Tripartism and Social Dialogue In Singapore Michael Heng International Labour Office, Bangkok 2008 ii Foreword This paper on tripartism and social dialogue in Singapore is intended to highlight Singapore‟s industrial relations system in general and, in particular, the extent to which industrial relations actors, social institutions and legislation are aligned through social and labour policies to create a sustainable climate of industrial peace and harmony that helps maintain
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Economics Abstract This thesis consists of three essays at the intersection of banking, corporate nance and macroeconomics. Unifying the essays are two themes: rstly a focus on how rms (Chapter 1 and Chapter 2) and individuals (Chapter 3) insure against, and react to, sources of macroeconomic risk; secondly the role of nancial institutions in the transmission of macroeconomic shocks. Turning to specics, Chapter 1 is a theoretical and empirical examination
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FDI in Vietnam Textile and Garment Industry INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale of the Seminar The trend of internationalization of economic life is getting stronger in the whole world, which requires each country to exploit its advantages and apply to their particular conditions. Internationalization is creating many opportunities and countless challenges to the prosperity of every country. We can confirm that no country can exist without participating in the process of regionalization and globalization
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Copenhagen Business School Cand. Merc. M. Sc. IBS - International Business Department of International economics and management, 15 June 2012 Strategic Analysis of the Geox Group Councellor: Bersant Hobdari, Copenhagen Business School Student name: Valeria Serra N. of pages: 79.7 Total n. of characters: 181,415 N. of characters (without figures): 165,415 N. of figures: 20 Executive Summary The purpose of this thesis is evaluating the sources of the extraordinary success of the Italian
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Koito Case Study Submitted by Weichao on March 12, 2011 Category: Business and Economics Words: 7841 | Pages: 32 Views: 160 Report this Essay 1. The Japanese corporate governance system differs vastly from the US system. Discuss corporate governance issues that may arise under the Japanese keiretsu system from the perspective of a) financiers b) owners c) suppliers and d) employees. A Japanese keiretsu is effectively a system of cooperation among various stakeholders. From the Japanese point
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capital and human resources. Government of Bangladesh is trying to create a favorable investment environment through introducing economic policies, incentives for investors, promoting privatization and so on. Therefore, the contribution of FDI is necessary in the enhancement of a country‟s economic growth. Researchers have marked FDI as an important factor in accelerating economic success and wealth of a country as well as a door in creating jobs, facilitating economy, and creating more competitive
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and the transformation of the prevailing conventional system to an Islamic one. Some of these questions reflect a desire to understand the basic concepts of Islamic finance while others relate to the creation of an enabling environment through macroeconomic reform and structural adjustments that are needed to establish the Islamic financial system and the complications that arise when an effort is made to bring about the transformation without creating such an environment. In this study, an attempt
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economic theory: the rational actor model, which holds that individual choice can be modeled as maximization of an objective function subject to informational and material constraints, and the incentive compatibility requirement, which holds that macroeconomic quantities must be derived from the interaction and aggregation of individual choices. However, we must abandon the notion that rationality implies self-regarding behavior and the assumption that contracts are costlessly enforced by third parties
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developing nations. India has seen tremendous growth in the FDI inflow over the past two decades. By 1997 India became the ninth largest recipient of such investment among the developing economies. Flow of capital and goods has impacted various macroeconomic variables of the economy. Export is one of the variables that gets affected due to the increase in FDI.It has seen exponential growth during the past two decades. For example, exports have grown over 11% per annum while growth in GDP grew only
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Global Business Cultural Analysis: Argentina Brittnay Glover Liberty University Dr. John Karaffa October 16, 2015 ABSTRACT The Global Business Cultural Analysis of Argentina analyzes the cultural perspectives of doing business in Argentina. Additionally, the paper explores several scholar articles that are associated with the major elements and dimensions of the culture in the Latin American region, how these elements and dimensions integrated by locals conducting business in the nation
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