Consumer Price Index The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of change in prices over a period of time. The CPI is made up of a fixed basket of goods that is used to determine one’s CPI. The basket of goods consists of services and goods like food‚ education‚ transportation‚ apparel‚ housing‚ and beverages. Some examples of these goods are cereal‚ milk‚ cheese‚ prescription drugs‚ jewelry and new vehicles (“Consumer Price Index” 2010). The basket of goods are reviewed every ten years‚ which
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A Summary of the Index of Dissimilarity The index of dissimilarity is a measurement of segregation between two racial groups in a neighborhood compared to the city as a whole. Specifically‚ this measurement determines the evenness‚ or the consistency of a complete‚ integrated spread of two racial groups across a specified area in a city. The formula for calculating the index of dissimilarity is as follows: index of dissimilarity= 1/2 ∑_(i=1)^N▒|x_i/X- y_i/Y| Here‚ “x_i” represents the number of
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a number of techniques of capital budgeting. Some of the methods are based on the concept of incremental cash flows from the projects or potential investments. There are some other techniques of capital budgeting that are based on the accounting rules and accounting earnings. However‚ the techniques based on the accounting rules are considered to be improper by the economists. The hybrid and simplified techniques of capital budgeting are also used in practice. Capital budgeting is the process of
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Big Mac Index The McDonald’s corporation – “McDonald ’s is the leading global food-service retailer with more than 34‚000 local restaurants serving nearly 69 million people in 118 countries each day” (McDonalds Corporation‚ 2014). The statistics alone are impressive for a company that started as a single restaurant in Des Plaines‚ IA in April‚ 1955 (McDonalds Corporation‚ 2014). Even more impressive is the influence McDonald’s has on global economic forecasting by virtue of its signature sandwich
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sustainable manner. Human development therefore focuses on people and the satisfaction of their basic needs. Human Development Index The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is regularly publishing their global Human Development Reports (HDRs) since 1990 to measure the country’s in human development through Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI is a summary composite index that measures a country’s average achievements in terms of three basic aspects of human development: longevity‚ knowledge
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PEDIATRIC MINI REVIEW Body mass index in children and adolescents: considerations for population-based applications A Must1‚2 and SE Anderson2 1 2 Department of Public Health and Family Medicine‚ Tufts University School of Medicine‚ Boston‚ MA‚ USA and The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy‚ Tufts University‚ Boston‚ MA‚ USA International Journal of Obesity (2006) 30‚ 590–594. doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803300 Keywords: review; body mass index; pediatrics; BMI z-score; overweight
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dimensions that can be used to assess each countries culture; power distance‚ uncertainty avoidance‚ long-term orientation‚ individualism‚ and masculinity index. In our presentation‚ we chose a topic about the masculinity index. Therefore‚ an in depth analysis for this dimension will follow in the next part. IV. Masculinity Index: "Masculinity index refers
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What is HDI? HDI (Human Development index) is a way of measuring development by combining indicators of life expectancy‚ educational attainment and income. The breakthrough for the HDI was the creation of a single statistic which was to serve as a frame of reference for both social and economic development. The HDI sets a minimum and a maximum for each dimension‚ called goalposts‚ and then shows where each country stands in relation to these goalposts‚ expressed as a value between 0 and 1. It is
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Winfield | | | Body mass index or (BMI) is a key index that relates a person’s body weight to their height. The body mass index is a person’s weight in kilograms divided by their height in meters squared. The National Institute of Health uses the body mass index to define normal weight‚ overweight and obesity. Overweight is considered is a person having a body mass index of 27.3% or more for women and 27.8 % or more for men. Obesity using the BMI index is defined as a BMI of 30 and above
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Capital Budgeting Rules: NPV‚ IRR‚ Payback‚ Discounted Payback‚ AAR Categories of Plans 1. Replacement Projects: decisions to replace old equipment – those are among the easier of capital budgeting techniques. It is important to decide whether to replace the equipment when it wears out or to invest in repairing the machine. 2. Expansion Projects: These are decisions whether to increase the size of business or not – they are more uncertain than replacement projects. 3. New products and services: These
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