Theory related to the Indian textile industry

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The aim of this chapter is to provide knowledge to previous literature and theory related to the Indian textile industry. Therefore, this chapter will conglomerate the literature which has already been debated on the issues of impact of Multi-fibre Arrangement and its phase out, India's competitive advantage in production of textiles and India's competitive performance in United States and European Union. In section 2.2 Porters diamond framework ...

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The economy of Dubai

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Introduction United Arab Emirates is a very important country of Southwest Asia. The official language of UAE is Arabic. It is formed with seven states. They are Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Ras al-Kahimah and Umm al-Quwain. Abu Dhabi is the is the largest city as well as the capital of UAE. Dubai is one of the largest cities of UAE. At the start there were ...

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Deflation and inflation trends in Japan

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The current rate of inflation in Japan is minimal cause of the current trend which is a nation recovering from a period of deflation and enetering an era of inflation . Deflation which is a decline in the general prices of goods and services,in this case Japan, can be attributed to its decline in growth trend rate and flexible wage adjustment. In 2010, Japan's CPI figures in ...

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The history and economy of Norway

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Civilization in Norway can be traced back to 7,000 BC, when the country became habitable due to the rising temperatures after the end of the last ice age. The first Norwegians survived by hunting elk, deer, whales and seals, until farming was introduced in 3,000 BC. In the 9th century, Norwegian Vikings raided Scotland, England, Ireland, France, and even Spain, who at time was in control by ...

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The concepts of microfinance and microcredit

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Chapter 2.0: Literature Review Microfinance is the provision of financial services by certain institutions known as MFI's such as Cooperative Banks, Community Based-Saving Bank, Credit Unions, development bank to the poor, low income earners, self-employed and small businesses. Microfinance has been design to address issues of poverty to help those not having access to formal financial system.. According to MIX in June 2010 there was more than ...

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Competitive Advantage Of Financial Services Industry

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Can the UK government utilise Porter's theory of a 'diamond set of national influences' to protect the competitive advantage of the financial services industry in the UK? Explain your answer. Introduction The diamond set of national influences in a porter's theory helps to understand the comparative position of a nation in global competition. Porter argues that the theory of endowment given by Heckscher and Ohlin are very ...

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The Acer Groups China Decision

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In this paper we will analyze Acer Group's situation in 1998 as it considered entering China. We compare China to India, another emerging country using various criteria such as labor and cultural differences, and determine that entering China is a sound decision and the timing is good as well. We then evaluate China's 5 Special Economic Zones, to recommend a location for Acer's new manufacturing facilities. After ...

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Analysis of Malaysia, a mixed economy

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Economics is the study of resources, their scarcity and the unlimited wants of mankind. The most appropriate definition is that by Lionel Robbins who defined economics as 'The science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.' Analyze this definition closely. Malaysia, a mixed economy attempts to combine the advantages of Free Enterprise System and the Central Command System. ...

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The GDP Of The United States

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The global financial crisis started to show its effect in the middle of 2007 and into 2008 because of this the world stock market had fallen and large financial institution had collapsed and been bought out and the government in the wealthier nation had to come up with rescue packages to bailout their financial system. The financial crisis had been hit due to reckless and not proper ...

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Types of inflation and the the rate of Malaysia

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Based on the economics view inflation refers to the increasing of the general level of prices of the goods and services in countries over a period of time. Inflation is when the prices of most goods and services continue to creep upward. It is measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Each of the countries has their own level of inflation problem and they are tried to ...

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FDI Associated Strategic Theories

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This paper will describe and evaluate Foreign Direct Investment and its associated strategic theories. The paper will begin by defining Foreign Direct Investment and proceed to analyze its tendencies and direction. The paper will also describe another means of international expansion known as licensing and evaluate its related advantages and disadvantages. Foreign Direct Investment may occur horizontally or vertically depending on the industry in which the firm ...

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Malaysia: A PESTEL analysis

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During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Federation of Malaya, which became independent in 1957. Malaysia was formed in 1963 when the former British colonies of Singapore and the East Malaysian states of Sabah and ...

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The Impact Of Globalisation On Chile

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Chile's economy is ranked as an "upper middle income developing economy" by the World Bank, and is one of South America's most stable and successful nations, leading Latin American nations in human development, income per capita, competitiveness, economic freedom, globalisation, and low perception of corruption (ranked 21 CPI). However, it has high economic inequality, as measured by the Gini index. Chile has a population of approximately 17.1 ...

