“Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.”…Paul Samuelson INTRODUCTION Economics is the social science that analyzes the production‚ distribution‚ and consumption of goods and services. A focus of the subject is how economic agents behave or interact and how economies work. A given economy is the result of a process that involves its technological evolution‚ history and social organization‚ as well as its geography‚ natural resource endowment‚ and ecology
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Jesse Selchow Professional Practices Wednesday 6pm Micro VS. Macro Management In a simple definition management is the person or persons who control or direct a business or other enterprise. However‚ management is much larger than just one person or small group of people. Management is also the practice of handling‚ supervision‚ direction‚ and control (www.dictionary.com). It is much larger than one person‚ or even a small group of people; management is everywhere. We use management in all aspects
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Indian Insurance Industry: New Avenues for Growth 2012 With an annual growth rate of 15-20% and the largest number of life insurance policies in force‚ the potential of the Indian insurance industry is huge. Total value of the Indian insurance market (2004-05) is estimated at Rs. 450 billion (US$10 billion). According to government sources‚ the insurance and banking services’ contribution to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) is 7% out of which the gross premium collection forms a significant
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What do you understand by the term "the social construction of childhood"? To understand the term ’the social construction of childhood’ we must look at how society sees children through the different era’s‚ and how race‚ culture and class can produce different outcomes to how children are portrayed and developed in society. Social construction refers to ’a social mechanism‚ phenomenon‚ or category created and developed by society; a perception of an individual‚ group‚ or idea that is ’constructed’
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GROWTH OF MICRO-CREDIT IN INDIA: AN EVALUATION (90th Conference volume of Indian Economic Association 2007 Dr. Md. Tarique * & Ranjan Kumar Thakur † The success of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh has established the fact and several literatures in this regard also acknowledge the fact that poor are bankable in terms of capacity to save and repay the loans provided the same are collected at the doorstep in small amount at frequent intervals. This is the basic principle of micro-finance‚ which
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have independent brand passenger cars and the second largest automobile market in Southeast Asian. The government implements a series of favourable policies to support the birth and development of auto companies. It along the way seems as so smooth‚ but also as the hothouse flowers and lack of the capability of fighting. Malaysia is ASEAN’s largest passenger car market but also a gateway into ASEAN and a springboard for other countries. Many entrepreneurs of world car have valued it and the automotive
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Macro and micro environments both fall into the categories of environmental scanning. The general scope of environmental scanning is that it is a component of global environmental analysis. While analyses are typically carried out on the macro environment‚ the micro environment still has an important role to play. In summary‚ the macro environment is involved with the industries‚ companies‚ markets‚ clients and competitors‚ while the micro environment can be represented by the suppliers‚ competitors
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Without cars there would be no need for roads as we know them today. There would be no hotels because people wouldn’t be traveling as far as they can today‚ and we wouldn’t have a scape goat for global warming. The invention and improvement of the automobile has shaped America’s society to be as we know it today. Over the years cars have improved and changed. Some ideas were thrown away and others grew into common household possessions. It all started with the invention of the steam car in the
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essential to understand the workings of Hugo Chavez and what is considered a hybrid regime. Hybrid regimes are political systems in which the tools for determining access to state office combines both democratic and autocratic practices. In other words‚ in hybrid regimes‚ freedom exists and the opposition is allowed to compete in election‚ but the system of checks and balances has become inoperative (Corrales 1). Hybrid regimes typically display the following features as well: government negotiations
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Response to Literary Text Grade 11 / Of Mice and Men 500 words Please include your name‚ grade‚ school name‚ and a title. 25 points total Prompt: Several of the characters in Of Mice and Men display physical and mental impairments. Identify and describe these characters. How do these impairments influence or reflect these characters’ roles in the novel? For example‚ Crooks and Candy are hunch-backed and lame‚ Curley’s hand is crushed‚ etc. Prewriting: (worth 5 points of your essay grade):
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