Social Responsible Investment Why Norwegian Pension Fund divest Walmart The Norwegian Pension Fund divested its $416 million stock of Walmart‚ which is the largest supermarket chain in the world. The reason of divesting is that Walmart bear “unacceptable risk of contributing to serious or systematic human rights violations”. Is this move reasonable for the fund? Given that Walmart had a good return on investment and already emphasis the ethical responsibilities to its suppliers. Norwegian Pension
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The child labor has been a controversial issue in China over the past ten years. According to the World Bank‚ ten million children below the age of 16 are employed illegally in factories‚ coalmines‚ and construction agencies across different provinces in China (2010). Even though there are some regulations enforced by the Chinese government to try decrease the number of children workers in cities‚ there is still a large number of families taking the risk of losing their children by sending them to
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Social Media in China: The Sina Weibo as the Study Object Mass media influence and restrict by the social and political‚ at the same time‚ the characteristics of the mass media also influence the process of social development. In most of the westen coutries‚ the media set up their rloe as the ‘watch dog’ for the governemtn‚ supervision the government and as well as a bridge of communication between government and public. From the Collins English Dictionary‚ a watchdog is defined as ‘a person or
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Examine the ways in which laws and social policies affect family life Firstly in the UK‚ family is not controlled by regulations or law‚ compared with different societies such as China. Many Laws or social policies tend to encourage or discourage different types of families; however they do not actively enforce laws or regulations onto them like China’s one child policy. The Government or other agencies only take an active role on policing areas of family life when things are perceived to have gone
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and Analysis of a Health Issue Affecting Australian Population [Name of Student] [Name of Affiliate Institution] [Date] Introduction Australia‚ just like other countries in the world‚ faces various health issues that are widely spread all over the country. The country has to come up with initiatives on how to improve the current Public Health Care services to address these health issues. Accident is one of the several pertinent health issues currently affecting Australia. Particularly road
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Impacts of environment issues to China Introduction Further to our presentation of title “Environmental issues and its impacts to China”‚ I am elaborating the key impacts of the environmental issues in details here. Due to the economic reforms carry out in China in past 30 years‚ with the opening of market to overseas and introduction of the foreign investments to China. China has maintained a high speed growth‚ with the average GDP growth rate at 10%. China now is already the second largest economy
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TITLE 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 LIST OF TABLES & DIAGRAMS 4 LIST OF APPENDICES 4 INTRODUCTION 5 THE WALMART EMPIRE 6 INTERNAL ANALYSIS 7 MARKETING
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Some others view social media‚ such as Facebook‚ as a way to help those shy students break out of their shell. Parents have seen the way social media has helped their quiet and self-conscious kids become much more open to making new friends‚ even if they were made online. In the article “Antisocial Network” states how social media has indeed helping shy kids get better at communicating to people while breaking the shy barrier (Stout‚ 2010). The impersonal nature of texting and online communication
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applied to Walmart‚ we can determine that the Buyer Power of their customers is high because patrons have many other choices. However‚ customers expect and demand the lowest prices from Walmart‚ and they are willing to overlook‚ but not ignore‚ other factors like customer service‚ store location‚ and atmosphere Walmart’s Suppliers have little power because of the sheer size of Walmart‚ and because being a Walmart supplier can provide huge sales potential. The suppliers must do what Walmart wants regarding
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Wal-Mart’s business is the result of Sam Walton ’s visionary leadership‚ along with generations of associates focused on helping customers and communities save money and live better. This rich heritage defines who Wal-Mart is and what they do today. (Walmart Heritage) What I have intended to do in this research paper is the give a brief history‚ a SWOT analysis‚ and description of some of the problems Wal-Mart has and will face. Wal-Mart as we know it today evolved from Sam Walton’s
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