...East African Investment Trends leading to higher returns for East African portfolios. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to be less comprehensive but more general about the trends that are developing in the East African Community expected to contribute to above average investment returns in both the short and long-term. While the information provided serves as a base of knowledge and introduction to the region, there is an expansive amount of information related to the topics below through the World Bank, the African Development Bank Group, African Investment Associations, and numerous periodicals. Specific information on privatizations is available at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency’s PrivatizationLink. Introduction Africa is a dynamic landmass. Home to some of the world’s richest and poorest people in the world, this little explored continent has a unique story and seen a struggling path of development leaving more than 600 million inhabitants living on less than $2 a day PPP. Although much of Africa is, developmentally speaking, several generations behind the United States and other western nations, there is reason to believe that returns from human and physical infrastructure, foreign direct investment, and international aid organizations will set the stage for sustainable high growth opportunities in the future. While the continent as a whole shares in the struggles for development, the size of the landmass is four times that of the US and is by no means...
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...MANAGEMENT / EVENT MARKETING - ENTRY LEVEL - TRAINING PROVIDED AMG- SUFFOLK COUNTY Apply Now >> | Save it | Email It | Print it | | Report this job | Job Snapshot Location : ISLIP / EAST ISLIP / WEST ISLIP / BAYSHORE Loading map ... This push pin is only accurate to city level. It does not reflect the exact job location. Other Pay : Guaranteed Weekly Pay! Employee Type : Full-Time/Part-Time Industry : Advertising Other Great Industries Sales - Marketing Manages Others : Not Specified Job Type : Customer Service Entry Level Management Experience : 0 to 2 year(s) Relocation Covered : No Post Date : 10/4/2012 Contact Information Contact : DANIELLE Ref ID : MEMEL Description ARE YOU READY TO START A CAREER AND NOT JUST A JOB? If you are looking for an ENTRY LEVEL CAREER, If you are looking for an EXCITING CAREER, If you are looking for UNLIMITED GROWTH, LOOK NO FURTHER!!! ENTRY LEVEL OPENINGS IN THE FOLLOWING: ADVERTISING EVENT MARKETING CAMPAIGN DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGEMENT COLLEGE GRADS / INTERNS WELCOME TOP REASON WHY COLLEGE GRADS LIKE AMG! AMG provides the opportunity for people to get their foot in the door entry level and jump start their career! Our hands-on approach allows us to train candidates with little to no experience and catapult their levels of confidence and experience to the next level! We are looking for future leaders to grow into a management...
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...Upon returning to Burleson, Clarkson was encouraged by her friends to audition for the inaugural season of the reality television series American Idol: The Search for a Superstar in May 2002. Despite receiving a golden ticket in the series premiere, Clarkson made her first appearance during the second episode. Clarkson went on to win the competition on September 4, 2002 at the then Kodak Theatre (now Dolby), earning 58% of the votes against runner-up Justin Guarini and without being sent into the bottom three throughout the season. In an interview in 2012, Clarkson referred the inaugural season as "ghetto", explaining: "On our season we were like kids in camp. Nobody knew what to do. The show was ever-changing every day. They did one season of Pop Idol in the UK but America is a very different market. They dropped us off in a mall and said find some clothes to wear on national television. I am maybe the closest to white trash you can get. What do I buy? White pants I guess? I definitely looked like a cocktail waitress."[28] Immediately after winning American Idol, Clarkson was signed to a record deal with RCA Records, 19 Recordings, and S Records by talent manager Simon Fuller, who created American Idol; and music mogul Clive Davis, who was slated to executive-produce her debut album. Clarkson was later accused of working with a record company prior to winning American Idol. American Idol's rules stated that a contestant was not allowed to compete on the program if they had been...
