available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2163952 Title of the page: Foreign Direct Investment in Retail India: Good or Bad? Abstract: Indian retail industry is a sunrise sector and many global players are willing to enter this. Indian retail industry is one of the pillars of the Indian Economy. Since 1991, when the policy of the liberalization was introduced by the Indian Government, FDI has been a highly controversial issue. From the last 3-4 years our Government is talking about the FDI in retail sector
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From Followers to Market Leaders: Asian Electronics Firms in the Global Economy Henry Wai-chung Yeung Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570 (Tel: 65-6516 6810; Fax: 65-6777 3091; Email: HenryYeung@nus.edu.sg; Homepage: http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/geoywc/henry.htm) Forthcoming in Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Vol.48(1), pp.1-30, 2007. Acknowledgement An earlier version of this paper was presented as the Asia Pacific Viewpoint Lecture at the International
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Evolution of a Family Business - Godrej Group Case Study Submitted by (Section C- Group 4): Abhishek Kumar(PGP11/129) Balaji Manohar(PGP11/140) Karthik Kumar(PGP11/151) Prashant Gangwal (PGP11/162) Santosh(PGP11/173) Supriya(PGP11/184) Group Assignment – Organizational Behavior II – IIMK Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Executive Summary .
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Chapter Two The Production Possibility Model, Trade, and Globalization Learning Objectives After you teach the material in this chapter, your students should be able to do the following: 1. Demonstrate opportunity cost with a production possibility curve. 2. State the principle of increasing marginal opportunity cost. 3. Relate the concept of comparative advantage to the production possibility cure. 4. State how, through comparative advantage and trade, countries
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Privatization, Regulation and Competition in South Asia T. N. Srinivasan* 1. Introduction It is a great honor to be invited to deliver the Mahbub Ul Haq Memorial Lecture. Mahbub finished his graduate studies in economics and left Yale in 1956, a year before I began my own graduate studies there. He had set an exemplary record that those of us from South Asia who followed him at Yale, such as Bashir Karamali, Parvez Hasan, Syed Nawab Hyder Naqvi, Syed Naseem, and myself included, could only envy.
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PERFORMANCE OF TEXTILE INDUSTRY IN INDUSTRIALISATION: A STUDY WITH REFERENCE TO INDIA INTRODUCTION Prosperity of any nation is extremely difficult without industrial development – is a well established truth for all the economies – developing or developed. Economic development and industrialization have became so closely integrated with each other that progress of an economy is now accessed from the success it has achieved in transformation from agricultural set up into a industrial set up. Through
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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2004 Cultural Liberty in Today’s Diverse World Accommodating people’s growing demands for their inclusion in society, for respect of their ethnicity, religion, and language, takes more than democracy and equitable growth. Also needed are multicultural policies that recognize differences, champion diversity and promote cultural freedoms, so that all people can choose to speak their language, practice their religion, and participate in shaping their culture— so that all people
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Impact of Training Practices on Employee Productivity: A Comparative Study Rohan Singh Madhumita Mohanty Faculty of Management Studies, Siksha O Anusandhan University Bhubaneswar, India rohansingh@khalsa.com Head of the Dept, MHRM IISWBM Kolkata, India drmadhumitamohanty@gmail.com Abstract — The paper studies the effects of training on employee productivity. This paper provides a review of the current evidence of such a relationship and offers suggestions for further investigation
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I. HISTORY OF DEVALUATION OF INDIAN RUPEE (INR) AND ITS IMPACTS ON INDIAN ECONOMY In a fixed exchange rate regime the term ‘Devaluation’ is used. It means a deliberate downward adjustment of a country's official exchange rate by its government i.e. central bank (RBI in India) relative to other currencies; Where as in floating or fluctuating exchange rate currency's
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been different throughout its economic history. The outline of corporate financing in India has been determined by the economic rules and regulations that operate at different points of time. During the 30-year period in Indian economy ranging from 1960 to 1990 the stress of Indian economy was on public finance. There were a lot of rules and regulations
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