colonized area or group of people. This is a direct result from the forceful tactics used during historical colonization. Colonization has occurred throughout history. In Europe‚ three of the most influential colonizers were the Spanish‚ the French‚ and the British. These three countries were driven by three very basic motives: a desire for material gain‚ a desire to spread religion‚ and a desire to expand territory. Britain conquered Burma over a period of 62 years (1824-1886). Burma wasn’t administered
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of why there are three different models for hospitals‚ long term care‚ and mental health is due to the variation of healthcare needs for individual patients. To my understanding the expectations of consumers‚ providers‚ and payers have also changed dramatically over the years with the anticipation of more effective interventions at more efficient and competitive pricing (Williams & Torrens‚ 2008). The expectations of those who need hospital care are typically different from those in long term care
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Relative Rewards within Team-Based Compensation BERND IRLENBUSCH and GABRIELE K. RUCHALA December 2006 Abstract How to design compensation schemes to motivate team members appears to be one of the most challenging problems in the economic analysis of labour provision. We shed light on this issue by experimentally investigating team-based compensations with and without bonuses awarded to the highest contributors in teams. A purely team-based compensation scheme induces agents to voluntarily cooperate
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EH1 The Road to Revolution of 1989 Lecture 64 Collapse in Eastern Europe was very sudden – but it how did it come to this so quickly? It’s a complicated question; this lecture focusses on the longer term causes‚ Lecture 65 focusses on comparatively short term causes. 1) ECONOMIC TROUBLES IN THE SOVIET BLOC: Eastern European leaders should have been more aware of economic issues. They were inherently familiar with the works of Marx i.e. economic state of society dictates the rest of society
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POINT/COUNTER-POINT: Should Speculators Use Currency Futures or Options? POINT: Speculators should use currency futures because they can avoid a substantial premium. To the extent that they are willing to speculate‚ they must have confidence in their expectations. If they have sufficient confidence in their expectations‚ they should bet on their expectations without having to pay a large premium to cover themselves if they are wrong. If they do not have confidence in their expectations‚ they
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Carry Trades and Currency Crashes Markus K. Brunnermeier‚ Princeton University‚ NBER‚ and CEPR Stefan Nagel‚ Stanford University and NBER Lasse H. Pedersen‚ New York University‚ NBER‚ and CEPR I. Introduction This paper studies crash risk of currencies for funding‐constrained speculators in an attempt to shed new light on the major currency puzzles. Our starting point is the currency carry trade‚ which consists of selling low interest rate currencies—“funding currencies”—and investing in
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EXPORT PROCEDURE 1. An exporter receives an enquiry from the prospective buyers seeking information regarding price‚ quality & other terms conditions for export of goods. The exporter sends a quotation known as proforma invoice as reply. 2. If the buyer is satisfied with the export price & other terms & conditions‚ he places the order or indent for the goods. 3. After receiving the order or indent‚ the exporter undertakes an enquiry regarding the credit worthiness of importer to assess the
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April 1500‚ the Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral also reached the coast of present-day Brazil and formally claimed the surrounding region in the name of Portugal. The territory was named Terra da Vera Cruz (Brazil Historical Setting). About a year later in 1501‚ an expedition under the command of the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci was sent to Terra da Vera Cruz by the Portuguese government. In the course of his explorations Vespucci named many capes and bays‚ including a bay‚ which he called
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Top 10 largest exports country in 2011 : Rank | Country | Exports | — | World | $17‚779‚000‚000‚000 | — | European Union | $2‚131‚000‚000‚000 | 1 | China | $1‚898‚000‚000‚000 | 2 | United States | $1‚511‚000‚000‚000 | 3 | Germany | $1‚408‚000‚000‚000 | 4 | Japan | $800‚800‚000‚000 | 5 | France | $578‚400‚000‚000 | 6 | Netherlands | $576‚900‚000‚000 | 7 | South Korea | $556‚500‚000‚000 | 8 | Italy | $522‚000‚000‚000 | 9 | Russia | $498‚600‚000‚000 | 10 | United
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