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...A Cranbury man named Robert Smithers, the CEO of Miercom, a technology company based in East Windsor that test, reviews and analyzes technology products is scheduled to appear in court on April 1, 2013 to face charges of harassment and stalking for allegedly sending threatening emails and online messages to his co-worker named Beth Harrison. She alleges that she received a string of emails between January 31, 2012 and February 23, 2012. Harrison said the two were members of a sexual fetish website and initially exchanged friendly e-mail, but then she decided to block Smithers’ access to her and he somehow obtained her personal e-mail and began sending messages anonymously. Harrison said that although the sender at first seemed harmless she was wary because the e-mails, were sent to a private address she had not shared with anyone. When she asked how sender, who signed the e-mail as Rob, got her address, she said the messages grew more hostile and threatening. She was afraid he would find her address online and come to her house, she said. Harrison sent him a cease and desist letter, but he continued to send messages and his tone became more aggressive, she said. It took a year, Harrison said, to investigate the messages and bring charges against Smithers. She even hired a private investigator to help. Harrison said the Cranbury police were slow to investigate the harassment and said they did so only after she took the matter to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office. After...
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...“What recommendations do you propose for the strategic development of the University of East Anglia in existing and new markets from now to 2018?” 12th Nov 2009 INTRODUCTION With the rapid socio-economic development and national policies tilt on education, strategic management at the university became increasingly important. Some schools use strategic management in facing the challenges and catch the opportunities brought by environmental changes to earn improvements and thus to achieve a historic leap forward. Competition exists in every field not only in similar businesses, but also in other industries that offering competing products or services (Stacey 2007). The only way to surge ahead of competitors is to have new approaches in the competition. Strategic management principles of the institution must be innovative and creative. It is important because all the organizations are trying to employ traditional methods and this can mean a closer competition level. This essay will discuss the main strategies in existing and new markets of the University of East Anglia under the current situation of UEA in the whole UK educational industry. New market space New market space is the creation or reinvention of existing products in such a way that it must appeal to the existing customers as well as a whole new group of customers. The products offered must be unique in every aspect and it should make the organization...
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...1. The documentary Brave New World discusses East German justification for the building of the Berlin Wall. Compare and contrast the description in the documentary to the primary document “1962 Brochure Defending the Berlin Wall.” The brief understanding people could learn from the documentary is that the life in East Berlin was pretty hard. As in the early years, the east section of Berlin was under Stalin’s control. It turns out that currently East Berlin was governed under communist. The primary document “1962 Brochure Defending the Berlin Wall” is more like a self-defense from the German Democratic Republic. By answering ten questions, it gives us a view about how German Democratic Republic was seeing their action, which was built up the Berlin Wall. After the Berlin Airlift, two different parties were formed. They were the German Federal Republic, represented the western allies, which was better known as the West Germany; and the German Democratic Republic, which was the response given by Soviet Union, better known as the East Germany. While the West Berlin always has better living condition and much more freedom, people from East Berlin were trying to escape all the time. These people, who escaped from East Berlin, were highly qualified workers which worth nothing to West Berlin but were very important to East Berlin. As this population flow happened all the time, German Democratic Republic decided to take an action. At the summer of 1961, German Democratic Republic...
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...time of Muhammad’s travel to Mecca in 613, Islam was rapidly spreading. Islam spread across Europe and Asia. Yet, soon Muslims were starting to get persecuted, and so, some Muslims migrated to both West and East Africa. In East Africa it originally spread to Abyssinia in the year 613. And from there it spread farther. Some parts prospered, others faltered. Many of the Muslims traveled from Arabia across the Red Sea to the coast of East Africa. Muslims eventually settled down and created homes in East Africa. They started interacting with other cultures and religions through trade. They traded goods and ideas. Some cultures and religions accepted and got along with the Muslims, while others did not. There were wars, and forced conversions,...