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The Green Economy Programme

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The UNEP-led Green Economy Initiative was launched in late 2008. UNEP defines Green Economy as "one that results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities". In other words, a economy with " low carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive" (UNEP,2008). Green economy is one where public and private investments will drive the growth in employment and income. These investments ...

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Import And Export Promotion In Developing Countries

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Import substitution indicates one country adopt many approaches that create high barriers to some foreign final goods in order to protect domestic industry. There are some countries in favor of import substitution development strategies especially before the 1970s. This is a government intervention to the market, could protect local infant industry and production. Gradually, domestic goods will substitute foreign goods in markets and more industrial companies will ...

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Shipping Innovations Impact

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New logistic concepts such as globalization, Just-In-Time (JIT) and outsourcing have created the need for the establishment of a complex international distribution chain. Its ultimate goal is to allow shippers to place the right product on the manufacturing or retail floor anywhere in the world at the right time and the right price. As a result, the global shipping industry is driven by innovations which impact the ...

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Supply And Demand: Managerial Decision Making

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Tea is the most popular beverage in the world in terms of consumption. Its consumption equals all other manufactured drinks in the world including coffee, chocolate, soft drinks and alcohol put together (Macfarlane, 2004). Most consumed tea outside East Asia is produced in India and Sri Lanka, which is intended to be sold to large enterprises. Unilever, the largest tea company in the world and as the ...

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New firm formation and development

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Introduction The reasons that lead policy-makers and practitioners to promote firm creation and development may not always be the same. However, at a certain point in time, the result of interests that may not be exactly the same nor be exactly aligned, eventually converge. Policy-makers are a body of people 'with power to influence or determine policies and practices at an international, national, regional or local level' ...

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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Globalized Trade

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Globalization activity doesn't only reduce trade boundary but it lot more effects like one country come closer to the economy of other country, it help in mixture of culture, it helps in transfer information and technology, increase group of buyer and seller of products and services etc. this are only few advantages of globalizations. Due to globalization trade is getting more interdependent and to protect interest of ...

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Hong Kong: Big market, small government

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Nowadays, Hong Kong Government advocates "big market, small government" policy in order to meet the need of market with minimum intervention and to support and promote economic development. (HKSAR Press Release) However, many people argue that by doing so, government not only shift its responsibility to public, but also encourage private sector to vicious competition, finally lead to increase in unemployment. One of the criticism of government ...

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What Is Meant By Market Failure?

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In the first part of the essay we define market failure and look at the model of perfect market, we then compare this with health care market and find out the causes or factors that results in failure in the health care market. In the second part we will look at the ways governments in four different countries have intervened to ensure that the causes of the ...

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Theories Of International Trade

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Introduction: International Trade is that the exchanging method of goods and services across the international border. In 2010, the worth of international tread achieved 19 trillion (US) dollars that is about 30% of the world GDP. That is almost one third of production of goods and services are exchanged internationally around the world. International trade is the exchange between two folks or entities in two different countries. ...

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Reasons And Motives For Mergers

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There is no doubt that mergers play a great role in the development of an economy. In this essay, a merger will be defined as "a combination of two corporations in which only one corporation survives and the merged corporation goes out existence" (Gaughan, 2007). After a merger, the newly-established company will hold two merged companies' assets and liabilities. In this way, mergers offer more chances for ...

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The Effects Of Inflation

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A considerable amount of research has been carried-out over the past decade regarding the effects of dollarization on an economy. The literature has included, but not limited the countries of Poland, Zimbabwe, and El Salvador. While only time will tell if dollarization will continue to sustain positive long-term impacts, the short-term has provided considerable evidence of a successful monetary integration. This research paper analyzed the dollarization of ...

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Logistics of South African economy

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Logistics has a major impact on the South African Economy. Logistics costs have been increasing from year to year and a lot of South Africa's infrastructure has room for improvement. Logistics cost entail cost of logistics activities which include procurement, materials handling, packaging, warehouse management, inventory control, order processing, logistics communications, transport, reverse logistics, customer service, demand forecasting and plant and site selection. South Africa competes globally ...

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Exploring Varieties Of Capitalism

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Among various theories of the diversity of capitalism proposed in recent years, the Varieties of Capitalism (VOC) brought up by Hall and Sosckice (2001) remains the most influential yet controversial one. The VOC approach has been widely adopted in the study of Industrial Relations (IR) but also criticized by many scholars. With the increasing level of globalization and the development of technology around the world, it has ...

