Geography Revision; Going Global... Globalisation – The process by which people‚ cultures‚ money‚ goods and information can be transferred between countries with few or no barriers. Impacts of Globalisation; Finance: Global trade barriers being removed. Cheaper mobile and Internet rates. A worldwide reduction in consumer prices. Trillions of dollars are exchanged. Some TNCs. Politics: An expansion of international political organisations. (EU) People: Cheaper mobile and Internet rates
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INTRODUCTION India has experienced fast-paced growth over the last decade. Though the growth has primarily come from the services sector‚ manufacturing and exports have also risen reasonably. Logistics as a function is being increasingly outsourced by manufacturers. However‚ the Indian logistics sector in many ways still lags behind the global standards of performance. This is evident from the fact that we are ranked as low as 46th among 155 countries in the World Bank International Logistics Performance
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Factsheet briefing on gender issues in migration and urbanisation as they relate to poverty Produced by UN Women as a supplementary briefing for the Consultative Group meeting 6 December 2011 Hanoi GENDER AND MIGRATION International context and standards: Michelle Bachelet‚ Executive Director of UN Women: “The absence of legal and social protections in many countries – and failure to implement and monitor gender-sensitive labour and migration laws where they exist – makes care workers vulnerable
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has caused conflict in the 7 states the river cater too. Urbanisation in the river basin in Bangladesh‚ one of the poorest countries in the world‚ has increased the flood risk enormously and has meant that the local people have to learn to diversify their livelihoods in order to survive. One of the major needs for management in areas with river basins is to reduce the flood risk‚ especially in LICs such as Bangladesh where urbanisation and global warming has increased the flood risk exponentially
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Introduction India is a land where the life of its people is beautified with festivals. Festival is acelebration of the changing seasons‚ harvest‚ reconciliation and the birth anniversaries of saints‚ gurus and prophets and honours the gods and goddesses. History of festivals Epigraphical evidences prove that festivals have been celebrated in India since Vedictimes. The Aryans conquered India around 1500 B.C. and cultural integration with thelocal population took place. 1. Religious Festivals
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After the docks closed 10‚000 people were put out of work Before London’s docklands had been UK’s largest manufacturing area of 1970s. Lost 16% of population due to counter urbanisation. Causes of the decline 1. COUNTER URBANISATON: 1. London experienced net out migration and this is known as counter urbanisation. 2. This happened due to: Clearance of slums and bombed areas during world war II The creation of new towns such as Stevenage only up to 50km out of London. These were
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References: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/uttarakhand-floods-environmentalists-blame-rapid-urbanisation-pilgrim-movement-india-today/1/284843.html http://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/2013/07/man-made-factors-blame-uttarakhand-floods-environmentalists-7351/ http://catalyst.nationalinterest.in/2013/06/30/ndtv-we-the-people-uttarakhand-floods-pavan-srinath/
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* Introduction Meaning of customer relationship management (CRM) 1. A management philosophy according to which a company’s goals can be best achieved through identification and satisfaction of the customers’ stated and unstated needs and wants. 2. A computerized system for identifying‚ targeting‚ acquiring‚ and retaining the best mix of customers. Customer relationship management helps in profiling prospects‚ understanding their needs‚ and in building relationships with them by providing the
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INTRODUCTION REAL ESTATE IN INDIA CURRENT SCENARIO OF THE REAL ESTATE MARKET IN INDIA Commercial real estate sector is in boom in India. In the last fifteen years‚ post liberalization of the economy‚ Indian real estate business has taken an upturn and is expected to grow from the current USD 14 billion to a USD 102 billion in the next 10 years. This growth can be attributed to favorable demographics‚ increasing purchasing power‚ existence of customer friendly banks & housing finance
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human waste were merely just dumped onto the streets. It is also present that houses shared many residents and in fact too much‚ additionally the sky cannot be viewed clearly due to the pollution caused by smoke and smog. As already mentioned‚ urbanisation caused the cities to be riddled with problems and issues‚ and the only benefit that came of that was the boost of labour‚ which in terms built our current
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