Essays on Alliance

Since the 1970’s, concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) have existed as a more efficient means to grow livestock. These operations have the ability to raise livestock faster than other farming methods. Farms that operate using conventional methods use antibiotics and other methods to increase the number of animals that can fit on a lot. Proponents of this style of farming are saying that increasing the efficacy of their business that will eventually lower the price of animal protein. Conventional farmers also claim that they help in the feeding of underserved populations. However, parties that are against conventional farming ...

Essay 1- Gunpowder

Essay 1- Gunpowder

Introduction

The development of gunpowder has been one of the turning points in the history of warfare and civilizations. Gunpowder literally became the great leveler, causing a revolution in military affairs and changing the world order in favor of industrialized nations. The thesis of this paper is that gunpowder enabled technologically advanced nations to gain control over the world.

History

Gunpowder was invented mistakenly during the quest for immortality. Experimenting with life-lengthening elixirs around AD 850, Chinese alchemists, while experimenting with saltpeter, considered mixing it with sulphur and charcoal. The resultant mixture was explosive, and signaled the birth ...

1. Perform a five forces analysis for the traditional airlines. How would you assess Qantas’ ability to address the limiting (or detrimental) factors in the industry?

Five Forces Analysis

Threat of New Entrants The airline industry has moderate threat in terms of new carriers entering the industry, especially from the Asian sector. Even then, the knowledge and costs of entering the market are significantly higher. Any new airline attempting to enter the airline industry would need significant investment of building its customer base and infrastructure.

Buyer Power

In terms of buying power, the airline industry grew to $564 billion in 2008 displaying the high ...

Singapore International Airlines: Strategy with a Smile

Airline industry is considered global because it is characterized by the movement of services between countries, i.e. international trade, the existence of international organizations (ICAO, IATA, etc.), the availability of the natural resource potential in the countries and highly skilled workforce. In general, driving forces of globalization include a new round of scientific and technical progress; the activities of transnational corporations that operate globally and spread around the world uniform business standards; expansion of the Internet as global communications, business and entertainment environments; the activities of international economic organizations; and expansion and aggravation of global problems, forcing humanity to ...

INDIVIDUAL MEMO: IDENTIFYING BEST PRACTICES FOR HOMELESS SERVICES IN A BUSINESS DISTRICT

Executive Summary The City Heights Business Association is interested in understanding the best practices for homeless services to deal with the relatively large population of homeless individuals in the business improvement district (City Heights Business Association, 2016). The organization has services available in the form of funding and partners, but the organization is very concerned about what the most important method for dealing with the problem of homelessness in the United States— and particularly in their district and surrounding districts— might be. This discussion is an overview of the various options that the City Heights Business Association might have ...

Vision Statement of JASSM

The vision of the Joint Air-to- Surface Standoff Missile program is to create a collaborative working environment through the appreciation of the human resource and the strengths of the workforce. It is keeping an entrepreneurial culture and environment which steams on new plans and dealings which eliminating the bureaucracies in carrying a project. It is based on giving people a sense of confidence through continually given opportunities of working with the program and owning the project wholly which ensures collaboration between the various department and professions. It is to foster the alliance throughout the period of the project and ...

Research Paper

Research Paper

Introduction

High Technology Corporation (HTC) is an established maker of a variety of electronic components, and it serves an international market. HTC is now fully-integrated wireless communication service for worldwide use. However, to establish its brand in the global market, it has to dominate in its B2B activities. In this regard, it is useful if HTC invests in a global electronic brand in the international market. In the assignment, Apple Inc. has been selected for investment by HTC. The paper would conduct the financial assessment of Apple from a comparative perspective, to provide investment feasibility for HTC.

Background and Industry

Apple ...

Vista Aerospace case

In most general terms, risk assessment can be defined as an examination of factors that can harm people in course of one’s activities. Most important issues to be considered in terms of choosing supplier include the suppliers’ capacity and their experience in producing electronic equipment in general and aviation equipment in particular. These factors can particularly influence supplier’s capacity to produce quality equipment and, in turn, passengers’ security and safety. In case of Essilor (Brazilian supplier), an important risk deals with the fact that an extent to which the company is experienced in producing electronic equipment. Furthermore, ...

