LOCATION AND PEOPLE ATTRACTIVENESS FOR OUTSOURCING Offshoring, when a company conducts activities outside its country of origin, took off in the late 1990s, and was mainly driven by an increased need for large-scale IT operations. Currently, many large companies have large parts of their service operations offshore, and analysts expect that midsize and small companies will follow. For hosting countries, attracting offshore activities is an important manner of boosting its economy, attracting know-how
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Draft An End in Itself and a Means to Good Ends: Draft Why Income Equality is Important Arthur MacEwan[1] March 2009 “The social system is not an unchangeable order beyond human control but a pattern of human action.”—John Rawls (1971, p. 102) In recent years “poverty reduction” has become the watchword in development agencies, in international lending institutions, and among development economists generally. The focus on poverty reduction reached a
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influenced by the variation in asset prices. In another word, the variation in asset prices refer to the change in household's wealth. We call the causal effect of exogenous changes in wealth upon consumption behavior as the wealth effect (Karl E. Case, John M. Quigley and Robert J. Shiller, 2001). In daily life, the house and stock price represent the major wealth for household, and in my following paper, I will introduce how house and stock price changes will influence the aggregate economic activity
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TERM PAPER ON GREEN BANKING AND ITS PRACTICES IN BANGLADESH Submitted to: Mrs.Dipannita Battacharjee Assistant Professor Department of Marketing Studies University of Chittagong Submitted By: M.Ariful Aziz Kanon 4th Year, BBA (Hons.) ID-07304020 Session: 2006-2007 Department of Marketing Studies University of Chittagong. Date of Submission: …… July 2012 Introduction: Green Banking is no more new concept in today`s world.The concept
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enterprises, and represents a major function of the general business finance market – in which capital for different types of firms are supplied, acquired, and costed or priced. Capital is supplied through the business finance market in the form of bank loans and overdrafts; leasing and hire-purchase arrangements; equity/corporate bond issues; venture capital or private equity; and asset-based finance such as factoring and invoice discounting. Small & Medium Enterprises, commonly known as SMEs, are
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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
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Journal of Sustainable Development Studies ISSN 2201-4268 Volume 2 (2013), Number 2, 197-215 Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Economic Growth in Nigeria Oyelola, O. T. Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Yaba College of Technology, P.M.B 2011, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria Ajiboshin, I. O. Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Yaba College of Technology, P.M.B 2011, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria Raimi, L. (Corresponding author) Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Yaba College of Technology, P.M
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Table of content Page Introduction 1 Asian Contagion 1 Emerging Market Crises 3 Meltdown in Thailand
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and State Date Executive Summary HSBC bank is a financial institution, whose conceptualization age dates back to 1865 in Hong Kong. Commonly known as the HSBC Holdings plc, the multinational bank expanded and it opened other branches in several countries while offering financial and banking services. With its headquarters located in London, the bank is ranked as the fourth largest in the world. In Oman, however, the experienced problems within the bank are not what one would expect from a financial
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