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...marketing research proposal for East Midlands Trains The purpose of this document is to present a study of the opportunities East Midland Trains have and recommend an initial marketing research proposal which addresses a particular problem to improve the company’s competitive position. East Midlands Trains is a British train operating company owned by Stagecoach group it was formed on 11th November 2007 in Derby. The company provides service to passengers mainly travelling to and from London and the east Midlands such as Lincolnshire, South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Northamptonshire. The current franchise which lasted 7 years runs until April 2015 with the possibility of an extension until 2017 but nothing has been confirmed as if yet. The report will cover a variety of issues that East Midlands Trains currently face. The report critically analysis the external environment which the company operates in and how it affects them, analysis of the organisation internal capabilities, evaluation of their marketing strategies and tactical response, discussion on possible implementation, control and monitoring issues and recommendations for future marketing planning. The analysis carried out consists primarily of secondary research collected from the internet, books and journals. A limitation that affected the report was that we were not able to carry out primary research as we were strictly advised not to contact East Midland Trains directly to gather...
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...NEW YORK. New York attract peopl from all over. Get on a subway in New York and look at the newspapers that peopl around you are reading . One person is reading a newspaper in Spanish , anouther in Chinese, yet others in Arabic , Russian , Italian , Yiddish, and French . New York was always a city of immigrants. It still is . The are 5 boroughs in New York - Manhaptan , Brooklyn , Queens , the bronx , and Staten Island. Brooklyn alone has so many people that if it were a separate city , it would be the fourth largest in the United States. Manhattan Geography. Manhattan is an island just 13 miles long and 2 miles wide . It is the centre of American finance, advertising , art theatre, publishing , fashion - and much more. The borough of Manhatten is what most people think of New York, one of the most exciting cities in the world. Manhattan is divided into the East Side and the West Side. The dividing line is Fifth Avenue. So, for example , East 47th Street begins at Fifth Avenue, as does West 47th Street. Manhattan is also divided , wuth less exactnes, into Lower (Downtown), Midtown and Upper (Up-town) Manhattan. As you go North, or uptown, the street numbers get higher. Lower Manhatta refers to street numbers below 14th Street and Central Park, and Upper Manhattan to the renaming, northern, part of the island. The Financial District . The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle Manhattan. To protect themselves from attacs...
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...------------------------------------------------- THE CHANGING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT - LB5228 ASSIGNMENT TASK 2 KARTHIK NAMANI 12806313 KARTHIK NAMANI 12806313 An essay On: The rise of South East Asia and the effect of China Submitted to: Professor Chris Leggett An essay On: The rise of South East Asia and the effect of China Submitted to: Professor Chris Leggett The rise of South-east Asia and the effect of China Contents I, Introduction II, Body 1. Literature review: 2. South-east Asia Economic potentials 3. South-east Asia recent Economic performance 4. The likelihood to become significant players in the global economy Prospects and assessments 5. Implication on global economic III, Conclusion I, Introduction Asia is the most dynamic region in the world economy at present. The development of Asia is twice the rate when compared to the other regions. The policy orientation, which stresses free movement of capital, goods and services across the national boundaries are the reasons for the growth which is possible now. The economic efficiency and transfer of technology which foster shifts in productions and comparative advantages are the results of the enhancement. (Chong) Because of the Global Financial Crisis, Southeast Asia has been the Gold rush modern- day as international companies clamor to get a piece of the action. As the major part of the young population of 600million and the increasing middle class people are the...
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...Abolition and the Lasting Effects in East Africa Unlike the Atlantic world, slavery in East Africa looked a little different. Slavery in Africa portrayed a complex use of labor, the exercise of rights in person, and of exploitation and coercion tempered by negotiation and accommodation. However the most common features on slavery in East Africa is the fact that it varies overtime and place. For instance, according to Miers and Roberts, “Slaves might be menial field workers, downtrodden servants, cherished concubines, surrogate kin, trusted trading agents, high officials, army commanders, ostracized social group dedicated to a deity…( 5). Perhaps the largest difference between slavery in East Africa versus slavery in the Atlantic world or the new world was the people who regulated slave trade. It is popularly known in African history that the British, French, Germans and the Spaniards played significant roles in the extrapolation of African people and their resources in the slave trade and, later, colonialism. However in East Africa, those who were in power were the Arab who, similar to the European colonial powers, found Africa to be abundant in profitable resources and sought to acquire the resources through free and forced slave labor in East Africa. Much like their European counterparts, the Arabs conducted slavery in the same repressive manner. In defining slavery, Frederick Cooper, in his book “Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of Africa” writes, “When comparing slavery...
