The effects of APEC To ensure the safety of the economic leaders and delegates in Manila, tight security was enforced. This included road closures and rerouting schemes of major thoroughfares — such as EDSA and Roxas Boulevard — that resulted in traffic disruptions in The APEC lane along EDSA extension in Pasay City. the metro. Most motorists and commuters complained of the traffic schemes adjustments, which forced them to walk to their destination. Several airlines canceled their flights to make
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Success of Microfinance in Bangladesh: Its Determinants, Impacts & Challenges Chapter- One Introduction 1.1 Introduction: In recent years, microcredit, in its wider dimension known as microfinance, has become a much favored intervention for poverty alleviation in the developing countries and least development countries. There is scarcely a poor country and development oriented donor agency (multilateral, bilateral and private) not involved in the promotion (in one form or other) of a microfinance
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Knowledge Management Tools and Techniques Practitioners and Experts Evaluate KM Solutions This page intentionally left blank Knowledge Management Tools and Techniques Practitioners and Experts Evaluate KM Solutions Edited by Madanmohan Rao AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier Elsevier Butterworth–Heinemann 200 Wheeler Road, Burlington, MA 01803
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THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KENYA FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES FACED IN ACCESSING AND UTILIZING INFORMATION RESOUR RESOURCES IN LIBRARIES: A CASE STUDY OF THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KENYA LIBRARY. BY KENNEDY LESHAN SANKALE 112P04744 A research project submitted to the school of Information and Communication Studies, Department of Information and Knowledge
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man By John Perkins Preface Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, U.S. Agency for International Development, and other foreign “aid” organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs
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ABSTRACT E-commerce made Supply Chain Management (SCM) technically viable and unleashed the practice of SCM. The Kenya Sugar Industry and particularly Sony Sugar Industry, due to its own characteristics, have not utilised E-commerce for Supply Chain Management as widely as it could have. The purpose of this exploratory study is to increase the understanding of the determinants for adoption of E-commerce in SCM within Kenya and its apparent industry of this study. The study will also aim at testing
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in 2007. Indeed, the last five years represent the best phase of sustained economic growth in our country in all sectors of our economy notably; agriculture, tourism, manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade and telecommunications as well as the social Sectors. The vision will be implemented through five year medium-term rolling plans, starting with the first one which will cover the period 2008-2012. Thus, the performance of the government should in future be gauged on the basis of these medium
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A SWOT analysis of the Bangladesh economy [pic][pic] Mustafa K. Mujeri OVER the last few decades, Bangladesh has been following a development path that was blazed by the fast growing Asian economies with export led growth fuelling higher living standards and falling poverty. Despite this, it is not too difficult to posit that Bangladesh today has more in common with the laggards in Asia. Slow growth, rising inequality, and a deprived countryside deny the vast majority of the Bangladeshi people
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certainly play an active role in the development of religion, race and nation. World Health Organization (WHO, 1948), states that health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. This definition asserts that health supported by physical, mental, social well-being, functional, robust, and is not threatened by any disease that can be harmful to human beings. There are many countries that still burdened by infectious
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF ORGANISATIONS A CASE STUDY OF BHARAT SANCHAR NIIGAM LIMITED INTRODUCTION Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), the corporate version of erstwhile DOT, came to existence on 1st October 2000. Ever since the formation of BSNL, the Indian telecommunications scenario has been transforming itself into a multi-player, multi-product market with varied market sizes and segments. Within the basic phone service the value chain has split into Basic services, long distance players
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