Public High School Graduation Rates: Newark City and the State of New Jersey Public high school graduation rates can be used as a tool to measure the effectiveness of a particular education program. However‚ choosing a formula that accurately reflects the strength and weaknesses of a high school has proven to be quite difficult and even controversial. In 2010‚ the Newark Public School district reported a 55 percent graduation rate among Newark City high schools (Newark Public Schools‚ pg 4). However
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History The economy of India was under socialist-inspired policies for an entire generation from the 1950s until the 1980s. The economy was subject to extensive regulation‚ protectionism‚ and public ownership‚ leading to pervasive corruption and slow growth.[1][2][3][4] License Raj was often at the core of corruption. The Vohra Report was submitted by the former Indian Union Home Secretary‚ N.N. Vohra‚ in October 1993. It studied the problem of the criminalisation of politics and of the nexus among
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Exchange Rate Volatility: Impact on Industry Portfolios in Indian Stock Market K N Badhani*‚ Rajani Chhimwal** and Janki Suyal*** This study examines the interaction between changes in the exchange rate of Indian Rupee and returns on different BSE-based indices representing the firms of different sizes and industries. In absolute sense‚ the returns on all the stock portfolios are found to be positively correlated with the external value of Indian Rupee. However‚ the analysis with an extended market
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Fighting Corruption in Malaysia SPA 501 FIGHTING CORRUPTION IN MALAYSIA A government‚ for protecting business only‚ is but a carcass‚ and soon falls by its own corruption and decay ~ Amos Bronson Alcott Corruption had always been a thorny issue for any government in the world. To a certain extent‚ the rate of corruption is considered as an indicator of how clean a particular country is. The level of corruption‚ or more accurately‚ the perceived level of corruption of a certain country is considered
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Corruption in India is one of the most menacing threats that our economy has been battling with ever since the independence. At all levels of Indian bureaucracy corruption has seemingly taken its toll and has been corroding the structure of our nation. Be it private sector or public sector‚ Indian people have a tendency of misusing the public position/power in their favor to fulfill their motives and gain personal benefits. All these “allegations” are not solely based on observation but have statistical
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Institute Seminar on the Role of Parliamentarians in Promoting Good Public Financial Management and Accountability in Africa Tunis‚ November 19-23‚ 2007 Public Financial Management and Corruption[1] Public Financial Management (PFM) ordinarily covers the management of government revenue‚ expenditure and cash. Corruption defined as the diversion of public resources for private use can affect any of these operations‚ at the level of the national and sub-national administrations. This paper focuses
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Over the last few years‚ the issue of corruption--the abuse of public office for private gain--has attracted renewed interest‚ both among academics and policymakers. There are a number of reasons why this topic has come under recent inspection. Corruption scandals have toppled governments in both major industrial countries and developing countries. In the transition countries‚ the shift from command economies to free market economies has created massive opportunities for the appropriation of rents
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How is exchange rate determined. How important is the expected future exchange rate for exports and imports? 1. Introduction Exchange rate is the price of a currency expressed in another currency‚ it is one of the most important determinants of a country’s relative level of economic health. Exchange rate directly affects the prices of goods in foreign trade and foreign assets prices in the internal market‚ and indirectly the price of goods for the domestic market. A higher currency makes
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CHINA’S GROWTH AND THE IMPACT ON STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES STATE-‐OWNED ENTERPRISES DATE: May 22 nd‚ 2012 COURSE: Applied Social Theory and Qualitative Methods ADVISOR: Søren Villadsen PAGES: 43 (53 incl. bibliography and appendices) STUS: 101‚012 STUDY PROGRAMME: BSc. in International
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transition (DT) refers to the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system. This is typically demonstrated through a demographic transition model(DTM). The theory is based on an interpretation of demographic history developed in 1929 by the American demographer Warren Thompson (1887–1973).[1] Thompson observed changes‚ or transitions‚ in birth and death rates in industrialized societies over the previous
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