178 OXFAM BRIEFING PAPER 20 JANUARY 2014 Housing for the wealthier middle classes rises above the insecure housing of a slum community in Lucknow‚ India. Photo: Tom Pietrasik/Oxfam WORKING FOR THE FEW Political capture and economic inequality Economic inequality is rapidly increasing in the majority of countries. The wealth of the world is divided in two: almost half going to the richest one percent; the other half to the remaining 99 percent. The World Economic Forum has identified
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households and firms. • We examine how this specialness requires a tighter regulation of financial intermediaries compared to other firms. 2 The world’s top 50 banks as of March 2009 http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/mar/25/banking-g20 GFC and FIs 3 GFC and Bailouts http://www.globalissues.org/article/768/global-financial-crisis#Thescaleofthecrisistrillionsintaxpayerbailouts GFC and FIs 4 Bailout Programs • United States – Emergency Economic Stabilization Act
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Commission‚ 2007. Commission takes Preliminary Action in Two Major Market Manipulation Cases. IN07-26-000. July 2007. Fidessa‚ 2011. Fidessa Fragmentation Index‚ Europe. Available via: /http://frag mentation.fidessa.com/europeS. Viewed on 16.6.2011. G20‚ 2011. G20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central bank Governors‚ 14–15 ´ April 2011: Final Communique. Graaf‚ F.G.B.‚ Stegeman‚ R.A.‚ 2011. Europees voorstel voor de regulering van OTCderivatenmarkten. Ondernemingsrecht 3‚ 99–112. Gresse‚ C.‚ 2011. Effects
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37 The Generic Strategy Trap Danny Miller Management experts claim that for a company to thrive‚ it mus concentrate on a single generic strategy—on one thing it does better th its rivals. But specialization also has its disadvantages. The author sugge that a broader‚ mixed approach may be preferable. S ince the publication of Michael Porter ’s Competitive Strategy‚ many experts on strategy have been extolling the virtues of pure generic strategies. Porter argued that by adeptly
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AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY ANALYSIS Submitted by Team A Donald Bradley Morgan Bruns Adam Fleming Jay Ling Lauren Margolin Felipe Roman Presented to: Prof. Alan Flury December 5‚ 2005 ME 6753: Principles of Management for Engineers Team A ii Executive Summary Chosen industry: This analysis focuses on the automotive industry‚ specifically‚ large-scale manufacturers of automobiles. The automotive industry is inherently interesting: it is massive‚ it is competitive‚ and it is expected to undergo
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James Cook University | Study Period 1 23.04.2013 | “What is National Interest‚ and how has it developed in Australia? How has this shaped its foreign policy?” | PL 2250 | Australia and World Politics | Ross Parisi | James Cook University | Cairns Campus 4/23/2013 | Introduction This assignment will discuss and analyse how Australia’s National Interest has underpinned the development of Australia’s foreign policy framework since the beginning of the twentieth century
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Corsica Corsica is one of France’s 26 regions‚ located in the Mediterranean Sea‚ south of France‚ west of Italy and north of Sardinia. The island populates 302‚000 people over an area of 8‚680km2; Housing a wide range of both natural and built attractions; as well as an array of facilities. Natural attractions The beaches surrounding Corsica are one of the most important of the natural attractions on the island‚ with fine and coarse sand beaches as well as
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substantially in order to make it more stable‚ more resilient to shocks and more supportive towards the real economy and economic development. They also recognized that those reforms needed to be well coordinated at the international level. Therefore the G20 developed a certain number of measures to reinforce prudential norms and improve the supervisory capacity of financial authorities.
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1.0 Introduction This report focuses on the external factors that are likely to have an impact on the making of a Lobster hatchery in South Korea. In order to minimize possible market barriers‚ Political‚ Economic‚ Socio-cultural and Technological (PEST) analysis has been conducted on the country of interest. The analysis has supported to gain more information regarding the marketing environment of South Korea and the potentiality of the success of the Lobster hatchery. Matured Market size
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10.3 Excel Problem The Moose Wings Cooperative Flight Club owns a number of airplanes and gliders. It serves fewer than 2‚000 members‚ who are numbered sequentially from the founder‚ Tom Eagle (0001)‚ to the newest member‚ Jacques Noveau (1368). Members rent the flying machines by the hour‚ and all must be returned on the same day. The following six records were among those entered for the flights taken on September 1‚ 2010: Member # | Flight DateMM/DD/YY | Plane Used | Takeoff time | Landing
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