...Ahmadineyad anunció la puesta en marcha de centrifugadoras revolucionarias que van a acelerar de diez veces más la producción de uranio (elemento químico necesario a la creación de bombas pero también para producir electricidad a precio barato). No esta una violación al Tratado de No Proliferación pero la comunidad internacional se muestra preocupada. En Noviembre 2010 tres días de nuevas negociaciones van a tomar lugar en Viena, de un lado tenemos los famosos 5+1 del Consejo de Seguridad del ONU (Estados Unidos, Rusia, China, Francia y Reino Unido más Alemania) y del otro lado la nación de Irán. Por una razón de seguridad los dos objetivos cruciales por el ONU sean la prevención de la adquisición del arma nuclear por los actuales líderes de Irán y de persuadirles que la compra de un arma nuclear no le haría más poderoso ni seguro. Ahmadineyad niega a todas estas acusaciones y aseguró a la comunidad internacional que sus intenciones son solamente a final civil y no militar. Los objetos de la otra parte conciernan de un lado el contexto económico ya que la fabricación de energía nuclear es muy barata, y con la crisis económica Irán puede gastar 60 millones de dólares para la producción de mil megavatios en lugar de 500 millones hoy. Y del otro lado las ventajas de producir nuclear es relacionado con el medio ambiente, la energía nuclear es una energía limpia y puede ayudar al reducimiento del recalentamiento global. Eso son los objetivos que parecen tener pero su producción de...
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...Synopsis of Tort Cases Paper Team A BUS/415 10 de octubre de 2011 University of Phoenix Profesor: Jesús Rivera Delgado Synopsis of Tort Cases Paper En este trabajo grupal, se encuentra cuatro casos de responsabilidad civil. Cada escenario tiene un tipo de acción de responsabilidad, los demandantes potenciales y los acusados, los elementos de las reclamaciones por agravio que constituyen la demanda del demandante, así como todas las defensas que el demandado puede hacer valer. Además, se encuentra la opinión de escritor en cuanto a cómo ellos creen que la reclamación se resolverá junto con los motivos legales de su creencia. Escenario uno Las acciones de responsabilidad civil, los elementos, los demandantes potenciales, los acusados, de resolución de reclamaciones surgen de una serie de acciones que tuvieron lugar de un partido de fútbol. Daniel y su hijo Rubén, de 8 años, fueron a un partido de fútbol. El mariscal de campo va a lanzar un pase, y es golpeado por un jugador contrario, y rompen el brazo del mariscal de campo, y enviando el balón a las gradas, golpeando un fanático. Malik salta a gritar al árbitro, derramando su cerveza fría encima de Rubén. Daniel se siente mal al ver el disfrute de Rubén echado a perder de esta manera, y empuja a Malik. Como Malik cae, se agarra del pasamano, que cede con su peso y Malik se golpea, dos de sus dientes frontales. Al salir, Daniel se detiene a comprar dos refrescos. Una señora en la fila le da el olor de cerveza...
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...de cualquier cazador entusiasta. El Modelo 700 de la Remington Company es uno de los rifles para cacería de mayo venta en Estados Unidos y los ejecutivos de la compañía están muy conscientes de que el Modelo 700 produce alto porcentaje de los ingresos anuales de la empresa por ventas. Más de 100,000 rifles Modelo 700 venden cada año a un costo promedio de 500 dólares. Hoy en Apia, existen casi tres millones de Modelos 700 de diferentes calibres en poder de los clientes. Sin embargo, la compañía con sede en Delaware enfrenta algunas demandas que afirman que este modelo en particular está defectuoso. En suma, cerca de 1,400 quejas escritas relativas al Modelo 700 se han presentado a la empresa desde 1975; en muchas de ellas se afirma que el arma se dispara sin tirar del gatillo. También, se han relacionado cuatro muertes al supuesto funcionamiento defectuoso del Modelo 700. No obstante, un punto decisivo en la historia del Modelo 700 ocurrió el 7 de Mayo de 1994 cuando un jurado en Texas concedió 17 millones de dólares (15 millones por daños y perjuicios) a un hombre cuyo pie tuvo que ser amputado después de que su supuestamente defectuosa Modelo 700 se disparó accidentalmente. La Compañía Remington Arms es la principal vendedora de escopetas y rifles en Estados Unidos. Kenneth Soucy es el gerente a cargo de investigación y desarrollo de producto en Remington. Soucy y Remington sostienen que muchos de los accidentes por disparo de rifle son debidos a errores del usuario y a un...
