elite almost always enjoys most of the benefits while most of the rest of the population suffers.The Occupy Wall Street protesters realize that our economic system is fundamentally unjust in many ways, but the problem is that most of them want to trade one form of collectivism for another. But our founding fathers never intended for us to have a collectivist system.Instead, they intended for us to enjoy a capitalist system where true competition and the free enterprise system would allow individuals
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strategies is offered. Next, building on emerging empirical evidence, open questions are identified and an agenda for research is proposed. KEYWORDS Reshoring Back-reshoring Near-reshoring Off-shoring Internationalization 1. Introduction In the last few years numerous manufacturing companies have announced the return of part of their off-shored production (either in-sourced or out-sourced) to their home countries. Industrial giants such as Caterpillar, Bosch, and Philips are featured among them, but also
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Vol. 5, No. 11 Asian Social Science Impact of Training on Earnings: Evidence from Pakistani Industries Zainab Javied Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi E-mail: zainab_javied2000@yahoo.com Asma Hyder (Corresponding author) Assistant Professor NUST Business School, Islamabad E-mail: baloch.asma@gmail.com Abstract Training and skills development play a vital role in individual’s productive capacity and are integral part of Human Resource Development (HRD). This study aims to examine the
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Strategy Objectives Assessment of the Tourism Board Role of Branding The world is witnessing all the countries trying to be the same infra structurally and through the quality of life. However the objectives for a country to promote trade, tourism and investment are best achieved through difference between all the countries. Countries should shoot questions to themselves asking why other countries would come for investing and for tourism rather than going to other countries. This
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SEARCA Agriculture & Development Discussion Paper Series No. 2007-1 Why Does Poverty Persist in the Philippines? Facts, Fancies, and Policies Arsenio M. Balisacan SOUTHEAST ASIAN REGIONAL CENTER FOR GRADUATE STUDY AND RESEARCH IN AGRICULTURE Science and education for agriculture and development Arsenio M. Balisacan SEARCA College, Los Baños, Laguna Tel/Fax: (63) 495362290 E-mail: post@agri.searca.org The SEARCA Agriculture and Development Discussion Paper Series aims to disseminate
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11. Understanding Development Theory In the Context of Social and Community Change by Michel Adjibodou[1] I. INTRODUCTION If you are fortunate enough to have walked the land and worked with the people of South Central Los Angeles in California, the mountains of Chiapas in Mexico, the plains of Tanga in Tanzania, the hills of Save in Benin, the streets of Hartford, Dorchester and Roxbury, the hills of Funyula in Western Kenya, one common characteristic you probably noticed is the
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Anthropology: A Definition Learning Objectives 1 1. Define anthropology as a discipline. 2. Enumerate and define the subdivisions of anthropology. 3. Outline the history of anthropology. 4. Discuss the research methods of anthropological research. 5. Explain the causes of culture shock. 6. Analyze the values of cultural relativism. 7. Identify the uses of cross-cultural comparison. After reading this chapter, you should be able to: iStockphoto/Thinkstock iStockphoto 8. Explain the basic
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1. India India never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history. It is the only society in the world which has never known slavery. India was the richest country on Earth until the time of the British in the early 17th Century Robert Clive’s personal wealth amassed from the blunder of Bengal during 1750’s was estimated at around £401,102 It has been estimated that the total amount of treasure that the British looted from India had already reached £1,000,000,000 (£1Billion) by 1901
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Network Security ISSC 340 Professor Vijay Venkatesh James Lange 08/13/2013 Wireless Networks are somewhat new technology in comparison to the know-how that makes them possible. The knowledge regarding wireless technology goes back about 200 years. One of the first individuals deserving recognition for today’s wireless networks is a scientist, inventor and politician named Benjamin Franklin. In 1747 he had built a model that showed how electricity could move through the air unaided by any type
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brought about by industrial transformation, insofar as they affected the lives of the different classes. In 1800, twenty five per cent of the population of England lived in the cities and towns. Within a period of eighty years this position was reversed. In 1850, the year of the Great Exhibition, which was a celebration of British industrial achievement, the ‘number of urban dwellers exceeded those who dwelt in the countryside’. The cities of Birmingham and Manchester more than doubled their
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