Blood Diamonds: The Real Cost of Diamonds Sierra Leone is blessed with some of the world’s richest resources such as titanium‚ gold‚ and diamonds. Despite these rich resources‚ Sierra Leone ranked last on the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Index in 2001‚ making Sierra Leone the poorest country in the world at that time. (Renner‚ 2002‚ p. 22) So how can a country so rich in resources be so poor? Sierra Leone’s extreme poverty level is caused by the diamonds they mine and
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Maddy Bowen (played by Jennifer Connelly) in the film: Blood Diamond (2006) by director Edward Zwick. Maddy Bowen‚ an American journalist went to Africa to make a change but it was Africa who changed her. Danny Archer‚ (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) is a key player in the business of conflict diamonds. While in jail for smuggling conflict diamonds‚ Archer overheard a wounded commander telling the prisoners of a large rare pink coloured diamond that Solomon Vandy (played by Djimon Hounsou) found. Bowen
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examples include Swiss-made watches‚ German automobiles‚ Tulips from Holland‚ Argentine beef. Michael Porter uses his "Porter ’s Diamond" theory to explain why some countries have a comparative advantage in relation to others in specific industries. Porter theorizes that four broad attributes (factor endowments‚ demand conditions‚ relating and supporting industries‚ and firm strategy‚ structure‚ and rivalry) of a nation shape the environment in which local firms compete‚ and these attributes promote
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PESTEL FACTORS PESTEL analysis stands for "Political‚ Economic‚ Social‚ and Technological‚ Environmental and Legal analysis". It is a part of the external analysis when conducting a strategic analysis or doing market research and gives a certain overview of the different macro-environmental factors that the company has to take into consideration. Political factors or how and to what degree a government intervenes in the economy. Specifically‚ political factors include areas such as tax policy
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Country report PERU Summary Now that the worst of the economic crisis is over‚ the balance can be made up for Peru as well. GDP growth will fall to 1% in 2009‚ a steep drop from the 9.8% registered in 2008. However‚ in comparison to its peers‚ this can be considered a good result. Monetary and fiscal stimuli have supported growth so far. However‚ with regard to the fiscal stimulus‚ the bottom of the treasury chest is in sight. On the back of higher spending and falling revenues‚ the budget deficit
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Jared Diamond Jared Diamond was a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles. He was a biologist by training‚ and a specialist in human physiology. But his real passion has always been the study of birds. He began watching the birds when he was about seven years old in the United States. He arrived in New Guinea at the age of 26 and he felt that it was love at first sight. Diamond started to make regular trips to New Guinea and ever since‚ he decides to be the leading expert on the bird life of the island
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* VARIABLE UNDER STUDY | 7 | | * TYPE OF RESEARCH | 8 | | * DATA COLLECTION PLAN | 8 | | * SAMPLING PLAN | 8 | | * INSTRUMENT DESIGN | 8 | | * DATA ANALYSIS PLAN | 9 | | * BENEFITS AND SCOPE OF RESEARCH | 9 | | * LIMITATIONS | 10 | | * FIELD WORK MANAGEMENT | 10 | 5. | DATA ANALYSIS | 11-17 | 6. | CONCLUSION | 18 | 7. | SUGGESTION | 18 | 8. | BIBLIOGRAPHY | 19 | 9. | ANNEXURE | 20 | | - QUESTIONNAIRE | 20 | | -
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technologies‚ increased competition and Yahoo! He had a weak strategic plan to face this. Google had 72% of the Internet traffic during Yahoo! Only owns 17 percent followed by an elderly at 6 percent and a lassie at 4 percent. The emergence of new industry trends. External Issues for Yahoo! Inc. The US economy and around the
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Organisations should make sure they deliver clear and consistent messages to all their employees and management should lead by example and make sure they are having one to one meetings with their employees to keep them up to date with company strategies that may affect them specifically. They and should also hold regular team meetings so that the team all get the same message and know how it will affect the team. The teams should also be able to provide feedback on any communications they are involved
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Disney Strengths: •Disney’s collection of brands includes some of the most globally-recognized and durable names: Disney‚ ESPN‚ ABC‚ Pixar‚ Marvel‚ and now‚ Lucasfilms •Disney has proven over and over again that it is able to make profitable and smart investments to boost growth‚ as its Marvel brand has already produced Iron Man‚ Thor‚ Captain America‚ and the Avengers‚ and Pixar consistently produces blockbuster hits •The financial growth of the company remains solid even through financially
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