while the fast-growing emerging economies cannot maintain their previous momentum. If anything goes wrong – and there are known potential shocks in the coming months – the risk is rising of a dangerous economic slide. The Brookings Institution-Financial Times Tracking Indices for the Global Economic Recovery shows a steep drop in 2012 so far, leading professor Eswar Prasad of Brookings to describe the global economy as “on the ropes”. In the International Monetary Fund’s twice-yearly World Economic
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Network Governance in Malaysia’s Telecommunications Industry G.Sivalingam School of Business Monash University E mail: sivalingam.vglingam@buseco.monash.edu.my Network Governance in Malaysia’s Telecommunications Industry Abstract The focus of this study is on the liberalization of the telecommunications industry, especially the mobile phone sector and the emerging network governance structure in the mobile phone sector. From being a monopoly of the government, telecommunications services
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strategies shape the use of IT in organizations, more often the influence is stronger the other way round. IT significantly affects strategic options and creates opportunities and issues that managers need to address in many aspects of their business. This page outlines some of the key impacts of technology and the implications for management on: * Business strategy - collapsing time and distance, enabling electronic commerce * Organization Culture - encouraging the free flow of information * Organization
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Department of Business Administration BUSN69, Degree Project – Accounting and Auditing Master Thesis, 15 ECTS Spring 2014 The evolution of CSR Reporting in the Banking Sector of Greece An analysis of specific characteristics of CSR Reporting Author Papakostopoulos, Georgios Supervisors Jonnergård, Karin Loft, Anne 2014-10-20 1 2 Abstract Title The evolution of CSR Reporting in the Banking Sector of Greece An analysis of specific characteristics of CSR Reporting
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REPORT Corporate Social Responsibility: Innovation and Business Skills Australia March 2011 Better business through innovation... Acknowledgements IBSA wishes to acknowledge the work of the project team who have prepared this report. CSR Sydney www.csrsydney.com David Morrissey Franziska Kleedehn Sustainability Learning Institute Bruce McKenzie Cheryl Hardie Ian Hardie Andrew McKenzie Damian Collins www.sustainabilitylearning.com.au IBSA is grateful to the large number
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YogeshMaheshwari CCBMDO-09 Financial Management I Assignment I 31 Oct 2012 CORPORATE FINANCING ENVIRONMENT IN INDIA: A CRITICAL REVIEW S No | Topic | Page No | 1. | Executive Summary | 2 | 2. | Financial Instruments | 3 | 3. | Financial Markets | 4 | 4. | Financial Intermediaries | 5 | 5. | The Regulatory Environment | 6 | 6. | The Way Forward | 9 | Executive Summary 1. Corporate finance is used to collectively identify the various financial dealings undertaken by a
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this area offers new ways to address the economic stagnation and crisis developing countries have experienced over the last two decades. This paper contributes to that literature, exploring the channels by which gender inequality affects, and in important ways, constrains economic development and growth in the Caribbean region. It further explores the endogeneity of gender inequality to the macroeconomic policy environment. The paper concludes with a discussion of economic policies that can promote
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This article is a copy of the one published in New Society Magazine No.237, January-February 2012, ISSN 0251-3552, www.nuso.org A major transition for a great transformation Reflections from the Yasuní-ITT Initiative René Ramírez Gallegos1 When discussing the development of a political project from the Left there are two opposing positions or aspects: those which promote the idea of better managing and regulating capitalism – that is, striving for “good capitalism” – and those who hold anticapitalist
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------------------------------------------------- Week 4, Term Paper cHAPTER 2 National Differences in Political Economy By: Roberta Gandy National University November 30, 2014 There are many differences between business in the United States and other countries with the way the political, economic and legal systems are setup. Cultural practices have an influence with the growth of business to include the
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Wolfensohn as Director and Stiglitz while Chief Economist playing leading roles. It has been reflected in particular in the HIPC (Heavily Indebted Poor Countries) Initiative, the Comprehensive Development Framework, and PRSPs (Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers) as means of governing low-income countries. Once the character of the project is understood, its limitations and contradictions become apparent, but at the same time many of the criticisms advanced are seen to underestimate its logic and coherence
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