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...estableció en Baltimore, ciudad del Estado de Maryland, una nueva sociedad de mucha influencia. Conocida es la energía con que el instinto militar se desenvolvió en aquel pueblo de armadores, mercaderes y fabricantes Simples comerciantes y tenderos abandonaron su despacho y su mostrador para improvisarse capitanes, coroneles y hasta generales sin haber visto las aulas de West Point,(1) y no tardaron en rivalizar dignamente en el arte de la guerra con sus colegas del antiguo continente, alcanzando victorias, lo mismo que éstos, a fuerza de prodigar balas, millones y hombres. 1. Academia militar de los Estados Unidos. Pero en lo que principalmente los americanos aventajaron a los europeos, fue en la ciencia de la balística, y no porque sus armas hubiesen llegado a un grado más alto de perfección, sino porque se les dieron dimensiones desusadas y con ellas un alcance desconocido hasta entonces. Respecto a tiros rasantes, directos, parabólicos, oblicuos y de rebote, nada tenían que envidiarles los ingleses, franceses y prusianos, pero los cañones de éstos, los obuses y los morteros, no son más que simples pistolas de bolsillo comparados con las formidables máquinas de artillería norteamericana. No es extraño. Los yanquis no tienen rivales en el mundo como mecánicos, y nacen ingenieros como los italianos nacen músicos y los alemanes metafísicos. Era, además, natural que aplicasen a la ciencia de la balística su natural ingenio y su característica audacia. Así se explican aquellos...
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...INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL STUDY ADMISSION APPLICATION PROCESS Application submitted via eVision Internationa Office send to department for approval Returned to International Office and processed Returned incomplete, sent back to department Emailed to GRS for approval at the weekly GRC meeting Candidate awaits outcome of Scholarship application Doctoral office emails result to the International Office who then update eVision Candidate accepts offer in eVision International Office emails confirmation of start date to GRS Awarded Declined Candidate Declines offer of place via eVision Doctoral Office processes enrolment Candidate completes declaration in eVision FINISHED! Updated 19 December 2014 INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL STUDY ADMISSION APPLICATION PROCESS DEFINITION: International candidate = First year, never studied at the University of Otago before. Candidate makes application (Candidate has already received unofficial approval from the primary supervisor and their department before beginning the process) Candidate contacts the International Office and applies via eVision and the application goes to the International Office portal. Application is sent to the department for approval/signing by the following people; Primary supervisor, HOD primary department (if applicable), Dean (if applicable), PVC delegate for the Division If there are co-supervisors in any other departments it then goes to the following people within...
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...EXCHANGE RATE VOLATILITY AND RWANDA’S BALANCE OF TRADE By: MANIRAGABA, Ngabo Vallence vallencengabo@ines.ac.rw &: NKURUNZIZA, Fabrice nkurufabre123@ines.ac.rw ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of exchange rate volatility and balance of trade sector in Rwanda for the period of January 1996 to December 2013, and tries to find appropriate models for both balance of trade and exchange rate to be used in forecasting for future values.. Some of the developing economies including Rwanda would appear to have exacerbated fluctuations in exchange rates, developing economies are special examples of high exchange rate, The impact of exchange rate levels on trade has been much debated but the large body of existing empirical literature does not suggest an indubitable comprehensive image of the trade impacts of exchange rate volatility in Rwanda. The review of the theoretical literature on this issue indicates that there is no clear-cut relationship between exchange rate volatility and balance of trade. This study examines the effect of exchange rate volatility and balance of trade sector in Rwanda The analysis followed the empirical methods (econometrics and time series analysis). The researchers used UBJ time series analysis to accomplish all stages (stationarity, identification, estimation, diagnostic checking and forecasting) of the models and models validation was of good quality and can be used in forecasting for future values. Polynomial regression model helped to establish...
