Human development index The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy‚ literacy‚ education and standards of living for countries worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being‚ especially child welfare. It is used to distinguish whether the country is a developed‚ a developing or an underdeveloped country‚ and also to measure the impact of economic policies on quality of life. The index was developed in 1990 by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq and Indian economist Amartya
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Chapter 4 MARKET AND DEMAND ANALYSIS 1. We have to estimate the parameters a and b in the linear relationship Yt = a + bT Using the least squares method. According to the least squares method the parameters are: ∑ T Y – n T Y b = ∑ T 2 – n T 2 a = Y – bT The parameters are calculated below: Calculation in the Least Squares Method T Y TY T 2 1 2‚000 2‚000 1 2 2‚200 4‚400 4 3 2‚100 6‚300 9 4 2‚300 9‚200 16 5 2‚500 12‚500 25 6 3‚200 19‚200 36 7 3‚600 25
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Master Patient Index i Master Patient Index Master Patient Index 1 Master Patient Index (MPI) and the Primary Key are important parts of a health care organizations database. They help in the retrieval and organization of data in an organizations data base. The Master Patient Index (MPI) is an electronic medical database that holds information on every patient registered at a health care organization (TechTarget‚ 2011). The information that is contained in the patient record is things
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Carnival informs the reader about issues concerning the AIDS Virus throughout the world and goes into specifics about the marketing efforts being used to spread awareness and protection in Brazil and India. About Half a million Brazilians are infected with AIDS and about 63 million are at medium to high risk. The major reason for these high numbers are Brazilians tend to not wear condoms and the men in the culture to not stay committed to monogamous relationships. Brazilian women say that even if
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INVESTMENT APPRAISAL Introduction The government undertakes a variety of activities. They are responsible for setting macroeconomic policy; they seek to promote equity by aiding the poor and the disadvantaged and they provide a variety of services‚ such as education‚ health Care‚ defense‚ infrastructure‚ police and postal services. Many of these activities involve large investments. Recent developments such as expanding the N3 Network infrastructure in preparation for the GP – Led health
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Chapter 2: Time Value of Money 2.1) I = iPN = (0.09)($3‚000)(5) = $1‚350 2.2) • Simple interest: F = P (1 + iN ) $4‚ 000 = $2‚ 000(1 + 0.08 N ) N = 12.5 years (or 13 years) • Compound interest: $4‚ 000 = $2‚ 000(1 + 0.07) N 2 = 1.07 N log 2 = N log 1.07 N = 10.24 years (or 11 years) 2.3) • Simple interest: I = iPN = (0.07)($10‚ 000)(20) = $14‚ 000 • Compound interest: I = P ⎡(1 + i) N − 1⎤ = $10‚000 ⎡(1.07)20 − 1⎤ ⎣ ⎦ ⎣ ⎦ = $28‚696.84 2.4) •
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Big Mac Index The McDonald’s corporation – “McDonald ’s is the leading global food-service retailer with more than 34‚000 local restaurants serving nearly 69 million people in 118 countries each day” (McDonalds Corporation‚ 2014). The statistics alone are impressive for a company that started as a single restaurant in Des Plaines‚ IA in April‚ 1955 (McDonalds Corporation‚ 2014). Even more impressive is the influence McDonald’s has on global economic forecasting by virtue of its signature sandwich
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THEORY This model was developed by William Sharpe. According to Sharp’s model‚ the theory estimates the expected return and variance of indices which may be one or more and are related to economic activity. This theory has come to be known as Market Model. Sharpe’s single index model will reduce the market related risk and maximize the returns for a given level of risk. Sharpe’s model will take into consideration the total risk of portfolio. The total risk consists of both systematic and unsystematic
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1. Given that an activity’s normal time and cost are ten days and $400‚ and its crash time and cost are five days and $800‚ what is the activity’s slope? The activity slope is $80 per day. 2. Identify and briefly describe the three types of constraints that can affect how you schedule resources. a.) Technical constraints – these address the sequence in which work activities must be performed. b.) Physical constraints – these occur when there are confined spaces in which the work must be
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What is Project Management? Project management is more complicated and extensive than people think. One definition of project management is “the process of guiding a project from its beginning through its performance to its closure.” There are three operations that project management entails: planning‚ controlling‚ and organizing. These operations are seen from beginning to end. In project management it is important to keep many challenges of project management in mind so you can control‚ plan
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