...The Psychology of Genocide Of all of the monumental events in history, there is perhaps no incident as fascinating from a social psychology perspective as the Holocaust. An entire nation of people took part, to some degree, in an ideology of hatred and a policy of murder towards distinct ethnic groups. An estimated 13 million people were murdered as a result of these policies, 6 million of whom were Jewish, the most hated group of all. And all of this took place in one of the most advanced nations in the world! While the Holocaust was happening, the world was largely ignorant to what was going on. In the years following Germany’s defeat, however, the grisly details began to come to the surface. A Diary of a Young Girl was published in 1950, and is the diary of a girl named Anne Frank. Anne Frank along with her family hid from the Nazi’s during their occupation of Amsterdam. One of her protectors, Miep Gies, was later interviewed in the documentary Dear Kitty: Remembering Anne Frank. From these sources we can gather information on all the people involved, not just in Anne Franks case, but in occupied Holland as a whole. This information is rich in the concepts of social psychology, as we can study the victims, the perpetrators, the bystanders, and the rebels. In this paper, we will examine why everyone involved in Anne Franks hiding and death acted the way they did, and what may have motivated them to do so. The main perpetrators used persuasion and stereotyping to achieve...
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...Population-Control-Policies and their Implications for Economic Growth in China Bachelor’s Thesis supervised by the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich Prof. Dr. Fabrizio Zilibotti to obtain the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Economics Author: Noemi Schramm Course of Studies: Economics Closing date: August 17, 2011 Abstract This bachelor thesis is giving an overview on previously performed research how family-planning-policies in China (explicitly the so-called One-Child-Policy) have affected economic growth since 1979 and tries to give possible predictions and forecasts on how it could affect economic growth until 2050 through critical model analysis. The Solow model gives theoretical answers but also yields analytical results through calculations subject to different population development scenarios (low, middle, high growth rates). The dependency ratio as a measurement of population age structure is analyzed and implemented into the Solow model to help understand the influence of family-planning-policies. It is shown that the One-Child-Policy affected heavily the last 32 years of China’s economic development and will continue to affect its future, but according to the calculations in this paper, the impact changes from a positive one to a negative one. Acknowledgements I would like to thank Professor Fabrizio Zilibotti for his supervision and for giving me the opportunity to write my thesis at his chair. Especially I would like to thank Yikai Wang for...
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...Economics and Policy Studies, Brunei. ABSTRACT The objective of this paper is to assess the impact of trade liberalization on Bangladesh economy between the periods 1980 to 2010. This research analyzes the achievements of the economy in terms of important variables such as growth, inflation, export and import after trade liberalization. The paper uses simple Ordinary Least Square (OLS) technique as methodology for empirical findings. The analysis clearly indicates that GDP growth increased consequent to liberalization. Trade liberalization does not seem to have affected inflation in the economy. The quantitative analysis also suggests that greater openness has had a favourable effect on economic development. Both real export and imports have increased with greater openness. Liberalization policy certainly improves export of the country which eventually leads higher economic growth after 1990s. The findings of this study can be an interesting example for trade liberalization policy study in developing countries. KEYWORDS Trade liberalization, economic growth, developing countries, Bangladesh economy, OLS technique, openness, export, import, inflation 1. INTRODUCTION Like many developing countries, the primary focus of policies in Bangladesh is to obtain high and sustainable growth. However, to achieve and maintain a higher growth rate, policy makers need to understand the determinants of growth as well as how policies affect growth. Trade liberalization policy in 1990 opened...
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...Joan of Arc -- the seventeen-year-old peasant girl, who, as she said herself, "did not know ‘A’ from ‘B’, " but who, in a year and a month, crowned a reluctant king, rallied a broken people, reversed the course of a great war, and shoved history into a new path --what are we to make of her? The people who came after her in the five centuries since her death tried to make everything of her: demonic fanatic, spiritual mystic, naive and tragically ill-used tool of the powerful, creator and icon of modern popular nationalism, adored heroine, saint. She insisted, even when threatened with torture and faced with death by fire, that she was guided by voices from God. Voices or no voices, her achievements leave anyone who knows her story shaking his head in amazed wonder.’ Joan was born into a poor common family in the peasant village of Domrémy in the French province of Lorraine in 1412. She grew up a simple but unusually devout farm child during the height of the Hundred Years’ War. Disaster after disaster befell her native France -- the English invaders and their Burgundian allies conquered and occupied the northern half of France including Paris. Dauphin Charles VII, the rightful but un-crowned king of France, set up the remnants of his royal court at the town of Chinon. From here, this weak monarch of questionable competence tried to rule over the unoccupied rump of France. Starting in May, 1428, Joan, claiming that God was directing her through the saints, repeatedly approached...
