President of the Council | Herman Van Rompuy(EPP) | - | President of the Commission | José Manuel Barroso(EPP) | - | Speaker of the Parliament | Martin Schulz (S&D) | - | Presidency of the Council of the Union | Demetris Christofias(Cyprus) | - | High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy | Catherine Ashton (S&D) | Legislature | Legislature of the EU | - | Upper house | Council of the EU | - | Lower house | European Parliament | Establishment
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3 Textile Organic Dyes – Characteristics‚ Polluting Effects and Separation/Elimination Procedures from Industrial Effluents – A Critical Overview Zaharia Carmen and Suteu Daniela ‘Gheorghe Asachi’ Technical University of Iasi‚ Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection‚ Romania 1. Introduction The residual dyes from different sources (e.g.‚ textile industries‚ paper and pulp industries‚ dye and dye intermediates industries‚ pharmaceutical industries‚ tannery‚ and Kraft
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Cost accounting and the lean production philosophy By Tyrone Williams AIU Online September1‚ 2012 Abstract As Dr. Stephanie White prepares to cope with the a steep reduction in the budgetary allocation to the Uptown Clinic she must carefully determine which areas to cut while striving to maintain current levels of service. This essay will offer advice Dr. White on preparing for budget cuts. It will also discuss the lean production philosophy and how this compares with typical production
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Is Homelessness Society’s growing problem? Homelessness is a serious and growing problem for the whole of Great Britain. It is not merely a ‘housing problem’ but a much more complex mixture of social and economic factors‚ together with ‘individual’ factors which need to be addressed and analysed in order to try and resolve the growing problem of increasing numbers of homeless people. One could question whether society acknowledges the depth and breadth of the problem within our developed
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United States and Mexico. The Agreement includes two supplemental agreements on environmental and labor issues that address cooperative efforts to reconcile policies and procedures for dispute resolution between the member countries. NAFTA was preceded by an agreement between the United States and Canada entitled the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement‚ which was enacted on January 1‚ 1989‚ but has now been superseded by the NAFTA. The NAFTA initialing ceremony in October 1992.NAFTA called for immediately
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The Problem of Social Cost I. The Problem to Be Examined1 This paper is concerned with those actions of business firms which have harmful effects on others. The standard example is that of a factory the smoke from which has harmful effects on those occupying neighboring properties. The economic analysis of such a situation has usually proceeded in terms of a divergence between the private and social product of the factory‚ in which economists have largely followed the treatment of Pigou in
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NAFTA‚ which is also known as The North American Free Trade Agreement‚ is an agreement between the United States‚ Canada and Mexico that removed many tariffs on the imports and exports of agricultural goods between these three countries. The majority of the tariff barriers and cross-border investments among the United States‚ Canada and Mexico were eliminated gradually over a period of fifteen years. The objective of NAFTA was to boost employment and capital amongst these nations‚ but since it was
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the cost of production. The definition of productivity is what is put out per the number of hours put in‚ or worked. For instance‚ if you make 50 cookies over 50 hours worked‚ your rate of productivity is 1 per hour. The cost of production is comprised of several factors: fixed costs; variable costs; and the total cost. The fixed costs are defined as “costs that are spent and cannot be changed in the period of time under consideration” (Colander‚ 2010‚ p. 283). The variable costs are
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day because the 15th ride costs him $17.50 to produce but Rick is willing to produce the 10th ride for its marginal cost‚ which is $15‚ so Rick’s producer surplus on this ride is $5. L ook at below the each producer surplus of each producer: Rick’s producer surplus = (base x height)/2 = (15 x 7.5)/2 = $56.25 Sam’s producer surplus = (base x height)/2 = (10 x 5.0)/2 = $25.00 Tom’s producer surplus = (base x height)/2 = (5 x 2.5)/2 = $6.25 c. What is the marginal social cost of producing 45 rides a day
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be that it encourages the labour force to increase education and skill levels and it also encourages the labour force to work longer and harder. Some of the economic costs of inequality may be that inequality reduces overall utility and it can reduce economic growth. Subsequently there are mainly economic benefits of inequality‚ but social costs are involved. Whilst theory suggests that greater growth may be achieved through either reducing or increasing inequality. SMH Economist Jessica Irvine suggests
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