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...The Potentialities and Sustainability of Export Processing Zones in a Competitve Environment in an Integrated Economy:Evidence from Tanzania By Joseph S.Kiria Introduction and Background Proposed research is literally about potentiality of Export Processing Zones (EPZs) in achieving strategic objectives envisaged in the national vision development objectives in Tanzania. Study explores the potentiality and sustainability of EPZ as a development strategy in the context of linkage with Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and its benefits in a competitive environment. An understanding of this subject is important for at least four reasons.Firstly, government spends part of its limited budget through fiscal incentives to subsidize EPZs. This is a revenue loss to the governemnt, and such budgetary impact have implications on other government development programmes. Secondly, though EPZs strategy may look impressive, it may be constrained by the level of competiton created by liberalization, therefore, identifying challenges and limitations facing the regime in the competitive environment encouraged by free trade regime is important to enhance its sustainability.Thirdly, there is evidence elsewhere that it is mainly cheap labour and excellent infrastructure but not fiscal incenntives that attract export-oriented FDI.A proof will provide a lesson and new experince in the context of this study.Lastly, Tanzania experience on EPZ has not been explored enough partly due to the newness...
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...ASSESSING THE POWER OF PORTER'S DIAMOND MODEL IN THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY IN MEXICO AFTER TEN YEARS OF NAFTA SALVADOR BARRAGAN Master in Business Administration, IPADE Business School, 1996 BSc in Industrial Engineering, Universidad Panamericana, 1994 A Research Project Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies of the University of Lethbridge in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MANAGEMENT Faculty of Management University of Lethbridge LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA, CANADA © Salvador Barragán, 2005 ii Abstract It has been ten years since the signature of the NAFTA agreement among Canada, U.S., and Mexico. For Mexico, this was a decisive step away from a protectionism model toward a free trade market. One of the main purposes for Mexico in joining NAFTA was to increase the competitiveness of its manufacturing sector, especially the automotive industry. In this paper, Porter’s Diamond Model of national competitiveness and some critiques that attempt to extend the usefulness of the model are analyzed. The Doubled Diamond and the role of MNEs in a host country are both examined through a case study research of the foreign-owned automobile industry in Mexico. The findings of this study show evidence of a broader role of MNEs than in the original framework, as well as the usefulness of the doubled diamond extension to explain alternative sources of competitiveness in early stages of development. iii Acknowledgments...
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...foregoing rule prohibits the use in war of poison or poisoned weapons against human beings. Restrictions on the use of herbicides as well as treaty provisions concerning chemical and bacteriological warfare are discussed in paragraph 38. Page 18. Paragraph 38 is superseded as follows: 38. Chemical and Bacteriological Warfare a. Treat Provision. Whereas the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices, has been justly condemned by the general opinion of the civilized world; and Whereas the prohibition of such use has been declared in Treaties to which the majority of Powers of the world are Parties; and To the end that this prohibition shall be universally accepted as a part of International Law, binding alike the conscience and the practice of nations: * * * the High Contracting Parties, so far as they are not already Parties to Treaties...
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...employees fall under some type of labor union to protect the employee’s job security and vestments in the company. Will interview, analyze and research employee background information in the different countries as well as understand how Wal-Mart decided to execute labor contracts in some countries unlike in the United States. 2. Wal-Mart has another issue regarding how the suppliers are treating the workers internationally. According to the International Herald Tribune, some of the shareholders of Wal-Mart are requesting that some of the countries have to disclose how the suppliers are treating the workers. It would be interesting to further investigate how the suppliers treat their workers in the United States. 3. Wal-Mart is considering a five year plan to reduce the cost of their healthier foods and request food manufacturers produce healthier products at a lower cost according to The Globe and Mail (Canada). Wal-Mart is a stickler for trying to get the cheapest wholesale cost of everything and sale to the massive of international consumers. With that being said, acting as a shareholder would like for Wal-mart to disclose the progress of the five year plan proposed in...
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...In 2008 when the global economy took a turn for the worst Canada managed to come out on top. This is thanks to the export of natural resources and commodities. The Canadian government immediately took charge and start making budget cuts in order to have a full recovery by 2015. (D.R., 2011) Canada has a large threat in its path; its dependence on the outside world. Canada fared much better than was expected while other countries throughout the world declined and fell into a recession. There are nine specific key indicators that are important to consider when talking about Canadian economy. These are employment, unemployment, composite leading index, housing starts, consumer price index, real gross domestic product, retail sales volume, merchandise exports, and merchandise imports. (Statistics Canada, 2011) Employment and Unemployment In November 2011 the unemployment rate was set at 7.4%. The average unemployment rate in Canada from 1976 to 2010 was 8.53. (Trading Economics, 2011)The employment force is the number of people employed plus the number of people looking for employment. (Trading Economics, 2011) Unemployment includes those not looking for work, people in the military, and people institutionalized. (Trading Economics, 2011) Canada was able to add 93,000 jobs in June 2011, in effect dropped the unemployment rate to below the 8% mark. The gains in the labour force will offset nearly all of the losses that were a result of the downturn in 2008. (Contenta...
