education, infrastructure, and poverty reduction. Interventions need to be planned and implemented at the district level, which requires strengthening of district planning and management skills. Furthermore, districts need to be supported by national strategies and policies, and, in the case of the least developed countries, also by international donors and other partners. If packages for maternal, newborn and child health care can be integrated within a gradually strengthened primary health-care system
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trade: is a strategy in which an investor borrows money at a low interest rate in order to invest in an asset that is likely to provide a higher return. This strategy is very common in the foreign exchange market -Counter-trade: an umbrella term used to describe many different types of transactions, each “in which the seller provides a buyer with goods or services and promises in return to purchase goods or services from the buyer” -Forfaiting: is a type of medium-term trade financing used to finance
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www.sciedu.ca/jms Journal of Management and Strategy Vol. 2, No. 1; March 2011 Training Strategies in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises from the Perspective of Technology Innovation AiYing Li (Corresponding author) Lin-Yi University Shandong Lin-Yi 276005, China E-mail: linq1959@163.com Lin Ye Shanxi Normal University Shanxi Lin-Fen 041004, China E-mail: linyegreat@126.com Received: October 18, 2010 Abstract It’s very important to know the training needs of enterprise's past and present
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Polaroid Corporation 1996 Executive Summary Polaroid faces several business risks in March of 1996 that will affect its financing policy. Traditionally a one-product-line company, Polaroid still derives 90% of its revenues from photographic products. Although the company enjoys a monopoly on instant chemical photography, digital imaging technologies pose a substantial threat. It is not clear how fast these technologies will develop or displace conventional photography, but it is clear that
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IMICRO-FINANCE OF MOBILE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NIGERIA: AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CASE STUDIES IN BENIN CITY BY DADA ADEYINKA PSC0709051 DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION FACULTY OF management SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF BENIN BENIN CITY. DECEMBER, 2015. MICRO-FINANCE OF MOBILE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NIGERIA: AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CASE STUDIES IN BENIN CITY BY GLORY PSC0709051 IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE BACHELOR OF
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Course Logistics Day and Time: Tuesday, 7:35-9:35pm Location: Byerly Hall 013 Course iSite: http://isites.harvard.edu/course/ext-23550/2012/spring Instructor: Dave Power 617.694.2472 President, Power Strategy dave@powerstrategy.com Office Hours: Before class and by appointment ------------------------------------------------- About the Course Course Description and Overview Growth companies are the engines of product innovation
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Sports is both a distributor and manufacturer of sports equipment and protective gear. Because of the company’s size and industry, it is critical for Lawrence Sports (LS) to integrate an effective cash budget to become less reliant on short-term financing. Cash budgeting is an integral component for effective capital working policy (Emery, Finnerty, & Stowe, 2007). Establishing a cash budget is a means to observe a company’s inflow and outflow of cash, which in turn, will assist in adequate forecasting
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For exclusive use , 2015 9-201-067 REV: MAY 4, 2010 BENJAMIN ESTY MICHAEL KANE BP Amoco (B): Financing Development of the Caspian Oil Fields One of the many challenges facing the Finance Group after the BP/Amoco merger in 1998 was to evaluate and, if necessary, restructure the company’s global investment portfolio, including its 34% share of the Azerbaijani International Oil Consortium (AIOC). The 11-firm consortium was in the process of developing oil fields in the Azerbaijani sector
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and updated to cover the full range of macroeconomic and financial sector issues that bear on global stability. The IMF was established at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 to provide short term financial assistance to countries experiencing problems with their trade deficit or other Balance of Payments issues, so they could maintain stability in exchange rates i.e. stay fixed to USD value (i.e. gold value). Otherwise in case of a major trade deficit or Balance of Payments issues, countries
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SOUTHERN AFRICA REGIONAL INTEGRATION STRATEGY PAPER 2011-2015 Copyright © 2011 African Development Bank Group Angle de l’Avenue du Ghana et des Rues Pierre de Coubertin et Hédi Nouira BP 323 -1002 TUNIS Belvédère (Tunisia) Tél: +216 71 333 511 / 71 103 450 Fax: +216 71 351 933 E-mail: afdb@afdb.org Rights and Permissions This document may be ordered from: The Knowledge & Information Center (KVRC), African Development Bank Address: BP 323 -1002 TUNIS Belvédère (Tunisia) Telephone: +216 71103402
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