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Tobacco Industry: Demand And Supply

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The following essay helps us know what demand and supply concept and that we are explaining with the example of cigarette industry. And we have also mentioned the factors affecting the demand and supply for cigarettes in the market. The essay also includes the income effect, impact of close substitutes and compliments, and also the price and income elasticity of the product of the industry. A cigarette ...

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SABIC: Implementing Internationalization

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Introduction: A strong power based on information has pushed the entire world to become an single entity. This power is technology. Technology has developed tremendously in recent times and has brought different parts of the world closer, irrespective of cultural and communication gaps. A proletariat has been created based on enhanced and more efficient modes of communication, transportation, and travelling. These developments have made disjoint areas and ...

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Inflation And Unemployment Relationship

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The purpose of this study was to analyze empirically the relationship between inflation and unemployment in Pakistan. For analysis secondary annual time series data over the period from 1972-2008 was taken. The basic data has been obtained from Pakistan Economic Survey (various issues), using reciprocal and semi-log reciprocal econometric models for empirical estimation of relationship between Inflation and Unemployment. The Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method has been ...

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The applications of supply and demand to daily life

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Supply and demand concepts have application in everyday life. They also directly impact the business person in daily decisions. Task: A. Define the following three terms: 1. Elasticity of demand 2. Cross-price elasticity (include substitutes and complements) 3. Income elasticity (include normal and inferior goods) B. Explain the elasticity coefficients for each of the three terms defined in part A. C. Contrast the terms defined in part ...

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Environmental Factors In Jordanian Market

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The aims of this study are to analyze and explore the impacts of Jordanian businesses from the foreign investors and multinational companies, especially Airline industries that have decided to operate in Jordan Market. These impacts include economic, cultural, Political and legal. The questionnaire will be used as a tool to gather data to survey the Samples' attitudes towards Jordanian market. The "Mean" will be used as statistical ...

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A Pest Analysis Of Pharmaceutical Industry

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The environment under which the Indian pharmaceutical industry is operating is changing very slowly at present, but is likely to change significantly - and significantly faster - in the future. The Indian pharmaceutical industry grew at a very slow pace from 1947 to 1970, largely due to the lack of incentives and the failure of the government to set-up a concrete regulatory framework. Today, the industry is ...

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The Balance Of Payments Of Australia

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Globalization has had a greater integration between different countries and its increasing impact on all aspects of life and economic activities. As Australia's economy becomes increasingly tied to the global economy, even minor changes in the global economy will have a significant impact on Australian trade, financial flows, and fluctuations in interest rates, exchange rates, government policies, causing changes in its current account and net foreign debt. ...

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Ageing population: Impact on economic growth

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Ageing population; its impact on economic growth. 1.0 LITERATURE REVIEW People today, live longer and often healthier lives owing to advances in various areas. It is a challenge to maintain and plan longer lives. Societal ageing hampers economic growth and issues such as sustainability of families, the states and communities' capacity to provide for older people. A quick look at the recent decline in fertility rates combined ...

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Comparison: Having Knowledge And Having Money

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In the modern society, there are certain major of groups believe that having money over lapse the concept of having more knowledge. Conversely, there are a number of people believe that without a good education, we might not make it in the fast growing society. On certain levels, having a certain amount of money or knowledge does provide benefits to individuals that possess it. We might be ...

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Aquaculture And Fisheries Industry In Malaysia

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INTRODUCTION Aquaculture industry in Malaysia nowadays has become one of engine of growth that contributes to the improvement in the economy of our country. Fisheries industry is one of the main sectors of food supply in Malaysia. At 2008, aquaculture has achieved about 20.8% contribution in fisheries industry [1] . Among various types of aquaculture activities, brackish water aquaculture is the predominant practise in the industry. Aquaculture is becoming ...

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Export/Import Policies, Procedures And Documentation

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In the year 1962, the Government of India appointed a special EXIM Policy Committee to review the government previous export import policies. The committee was later on approved by the Government of India. Mr. V. P. Singh, the then Commerce Minister and announced the EXIM Policy on the 12th of April, 1985. Initially the EXIM Policy was introduced for the period of three years with main objective ...

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Demand For Computers In The Market

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Since technology took a turn, computers had made it more easy accessibility for people past 10 years. As the computers have been revolutionized the way people spend their life in work and leisure has been changed since 1995. Comparatively, today an average man spends more than two to three hours on a computer. The buying capacity of people and the affordable price of desktop and laptops had ...

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Insight into Principal agent theory

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Governments now use a number of principal-agent or funder-provider type models to deliver policy or provide services (both between governments and from governments to the community). Why were these models chosen, what has been the effect and what are the strengths and weaknesses of such models? Next section outlines agency theory as it has applied in private markets and the role of transaction costs. The emergence of ...

