...Food Policy Capacity of Bangladesh Introduction * Food security situation * US$ 641 annual per capita income in 2010 (World Bank 2010) * Bangladesh ranked as the 43rd largest economy in the world in 2010 and also listed among the Next Eleven economies by Goldman Sachs investment bank and Jim O'Neill. * The land is devoted mainly to rice and jute cultivation as well as fruits and produce, although wheat production has increased in recent years; the country is largely self-sufficient in rice production. Bangladesh's growth of its agro industries is due to its rich deltaic fertile land that depend on its six seasons and multiple harvests * Food insecurity and inflation is the persistent challenge for the country. * The 2009 Progress Report for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) records that the percentage of children aged under five who are underweight fell from 66% to 45% between 1990 and 2009. It also reveals that the rate of decline has slowed since 2000 and is now almost static. * A key uncertainty for the hunger situation in Bangladesh is the impact of the latest round of food price increases. * Food prices have risen sharply through 2010 because Bangladesh remains a food deficit country. * Households affected by food insecurity cite lack of income as the main cause, closely followed by lack of land, according to the 2009 Welfare Monitoring Survey conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau for Statistics. * Agriculture engages 65% of...
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...Developing business in the brewing industry as thousands of tradition, always face of intense competition from existing competitors as well as new entrants. In additional, any manufacturers have difficult in expending production capacities and resources. This report aims to recommend how to continue growing business without compromising on quality in high competitive market and limited production capacities and resources. After four year growth in volume, from 6,000 cases in 2008 to 200,000 cases in 2012, the 961 volume of beer sold increased dozens of times. The various products of 961 beer have presented and its retailers network have expanded to variety channel such as bars, restaurants and local supermarkets, even it opened a beer pub by the company. This pub has been an exciting successful case and also has given hints for next periods. However, the company faced of limited capacity for the production of larger volumes while the team operated in small volume and even a new bottling machine had to be ordered. The company had strategically become one of biggest Lebanese brewing company and had prepared for huge competition from Almaza who is also local company dominated the Lebanese market. In additional, by being acquired by Heineken in 2002, this closet competitor took on hand many advantages in technology, experiences, alternative famous brand from the No. 1 worldwide brewing corporation. While the company has built all things from zero. Its largest early customer group...
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...Political Competency Name Institution Lessons learned about Political Competency from the Documentary, Shameless Propaganda (2013) Political competency is viewed as the capacity to understand what an individual can or cannot control when to take action, which is going against your motive and who you require on your side to push your motive ahead. Political competency relates to having knowledge of how to map the political terrain, get others on your area and lead coalitions. More often than not, political competency is not viewed as a critical core competence that is required by all politicians or leaders within an organization. The documentary “Shameless Propaganda” gives insights of the art of political competence that took place in Canada between 1939 and 1945 (“National Film Board of Canada,” 2014). When you ask fruitful pioneers how they get things going, they'll converse with you about conceptualizing, support, authority, market investigation, and arranging, however they'll infrequently expound on the unending normal micro-legislative issues they participate in. Legislative issues are by all accounts an unthinkable subject in authoritative life-the elephant in the initiative parlor that nobody examines or concedes is there (Golubeva, 2013). Political competence is not fiendishness by result of authoritative life. Being political, in its most appealing light, is being mindful of the hobbies of others, discovering zones of shared view, bringing others on board, and...
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...of transfers from EROW ? 2. Examine the Actual and Budgeted Fixed Costs of Exhibit 2. Show the calculations used to derive actual and budget: a. Standard b. Cost Adjustments (HINT: the cost adjustment hinges on the answer to question 1b) c. Volume Variance 3. As Choquette, what evidence would you present to the Polysar Board of Directors during the upcoming performance review of NASA Rubber Division. Pay particular attention to questions that may be raised concerning the accuracy and meaning of volume variances. 4. In light of the current compensation plan, what sales and production strategy is Henderson (EROW Division) likely to choose? What would Choquette (NASA Division) prefer? 5. Suppose EROW is operating at capacity and would like to purchase additional rubber. If EROW could buy the rubber from an external source (and not have to purchase it from NASA) , what is the most that EROW would be willing to pay (per tonne)? 6. Compare the profitability (per tonne) of EROW and NASA. How should the company schedule production to insure the highest level of profits to the Rubber Group in...