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...familiar story. Children around the world have been tested, and the United States is in trouble. A US Department of Education report1 from March concludes that “without substantial and sustained changes to the educational system, the United States will relinquish its leadership in the twentyfirst century”. The panic plays out in countless newspaper articles and policy reports, recently leading to legislative responses such as the America COMPETES Act, which contains a list of measures to boost average mathematics and science test scores. A country’s place in the new global economy is, according to these reports, determined by its rank in the maths- and science-score hierarchy. Following this reasoning, one would conclude that the US economy is threatened not only by Japan and South Korea, but also by Finland, Singapore, New Zealand and the Czech Republic. The rankings that engender these fears are primarily based on two tests administered to middle- and high-school students since 1995: the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Improving education should be a priority for the nation, but erroneous interpretations of international test scores may drive economic and competitiveness policy in the wrong direction. When we consider that education testing shows formidable US strength as the largest producer of top-scoring students alongside a significant problem at the bottom...
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...FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO WORKING PAPER SERIES Macro-Finance Models of Interest Rates and the Economy Glenn D. Rudebusch Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco January 2010 Working Paper 2010-01 http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/papers/2010/wp10-01bk.pdf The views in this paper are solely the responsibility of the authors and should not be interpreted as reflecting the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco or the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Macro-Finance Models of Interest Rates and the Economy Glenn D. Rudebusch∗ Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Abstract During the past decade, much new research has combined elements of finance, monetary economics, and macroeconomics in order to study the relationship between the term structure of interest rates and the economy. In this survey, I describe three different strands of such interdisciplinary macro-finance term structure research. The first adds macroeconomic variables and structure to a canonical arbitrage-free finance representation of the yield curve. The second examines bond pricing and bond risk premiums in a canonical macroeconomic dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. The third develops a new class of arbitrage-free term structure models that are empirically tractable and well suited to macro-finance investigations. This article is based on a keynote lecture to the 41st annual conference of the Money, Macro, and Finance Research Group...
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...Competition Policy Newsletter Standard‑setting from a competition law perspective by Ruben Schellingerhout (1) FeAtured ArtICle Competition rules to ensure that the benefits of standards materialise Competition regulators pay attention to standard setting because legally a standard constitutes an agreement between companies. However, the Com‑ mission has always taken the view that there are also clear benefits associated with standard‑setting. As early as 1992 the Commission outlined this gen‑ eral point. (2) In its 2001 Horizontal Guidelines it therefore provided guidance on when it considered standard setting to be unproblematic. Since the adoption of the 2001 standardisation Guidelines, a number of issues have come to the fore. It became increasingly clear that malpractic‑ es were occurring in the standard setting process which could lead to serious distortions of com‑ petition. (3) In response, the Commission revised the Guidelines in 2010 to provide more guid‑ ance to standards bodies on how they could de‑ sign their rules so as to avoid restrictive effects on competition. (4) This purpose of this article is to provide the full picture on standard‑setting. It starts by outlining why competition law is concerned at all by stand‑ ards. It then covers in more detail some of the is‑ sues that have arisen. The extended guidance in the revised Guidelines is then fleshed out in more de‑ tail. Finally, some thought is given to the future of standardisation. Standards have a positive...
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...INTERNSHIP REPORT ON “MONEY LAUNDERING AND ITS PREVENTION POLICY: A CASE OF CITY BANK LIMITED” Submitted To: Mr.Shawkat Kamal Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator, Executive MBA BRAC Business School, BRAC University Submitted By Tarek Amin Chowdhhury ID: 08104130 Department of Business Administration BRAC Business School, BRAC University Date of Submission: 22nd April, 2012 INTERNSHIP REPORT ON “MONEY LAUNDERING AND ITS PREVENTION POLICY: A CASE OF CITY BANK LIMITED” Table of Contents Letter of transmittal ............................................................................................................... i) Acknowledgement ................................................................................................................ ii) Executive Summary ............................................................................................................ iii) Acronyms ............................................................................................................................ iv) Chapter 1 ..................................................................................................................................1 Introduction of the report ........................................................................................................1 1.1 Origin of the report ...........................................................................................................2 1.2 Objective of the report ......
