The term Ponzi scheme was named after Charles Ponzi‚ a con man from the 1920s. Ponzi began his “business” by buying and selling international reply coupons. He was able to persuade some friends to invest in this endeavor‚ by telling them that he could double their investments. Essentially‚ Ponzi made no profit off of this scheme because the circulation of money from new investors is what sustained his “business”. Unfortunately for Ponzi‚ many investors and the media began to question the legitimacy
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-1- Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) for the employees of Public Sector Undertakings. 1. SHORT TITLE: (i) (ii) (iii) 2. OBJECTIVE: (i) (ii) (iii) 3. This scheme may be called the Punjab State Public Sector Undertakings Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) 2002. This scheme shall apply to all the Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) including all Cooperative Institutions of the State of Punjab. This will apply to the Subsidiaries of the PSUs defined as entities in which PSUs
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Saving Water‚ Saving Environment!! Tien Ho Period 2 • Water is a precious resource‚ but not infinite‚ thus saving water is always essential even in areas with abundant water resources. In addition to saving household spending‚ saving water also helps prevent depletion of groundwater resources‚ prevent water pollution in the basin. • California is the most productive agricultural state in the union‚ and agriculture uses 80 percent of California’s water. In a year with practically none of the stuff
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Brand Equity A brand represents a “name‚ term‚ sign‚ symbol‚ or design‚ or a combination of them intended to identify the goods and services of one seller or group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of competition.” Without a recognizable brand‚ a product is but a mere commodity. It’s more than just a name‚ term‚ symbol‚ etc. – a brand is everything that one company’s particular offering stands for in comparison to other brands in a cate-gory of competitive products. As the value
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characteristics as well. Genes that are carried by either sex chromosome are said to be sex linked. Men normally have an X and a Y combination of sex chromosomes‚ while women have two X’s. Since only men inherit Y chromosomes‚ they are the only ones to inherit Y-linked traits. Men and women can get the X-linked ones since both inherit X chromosomes. Sex cell inheritance patterns for male and female children X-linked recessive traits that are not related to feminine body characteristics are primarily
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Sahara and Ponzi schemes: What are the parallels? Dr KM Abraham‚ a former Whole-Time member of the Securities Exchange Board of India (Sebi) – the man whose original order led ultimately to a Supreme Court verdict forcing the Sahara Group to wind up two bond schemes and repay investors over Rs 24‚000 crore – made a brief allusion to Ponzi schemes in his order. While ordering two Sahara group companies‚ Sahara India Real Estate Corporation (SIREC) and Sahara Housing Investment Corporation (SHIC)
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and sustained SME subsector which are critical to the development of an economy. The significant roles SMEs play in development is acknowledged universally. Even in countries such as the United States. Small and Medium Industries Equity Investment Scheme (SMIEIS)‚ are enterprises with a total capital employed not less than N1.5 million‚ but not exceeding N200 million‚ including working capital‚ but excluding cost of land and/or with a staff strength of not less than 10 and not more than 300
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INTRODUCTION Incentive schemes is a system that a company uses in order to recruit and retain valuable staff‚ reward performance and productivity and get the best out of its employees. Incentives are rewards that are given when a certain goal has achieved. On the other hand perks are benefits that are given in addition to basic salary. Both incentives and perks can be financial or non-financial and also can be given to individuals or to a group. More explicitly‚ financial incentive schemes may include bonuses
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DETERMINANTS OF SAVINGS INTENSION A. Income Both the Keynesian savings function [21] and the permanent income hypothesis [11] Indicate a positive effect of income on savings. Using time series data for forty-nine countries‚ Rossi‚ for example‚ indicated the positive impact of current income levels on savings rate without differentiating types of income [32]. According to the permanent income hypothesis [11]‚ which distinguishes between permanent and transitory components of income‚ households
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groups of workers to be covered by government-sponsored pension schemes. In a handful of countries such as Bangladesh‚ Bhutan‚ Botswana‚ Eritrea‚ Lebanon and the Maldives public-sector employees are still the only group covered by a formal pension scheme. The rationale for providing pensions for government employees was somewhat different from that behind the creation of national pension schemes. Among the objectives particular to schemes for government workers were the following: • securing the independence
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