Mining Industry Overview Boyi Xie March 5‚ 2012 Michael Porter’s Five Forces Outline • • • • • • • Products Suppliers/Customers Industry Compe?tors Cost Revenue & profit Overall trends Other factors Products • • • • • • • • • • • Aluminum Copper Lead Zinc Gold Silver Uranium oxide Diamonds Stainless Steel Materials Iron Ore Coal Aluminum Zinc Copper Gold Iron ore Diamond Marketing & Customers
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The Consumer Credit Act section 75 provides added protection to consumers‚ offered for transactions over £100. It is notable that higher earners‚ are among the financially savvy‚ are among the most likely to be aware of this cover. In an uncertain economic environment‚ using a credit card provides a sensible solution should something go wrong. The sector has faced further regulatory pressure with the introduction of more stringent rules from the Credit and Store Card Review and the implementation of
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“Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.”…Paul Samuelson INTRODUCTION Economics is the social science that analyzes the production‚ distribution‚ and consumption of goods and services. A focus of the subject is how economic agents behave or interact and how economies work. A given economy is the result of a process that involves its technological evolution‚ history and social organization‚ as well as its geography‚ natural resource endowment‚ and ecology
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Demand side factors 1.Monetary policy The central bank tries to maintain price stability through controlling the level of money supply. Thus‚ monetary policy plays a stabilizing role in influencing economic growth through a number of channels. The contribution that monetary policy makes to sustainable growth is the maintenance of price stability. Since sustained increase in price levels is adjudged substantially to be a monetary phenomenon‚ monetary policy uses its tools to effectively check
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I do not own any rights. This is from my school book. Chapter 1 – What Is Economics? A Definition of Economics Our inability to satisfy all our wants is called scarcity. The choices that we make depend on the incentives that we face. An incentive is a reward that encourages or a penalty that discourages an action. Economics is the social science that studies the choices that individuals‚ businesses‚ governments and entire societies make as they cope with scarcity and the incentives that
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Introduction Economics is the study that discusses how a society tries to solve the human problems of unlimited wants and scarce resources. This field of study is vast that it has been the subject of a great deal of writings. Economics is divided into Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. Macroeconomics deals with the overall economy‚ the aggregate demand and aggregate supply for all goods and services. The main concerns of Macroeconomics are the rate of inflation‚ unemployment and economic growth.
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of the Softdrink Industry Technological Environment. Revolutionary developments in machineries brought by technological advancements and discoveries have provided companies with enhancements in its operations‚ which when adopted and utilized effectively‚ may bring progress. Here‚ companies are able to produce more outputs than they have before‚ increasing its productivity and keeping up with the increasing demand of the market. Discoveries in additives would also provide industry players an answer
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Journal of Economic & Administrative Sciences Vol. 26‚ No. 1‚ June 2010 (27 -51) Factors Affecting Switching Behavior of Mobile Service Users: The Case of Jordan Dr. Mohammad Suleiman Awwad Mr. Bashar Awad Neimat Mutah University Al-Hussein Bin Talal University Jordan Abstract This study aims at identifying the most critical factors affecting the customer switching behavior for mobile service providers in Jordan. A number of 580 questionnaires distributed to a random sample of Jordanian mobile
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change in disposable income MPSyd = delta S / delta Yd Average Propensity to save APSyd Total desired saving divided by the total disposable income APSyd = S / Yd Yd is either consumed or saved: APC + APS = 1 MPC + MPS = 1 All other changes affecting C Shifts the consumption function If wealth increases‚ spend more at every income level‚ shift consumption function Ex. If wealth
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Analyse the relationships between the factors and explain how they can impact on wellbeing. In Maslow’s hierarchy to reach self-actualisation‚ which is at the top‚ you must go through; the physiological needs‚ safety needs‚ social needs‚ esteem needs to then finally reach the top and these all affect your wellbeing. The factors affecting wellbeing are physical‚ emotional‚ economic‚ social‚ spiritual and cultural. These 6 factors contribute to the quality of people’s lives and affect a person’s
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