N umber 2 August 2009 GENdER aNd WoRk IN ThE MENa REGIoN W o R k I N G Pa P E R S E R I E S Poverty‚ Job Quality and Labor market Dynamics When there is “No Respect” at Work: Job Quality Issues for Women in Egypt’s Private Sector ghada barsoum‚ Ali rashed‚ and Dahlia Hassanien Ghada Barsoum is Senior Program Manager‚ Poverty‚ Gender and Youth Program‚ Population Council‚ Cairo‚ Egypt. Email address: gbarsoum@popcouncil.org Ali Rashed is Data Analyst/Researcher‚ Data Analysis
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Malaysia In Malaysia‚ privatization is generally defined as the transfer of ownership from public to private sector. It could also refer as changing status of a business‚ service or industry from state‚ government or public to private ownership or control. Occasionally‚ the term privatization is to include the use of private contractors to provide services previously rendered by the public sector. Full privatization is not the norm in Malaysia; hence most privatization involves transferring only some
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Nirmala Memorial Foundation College of Commerce & Science GUIDELINES FOR THE PROJECT WORK (FOR O.C.M‚ S.P.‚ ECO‚ B.K.) Format of the Project Project Presentation 1) Introduction Introduction to be written with the reference to the subject (Topic) of the project. 2) Aims and Objectives Aims and objectives should be started as To know………… To understand……….. To get detailed information……… 3) Needs and Importance Needs and importance should start as To acquire knowledge…………
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Public Private Partnership (PPP or simply P3) - Nigeria’s New Paradigm for infrastructure Development By Bob M. Achanya President‚ Kogi PPP Forum Cooperative‚ North Central Nigeria. Introduction Public private partnership (PPP) has recently gained prominence as a term to describe a business relationship in which public and private resources are blended to achieve a goal or set of goals judged to be of mutual benefit both to the private entity and to the public. According to the UNECE (2008)
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largest employer of child labour in India‚ while United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates 70 % of child labour is deployed in agriculture and related activities. Outside of agriculture‚ child labour is observed in almost all informal sectors of the Indian economy. Companies including Gap‚ Primark‚ Monsanto and others have been criticised for child labour in their products. The companies claim they have strict policies against selling products made by underage kids‚ but there are many
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Indian Streams Reserach Journal Vol.2‚Issue.I/Feb; 12pp.1-4 Muniraju M Research Papers ISSN:-2230-7850 BANKING SECTOR REFORMS IN INDIA: THE RATIONALE AND EFFICACY Kumar B Assistant Librarian‚ University College of Arts‚ Tumkur University Tumkur- 572103. Muniraju M Assistant Professor‚ Department of Studies and Research in Economics‚ Tumkur University‚ Tumkur – 572 103. Abstract The Indian banking industry is measured as a flourishing and the secure in the banking world. The country
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liberalization and economic reforms that allowed Banks to explore new business opportunities. Banking in India has evolved through five distinct phases. Each phase could be separated from the other by a landmark development in the sphere of Banking Sector. Phase I –Pre-independence Phase (up to 1947) India had centuries old tradition of indigenous Banking. There existed many evidences showing that the concept of Banking was not new to India. As Chanakya‟s Arthashashtra about 3000 B.C. showed
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Organizational culture and public sector reforms in a post–Washington consensus era: Lessons from Ghana’s good reformers Francis Y. Owusu Department of Community and Regional Planning‚ Iowa State University‚ Ames‚ Iowa‚ USA Abstract: Reforming Africa’s public sector has been on the agenda of African governments and their development partners for decades and yet the problem persists. This failure can be attributed to two related factors: solutions to the ‘African public sector problem’ have been dictated
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LENDING TO PRIORITY SECTOR At a meeting of the National Credit Council held in July 1968‚ it was emphasised that commercial banks should increase their involvement in the financing of priority sectors‚ viz.‚ agriculture and small scale industries. The description of the priority sectors was later formalised in 1972 on the basis of the report submitted by the Informal Study Group on Statistics relating to advances to the Priority Sectors constituted by the Reserve Bank in May 1971. On the basis
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Blekinge Institute of Technology School of Management Can the Performance of State-Owned Enterprises improve when privatized? A Case study of Ghanaian based firms Master’s Thesis in Business Administration‚ MBA programme Author Charles Arthur Ntiri Supervisor Dr. Jan Svanberg December‚ 2010 1 Abstract After almost two decades that privatization took place in Africa‚ especially in Ghana‚ there is not much empirical knowledge concerning the financial and operating performance of
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