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Role Of Financial Markets In A Modern Economy

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This essay examines the assumption, that a large financial sector consistently benefits the real economy. It has been acknowledged that the financial sector, not to mention some of its components, may sometimes become too large. It can end up posing a threat to both economic and financial stability, so the essay develops our understanding of where the optimal threshold lies. The regulatory measures and addresses the problem ...

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Physiocrat Economic Throught

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1.0 INTRODUCTION Physiocracy is the earliest theoretical system of bourgeois political economy. The physiocrats appeared in France from 50-70 years of the 18th century and toward the end of the mercantilist epoch. Physiocracy is a school of through founded by François Quesnay (1694-1774), other representation of Physiocrats beside Quesnay is Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727-1781). The school began in 1756 when Quesnay published his first article on economics ...

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Fixed exchange Vs Floating exchange rate system

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1.0--Introduction An exchange rate is the price's rate at which one country's currency trades for another on the foreign exchange market. This rate differs from country to country and it is depends on many economical variables, the main of which are the general balance and imbalance of economy, monetary and fiscal policy, the state of the budget, international policy, the condition and development of the country's economy ...

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Extention nail salons | Analysis

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In October 2004, Nails magazine conduct a survey and learnt that 87% of women have had their nails done at a salon (2). The magazine also stated that 42 % of the respondents have their nails done at least once a month and Nail-only salons are the preferred choice over full- service salons or spas for nail care (1). Almost all women go to nail salons in ...

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Causes Of Deficit: The Financing In Pakistan

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The aim of any government is to fulfill the socioeconomic responsibilities in order to break the vicious cycle of poverty and also uplift the economic conditions. In Pakistan it has been practiced that the aggregate of tax collection and no tax collection revenues are not ample to meet the government expenditure. To fulfill the gap between the spending and revenues so the economist used the perception of ...

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The Health Care Industry In India

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Key Drivers for the Private HealthCare Industry in India and the Strategies adopted by the Front Runners Conclusion: In context of the above report we can conclude that the healthcare industry in india is poised for a quantum growth. The key drivers being the favourable Political environment, regulatory framework, shift to lifestyle related diseases, growing middle class and their preferences for healthcare, Health insurance awareness and reach, ...

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Effect of inflation and exchange rate on the PPP theory

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Background The theoretical underpinning for the study of money demand and PPP is standard. The simplest form of the PPP theory suggests that goods market arbitrage enforces parity in national price levels. Hence, converted to a common currency, national price levels should be equal. Law of One Price The foundation of purchasing power parity is grounded in the law of one price. The theory states that barring ...

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Economic Analysis: Mobile Telecom Industry

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The mobile telecom industry in India has seen an astonishing growth in the last decade and a half. It is one of the fastest growing telecom sectors in the world with an annual growth of 12% to 13 % [1]. The sector has been given due importance by the government, as it caters to develop a nation socially and economically. In recent years the industry has undergone ...

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Is ICT Creating Unemployment?

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Today there is a popular concern or debate that technological advancement may replace much of the industrialized and other work force, creating widespread unemployment. For example, in 1983 the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research predicted the existence of 50,000 to 100,000 industrial robots in the United States by 1990, resulting in a net loss of some 100,000 jobs (Distress Inevitable as Robots Replace Low End of Workforce, ...

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Household Income Consumption Expenditure

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With economic and social progression of the nation the minimal basket of basic human needs which a society would expect for its citizen may be expected to keep expanding. These changes in the basic needs of the society may be affordable by the level of income. The level of income of the households ensures the minimum standard of living in the society. Household income and consumption expenditure ...

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Impact of economic change on international business

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Introduction Last four years had seen a rapid, radical change in an international economic condition. The Global Economic change embodies the upgrading and degrading of any country's living standard. Global economic changes affect the economic environment which includes level of employment, inflation, interest rate, taxation and exchange rate. Hence, implementation of economic policies has a strong direct effect on international business and that's way when the International ...

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Hedonic pricing and travel cost methods of pricing

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The overall objective of socio-economic assessment is to maximize the benefits of future investment in an enterprise in a sound and sustainable way. This chapter provides a review of various techniques that have been developed overtime for evaluating socio-economic benefits of non tradable good and services and ends with a discussion on how one of the techniques was utilized in evaluating the socio-economic benefits of cattle in ...

