QUESTION The Corruption Perception Index (CPI) is a comparative assessment of a country’s integrity performance along with related academic research on corruption. Provide a description of this index and its ranking. Identify the five countries with the lowest and five with highest CPI scores according to this index. 1.0 INTRODUCTION Ethics is accepted principles of right or wrong that govern the conduct of a person‚ the members of a profession and the actions of an organization. There are five
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What is HDI? HDI (Human Development index) is a way of measuring development by combining indicators of life expectancy‚ educational attainment and income. The breakthrough for the HDI was the creation of a single statistic which was to serve as a frame of reference for both social and economic development. The HDI sets a minimum and a maximum for each dimension‚ called goalposts‚ and then shows where each country stands in relation to these goalposts‚ expressed as a value between 0 and 1. It is
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BUILDING A CSR INDEX In our CSR index‚ companies would be judged in 6 key assessment areas. Not only should the company have formulated goals or CSR targets but also achieved them within the stipulated period of time for a maximum score. The 6 key assessment areas are as follows: ASSESSMENT AREAS 1. ENVIRONMENT: This assessment area includes the physical surroundings in which the company operates including waste disposal techniques‚ energy saving initiatives‚ or climate change. POINTS OF
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New Series of Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial Workers on base 2001=100 1. OBJECTIVE Labour Bureau‚ since its inception‚ has‚ inter-alia‚ been entrusted with the responsibility of compilation and maintenance of the Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW). The CPI-IW purports to measure the temporal change in the retail prices of fixed basket of goods and services being consumed by the target group i.e. an average working class family and thus‚ is an important
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The consumer price index or CPI is a more direct measure than per capita GDP of the standard of living in a country. It is based on the overall cost of a fixed basket of goods and services bought by a typical consumer‚ relative to price of the same basket in some base year. By including a broad range of thousands of goods and services with the fixed basket‚ the CPI can obtain an accurate estimate of the cost of living. It is important to remember that the CPI is not a dollar value like GDP‚ but instead
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Reviewing Beneish’s manipulation index‚ we note a high probability of manipulation for both fiscal Year 5 and Year 6. The major factors of this are the rapid growth in sales and the level of accruals in earnings. The Company experienced negative cash flows from operations for both years as a result in significant decreases in A/R and inventories. Reviewing the financial ratios‚ we also noted the relationship between inventories and COGS‚ which is not included in Beneish’s index. The high growth rate of
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INTRODUCTION Air pollution is define as the presence of chemicals in the atmosphere high enough to affect climate and harm organisms and materials. Gaseous or particulate substances released into the atmosphere in sufficient quantities or concentrations to cause injury to plants‚animals‚ or humans. Other sources of pollutants included dust and fine particulate‚ which were contributed by the inefficiency of diesel-powered vehicles and also the smoke aerosol from fires on Peninsular Malaysia. Meteorological
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TM Democracy index 2011 Democracy under stress A report from the Economist Intelligence Unit www.eiu.com Democracy Index 2011 Democracy under stress The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Index of Democracy 2011 Democracy under stress This is the fourth edition of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy index. It reflects the situation as of the beginning of December 2011. The first edition‚ published in The Economist’s The World in 2007‚ measured the state of democracy in September
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BIG MAC INDEX WHAT IS A BIG MAC INDEX? The big Mac index is a theory dealing with PPP purchase power parity. The big Mac index was created by the Economist based on the Purchase Power theory‚ the first step understands what the Purchase power theory is. Here is a brief example to better understand the purchase power theory; suppose that one US dollar is currently in the market for ten Argentinean pesos. In the United States a soccer ball costs $40 while in Argentina they sell the same soccer
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of prices of a specified set of goods and services purchased by consumers. It is a price index that tracks the prices of a specified basket of consumer goods and services‚ providing a measure of inflation. \CPI is a fixed quantity price index and considered by some a cost of living index. Under CPI‚ an index is scaled so that it is equal to 100 at a chosen point in time‚ so that all other values of the index are a percentage relative to this one. Economists Shunmugam and Prasad say it is high time
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