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...Week 2 University of Phoenix Eco/GM 561 When a country decides on something that they are going to produce this product has to set them apart from other countries. A country bases their product on factors such as how much it costs them to produce it and if it sets them apart from the competition. A comparative advantage is the driving force of production for every country. In this paper we will discuss comparative advantage, abundant factors in the production of certain products, recommendations for the country to specialize in, and industries the country of my choice protects (if any). For the purpose of this paper I have chosen to explore the Netherlands and their comparative advantage. I chose this country for personal reasons as my father was born and raised in The Netherlands until he came to the United States at sixteen years of age. When you first think of the Netherlands you might think cheese or Tulips as they are well known for both of those products. The Netherlands has a high comparative advantage when it comes to skilled labor intensive work. First, let’s explore what comparative advantage is. Investopedia.com explains comparative advantage as “an economic law that demonstrates the ways in which protectionism is unnecessary in free trade. Comparative advantage argues that free trade works even if one partner in a deal holds absolute advantage in all areas of production- that is, one partner makes products cheaper, better and faster than its trading partner”...
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...which is not subject to any trade barriers or tariffs, and 56.8 percent of Italian exports, went to other EU countries in 1999. Italy's main export destinations within Europe are Germany (16.4 percent), France (12.9 percent), the United Kingdom (7.1 percent), Spain (6.3 percent), and the Netherlands (2.9 percent). The country's biggest commercial partner outside Europe is the United States, which takes 9.5 percent of Italy's export goods. Trade (expressed in billions of US$): | | exports | Imports | 1975 | 34.988 | 38.526 | 1980 | 78.104 | 100.741 | 1985 | 76.717 | 87.692 | 1990 | 170.304 | 181.968 | 1995 | 233.998 | 206.040 | 1998 | 242.332 | 215.887 | | | | SOURCE: International Monetary Fund. International Financial Statistics Yearbook 1999. | Recently, a number of Asian countries have...
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...Introduction: Foreign Aid any capital inflow or other assistance given to a country which would not generally have been provided by natural market forces. In Bangladesh, foreign aid serves to bridge the gap between savings and investments and make up the deficits in the balance of payments. Foreign aid is a major means of financing the country's economic development. Economic literature generally classifies foreign aid into four main types. First, the long-term loans are usually repayable by the recipient country in foreign currency over ten or twenty years. Secondly, the soft loans repayable in local currency or in foreign currency but over a much longer period and with very low interest rates. The softest are the straight grants often given to the less developed countries. Sale of surplus products to a country in return for payment in the country's local currency is the third type and finally, the technical assistance given to the developing countries comprises the fourth type of foreign aid. Foreign aid is more like an investment in a risky market situation. The relative weighting of advantages and disadvantages depends on the planning behind the foreign aid and how well-orchestrated it is. Economic advantages: stimulated economic development in the receiver's country (better infrastructure, more education etc.) leads to economic growth. It can also create jobs as increased investment leads to more employment; this means less needs to be spent on unemployment benefits...
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...Tariff barriers Tariffs, which are taxes on imports of commodities into a country or region, are among the oldest forms of government intervention in economic activity. They are implemented for two clear economic purposes. First, they provide revenue for the government. Second, they improve economic returns to firms and suppliers of resources to domestic industry that face competition from foreign imports. Tariffs are widely used to protect domestic producers’ incomes from foreign competition. This protection comes at an economic cost to domestic consumers who pay higher prices for import competing goods, and to the economy as a whole through the inefficient allocation of resources to the import competing domestic industry. Therefore, since 1948, when average tariffs on manufactured goods exceeded 30 percent in most developed economies, those economies have sought to reduce tariffs on manufactured goods through several rounds of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs Trade (GATT). Only in the most recent Uruguay Or Simply Import duties or taxes imposed on goods entering the customs territory of a nation. Imposes for revenue collection, protection of domestic industry, political control. Non Tariff Barriers Nontariff barriers (NTBs) refer to the wide range of policy interventions other than border tariffs that affect trade of goods, services, and factors of production. Most taxonomies of NTBs include market-specific trade and domestic policies affecting...
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