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The three main economic questions

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In a given society where individual lives are based on country economy problem, these question usually arise. Such as, the problem of inflation, consumer wants etc. In a given economy there are important questions that must be answered, whenever people argue on economy questions what come to people's minds is how to deal with inflation, reduced unemployment and lastly is how to keep developing the economy. But ...

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Performance Of Google And Its Management

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Since Google Inc. was founded in 1998 and incorporated in 2003, it has been focused on technology innovations to help its users find the information with unprecedented levels of ease, accuracy and relevancy. Google primarily concentrated on the areas of search, advertising, operating systems and platforms, enterprise and hardware products. These programs include AdWords, AdSense, Google Display and Google Mobile, with Android and Google Chrome serve as ...

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Impact Of Free Trade On International Business

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"Globalization" refers to the growing interdependence of countries resulting from the increasing integration of trade, finance, people, and ideas in one global marketplace. International trade and cross-border investment flows are the main elements of this integration. Globalization started after World War II but has accelerated considerably since the mid-1980s, driven by two main factors. One involves technological advances that have lowered the costs of transportation, communication, and ...

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Beiersdorf Ag And The Cosmetics Industry

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Beiersdorf AG (BDF), together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and distribution of branded consumer goods primarily in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The company operates in two segments, Consumer and Tesa. The Consumer segment offers skin and beauty care products under the Labello, NIVEA, 8x4, la prairie, JUVENA, atrix, Eucerin, FUTURO, Hansaplast/Elastoplast, and Florena brand names. The consumer division represents over 80% of ...

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Situations Which Give Rise To An Oligopoly

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When a market is dominated by a small number of large companies, it is referred as an oligopoly. The exact number of companies that is needed to create oligopoly is in range between 2 and 9, but the type of oligopoly that includes two companies is referred as duopoly. Even thought, managing company under other market situations like monopoly bring its own risks and difficulties, from the ...

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Investment In Education

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Today investment in education is one of the most important factors of the development in any modern country. Our paper finds out of the points of human capital and analyses the proceeds of investment in education. Investment in education is a necessary investment that certifies higher productivity in the economy. To measure the proceeds on the educational investment, the cost-benefit analysis is usually used including the calculation ...

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PESTEL analysis of Toshiba, Japan

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Toshiba Corporation is a company based in Japan that specializes in the production of industrial and consumer electronic and electric products including notebook computers (laptops), electro medical devices. LCDs, home appliances and semiconductors. It is among the oldest and largest companies in Japan. Toshiba laptops are selected as the product to be marketed in Cuba. Cuba is a potential market because of the dynamics involved. It has ...

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The Background And History Of Tata Nano

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Tata Motors Limited is a leading automobile company in India, with consolidated revenues of USD 32.5 billion in 2011-12. Tata Motors is a leader in manufacturing of commercial, passenger, military and electric vehicles. It is also the world's 4th largest truck and 2nd largest bus manufacturer by volume. In January 2008, Tata Motors introduced Tata Nano, dubbed as the "People's Car" and also known as the world's ...

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Neoliberalism: The new economic common sense?

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Neoliberalism Economic Marxist Is neoliberalism the new economic common sense? Sheikh, A., (2005), 41. The foundations of neoliberalism derive from what Stilwell (2006) considers as “an intriguing blend of technical analysis and ideology” (148) which is characterised by a number of prominent features. In contrast to Marxist economics that suggest the role of capitalism is relatively limited, neoclassical views of the economy tend to be optimistic about ...

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Malaysia S Transportation Sector: SWOT Analysis

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A scan of the internal and external environment is a main part of the strategic planning. Environmental factors internal to the firm generally can be classified as strength (S) or weakness (W) and those external to the firm can be classified as opportunities (O) or threats (T). Such an analysis of the strategic environment is referred to as SWOT analysis. STRENGTHS Malaysia is Multi-Racial - Malaysia is ...

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Impact of Exchange Rate Fluctuations

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In this age of globalization, every company is looking to tap into the international market. Amidst the rising acceptance and adoption of global sourcing as a viable strategy to create an organization-wide impact, currency fluctuation has emerged as a very real problem. History of Indian Outsourcing The idea of outsourcing has its roots in the 'competitive advantage' theory propagated by Adam Smith in his book 'The Wealth ...

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The History And Characteristics Of Capitalism

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Introduction Since the early time, there has been no clear cut definition of the concept, Capitalism. It has often been assumed by economists and theorists that it has existed if not forever, then for most of human history. According to the Oxford English Dictionary the term Capitalism was first used by novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, in 1854 in his novel 'The Newcomes', where he referred to the ...

