Distinguished speakers, guests, ladies and gentlemen, Assalamu ‘alaikum and a very good morning. 1. It is my pleasure to welcome all of you to our 5th International Islamic Capital Market Forum. I wish to express my appreciation to all of you for taking time off from your busy schedules to join us today. To all our distinguished speakers, thank you for graciously accepting our invitation to share your thoughts and views at this Forum. 2. Much has been said and continues to be said about the foothold
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Paula Bent Research Paper 12/19/2010 The Global AIDS crisis and Health Care in the Developing World The global epidemic of HIV/AIDS is rapidly becoming the worst infectious-disease catastrophe in recorded history, surpassing the bubonic plague of the fourteenth century and the influenza epidemic of 1917, each of which killed some 20 million people. (1) The HIV/AIDS epidemic, first identified in 1981, remains among the greatest threats to global health. (2) AIDS has an unprecedented impact on
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conflict. The Effects of War and Peace on Foreign Aid Both the aspects of war and peace have heavily influenced the attraction and distribution of foreign aid among the sub-Saharan developing countries (Anderson, 1999). This paper seeks to evaluate the positive and negative effects of the two aspects on foreign aid on a specific sub-Saharan country, Rwanda. It also intends to assess the actions that the leadership of Rwanda have undertaken in terms of using foreign aid to relieve severe problems that
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exceeded the legally permissible rate, which was a clear violation of the usury law. However, the penalty that the plaintiff sought was the forfeiture of the entire interest of the principal, which was not the issue on hand because the “interest” in discussion referred to the late payment only and should be compensated as such because the monetary transactions can be
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Global Financial Crisis The global financial crisis, brewing for a while, really started to show its effects in the middle of 2007 and into 2008. Around the world stock markets have fallen, large financial institutions have collapsed or been bought out, and governments in even the wealthiest nations have had to come up with rescue packages to bail out their financial systems. On the one hand many people are concerned that those responsible for the financial problems are the ones being bailed out
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the major part, we will evaluate the sources of the U.S. productivity and economic growth in terms of key economic indicators and success factors, including the government role. Finally, we will analyze the causes of the U.S. financial and economic crisis, commenting on the reforms undertaken and their impact to date. 1. Evaluate the forces underlying U.S. adaptability to changing economic forces. Key forces of the US adaptability to changing economic forces were low-wage competition from foreign
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Corporate Governance | Should accountability, transparency and effective risk management be regarded as the most important principles of Corporate Governance? | | What actually corporate governance is and how it actually affects a corporation? What are the main players playing a part in corporate governance? These are the questions one must understand in order to see the role of principles like accountability, transparency and effective risk management in corporate governance. So corporate
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responsibility fit into the equation (if at all)? Can you cite examples of companies that took the profit-maximization mandate too far at the expense of society as a whole? Respond RE: Class-- Ligia Filion 8/31/2011 10:17:03 PM A prime example of investment maximization would be the Real Estate Market in 2006- 2007. A lot of the Real Estate owners took advantage of the mortgage boom and the over priced homes that were being sold. The inflation of prices made homeowners who were
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report will review the precarious positions of Citigroup Inc. and Merrill Lynch at the beginning of the subprime mortgage crisis. Both companies had been hit hard by the recent economic problems, and both had recently hired new management in an attempt to navigate through these difficult times. Since risk management failures were viewed as the primary catapult of the crisis, the thinking was that managers with risk management experience would be able to introduce innovative techniques to improve
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especially the oil sector whose contribute the largest portion of income in the Nigerian economy. Keywords: Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Oil Price, Oil Export and Domestic Consumption. Introduction Current Global Crisis started as a financial crisis but now a Global Economic Crisis. The crisis is unprecedented in severity of credit contraction (credit crunch & capital crunch). The
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