objectives of the Act are augmenting wage employment and strengthening natural resource management. As per the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act‚ job cards are issued to the rural unskilled labour by guaranteeing work for 100 days in a financial year at a minimum daily wage of Rs.100. It is the largest programme in the world for rural reconstruction. The scheme covered 604 districts in India in three phases and provided employment opportunities for more than 4.47 crore households in 2008-09 .The
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1. Measuring the Cost of Living 1) Questions for Review # 2 Questions: Describe the three problems that make the consumer price index an imperfect measure of the cost of living. Answer: The 1st problem is called substitution bias. Consumers substitute toward goods that have become relatively less expensive. However CPI is based on a fixed basket of goods and it ignores the possibility of consumer substitution. The 2nd problem is the introduction of new goods. This means that consumers have more
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GGS 3/17/09 15:15 r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r rr ECONOMIES AND SCOPE OF SCALE 2 r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r rr ew concepts in microeconomics‚ if any‚ are more fundamental to business strategy than economies of scale and the closely related economies of scope. Economies of scale allow some firms to achieve a cost advantage over their rivals. Economies of scale are a key determinant of market structure and entry. Even the internal organization
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brought over to work on the plantations and descendants now dominated the racial makeup and influence the cultural. European-Commercial Region — the most “Latin” part of South America. At least 85% of the population are “pure” European with a strong Hispanic cultural imprint. This area of Mediterranean climate practices cattle and sheep pastoralism as well as mixed farming. Amerind-Subsistence Region — This region includes some of South America’s poorest areas. The Amerindian heirs
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COMPUTER SCIENCE Principles of Economy with Taxation and Agrarian Reforms Xeres Yvonne O. Quimora A Comparative Study Of Philippines and Vietnam’s Economy Laserna‚Marknel S. Caraig‚ Ma. Joy Angeline E. Serrano‚ Ismerald BSCS-C32 Morning Philippines Vietnam Economic and social environment Philippines The Philippines is a large country‚ with high population density‚ and a population growth rate relatively higher (2.2 percent per year in 1990-94) then the SEA standard
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GENERAL DISTRIBUTION OCDE/GD(96)102 THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT Paris 1996 Copyright OECD‚ 1996 Applications for permission to reproduce or translate all or part of this material should be made to: Head of Publications Service‚ OECD‚ 2 rue André Pascal‚ 75775 Paris‚ Cedex 16‚ France. 2 FOREWORD The OECD economies are increasingly based on knowledge and information. Knowledge is now recognised as the driver of productivity
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Soviet economy First‚ let’s see what conditions the Soviet economy had at its launch. It is known that Tsarist Russia was at one of the last places among the capitalist countries to produce industrial products per capita. In the middle of the 20th century‚ far ahead of Russia in terms of industrial production were the United States‚ Britain‚ Germany‚ and France. In tsarist Russia‚ cars‚ tractors‚ combines‚ powerful steam and gas turbines‚ diesel locomotives‚ electric locomotives‚ equipment for various
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Economies are different throughout the world. Many countries have decided on similar economies to other countries. Two of these economic systems are market and command economies. These two economies are the two most common economies throughout the world‚ and are often compared and contrasted amongst countries. The first economy is known as a market economy. This economy is generally ruled by the people. The decisions of everyday civilians affect the economy daily‚ and can quickly change due to this
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Previous PageTable Of ContentsNext Page The Nigerian economy: Agriculture and the livestock sector For some years Nigeria has been seeking to achieve economic take-off by using her oil resources.1 The 1973�74 fourfold rise in oil prices enabled the Government to launch an ambitious investment programme.2 The principal aim of the Third Development Plan was to diversify the economy‚ which at that time was primarily based on oil and agriculture. Diversification was to be achieved by implementing
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universities such as the Wharton School from the University of Pennsylvania‚ Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Stanford University‚ he has accumulated over 10‚000 hours from just school alone. Pichai joined Google in 2004‚ gaining over 10 years of hard work and experience. Sundar Pichai’s net worth is over 150 million dollars‚ making him very successful in not only today’s standards. It is more than evident that the most successful people dedicate time‚ energy‚ and depend on education to
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