includes the GEICO Insurance Company, Buffalo News newspaper, See’s Candies, and the Nebraska Furniture Mart. They commonly earn 30%–50% per year on invested capital. This is astonishingly good performance in light of the 10%–12% return typical of industry in general. A second and equally important contributor to Berkshire’s outstanding performance is a handful of substantial holdings in publicly traded common stocks such as The American Express Company, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wells Fargo & Company
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A HANDBOOK FOR VALUE CHAIN RESEARCH Prepared for the IDRC by Raphael Kaplinsky and Mike Morris* We are grateful to colleagues in both our individual institutions and in the Spreading the Gains from Globalisation Network (particularly those participating in the Bellagio Workshop in September 2000) for discussions around many of the issues covered in this Handbook and also to Stephanie Barrientos, Jayne Smith and Justin Barnes. An Important Health Warning or A Guide for Using this Handbook
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tons of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas mixed with unknown other gasses from a chemical plant owned and operated by Union Carbide (India) Limited, a partly-owned subsidiary of the US-based Union Carbide Corporation, caused one of the highest-casualty industrial accidents of the 20th century. At least 2000 people died immediately and another 200,000 to 300,000 suffered respiratory and other injuries of varying severity. Property damage consisted mainly of contamination to nearby areas by various chemical
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____________________________________________________________________________ A Look at Tourism: Cuba’s Hotel and Resort Industry ------------------------------------------------- Graziella Pastor, Frida Leibowitz, Anthony Eid, Rachel Lauren Abstract Within the past century, Cuba’s economy has evolved drastically in order to meet its changing political atmosphere. At this moment, Cuba’s economy is potentially now the ripest for investment since it is the most
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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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To what extent has China and India effected Japan`s economy between the years of 2009 -2014? Mejia Restoration. In ancient Japan the Tokugwa Period, commonly known as the Edo Period occurred between1603-1863. During this time economic and political stability was maintained in the country under the rule of the Shogunate (1). The Shogunate refers to a military style dictatorship, in which the Emperor granted high ranking military commanders the ability to control and wield power over Japan.
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ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY Y U K O A O YA M A J A M E S T. M U R P H Y SUSAN HANSON KEY CONCEPTS IN key concepts in economic geography The Key Concepts in Human Geography series is intended to provide a set of companion texts for the core fields of the discipline. To date, students and academics have been relatively poorly served with regards to detailed discussions of the key concepts that geographers use to think about and understand the world. Dictionary entries are usually terse and restricted
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chemist of the Agriculture Department, served as twin driving forces for Congressional passage of the acts. To be sure, Wiley and Roosevelt did not act alone. The 1906 legislation resulted from years of efforts by politicians, government officials, industry representatives, and “muckraking” journalists.
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