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...the lives of West and East Germans? Are East Germans more free now? How would you explain the reasons for the phenomen of "Ostalgia" (people longing back to the former DDR) that is nowadays living in Eastern Germany? Why did I choose this topic? I think it is very interesting that after twenty years there are still so many problems with East Germany. Why there still is a higher unemployment rate in East Germany than in West Germany, and why people want to go back to the time of the Berlin wall (ostalgia). The fall of the Berlin wall influent the lives of the West and East Germans both on different ways where the East Germans got freedom what they never had before and West Germans got influence of new people of a new culture. But how can effect this still after 20 years? Why is there still such a difference between East and West, did not the western people though to easily that the East Germans will assimilate easy, did the East Germans got the time and the chance to build up a new life in reunited Germany? All those problems I think is very interesting, how people think and act. Proposition: They should never built a new Berlin wall, nobody will end happy than. You can understand on some way that people want to go back in time, because of the good things: education, health care. But the people forget that there was also the Stasi. East Germans needed maybe just when the wall fall down got more time to assimilate and got more help from the new government to give them...
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...EAST YORKSHIRE UNIVERSITY East Yorkshire University is a tertiary education establishment in Kingston, a city on the East coast of England. In recent years the organisation has undergone rapid and traumatic transformation, from a College of Higher Education to a Polytechnic, and now to a University. The reasons for these changes have been mainly political, central government wresting control of some higher level educational establishments from local authorities. However, this government inspired move resulted in the University losing £3.5m annual 'topping up' funds from the local authority, but also meant that the institution had the potential to be more flexible in its operations and offer serious cost effective competition to the older established Universities. The new Universities (formerly Polytechnics) operate basically on very high student/staff ratios and offer little in the way of serious academic research, hence their cost structures are somewhat lower than the older Universities, which generally operate on much lower student/staff ratios and attach much greater importance to research. When East Yorkshire University was a College of Higher Education it was organised on five different sites (one of them 35 miles away in Gormsby). Subsequent to the granting of Polytechnic status (in 1990) the institution was consolidated onto just three (all within walking distance of each other) and all located in close proximity to the University of Kingston (12,500 students)...
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...Topic: A study on Deliverance ltd. opening a new branch in South East London. Contents ........................................................................................................................1 Abstract ........................................................................................................................2 Statement of problem ...................................................................................................3 Introduction ..................................................................................................................4 Advantages of opening new branch in South East London .........................................6 Disadvantages of opening new branch in South East London .....................................7 Literature Review .........................................................................................................8 PEST analysis ...............................................................................................................9 SWOT analysis ............................................................................................................11 Michael Porters five forces ..........................................................................................13 Boston Consulting Group ............................................................................................15 Stakeholders Analysis ................................
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...EAST TIMOR’S STRATEGY FOR INDEPENDENCE East Timor is a country located on the island of Timor in the Malay Archipelago, north of Australia. The first Europeans arrived on the island in the fifteenth century, much of the settlers surprise, it was an island already divided internally into many tribes, between which there was an ongoing relentless war. The Timorese militancy in local languages is defined as 'funu' meaning war, fight or resistance; the Timorese never gave surrender and based there strategy for survival as a state on these factors. At the end of the sixteenth century, the first of the Portuguese people colonized the Timor-Leste territory as a result of fragile arrangements made with local tribal kings called 'Liurai'. However, colonizers could not feel free and safe on the island anywhere else than in the capital, Dili, as they led a fight against the new elite, which at the very beginning showed and fought a place of dominance and leadership. This meant that in some periods of colonization, East Timor in fact ruled itself. Even the Japanese whom occupied the island during World War II did not harness the Timorese, likewise, Indonesia did not subdued the population of Timor-Leste in 1976 during the annexation. The Timorese strategy for independence was to fight and not give in to those attempting to take away their country and freedom. East Timor at the time of the Portuguese colonization was a country in debt, or subsidized, meaning it was assisted...
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