Human Development Index (HDI) The first Human Development Report introduced a new way of measuring development by combining indicators of life expectancy‚ educational attainment and income into a composite human development index‚ the HDI. 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
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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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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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Marketing Planning Report Introduction This report will be based on the organisation ‘MAC Cosmetics’. This report will cover recommendations to improve competitiveness of the company as well as looking over the current environment. To accomplish this a detailed PEST and SWOT analysis will be carried out and analysed. The identification of current target segments for the company will also be carried out and a marketing mix analysis will also be undertaken to see which elements of the mix are most
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Data Collection and Processing Data collected from 3 trials for each set Set 1: Manipulated set where independent variable is the number of beans recaptured‚ also showing amount of marked beans recaptured. Trial 1 | |Beans recaptured(±1) |Mark beans recaptured(±1) | |1 |30 |6 | |2
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Because of this then the health system ends up with doubles of the same patient. It is important to identify duplicates so that the same patient doesn’t have two separate records. Failure to correctly identify an individual in the master patient index may result in one or more integrity problems. Several problems can arise if patient information is not located. For example these may include billing errors‚ performance of unnecessary duplicate tests‚ and increased legal exposure in the area of adverse
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Report on the different ways to improve Apple’s sales of Mac laptops. [pic] Report on the different ways to improve Apple’s sales of Mac laptops. Prepared for: Mr. Steve Jobs CEO Apple Prepared by: Shou Heng‚ Guan Yu Shiun‚ Tan Zhi Ping‚ Ng Guo Ren‚ Kuah Liyana December 6‚ 2010 Executive Summary Apple has a wide range of products from computers like Macintosh (Mac) to MP3 players like iPod to other devices with special
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Marketing Strategy for Apple’s Mac Mini 1. Executive Summary Our objective is to build a highly loyal customer base for the Apple’s Mac Mini as the family management and networking system of choice. This is based on a strategy to delight customers through a customer needs based marketing strategy so that customers will give us repeat business throughout their life‚ and refer our products and services to their family and friends. 2. Current Marketing Situation The Mac Mini is a different direction
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T. R. (1995). Nonresponse and recall biases in a survey of traveler spending Skogland‚ I.‚ and Siguaw‚ J.A. (2004). Understanding switchers and stayers in the lodging industry. Cornell Hospitality Report‚ 1(4). The American Customer Satisfaction Index (2009). Available online. Retrieved on May 12‚ 2010 from http://www.theacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=193&Itemid=202 Tian-Cole‚ S.‚ and J. L. Crompton (2003). “A Conceptualisation of the Relationships between Service Quality and
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chóng kịp thời. Phần 2: CHỈ SỐ LPI: 1. Tổng quan về LPI: Logistics quan trọng đối sự phát triển của nền kinh tế toàn thế giới‚ và để biết năng lực Logistics của mỗi quốc gia trên thế giới người ta sử dụng chỉ tiêu LPI tức là Logistics performance index. Đây là chỉ số do ngân hàng World Bank đưa ra dùng để xếp hạng và công bố tại tại Washington‚ Hoa Kỳ. Vào năm 2007‚ lần đầu tiên Ngân hàng thế giới (The World Bank) công bố báo cáo về chỉ số LPI của các quốc gia trên thế giới. Báo cáo mang tên “Kết
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