After a decade of Global War On Terror --- Economic‚ social‚ political impact on Pakistan Majyd Aziz The exodus of Russians from Afghanistan‚ the megalomania of Iraq’s Saddam‚ the spread of Islam in the West‚ the domestic and external pressure on the American economy‚ the 9/11 historical event‚ and the voluminous studies of latter-day Dr Strangelove’s clones nurtured and financed by massively-funded American think tanks were all contributing factors in a series of initiatives undertaken by
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Changes in Technology in the Past Decade The world has changed a lot in the past 10 years. The rapid development of new technology and the changing landscape of the online world has changed the way we work and‚ for many‚ where we do our work from. Here are my top 10 ways how IT technology has changed over the decade. 1. Internet for All – Ten years ago many offices in need of dedicated Internet resources or wide area networks were dependent on expensive leased lines or slightly cheaper ISDN (integrated
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is India’s central banking institution‚ which controls the monetary policy of the Indian rupee. It was established on 1 April 1935 during the British Raj in accordance with the provisions of the Reserve Bank of India Act‚ 1934 Main functions Bank of Issue Under Section 22 of the Reserve Bank of India Act‚ the Bank has the sole right to issue bank notes of all denominations. The distribution of one rupee notes and coins and small coins all over the country
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Executive Summary India is an agriculture based country having a long history of commodity trading dated back to 1875.Commodity derivatives have a crucial role to play in the price risk management process especially in an agriculture dominated economy. So‚ it is largely the agricultural commodities that are traded on the existing commodity derivatives markets in India. This is also in line with the requirement of WTO to reduce the support to agriculture. . The share of non-agricultural commodities
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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is India’s central banking institution‚ which controls the monetary policy of the Indian rupee. It was established on 1 April 1935 during the British Raj in accordance with the provisions of the Reserve Bank of India Act‚ 1934.[2] The share capital was divided into shares of ₹100 each fully paid which was entirely owned by private shareholders in the beginning.[3] Following India’s independence in 1947‚ the RBI was nationalised in the year 1949. The RBI plays an important
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The Impact of Economic Reforms on Industry in India: A Case Study of the Software Industry N. R. Narayana Murthy The Indian economy‚ in the last decade‚ transitioned from an inward looking‚ closed economy‚ to a liberalized‚export-oriented one. The software sector witnessed unprecedented growth‚ with exports growing at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 45 percent and domestic software sales at around 35 percent. In fact‚ before 1991‚ the Indian software sector was adversely affected
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The European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is an agreement between participating European nations to share a single currency‚ the euro‚ and a single economic policy with set conditions of fiscal responsibility. Since the euro entered in circulation in 2002‚ the European Union has become more and more powerful. However‚ in 2008 when the economic crisis dramatically started with a huge bank investment from the bank in the United states of America “Lehman Brothers »‚ “Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc
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Title: Impact of technology transfer units on growth of biotechnology industry in India According to the Indian draft National Biotechnology Development Strategy -2014‚ modern biotechnology is defined as “The application of Science & Technology to living organisms as well as parts‚ products and models thereof‚ to alter living or non-living materials for the production of knowledge‚ goods and services”. The field of biotechnology is revolutionizing the development of products‚ processes‚ and services
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Economic Survey of India 2013 Highlights The Economic Survey 2013 says that foreign exchange reserves were steady at $295.6 billion at December 2012 end. Fiscal deficit may be at 5.3%‚ possible that Chidambadarm may bring it down to 5.2%‚ committed to controlling fiscal deficit. Food inflation was mainly driven by cereal prices. Diesel price hike will put upward pressure on inflation. The Survey also said that the economic slowdown is a wake up call for stepping up reforms. Here are the other
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A 2020 Vision: Education in the next two decades James Levin University of Illinois Appeared in 2002 in the Quarterly Review of Distance Education‚ 3(1)‚ 105-114. Introduction It is difficult to predict the future. In our everyday lives‚ we implicitly depend on a "future will be like the present" prediction. More sophisticated forecasters often predict that potential changes will occur quickly in the short term‚ ignoring the institutional barriers to change. Similarly‚ they often
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