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...individuals who are working and have sustained injuries on or off the job, a key focus of rehabilitation is restoration of work capacity. Rehabilitation programs that are funded by government or private insurers often have an explicit goal of returning the injured party to previous or comparable levels of employment. In such cases, it is important to identify required job tasks and expected performance levels. Such information creates targeted outcomes for the rehabilitation program. The overall rehabilitation process is guided by the job analysis through a process wherein assessed levels of current functional capacity are compared to the required job performance demands (Loisel et al. 2001). Identified gaps between worker capacity and job demands are then addressed through restorative programs and/or job modification. Work transition planning In rehabilitation the job analysis is used to provide information to match the injured worker with tasks that can be safely performed on initial resumption of duties following an absence or time away from regular duties. The job analysis information serves as the foundation for a graduated work resumption process that optimizes productivity and compliments the rehabilitation program and injury recovery. Regular review of the job analysis is used to identify job demands that are suitable to the worker's capacities throughout the recovery process until the worker resumes the pre-injury job or reaches an optimal level of performance in a...
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...MGT 415 WEEK 5 ASSIGNMENT FINAL PAPER A+ Graded Tutorial Available At: http://hwsoloutions.com/?product=mgt-415-week-5-assignment-final-paper Visit Our website: http://hwsoloutions.com/ Product Description PRODUCT DESCRIPTION MGT 415 Week 5 Assignment Final Paper, Organization and Structure in a Business Setting The circulation focus is an indispensable piece of any association. A DC (Distribution Center) works as a cost focus and does not can produce any benefit all alone’s. The building is given an apportioned plan for the year and is in charge of staying inside the parameters of that funding. Numerous distinctive elements can influence a building’s capacity to effectively meet that funding and gainfulness is one of the greatest ones. Gainfulness clearly drives the quantity of containers that are transformed and the more that are prepared, the better that is for the monetary allowance. Wage hours are additionally specifically affected by benefit. In the event that every colleague has high gainfulness, it will take less wage hours to achieve the volumes than the financial backing considers. There can likewise be a drawback of high gainfulness, as well. The quicker a group ventures to every part of the more potential there is for inefficiencies and wounds. These can really nullify any of the monetary profits acknowledged from the higher profit of the group by adding extra wage hours to settle quality issues and added expenses identified with lost work hours. The...
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...It is learnt that the management is in the process of finalizing the VISION of PSPCL and one of the mission identified is to "attain 10,000 MW Power Generation in the state by 2020". Presently, the total installed capacity of share is 4878 MW and PS has signed PPAs with private companies setting up plants at Goindwal Sahib (540MW), Talwandi Sabo(1980 MW), Rajpura (1400 MW)and with NTPC (2640 MW with PSPCL share of 1320 MW). So the total installed capacity in the state by the end of 2014-15 is expected to be 9118 MW. In addition, has signed MOUs with private companies for setting up thermal plants in the state of more than 5000 MW capacity. In addition, presently P has allocation of 1840 MW from central sector plants which is expected to cross 470 MW in the next 5 years. As there is no difference between the powers contracted on long term basis with plants set up outside the state either by central sector or private sector companies and the PPAs signed for procurement of power with private companies setting up plants in the state so mission appears to have been secured well before 2015 without investing even a penny in any project. The question is what will be doing in the next 5 years whereas generation is concerned? In the past, the management of repeatedly argued in favour of setting up plants under state sector and has mentioned it many a times that "setting up of thermal plants in the state sector is in the interest of the state" but surprisingly this commitment...
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...Amsterdam MBA Operations & Supply Chain Management Bayonne Packaging, Inc. HBS brief case 4420 March 5, 2013 Gulcin Askin Michelle Donovan Kivanc Ozuolmez Peter Tempelman 1 The answers in this report relate to the questions given in the document ‘Case 1: Bayonne Packaging, Inc.’ Question 1: Operations Performance of Bayonne Packaging 1A. How would you define the Operations Strategy of Bayonne Packaging? The operations strategy of a company is the prioritization of the five key performance measures: cost, quality, speed, dependability and flexibility. The president of Bayonne Packaging, Inc. indicates that the problems of the company are: they have incurred their first losses since 2001, there are complaints about quality and they are delivering late more often. The other department managers, except for the absent Finishing department manager, also indicate to the new vice president of operations that they have problems in their departments that relate to the performance measures dependability, quality and speed. Based on the priorities given by the key personnel of Bayonne Packaging we have determined the operations strategy of Bayonne Packaging to be as follows (key performance measures in descending order of importance: 1. Dependability 2. Quality 3. Speed 4. Costs 5. Flexibility 1B. How can Bayonne Packaging, Inc.’s Operations & Supply Chain performance be quantified? Per Key Performance Measure we have determined the following ways to...
