Kaptai Dam (Bengali: কাপ্তাই বাঁধ) is located on the Karnaphuli River at Kaptai‚ 65 km upstream from Chittagong in Rangamati District‚ Bangladesh. It is an earth-fill embankment dam with a reservoir (known as Kaptai Lake) water storage capacity of 6‚477 km³. The primary purpose of the construction of the dam and reservoir was to generate hydroelectric power. Construction was completed in 1962. The generators in the 230 MW power station‚ called Karnafuli Hydroelectric Power Station‚ were commissioned
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Essay Paper #2 Narcotics Anonymous Meeting Group Structure: Type of group: This meeting was a “Narcotics Anonymous Open Sharing Meeting”. This component‚ where anyone attending had the opportunity to share. There was no direct feedback from the other participants during the “share”‚ thus only one person spoke at any given time during that portion of the meeting. Organizational affiliation: Narcotics Anonymous as a group has no affiliation outside
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dThe United States imported about 51% of the petroleum‚1 which includes crude oil and refined petroleum products‚ that we consumed during 2009. Just over half of these imports came from the Western Hemisphere. Our dependence on foreign petroleum is expected to decline in the next two decades. In 2009‚ the United States produced 11% of the world’s petroleum and consumed 22%. The United States consumed 18.8 million barrels per day of petroleum products during 2009‚ making us the world’s largest
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Limits to Foreign Direct Investment in Russia The Russian Economy emerged from the upheaval of the 1990s as a market where power was inadequately dispersed among the oligarchs‚ formal regulating institutions were scarcely in force and the state assumed too much of a role in an economy that was to run on free market principles. A decade later‚ there have been minimal reforms despite the widespread political rhetoric about Russia being integrated into the world economy. How has the absence of a fully
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now after we (government) allowed 49 percent FDI in airlines‚" Singh told reporters on the sidelines of an Assocham event here."Time will tell how many foreign airlines are interested‚" Singh added a day after the government notified that the foreign airlines can now pick up 49 per cent stake in domestic passenger carriers.Foreign carriers have so far not been allowed to directly invest in Indian carriers for security reasons‚ although 49 percent FDI by non-airline players was allowed.The Indian
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Since their invention‚ people far and wide have become increasingly dependent on computers. Computers have found their way into just about every aspect of our lives‚ and in most cases‚ they make things easier for us. They allow us to work from home‚ socialize with our friends and family who live too far away to visit‚ and they provide an ever-welcome stress relief when we come home from school or work and just want to have some fun. But as we increasingly rely on computers to get through the day
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Welfare dependency is when a person or household is reliant on government welfare benefits. They use welfare benefits for their income for a long period of time‚ and without the benefits they would not be able to pay for things for daily living. Some individuals may use this benefit even though they make more than an individual who may need the benefits more than they do. This benefit is supposed to help families with low income‚ but many people take advantage of this benefit to get what they want
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FDI Benefits in Insurance Sector: 1. - Increases healthy competition * Our country has a low insurance density and every company selling the insurance feels that there is abundant scope to expand its operations 2. - Improves Product offerings * technical knowhow is also transformed in the country * Foreign capital not only brings along with it deeper pockets‚ but also i. greater product expertise‚ ii. better underwriting skills and iii
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investment has increasingly been identified as a major growth-enhancing component in most developing countries. FDI promotes economic growth in the host country in a great number of ways. From a more compressed perspective‚ these effects of foreign investment could be direct through a certain investment source or indirect through certain spillover effects. In a more broad view however‚ FDI could be said to put pressure on the firms in their host countries to improve their competitiveness leading them
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emerging markets‚ up from 14th in 2004 with 72.4% of all economies in the world receiving Chinese FDI. China’s direct investment both inward and outward FDI provides important net long-term economic benefits for both home and host countries. In the past two decades‚ outward FDI from China increased by nearly 300%. According to the special report of TNCs and Canada-China FDI‚ the development of China’s outward FDI can be classified into two stages: (1)1982-2000‚ spontaneous stage‚ and (2) 2000-current‚ government-oriented
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