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...SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTING: THE MATURING OF FINANCIAL ANALYSIS Brenda Plant Can one get rich by being responsible? Yes, one can: “To look beyond the investment bottom line does not imply forgetting profits,” says Brenda Plant. To help shed light on this issue, she reviews the state of socially responsible investment in Canada, the evidence regarding its economic performance and the strategies available to implement it. She observes that the financial community remains skeptical and ill-prepared to provide that type of service and that, overall, Canada is lagging behind. To keep pace with other jurisdictions world wide, she recommends that Canada amalgamate the multitude of securities regulators into a single national body. Peut-on à la fois s’enrichir et être socialement responsable ? Oui, croit Brenda Plant : « On peut voir au-delà du rendement d’un placement sans nécessairement renoncer aux profits », dit-elle. Pour éclairer la question, elle analyse l’état des investissements socialement responsables au Canada, leur rendement et les stratégies favorisant leur implantation. Les milieux financiers restent sceptiques à leur égard et mal préparés pour offrir ce service, observe-t-elle, et, d'une manière générale, le Canada accuse en la matière du retard par rapport à d’autres pays. Pour rattraper ce retard, elle propose du fusionner en un seul organisme national la multitude des organismes de réglementation du commerce des valeurs mobilières. T he recent crisis in confidence...
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......................7 VoIP Monitoring Tools ............................10 VoIP Security .......................................13 Call Centers and IP ................................15 Voice Over Wireless LANs .......................18 RESOURCES QuickStudy:Session Initiation Protocol ......21 Emerging Technology:..........................23 IP Videoconferencing IPCommunications Voice-over-IP is changing the way we think of,and manage,communications. Compliments of Computerworld Executive Bulletin IP Communications 2 Converged IP networks allow for a wide variety of new applications to ride on the network and interact, including IP telephony,audioconfer- encing,videoconferencing,unified messaging and presence technolo- gies (like chat). Getting Started Corporate America is just starting down the road to voice-over-IP (VoIP)communications,though every analyst says it¡¯s just a matter of time before it becomes main- stream.¡°By 2009,the installed base of IP [communications]equipment will dominate the enterprise land- scape,but that¡¯s still a few years away,¡±says Robert Rosenberg,presi- dent of Insight Research Corp.in Boonton,N.J. There are several reasons why VoIP hasn¡¯t been an overnight suc- cess.Companies started testing the waters of VoIP in 2001,but there were serious concerns about voice sound quality that slowed the mo- mentum (those concerns have been largely resolved).Moreover,one of the key reasons for implementing VoIP was...
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...The DNA of the CFO A study of what makes a chief financial officer 2010 Our thanks to nearly 700 CFOs who participated in the study and, in particular, to those who shared their insights and personal experience of the role in a series of interviews: Giacomo Baizini CFO, Evraz Ben Noteboom CEO, Randstad Srikanth Balachander CFO, Bharti Airtel Caroline Raggett Managing Director, London financial officers’ practice, Russell Reynolds Associates Evelyn Bourke CFO, Friends Provident Stephen Carver Media and crisis management expert, Cranfield School of Management Ian Dyson (formerly) CFO, Marks & Spencer Luigi Ferraris CFO, Enel Andy Halford CFO, Vodafone Simon Henry CFO, Royal Dutch Shell René Hooft Graafland CFO, Heineken Juha Laaksonen CFO, Fortum Patrick Regan CFO, Aviva Simon Ridley FD, Standard Bank Hans-Peter Ring CFO, EADS Sue Round Head of Investments, Ecclesiastical Robin J Stalker CFO, Adidas Firoz Tarapore CFO, Dubai Aerospace Enterprise Tim Tookey CFO, Lloyds Banking Group Rob Murray CFO, Coca-Cola Hellenic B Document title Additional text In this report Executive summary 2 Contributing to strategy 4 A broader business role 6 Core competencies remain key Future focus on stakeholder communication 10 12 and 18 The CFO’s contribution 14 Staging post or career destination? 20 A toolkit for the aspiring CFO 22 Demographics 26 What makes a CFO 28 ...
