Imaging Business Highlights Stock Information Investor Information Effective from 2012‚ Sony has integrated its printed annual and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports into one report that provides essential information on related developments and initiatives. For further information‚ including video content‚ please visit Sony’s IR and CSR websites. Annual Report http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/ar/2012 CSR/Environment http://www.sony.net/csr/ For more detailed information
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Bangladesh least food secure in South Asia Global food security under threat: EIU FE Report In spite of harvesting bumper rice crop for the past several years Bangladesh is yet to attain food security‚ according to a global think-tank. The London-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in its Global Food Security Index 2012 ranked Bangladesh as the least food secure country among the six South Asian countries. The index has been worked out by assessing affordability
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users of capital by means of pooling of funds‚ sharing risk‚ and transferring wealth. Stock markets are essential for economic growth as they insure the flow of resources to the most productive investment opportunities. In a growing economy like Bangladesh there are two stock or capital market‚ these are Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock exchange (CSE). Both of these share market is regulated by Security exchange commission (SEC). However in recent times there are some opposite results
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Bangladesh-PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS Bangladesh Index Despite its poor-country status‚ increasing numbers of tourists have visited Bangladesh‚ a new but minor source of foreign exchange earning. Tourism in the early 1980s amounted to some 49‚000 visitors per year‚ but by 1986 more than 129‚000 tourists--mostly from India‚ the United States‚ Britain‚ and Japan--visited Bangladesh. According to the Bangladesh Parjaton Corporation (Bangladesh Tourism Corporation)‚ some Tk44.6 million in foreign exchange
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The Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 The Global Financial Crisis 2007-2008 Economists and scholars spend years dissecting financial markets and evaluating the causes of booms and busts. Throughout United States history there have been multiple economic booms that were underestimated and followed by recessions. In the situation of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis many culprits have been identified as causes‚ such as loose monetary policy‚ credit booms‚ deregulation‚ over complexity‚
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Background Bangladesh has made great strides in improving the health of its population‚ much more than a country at its level of development can be expected to do. Serious problems still remain in reducing child malnutrition and maternal mortality in particular; nonetheless‚ the aggregative results achieved in the last three decades are quite impressive. These achievements have certainly have gone a long way towards fulfilling the right to health in Bangladesh. This paper argues‚ however‚ that despite
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Author Instructor Course Date The Economic Recession of 2007 to 2009 Recessions are a normal part of the business cycle‚ which constitutes of recurring expansion and contraction of the overall economic cycle associated with changes in employment‚ income‚ prices‚ sales and profits. A business cycle consists of four phases‚ which include peak‚ recession‚ trough‚ and expansion. Once an economy reaches the peak‚ which is the maximum point of economic growth‚ it contracts and initiates a period of
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Southwest Airlines Co. – 2007 Case Analysis On the brink of airlines’ market share battlefield‚ many of the companies failed to launch new strategies and price controls because of fuel prices‚ market requirements and safety issues. Along with the history of low price policy that Southwest Airlines started to implement decades ago‚ the recent challenges and soaring competitive behaviors made that company pass huge obstacles. Southwest Airlines manifested the new growth in Texas air carrier businesses
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WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN BANGLADESH Introduction: Contribution of women in the economy is very important for the growth of socio-economic environment of Bangladesh. Without a meaningful and active participation of women‚ half of the total population‚ in regular economic activities‚ a dynamic and sustainable economy is impossible. In view of the need to bring the rural womenfolk in the development stream of the country‚ both the Government‚ the NGOs and other related agencies have
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Economic growth in Bangladesh: experience and policy priorities ____________________________________________________________ The Liberation War of 1971 destroyed about a fifth of Bangladesh’s economy‚ and the post-war dislocations left the country on a slow growth trajectory for better part of two decades. Then the economy accelerated from 1990‚ driven by a remarkable turnaround in the growth of multi-factor productivity. We identify factors that inhibit another growth spurt: low levels
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