which result in huge loss of lives and property every year in South Asia. These include road, rail, river, marine and aviation accidents, oil spill, building and bridge collapse, bomb blast, industrial and chemical accidents etc. These also include the threats of nuclear, biological and chemical disasters. At present there is no organized system for collecting data on man made disasters. EM-DAT does collect data on some technological disasters, but these do not cover the complete range of information
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Reproduction of this material is not covered under authorization by any reproduction rights organization. To order copies or request permission to reproduce materials, contact Ivey Publishing, Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7; phone (519) 661-3208; fax (519) 661-3882; e-mail cases@ivey.uwo.ca. Copyright © 2011, Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation Version: 2013-06-12 It was a sultry July afternoon in 2010 in New Delhi,
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* Investing in Myanmar (Burma) can be very lucrative with such a diverse range of business opportunities. With the Country extending from the snow-capped mountains of the Himalayas to the tropical forests of the south Myanmar has much to offer the investor ~ and never have the opportunities been better than right now as the country is on the verge of great development... * The 2013/2014 season was the busiest ever for visitors to Myanmar and now is the best time to invest in the travel industry:
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The Impact of Science and Technology on the Agricultural Era From about 10,000 years ago, groups of people in several areas around the world began to abandon the foraging lifestyle that had been successful, universal and largely unchanged for millennia (Lee & DeVore 1968). They began to gather, then cultivate and settle around, patches of cereal grasses and to domesticate animals for meat, labor, skins and other materials, and milk. The earliest civilizations all relied primarily on cereal agriculture
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Agro Industry Scenario | An Introduction The agro industry is regarded as an extended arm of agriculture. The development of the agro industry can help stabilise and make agriculture more lucrative and create employment opportunities both at the production and marketing stages. The broad-based development of the agro-products industry will improve both the social and physical infrastructure of India. Since it would cause diversification and commercialization of agriculture, it will thus enhance
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The environment in this segment assures the viewer that he is a professional scientist, an expert on GM-crops. Jones has the solution to late blight in form of the GM-potato. Late blight has high cost for farmers and the use of genetics instead of chemicals to control the disease is presented as working with rather than against nature. The environment, the laboratory, the scientist authority are some of the features that make this scene
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Journal of International Business and Law Volume 7 | Issue 1 Article 3 1-1-2008 Management Controlled Firms v. Owner Controlled Firms: A Historical Perspective of Ownership Concentration in the US, East Asia and the EU Andrew C. Spieler Andrew S. Murray Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/jibl Recommended Citation Spieler, Andrew C. and Murray, Andrew S. (2008) "Management Controlled Firms v. Owner Controlled Firms: A Historical Perspective
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The year 2011 will go down in global corporate history as the year when one of the world’s largest energy companies, BP, and the Russian state company, Rosneft, unsuccessfully attempted to form a strategic partnership on Arctic development. This failure was caused by the contractual and legal objections of the AAR consortium - BP’s partners in the Russian oil company TNK-BP. In 2003-5, BP and the AAR consortium led by three billionaires with Russian connections - Mikhail Fridman, Len Blavatnik
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Republic of the Philippines Technological University of the Philippines Ayala Boulevard, Ermita Manila IM – 10: Production Management CHAPTER VIII. Production Process Improvement For Product Innovation Submitted by: Tugade, Erwin Benedict P. Liang, Dongping (Jessie) BAM – IM – 4LE Submitted to: Noel B. Hernandez, Ph. D. Topics to be discussed 1. Production Process. 2. Characteristics of A Production Process. 3. Importance of Continuous Process improvement.
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