1994 and was subsequently re-emphasized and carried forward ...

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PESTLE Analysis of UK

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Keywords: pestle uk, pest analysis of uk (P)olitical Analysis The UK government is taking measures to address the deteriorating economy, which include a mix of monetary and fiscal initiatives. In January 2009, it announced a slew of measures to help revive ailing banks and restrict growing unemployment. The 2009 Budget, , tax rates on the highest income group were revised upwards from 45% to 50%. This measure ...

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Great Depression vs Great Recession Essay

23 Mar 2015 21 Jul 2017

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Keywords: great depression and great recession similarities In 1929 a severe worldwide economic depression known as the "Great Depression" began. The Great Depression lasted until the late 1930s, early 1940s. The depression started in the U.S in September of 1929 with a decline in the stock market that later collapsed on October 29, 1929. In the 1920's the United States economy was thriving. Stocks were bought using ...

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WTO Agreement on Agriculture India

23 Mar 2015 21 Jul 2017

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Keywords: agreement on agriculture india, agriculture agreement Abstract: The possible welfare gains and likely beneficiaries for the facilitation of agricultural world trade formulated by the Agreement on Agriculture remains a matter of debate and concerns. Therefore the impact of the Agreement on Agriculture on production, price structure and trade in agricultural sector needs proper introspection and evaluation from Indian perspectives. The paper attempts to evaluate and analysed ...

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Internationalization Opportunities and Barriers

23 Mar 2015 21 Jul 2017

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Keywords: internationalization drivers, barriers internationalization There must be some motivations behind the decision to internationalize. Leonidou, Katsikeas and Percy (1998) found that organizations are often willing to market themselves for four reasons. First, it may be due to slow growth in the domestic economy as evidenced by a decrease in the number of the home market opportunities. Consequently, an organization will look for other opportunities by entering ...

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History Of Saccos In Kenya

23 Mar 2015 19 Jul 2017

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Keywords: sacco kenya definition A Savings and Credit Cooperative is a type of cooperative whose objective is to pool savings for the members and in turn provide them with credit facilities (UN-HABITAT, 2010). The general objective of SACCOs is to promote the economic interests and general welfare of its members. The ICA Statement on the Co-operative Identity defines a cooperative as an autonomous association of persons united ...

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Importance of Urbanization

23 Mar 2015 18 Jul 2017

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Keywords: impact of urbanisation, benefits of urbanisation A city is a symbol of human civilization; it is the people's economic and political center. A city is a measure of the degree of urbanization of a country and contributes to the regional economic, social, cultural, development, as well as to science and technology. The national and regional social organizations can be measured by the extent and management of ...

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Influence of FDI on Indian Economy

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Keywords: fdi in india, importance of foreign capital Capital is the important lifeline of every production and distribution activity, and it also plays an important role among all the factors of production. The need of capital remains at every span of the venture. However, capital when in short supply, it can be the limiting factor for starting, expansion and diversification of any venture. In the light of ...

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