million. Almost have of the population lives off of subsistence agriculture‚ however‚ Diamond mining is considered for half of Sierra Leone’s exports. Diamonds were first discovered in Sierra Leone in 1930‚ and a war broke out between 1991 and 2002 over diamonds that led to the name blood diamonds. Blood diamonds are defined by diamond mining in a war zone‚ that people trade the diamonds for guns so then the diamonds go on to be sold to companies. It was not till January 1999‚ when people all round
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of Rough Diamonds in Sierra Leone “CREATING A FUTURE – GIVING NEW MEANING TO SUSTAINABILITY IN MINING” BUSINESS PLAN Page 1 Sierra Credit Repository Xchange (SCRX) Sierra Leone Limited Business Plan List of Contents OPENING STATEMENTS PAGE 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 INTRODUCTION 3 Legal Structure of SCRX 4 Why Diamonds? 4 History of Sierra Leone Diamonds 4 Diamond Market 6 The Government Role 6 Historical Context of the Diamond Region and
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org Introduction SECTOR: GEMS & JEWELLERY SUB-SECTOR: Cast and Diamonds-Set Jewellery OCCUPATION: Casting REFERENCE ID: G&J/Q2505 Diamond Assorter: A Diamond Assorter is also known as ‘Assorter’ in cast and diamond-set jewellery manufacturing in India. An assorter‚ sorts diamonds according to its cut‚ carat‚ colour and clarity. Brief Job Description: Individuals working as assorter have to separate polished diamonds and group them into lots having similar characteristics and reject which
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Blood Diamonds: The Real Cost of Diamonds Sierra Leone is blessed with some of the world’s richest resources such as titanium‚ gold‚ and diamonds. Despite these rich resources‚ Sierra Leone ranked last on the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Index in 2001‚ making Sierra Leone the poorest country in the world at that time. (Renner‚ 2002‚ p. 22) So how can a country so rich in resources be so poor? Sierra Leone’s extreme poverty level is caused by the diamonds they mine and
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The makers of “Blood Diamond‚” an exceptionally thriller starring a most excellent Leonardo DiCaprio‚ want you to know there may be blood on your hands‚ specifically your wedding finger. The story involves so-called conflict diamonds‚ illicitly mined stones that have been used to finance some of the most vicious wars in Africa. If films were judged solely by their good intentions‚ this one would be best in show. Instead‚ gilded in money and dripping with sanctimony‚ confused and mindlessly contradictory
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The analysis of Porter’s diamond model theory and apply in Chinese construction industry Student number: M00377811 Student name: Chen Xinglin Module number: MGT 4139 Module name: International Business Management Module Tutor: Sabrina Akbar Introduction Nowadays‚ the global economy is developing faster and faster. Many countries start to pay much attention to the international competitiveness. More and more people start to research how to build up the high competitiveness in international
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Amazon.com: An E-Commerce Retailer A case report prepared for MG 495 Business Policy (Fall I 2012) Miguel Lopez 26 August 2012 Amazon.com: An E-Commerce Retailer I. INTRODUCTION Selling nothing but books is how Amazon.com started its business in 1995‚ now is acknowledged as the leading online retailer in the world. In addition‚ its new line of products is the compact
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The yearly Nile flood happened due to heavy summer rains far away to the south in the highlands that typically occurred around September. Rivers from these areasflowed into the Nile. Each year‚ the floodwaters deposited new fertile silt into natural basins. Farmers did not have to add fertilizer to the soil. After the water soaked into the earth in the late fall‚ farmers cast seeds onto the rich soil and turned it over with wooden plows pulled by oxen. Nature did the rest until it was time to harvest
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Blood Diamond Reaction Paper One of the greatest ills‚ committed by the United States on the African people‚ was the exploitation of African labor. The slave trade became the most “successful” African commodity until the middle of the 1800’s‚ when westerner’s began to exploit other natural resources of the continent. The expansion of capital in Africa enabled the US and Europe to fund both the scientific and industrial revolutions. In addition‚ when Apartheid began in 1948‚ after WWII to
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India’s contribu*on to the rest of the world “India is the cradle of the human race‚ the birthplace of human speech‚ the mother of history‚ the grandmother of legend‚ and the great grand mother of tradi*on. Our most valuable and most construc*ve materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only” Mark Twain "India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages. India was the mother of our philosophy‚ of much of our
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