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...or gross output [5]. Until very recently, energy was rarely cited as one of the problems militating against the development of SMEs in Nigeria and elsewhere. This study is built on the argument that, unlike larger businesses, the establishment and operation of SMEs promotes economic development which by extension, boosts a country’s GDP number [6] (see Fig. 1). A separate study identifies this link (between SMEs and GDP) but could not establish if it is actually responsible for economic growth [7] while another study presents a decreasing link of 51%, 39% and 16% of GDP being produced by SMEs in high-income, medium income and low-income countries respectively [8]. Elsewhere, it has been confirmed that SMEs were responsible for pulling the US out of economic slump and can therefore, serve as any other economy’s talisman to economic growth [9], [10]. This study is also important because Nigerian SMEs account for some 95 per cent of formal manufacturing activity and 70 per cent of industrial jobs [11]. # UB Akuru# and OI Okoro+ + ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with the unabated epileptic power (electric) delivery which is seen to be periodic with a struggling...
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...'Club of Economics in Miskolc' TMP Vol. 8., Nr. 2., pp. 23-30. 2012. Green Accounting for Corporate Sustainability BETTINA HÓDI HERNÁDI ASSISTANT LECTURER e-mail: vgtbetti@uni-miskolc.hu SUMMARY Today, corporate sustainability is one of the greatest challenges facing companies. Therefore, this study aims to show how accounting, as the language of business and the source of information, can meet the criteria of sustainability. This article starts out by analysing the different approaches to corporate sustainability, then it proposes the reinterpretation of the most important accounting principle, the ‘going concern’ principle. In the following section it outlines the characteristics of accounting from the point of view of sustainability. Finally, it proposes ways of transforming green accounting, both in name and content, into sustainability accounting. Keywords: corporate sustainability; the ‘going concern’ principle; green accounting (environmental accounting); sustainability accounting Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) code: M41 INTRODUCTION According to the Brundtland Commission (1987, p. 43), “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of present generations without compromising the similar needs of future generations. The concept interprets sustainable economic, ecological and social development as a unity.” Today’s companies must also comply with the challenges stemming from this approach, and therefore they must also implement economic,...
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...Apex Adelchi Footwear Limited Annual Report CONTENTS Corporate Directory Notice of Annual General Meeting Financial Highlights Value Added Statement Report of the Directors Status of Securities and Exchange Commission Compliance Auditors’ Report to the Shareholders Balance Sheet Profit & Loss Account Cash Flow Statement Statement of Changes in Equity Notes to the Accounts 2 3 4 5 6 21 24 25 26 27 28 29 Apex Adelchi Footwear Limited Annual Report CORPORATE DIRECTORY BOARD OF DIRECTORS Syed Manzur Elahi Syed Nasim Manzur Munize Manzur Khasru Syed Gias Hussain Niaz Ahmed Choudhury Adelchi Sergio Samson H. Chowdhury Chairman Managing Director Director Director Director Director Independent Director Managing Director Deputy Managing Director & CFO Executive Director Executive Director Company Secretary Financial Controller General Manager General Manager Head of Human Resources General Manager MANAGEMENT TEAM Syed Nasim Manzur Syed Gias Hussain Abdul Momen Bhuiyan A.A. Mosaddeque S.M. Shahjahan Dilip Kajuri Atiqul Islam Syed Md. Mustaque Md. Mominul Ahsan Pradip Kanti Saha AUDITORS Shiraz Khan Basak & Co. Chartered Accountants TAX ADVISER Khandker Fazlul Quadir LEGAL ADVISER Muhammad Mohsen Rashid Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh BANKERS Janata Bank Limited Bank Asia Limited Prime Bank Limited City Bank Limited Bank Al Falah Limited REGISTERED OFFICE House No. 06, Road No. 137 Block - SE(D) , Gulshan-1 Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh Email:...
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...National Science Teachers Association Converting sunlight into other forms of energy: Using photovoltaic cells made from silicon alloys for solar power Author(s): Robert A. Lucking, Edwin P. Christmann and Robin Spruce Source: Science Scope, Vol. 34, No. 4, Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures (DECEMBER 2010), pp. 52-55 Published by: National Science Teachers Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/43182959 Accessed: 21-04-2016 08:54 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. National Science Teachers Association is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Science Scope This content downloaded from 103.4.92.54 on Thu, 21 Apr 2016 08:54:57 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms ^mSÜtrek Converting sunlight into other forms of energy: Using photovoltaic cells made from silicon alloys for solar power by Robert A. Lucking, Edwin P. Christmann, and Robin Spruce Photovoltaic cells may one day surround our ence curriculum springs from new concerns about how we power our homes...
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