Sustainability of Microfinance Institutions 1. Introduction It is a fact that about 4 billion people worldwide live on less than US$2 per day (Microfinance Bulletin‚ 2008a‚ 7) and poverty is one of the major problems that is still prevailing in today’s world. Surprisingly more than 3 billion poor people seek access to basic financial services worldwide (Helms‚ 2006‚ ix) and were ignored by commercial banks for a very long time. For commercial banks the poor were seen as “unbankable” for decades
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Business Administration - MBA Semester 2 MB0044 – Productions & Operations Management- 4 Credits Assignment Set- 1 (60 Marks) Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions. Q.1 What do you understand by Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI)? Answer : Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) is a family of business models in which the buyer of a product provides certain information to a supplier of that product and the supplier takes full responsibility for maintaining an agreed inventory of
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Sustainability Review 2010 bp.com/sustainability 2 A letter from our group chief executive / 4 How BP is changing 6 Gulf of Mexico oil spill / 14 How we operate / 22 Energy future 30 Safety / 34 Environment / 38 Society Within hours of the Deepwater Horizon accident‚ BP teams were working to stop the leak. We also acted to minimize the spill’s impact on the environment by containing‚ removing and dispersing oil offshore‚ protecting the shoreline and cleaning up oil that came ashore. And we
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How should Convicted Criminals be treated? The prison population has increased rapidly overtime as the level of crime has elevated. This observation may lead us to think that the officials are doing a good job keeping criminals off the streets‚ but many of the offenders that eventually leave prison will return within a year. This may be caused in part by the fact that society labels offenders by what they did and it is hard for them to re enter the community as productive citizens. Prison may
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Sustainability is the idea that everything must have a healthy cycle that ensures its entity will remain alive. This can be applied to any aspect of life‚ from economics to cooking. Rugby requires the ideals of sustainability as well in order to become a prominent component in America’s high school sport field‚ as well as survive as a sport. A hindrance to the sustainability of rugby is student athletes’ perception of the sport and the
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With 35 girls and only one prince‚ the Selection could be the opportunity of a lifetime for one very special girl‚ but the battle is fierce and the competitors are ruthless. If the stress of the Selection doesn’t get you first‚ the girls will. The Selection is an aggressive battle for the prince’s heart and the queen’s crown‚ and it is every girl’s dream to be in it. America Singer is a free-spirited-high-tempered ginger in the running for the Selection‚ and seemingly the only girl in her country
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International Journal of Plant Production 3 (4)‚ October 2009 ISSN: 1735-6814 (Print)‚ 1735-8043 (Online) This is a refereed journal and all articles are professionally screened and reviewed. SHORT COMMUNICATION GUASNR www.ijpp.info Evaluation of selection indices for drought tolerance of corn (Zea mays L.) hybrids a Islamic Azad University‚ Karaj‚ Iran. Faculty of Agriculture‚ University of Birjand‚ Iran. *Corresponding Author; E-mail: farzadpaknejad@yahoo.com SI b D A. Jafaria‚ F. Paknejada
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In society nowadays‚ sustainability is rather an important concept for mostly all organisations. Over the past few years‚ the pollution rate has rapidly increased all over the world; and so‚ many designers‚ developers‚ engineers are seeking new ways of approach to be able to achieve the goal of being sustainable‚ then apply it to their designs and improve the quality of life. Supposing‚ there are no researches into being more sustainable‚ what will then happen is that in a long run‚ the human race
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intentionally or accidentally. There are many associated variables in statistical numbers that the person analyzing the data does not see‚ and without further explanation or supportive data‚ one can easily come to the wrong conclusion and the scientist data could be presented as facts rather than probability. If the source from which the data was gathered was not factual‚ then this will reflect a statistic that is misleading‚ biased‚ and based on false information‚ but those persons who might later interpret
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THE JONES FAMILY‚ INCORPORATED Principles of Corporate Finance 6th Edition Richard A. Brealey and Stewart C. Myers The accompanying table summarizes Johnny’s NPV calculation. He assumed Marsha would take 25 100-mile trips per year‚ saving $200‚ plus $1.00 per mile‚ plus a $40 tip on every trip. Operating costs would be $.45 per mile. The net savings are $295 per trip and $7375 per year. These savings increase with inflation at an assumed rate of 4% per year. It seems that
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