Book Reviews Malaysia’s foreign policy‚ the first fifty years: Alignment‚ neutralism‚ Islamism. By Johan Saravanamuttu. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies‚ ISEAS‚ 2010‚ pp. 388. ISBN: 978-9814279-78-9 Reviewer: Abdul Rashid Moten‚ Department of Political Science‚ International Islamic University Malaysia. E-mail: rashidm@iium.edu.my Malaysia’s foreign policy is very much under-studied. Nevertheless‚ there exist several scholarly studies that have received commendable reviews
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Executive Summary This case study focused on the Microsoft Corporation and charges made by their competitors‚ the Federal Trade Commission‚ and the Department of Justice of antitrust violations and a monopoly of the computer operating systems and applications software‚ software development tools (e.g.‚ programming language software)‚ and hardware peripherals (e.g.‚ Microsoft Mouse) that Microsoft specializes in. It focused on numerous issues that would lead one to believe that Microsoft was in fact
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Educational Policy Year 3 BA (Hons) Health & Applied Social Studies Validated by Liverpool John Moore’s University Module Leader: Marta Menor-Rodriguez Examination of the Coalition Government ’s New School Systems. Word Count 5415 On Tuesday May eleventh‚ 2010 David Cameron became the British Prime Minister after forming a Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition. This followed five days of negotiation as the general election had produced a hung
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Tariffs Explain the various impacts of an import tariff in small nations vs. large nations. The impact of an import tariff in a small nation is entirely unlike then an import tariff from a larger nation. When smaller nations imposes a tariff‚ it does not affect world prices‚ however the price of the importable commodity will start to rise‚ usually by the amount of the tariff for manufacturers and trade in the small nation. When large nations impose a tariff‚ it will reduce the volume of trade. Large
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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION:ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS Economic Environment refers to all those economic factors‚ which have a bearing on the functioning of a business. Business depends on the economic environment for all the needed inputs. It also depends on the economic environment to sell the finished goods. Naturally‚ the dependence of business on the economic environment is total and is not surprising because‚ as it is rightly said‚ business is one unit of the total economy. Economic
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“Impact of RBI Monetary Policy on Banks” A PROJECT SUBMITTED TO Prof. Mishu Tripathi Submitted By: Roll No. Name 21 Ambika Nadar 23 Nutan Panchal 25 Satyam Pandya Date of Submission: 7th Oct 2012 Management of Banks and Financial Services MFM SEM – V (Batch-: 2010 - 2013) [pic] ACKNOWLEDGEMENT As the saying goes‚ man is
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The Political Economy of Industrial Policy in Pakistan 1947-1971 Mushtaq H. Khan‚ Department of Economics‚ SOAS‚ University of London. The period from 1947 when Pakistan was created to the watershed of 1971 when East Pakistan split off to become Bangladesh is an important one for studying the determinants of industrial performance in the Indian subcontinent. On the one hand‚ despite substantial differences in the industrial policies of Pakistan and India‚ their rates of industrial growth were
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International trade The exchange of goods or services along international borders. This type of trade gives rise to a world economy‚ in which prices‚ or supply and demand‚ affect and are affected by global events. Political change in Asia‚ for example‚ could result in an increase in the cost of labor‚ thereby increasing the manufacturing costs for an American sneaker company based in Malaysia‚ which would then result in an increase in the price that you have to pay to buy the tennis shoes at
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Tariffs -- Part 1GOVERNMENTAL INFLUENCE ON TRADE OVERVIEW Chapter 6 really concerns one question - Why do all governments engage in the regulation of international trade? Given the results of international trade theory‚ particularly those of Adam Smith and David Ricardo‚ it is clear that government involvement in trade simply raises prices and reduces supply. Therefore‚ why would any government want to have an influence on trade? REASONS FOR PROTECTIONISM Protection of domestic industries‚ employment
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Week Four’s International Trade Simulation is set in the country of Rodamia. As a Trade Representative of Rodamia‚ one will evaluate what products need to be produced in the country and what products should be imported or exported. Further‚ the Trade Representative will determine when to impose trade restrictions and negotiate trade agreements. The objective of this paper to discuss the advantages and limitations of international trade‚ highlight four key points in the simulation as they relate
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