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...The rapid increase of population is very threatening to the limited carrying capacity of our earth. Our ecological footprint already disastrous will become much more detrimental with the staggering population growth.1 Our ecological footprint is largely comprised of three main elements of consumption: food, wood, and land. However, components such as energy consumption also need to be accounted for.2 Food availability, to a great extent, determines the carrying capacity for every population of species. The growth of industrial agriculture has caused a tremendous increase in food production around the world.3 Be that as it may, these practises consist of mechanization and fertilization both of which are dependent on petroleum. The United States uses 12% of its oil intake on food production alone. As the amount of oil in the world begins to decrease, so will the production of food.4 As Thomas Robert Malthus quotes in his An Essay on the Principle of population, “... the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.” 5 Malthus explains that the production of food cannot keep up with the rapidly increasing population.6 Wood consumption includes all the paper, packaging, wood furniture and firewood that we use day after day. 7 This part of the ecological footprint also needs to include the wood products that an individual uses in the systems and organizations that support them. Today, the world’s consumption of ...
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...Question 1. What is the effect of changing lambda (λ) in the discrete model, and r in the continuous model? What is the effect of changing N0 in both models? (2 marks) When in discrete mode, a change in lambda (λ) will change the growth rate of the species. If λ increases, so does the growth rate and if λ decreases, as will the growth rate. However, the growth rate only increases if the number is above 1. 1 itself indicates no growth and below one is negative growth. The same principle applies to r. However, as apposed to 1, 0 is no growth while below 0 and above 0 is negative and positive growth, respectfully. Figure 1 and 2 show a stable, increasing and decreasing population for both continuous and discrete growth. Question 2. What are the differences between the discrete and continuous models of population growth? (2 marks) Discrete growth shows a type of growth in populations that have seasonal breeding seasons (Alstad, 2001). This means the percentage increase can be added after the season to the group. Continuous growth means that the growth of the population is continuously growing without seasons and has overlapping generations. An example of discrete growth is figure 1 and continuous growth in figure 2. Figure 1 Note that the dots are the changes in population after the previous, this graph could also show horizontal lines from one dot to the point in t matches with the above dot. The vertical line from the horizontal dot and dot further along t show the change...
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...tripling this capacity. Doug Smith, vice-president of sales, must decide if all or any of the machines should be converted to produce the coextruded foam cups that were recently developed by the company. Pertinent Facts: Industry and Market information: • The disposable cup industry serves the fast food, convenience store, and restaurant markets with hot and cold beverage containers. • Lily-Tulip is the second largest supplier of disposable cups to the food service industry in the United States and the largest in Canada. • The three largest competitors held over 50% market share between them, with the remainder split among hundreds of suppliers, none of whom was thought to hold more than a 5% market share. • Lily-Tulip has market share of approximately 15% with current production of paper (wax coated) and extruded foam cups. Table 1 identifies market share by product line and cup size. • Cup sizes ranged from 8 ounces to 48 ounces and were used to hold hot and cold beverages. • Generally, smaller cups were for hot beverages and the larger sizes for cold. 1 • A trend had emerged towards larger cups for hot beverages, primarily in the convenience store market. Table 2 presents 1984 industry demand. • While it is considered that the fast food and convenience store markets have matured, growth in cup usage is expected to mirror growth in the general population (1984 U.S. population growth rate was 0.89%i). • The industry has significant excess capacity due, in part...
