Asia-Pacific Development Journal Vol. 8, No. 1, June 2001 ISSUES IN TAX REFORMS Azizul Islam* This paper seeks to describe the principles that have guided recent tax reforms in Asian developing countries. It critically examines the purported rationale underlying these reforms and raises some issues connected with these reforms. The paper first discusses the new direction of the perceived role of taxation as a macroeconomic tool and the principles which have formed the basis of recent tax
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April ALDI offering the ‘same for less’ value proposition Andrian Saputra Njonoriswondo Billy Qian Claudya Vici Yvonne Huang 17 Table of contents Introduction Australian Retail Industry Market Segmentation Product Differentiation Consumer Perception Cost Effective Strategy Potential Future Problems Conclusion Appendix References pg. 2 pg. 2 pg. 2,3 pg. 3 pg. 4 pg. 4,5 pg. 5,6 pg. 6 pg. 7 pg. 8,9 M A R K 1 0 1 2 M a r k e t i n g F u n d a m e n t a l s Introduction
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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Definition of international business International business involves commercial activities that cross national frontiers. It concerns the international movement of goods, capital, services, employees and technology; importing and exporting; cross-border transactions in intellectual property (patents, trademarks, know-how, copyright materials, etc.) via licensing and franchising; investments in physical and financial assets in foreign countries; contract manufacture or
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Economics: What is it? If someone asks you to define economics, what are you going to tell them? Without running to your book, let’s look at the word eco-nomics itself. The prefix ‘eco’ from the Latin word ‘oeco’ refers to household and ‘omics’ is a general term for a broad discipline of science which analyses certain variables. So the word economics can be defined as: ‘...A social science that studies how individuals, governments, firms and nations make choices on allocating scarce resources
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identification process. Established in 1950s in the UK, Heblon provides high quality wooden furniture in traditional manufacturing industry. After several decades of development, it currently has 250 employees, and relies on individual craftsmanship and labour intensive production processes. Heblon achieved sales revenues of £10 million in the previous year and occupied small market share of the furniture industry. However, the development of Heblon has been affected by some internal and external risks
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Monroe College School of Business and Accounting Professor: Mauricia Thomas-Francis …………………………………………………………………………………………………. Course Name: Human Resource Management Course Number & Section #: MG211-201 Submitted By: Nita D. Pascal Student ID#: 0156616 Date of Course: Spring 2014 Semester: August 2, 2014 Title of Assignment: Case Analysis: AFLAC Insurance Table of Contents Executive Summary In light of the current economic situation, employee benefits have become a major concern
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Introduction Britain may be regarded as at the leading position since the 17th century to the significance of its system of banking, and still remains among the financial centers of the world. The banking sector of UK focuses around five prominent global corporations i.e. Barclays, Lloyds, RBS and HSBC. These are the corporations who were able to reorganize early, in support of demutualization movement started in the mid 1980s. In addition to this, the institutes of United Kingdom are emphasized
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w w w e tr .X m eP CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS GCE Advanced Subsidiary Level and GCE Advanced Level e ap .c rs om MARK SCHEME for the October/November 2013 series 9708 ECONOMICS 9708/42 Paper 4 (Data Response and Essays – Supplement), maximum raw mark 70 This mark scheme is published as an aid to teachers and candidates, to indicate the requirements of the examination. It shows the basis on which Examiners were instructed to award marks. It does not indicate the details of the discussions
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138 172 209 239 274 303 335 367 401 430 454 478 507 Contents List of figures List of tables List of mini case studies Acknowledgements 1 Introduction to International Marketing Introduction The nature of international marketing Contextual determinants of international marketing Historical development Definition of international marketing Relationship with other business fields A theoretical framework for international marketing Approaches to internationalization Factors causing internationalization
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With the rapidly increasing rate of migration – a by-product of a more globalised world – human traffickers have greater opportunities to exploit those who migrate to other States. First, human trafficking is driven by poverty and international productivity/living quality disparities. Second, the existing humanitarian and/or suppressive approaches cannot solve the problem. Third, the best option for solving the problem is setting up the ‘reciprocal direct investment’ (RDI) scheme between leading and
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