SMALL-SCALE MINING (Lives at risk in the Philippine Gold Mines) INTRODUCTION Gold is the number one mineral produced by the Philippines in value terms. Although total local production was low relative to world production‚ it ranked 2nd to Africa in gold production per unit land area in 1988 and ranked 29th as top gold producer in 2002(Israel and Asirot 2002). In the year 2002–2007‚ the Philippines’ gold production increased by 8.2%. This contributed an average of 2% gross domestic product (GDP)
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Saurashtra University Re – Accredited Grade ‘B’ by NAAC (CGPA 2.93) Solanki‚ Ashvinkumar H.‚ 2009‚ Working Capital Management in Selected Small Scale Industries of Gujarat State‚ thesis PhD‚ Saurashtra University http://etheses.saurashtrauniversity.edu/id/eprint/66 Copyright and moral rights for this thesis are retained by the author A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study‚ without prior permission or charge. This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively
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1.Introduction Small Scale Enterprises (SSEs) have played and continue to play significant roles in the growth‚ development and industrialisation of many economies the world over. In Nigeria‚ the SSEs have performed below expectation due to a combination of problems. This situation has been of great concern to the government‚ citizenry‚ practitioners‚ operators and the organised private sector groups. Small businesses are generally regarded as the driving force of economic growth‚ job creation
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It is a fact that the small-scale businesses hold a part in controlling the amount of employment in the economy and thereby help in the overall economic growth. Small-scale commercial enterprises are considered to be a hub for teh employment of child labour. Government in a way support these small scale commercial ventures by shielding them from the opposition provided by large scale businesses. Large scale commercial enterprises utilizing go between and market‚
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Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations – www.fadaweb.com India ’s Small Car Dream The term "small car" is both relative and subjective. A small car in the US or the Middle East is regarded as big in countries such as India and Indonesia. Within a particular country‚ too‚ the small car market has fairly heterogeneous products. While a car equipped with the latest technology such as the Suzuki Swift is a small car‚ the basic Nano‚ which is available at one-third the price of the Swift‚ also
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considered when choosing the appropriate JS1000 Concrete Mixer personal safety equipment and clothing. One of the most important factors would be the type of facility and the type of industry it belongs in. The mining industry and mining facilities‚ for example‚ have specific regulations that only apply to that said industry. Another factor is the hazards present in the immediate surroundings. Some hazards are only found in specific areas or workplaces. In cases of facility accidents or spills
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ARTICLE IN PRESS Telecommunications Policy 33 (2009) 29–40 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Telecommunications Policy URL: www.elsevierbusinessandmanagement.com/locate/telpol Estimating scale economies of the wireless telecommunications industry using EVA data$ Changi Nam a‚ Youngsun Kwon a‚Â Seongcheol Kim b‚ Hyeongjik Lee c a b c School of IT Business‚ Information and Communications University‚ 119‚ Munjiro‚ Yuseong-gu‚ Daejon 305-732‚ Republic of Korea Associate Professor
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where the disease is still present to organize eradication programs. Bioterrorism is a concern in terms of the smallpox virus in today’s society. Since many today would not have had the vaccines it could be used to trigger a smallpox outbreak and history would repeat
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Major problems facing small scale enterprises One major problem in Nigeria’s business environment is inadequate power supply. This and other factors are responsible for the problems and low performance of small scale enterprises and these problems seem to have to defied all efforts by government to address them. The problems over the years have equally kept foreign investors on the run despite Nigeria’s efforts to lure them to invest in the country.In this edition‚ Saturday Vanguard went to town
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The smallpox eradication through vaccination was possible at most due to one feature: there is no animal reservoir of smallpox‚ variola (VARV) spreads person to-person (11). Additionally‚ already early in the history those who bore pox scars were noted to be resistant to disease recurrence. And the persons who acquired smallpox through a scratch were witnessed to have attenuated course of disease. Buddhist nun sometime between 1022 and 1063 AD started an inoculation
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