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Impact of foreign direct investment on Malaysia

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In 2007, malaysian economic growth is strengthened though uncertainties in the external.The real gross domestic product(GDP) was raised to 6.3% (2006:5.9%).Growth was expected to be driven by domestic demand,particlurary private sector expenditure and investement activities. The main sources of growth are the services,manufacturing and farming sector on the supply side.Growth was led by the services sector since the economic structure has changed.Furthermore,services sector was supported by the ...

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The Selling Of Fruit And Vegetables

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The Research question that was investigated is What market structure characterizes the selling of fruits and vegetables in the Al Seeb Souq? The investigation was undertaken by first collecting secondary research that was published by newspapers, internet blogs and government laws to determine information about the Souq. Primary research was undertaken by interviewing four people, questionnaires that were handed to thirty random sample and observation was conducted ...

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Price Mechanism Works In A Capitalistic Economy

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According to BuisnessDictionary.com, Price mechanism is defined as , System of interdependence between supply of a good or service and its price. It generally sends the price up when supply is below demand, and down when supply exceeds demand. Price mechanism also restricts supply when suppliers leave the market due to low prevailing prices, and increases it when more suppliers enter the market due to high obtainable ...

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Designing A Supply Chain Network

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The geographical shift in the electronics manufacturing industry to Asia and other Pacific Rim countries has meant that companies have had to redesign their supply Chain Network. With customers moving to Asia, and new markets opening up, several K&S competitors have already invested in new sites. By examining figure 2 (semiconductor equipment spending by geographic region), it is evident that the Asia-Pacific spending on Semiconductor equipment is ...

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Types Of Market Structures

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The basic characteristics of perfectly competitive market are, that several companies operate at the same time (which means no entry and exit barriers) and products are identical. Such competition leads the supply and demand, to determine the price of the product (firm is a price taker). Perfect competition cannot exist, because it demonstrates a perfectly elastic demand curve, for a firm in the market (no change in ...

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The Monetary And Fiscal Policies Of Germany

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"What were Germany's fiscal policies during the 2007-2010 Global Financial Crisis, and did the common monetary policy adapt sufficiently to the needs of the German economy?" Charles de Lusignan 4th March 2010 Part 2: The monetary and fiscal policies followed during 2008 and 2009 in the context of and in relation to the economic crisis. For the Euro-area countries, the analysis of monetary policy will look at ...

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Is Competition Always Beneficial To Consumers?

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Introduction The economists have always advocated governments to deregulate and privatize most industries to stimulate competition and maximize productivity and efficiency gains, as well as benefiting consumers in terms of more choice and lower price. However, is that firms in competitive industries always good for consumers? There are lots of debates about this issue and it's impacts on societies has significant importance for policy makers. Here, I ...

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Primark: Shareholders With Limited Liability

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As stated, Primark has shareholders with limited liability and its shares are not offered to the general public, it is therefore a private limited company; meaning that a contrary to a public limited company, the shares of the company cannot be trade on the stock exchange and the legal disclosure requirements are lighter. Different types of company can be differentiate; first of all, we should distinguish between ...

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Improving The Village Economy In India

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India is endowed with a rich and vast diversity of natural resources, water being one of them. Its development and management plays a vital role in agriculture production. Integrated water management is vital for poverty reduction, environmental sustenance and sustainable economic development. National Water Policy (2002) Introduction Agriculture contributes significantly in the Indian economy. Agriculture engages 60% of India s population and more than 16 corer hectare ...

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Impact of Inflation: Economic Growth of Pakistan

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Background of problem/Problem development Inflation has always been a subject of study in accordance with economic growth. Policymakers have always given inflation an important place while formulating policies. During the economic crisis in 1929 (Erman & Okuyan, 2008) Keynesian policies were implied to many countries that proved out to be effective. However, in accordance to those policies, there was an increase in total demand that increased the ...

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India's New Economic Policy

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Shaw, in his famous quote in the preface to the play 'Major Barbara', was talking about the culpability behind and the actors responsible towards committing the crime of bringing about poverty. A combination of paradoxical global policy making centred around liberalisation and protectionism promoted by international financial institutions like the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is responsible for bringing about disparities in the ...

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The impact of globalization in China

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Globalization is a widely used term which can be describe or defined in various ways but if we are to describe it in economic terms there are lot of definitions which all bothers down to the same point which is the removal of barriers withing boarders in order for free movement of goods and services How to view Globalization Globalization is the objective trend of economic development ...