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...Case Analysis Write-Up #1 Case Study: Tots-R-Us Questions: 1. Compute the cost of a single preschool class and a single birthday party using the current cost system. 2. Would you recommend that TRU continue to allocate the building-related costs only to the preschool program? What alternative allocation method would you suggest? Justify your answer. Ignore consideration of excess capacity discussed in question 3 below for this answer. Please discuss any additional information that you feel is needed. Based upon the information available to us we would not recommend that TRU continue to allocate all of the building-related costs to the preschool program only since doing so results in an inaccurate representation of the actual cost for both the preschool and birthday party segments of the business. The alternative cost allocation method that we believe if the most appropriate for TRU and therefore the one we would suggest that they should use would be the Step-Down Method as it will allocate the cost of one service department to the other service department. It will also define how indirect costs must be allocated to both the preschool service department and the birthday service department and the cost allocation would then be more accurate for each service provided. TRU is using a direct method of cost allocation which is less accurate than other methods that could be used, such as the Step-Down method. TRU has two departments that provide services within their business...
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...population grew fastest when: The moose population grew fastest when resources were in high abundance and it was at its largest. [5.6] Use a shape (like an arrow) to show me – The approximate carrying capacity of the moose population is 650. [6.1] – The notation “dN/dt” represents the “instantaneous change” in population size with respect to time. [6.2] – When the population size (N) is near the carrying capacity (K), K – N will be small and hence, (K-N)/K will also be small. The change in the population size through time (dN/dt) will therefore decrease and approach zero. This means that the population size stops changing as N gets closer to K. In the case when (N = K), the population is at its carrying capacity and it will no longer grow. Rewriting the right- hand side of the equation dN/dt = rmax N (K- N)/K substituting K for N is dN/dt = rmax N. The new version of the equation dN/dt = rmax N (K-N)/K when N = K. [6.3] - Fill in the following. dN/dt= 1, and the population will stop growing. . [7.2] - The shapes of the graph depicting the exponential growth of the moose population and the one on page 5 differs in shape. Graph on page 5 has an S shape and shows a smooth and neat curve of the population growing slowly and leveling off at its carrying capacity. Conversely the shape of the moose graph shows a sharp and...
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...Overconsumption and Overpopulation and their effect on the Environment The effect of overpopulation and over consumption on the environment has had a massive negative effect. Overpopulation is an undesirable condition where the number of existing human population exceeds the carrying capacity of Earth. We are now adding one billion people to the planet every 12 years. That's about 220,000 per day. (Howmany?.org) This makes overpopulation a big threat to our environment but the bigger issue is that we are not using our resources efficiently to solve the problem. The problem includes shortages of all our resources, war and social conflict, limits on personal freedom, overcrowding in large cities and the health and survival of other species. In the last fifty years, there have been a vast number of people and organizations rising up and speaking against this problem, searching for a solution to this detrimental issue. Howmany?.org is just one of many organizations that are empowering people to find the best population size for Earth. They do this through outreach and advocacy programs that are created to add population into conversations and get people thinking. While overpopulation is not the only cause of environmental problems, it is a root cause that people should be aware of. Growth in population, affluence, and technology are jointly responsible for environmental problems concerning overconsumption. We use technology to produce and gather most of our resources. ...
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...Approximate maximum population size the moose obtained was 930. 5.3 5.4 the exponential growth is approximately from 0 years to 20 years circles in pink. 5.5 The moose population grew fastest smallest. 5.6 The carrying capacity is approximately 600. 6.1 dN/dt represents instantaneous change in population size (N) over time (t). 6.2 When the population size (N) approaches the carry capacity (K) and N=K then the equation is rewritten like this dN = rmax K (K-K) dt K 6.3 Therefore when (N=K) then dN/dt = 0. When dN/dt = 0 then the population stops growing at its maxima per capita rate and stops growing. 7.1 7.2 In the workbook graph there isn’t a death phase before reaching (K) whereas in the simulated graph there is a short death period before stabilizing. Also in the work book the carrying capacity occurs at maximum population point while in the simulated graph the carrying capacity occurs below the maximum population point showing that the population decreased a little before reaching its carrying capacity. 7.3 The moose population is increasing at its rmax. It overshoots because food was abundant, they were storing a lot of body fat; therefore they were produce a lot of offsprings. 7.4 9.1 yes I did 9.2 The carrying capacity of moose was 695 Exercise 2 2.1 The moose population I predict will definitely shrink in the presence of their predator. 4.1 4.2 I would say decreases because the maximum population was in the 900 hundreds, but in...
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