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The NAFTA: Canada, Mexico And The USA

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INTRODUCTION The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect in the year 1994; it is a huge landmark in the history of international trade. Fifteen years ago, The United States, Mexico and Canada brought forward the world's biggest free trade area under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). It was the first trade agreement to incorporate the issues of the labor adjustment and the ...

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Financial comparison of Finland and China

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Introduction We could never choose the place we born but we could always dream the place we live which a place that we all are aspire to. As the reason, "Newsweek" a second largest news weekly magazine in America has study a special issue for the purpose of the best countries in the world to fulfill the need of the world audience (Wikipedia, 2010). Therefore, where is ...

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Monetary Policies in Pakistan

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Policies adopted by any country's Central Bank that influence interest rates and credit conditions, which in turn, influence consumer and business spending, is termed as "Monetary Policy". Monetary policy is amongst the key tools which a Government uses to influence its economy. The government with its authority to control the supply of money in the economy, it influences the overall level of economic activity which are formulated ...

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The effects of globalization on Vietnam

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Nowadays, globalization is spread out. Many things change together with it. One of them is that with the steady decrease in worldwide tariffs accomplished in the various rounds of multilateral trade negotiations over the past several decades, but the non-tariff barriers were used more and more popular. The attention of both policymakers and economists has turned to the role of non-tariff barriers (NTBs). 1 NTBs represent a ...

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Reasons For Financial Inclusion And Exclusion

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Financial exclusion can be broadly defined as the inability to access basic financial services due to problems associated with access, conditions, prices, marketing or self-exclusion in response to discouraging experiences or perceptions of individuals / entities. In the Report of the Committee on Financial Inclusion in India (Chairman: C. Rangarajan, 2008) defined Financial inclusion/exclusion as - The process of ensuring access to financial services and timely and ...

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Opportunity Cost And The Production Possibility Curves

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C) The Production Possibility Curves is a hypothetical representation of the amount of the two different goods that can be obtained by shifting resources from the production of one, to the production of other. The production possibility curves used to describe a society's choice between two different goods or services. The Production Possibility Curves shows the maximum output that can be produced in an economy at any ...

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Porter S National Diamond Analysis

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South Africa with a population of around 49 million people is a growing retail market; it owns an advanced substructure backing up comparatively effective dispersion of commodities to rural areas, townships and urbanized centers all across Southern Africa and South Africa. The retail market of South Africa has been predominated by a couple of superstore for instance Woolworths, Spar, Pick n Pay and Shoprite all owned by ...

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The competitiveness of Malaysia in attracting FDI

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1.1 Abstract This report investigates the competitiveness of Malaysia in attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). More specifically the study investigates the relationship of FDI with Malaysia's economy, analyzes the reasons that affected the FDI into Malaysia, and evaluates each possible reason with relevant supportive data. The study will further evaluate the effectiveness of government policies in attracting FDI into Malaysia. 1.2 Malaysia and the FDI Malaysia has ...

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The Differences Between Macroeconomics And Microeconomics

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Economics is the study of how unlimited wants can be satisfied with scarce recourses. Economics is a branch of social science that deals with production consumption and transfer of wealth. The term economics is derived from an ancient Greek word "oikonomia" which means management of household. Oikos means house and nomos means law or custom that means rules of house hold. 1776 is considered the year of ...

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Keynesian theory applied to the global financial crisis

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Introduction Unemployment in macro economic level is a serious socio-economic problem in the sense that it not only affects the families of unemployed but also have impact on economic resources like unemployed land or capital, achieving zero productivity for the increased opportunity cost. Some economist, basically classical economist believes that the unemployment or productivity need not to be cured through government intervention but cure itself by natural ...

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The Infrastructure Of Pakistan

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Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function. It can be generally defined as the set of interconnected structural elements that provide framework supporting an entire structure of development. It is an important term for evaluating a country or region's development. Infrastructure plays a pivotal role in the ...

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Effect Of Oil On Middle East Economies

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The economy of the countries contributed many factors including oil and gas. The government policies will be created according to the available sources within or outside the country. The economic growth of the industry of oil is one of the strongholds of the world as well as United States of America. Though the United States did not have oil sources comparatively with Middle East, yet the Country ...

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Evolution Of The Greek Economic Crisis

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Introduction to the Greek Economy Summary of the evolution of the Greek economic crisis and its potential spill-over into other southern Mediterranean countries Discussion of whether the Eurozone matches the criteria of an optimal currency area and specifically the implications of the fact that no single government backing the currency for the viability of the euro. Evaluation of the analysis in the context of the suggestion that ...

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Globalization And The Spread Of HIV/AIDS

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Some of the consequences of globalization, including large populations movements, increasing economic inequalities, and the growth of the sex industry are all believed to contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDS in Asia. Women are particularly vulnerable to the negative economic effects of globalization and are often at greater risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. Experts predict that in the near future, Asia will be facing a potentially crippling AIDS ...

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The Origin And Nature Of Money

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The literature on the origin of money traces the evolution of money in different parts of the world. It explains the transition from direct exchange (barter exchange) to indirect exchange and within the indirect exchange analyses how various commodities and non-commodities acquired the characteristics of money. The nature of money literature also looks at the qualities and the characteristics or functions of money and again the literature ...

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The Measures To Control Inflation

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Inflation is a sustained rise in the general level of prices of goods and services over a period of one year. In other words, it indicates the percentage rise in the general prices today compared to a year ago. The rise (fall) in inflation mans that purchasing power of money declines (increases). This measure is very useful in understanding the trends in cost of living and also ...

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The Trade Policies Of Malaysia

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South East Asia is the center of the trade and the Malaysia is one of the trade hubs of the Asia. Malaysia stands as a developing country for its long standing commitment to maintain a relatively open trade and investment policy regime. Under the virtual free trade regime the protection regime is characterized and the trade policy regime includes the high degree of dispersion. The Malaysian trade ...

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The Reforms By Deng Xiaoping

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Immediately after the death of Mao in 1976, became a power struggle erupted between different parties. Called the Gang of Four, led by the widow of Mao Zedong, Hua Kuo-feng and wanted the power to attract to herself. The 'Gang of Four' wanted that the Cultural Revolution continue. Eventually the battle won by Hua Kuo-feng and inside he had the 'Gang of Four' arrested. Hua knew the ...

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The Term 'Brain Drain': Pakistan

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I shall make an endeavor to reach to the causes and their outcomes due to brain drain on developing countries like Pakistan. My research focus will be upon the district of Rawalpindi (Pakistan). Rawalpindi is an important location which houses many industries, commercial areas, universities/colleges and military headquarters. The ever-increasing Pakistani Diaspora through the migration of skilled labor from Pakistan to industrialized nations in Europe, North America ...

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The Welfare Losses Of A Monopoly

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Introduction 'The main effects of monopoly are to misallocate resources, to reduce aggregate welfare, and to redistribute income in favour of monopolists.' (Harberger, 1954: 2) It is for this reason that monopoly power is generally condemned by neoclassical economists. Super-normal profits generated in both short and long run are a function of supra competitive prices being charged. And although vast amounts of wealth accrue to monopolists in ...

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Planning In The Soviet Economy: Successes And Failures

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It is with much anticipation that one of the major world highlights of transitional economies be examined in detail - that of the Soviet Economy. Throughout this research the evaluation of the Soviet Economy before and after the implementation of the New Economic Policy is the major focus. This entails the transition of the Soviet economy from a capitalist to more centralized socialist structured system. The Soviet ...

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Foreign Aid To Bangladesh: Assessing Its Significance

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Foreign aid plays a significant role in economic transformation, contributing ideas about development to support reform and expansion of public services. The study investigates the historical significance of aid in Bangladesh by using the data since her independence and finds out the relationship between aid and some key macroeconomic indicators. The paper finds that according to the trend of recent macroeconomic indicators, Bangladesh has been able to ...

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Compare And Contrast Perfect Competition

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Introduction First of all, according to John Wiley and Sons (1995), perfect competition is kind of market structure that processed the following factors: each firm is so small compared to the market and the influence on price is elastic; the product is homogeneous; there are freedom changes of all resources which includes free entry and exits of firms in and out of the markets and there is ...

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Importance And Barriers To FDI

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Foreign direct investment has many forms. Roughly, foreign direct investment includes mergers and acquisitions, constructing new facilities, reinvesting profits earned from overseas operations and intercompany loans". In a contracted sense, foreign direct investment refers just to constructing new facilities. The mathematical FDI figures based on varied definitions are not easily comparable. TYPES Horizontal FDI arises when a firm duplicates its home country-based behavior at the same value ...

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The Recent Growth In International Trade

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Most countries trade more on international markets today than ever before - both in absolute terms and as a proportion of their national output. How can we explain this phenomenal increase in international trade over the past few decades? Will the recent rise in oil prices reverse this trend of globalization? History provides us with a natural comparison. Beginning in the nineteenth century, the world saw a ...

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