Part A

Since my arrival in the United States from Nepal in (Insert year here), I have worked very hard to overcome the cultural and language barriers that initially confronted our family. Due to financial difficulties and my mother’s illness, it became necessary for me to leave high school and study independently at home in order to provide care for my mother. I found that the independent study was not challenging enough so I undertook extra classes at a local college so that I did not fall behind academically. As my mother’s health improved I was able to commence ...

Project Proposal

Data Analysis and Analytics Research Information is considered to be the new form of currency in business. Information has become part of people’s everyday lives. We can see data everywhere. For instance, we can find them on our credit card or ATM card, our financial records, property documents, health data, or even in the internet. Data sharing connects us with each other and promotes globalization. The sharing of data can be advantageous to everyone because it provides a credit is directly attributed to the researcher whose research output allows the results of the research to be scrutinized, maximizing ...

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Children in Prison

In the definition given by the General Medical Council (2016), the term “children” refers to “younger minors who do not have the maturity or understanding to make important decisions for themselves.” In the same report, the term “young people” is used for individuals who are “older or more experienced children and are more likely to be able to make decisions for themselves.” The law holds that when an individual reaches the age of 16, adolescents have the ability to render decisions regarding their respective welfare and status, though there are differences with regards to legal investigations ...

There are many approaches that companies in the hospitality industry can use in improving performance in business. Of all the approaches available, expansion into new markets is one of the most common ways through which business is expanded. With the potential expansion into the Chinese market, it is necessary to access the expansion plan to avert any risks that come with entry into a new market.

The hotel has some alternatives in entering the Chinese market. The first one is licensing, where the company will allow a Chinese company to use the Swiss hotel’s expertise and trademark in ...

Introduction

The modern day healthcare industry is dominated by a number of for-profit companies in the US. Although, every business intends to maximize its profits irrespective of the industry it belongs still there are few examples of balanced social results and high goodwill in each industry. In the healthcare industry, LifePoint hospitals have done extremely well on the front of commercial success and they have also maintained the adherence to community welfare compliances. Their recent alliance with Duke University health system is just another step in expanding the highly reliable healthcare services. The LifePoint Inc. is one among the top ...

Renault–Nissan Alliance is a Franco-Japanese strategic partnership founded in 1999 between two famous automobile manufacturers Renault (France) and Nissan (Japan).

The following 4 steps are considered to be crucial in the history of the Alliance: - Renault helped Nissan in the field of financial recourses and management; - the Alliance identified and exploit synergies and economics of scale; - in 2008 the Alliance pursued opportunities for joint projects (building electric cars, constructing plants in India and Morocco); - expansion of the Alliance with other major partners to indentify and exploit further opportunities (this was consistent with Gosh's vision for the Alliance: to become one of the three automotive companies in terms of quality, technology and profitability in the industry).

Ghosh’s vision for fourth stage is to create greater value through further expansion.

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In order to show how the possession of atomic weapons influences the strength of the United States in the world developments and the outcome of many processes in which the United States as a nuclear power state was taking part it is vital to dig a little bit deeper into the prehistory of the United States’ acquisition of the nuclear weapons. It is important in order to understand why it was significant for the state to acquire such weapon in the first place and what international developments led the state to the decision to. For the foreign policy of ...

Introduction

Handling an angry or uncooperative patient can be a challenge to any healthcare professional trying to perform a medical procedure on the patient’s behalf. When a patient is faced with a sudden illness, he or she may experience overwhelming fear about the outcome of any testing or procedures that have to be performed. For many patients with no medical knowledge, testing brings with it more fear about what is going to happen during the tests. The role of the radiology professional is to maintain compassion while educating the patient about the procedure that is to be performed. In ...

FIVE YEAR STRATEGIC MARKETING PLAN

Introduction of the Marketing Plan The purpose of the five year strategic marketing is a comprehensive plan developed to evaluate the proposed strategic and marketing alternatives for the M-Connect Shipping. The strategic plan aimed at investigating the surrounding areas of alliances within an industry sector to strengthen the market presence of the M-Connect Shipping within its market and increase its horizontal integration. The Strategic Marketing Plan is a key component of M-Connect Shipping overall Business Plan and serves as a roadmap for improved work plans every year wherein it features the certain strategies intended to research the alliance of ...

World poverty Poverty refers to the state in which an individual lacks some material possessions and probably money. Poverty appears to be temporary or chronic, but it has devastating effects on the society (Connolly 38). Poverty is shifting and adapting due to the consumption patterns, technological change, and social dynamics. Poverty reduction is one of the key goals of the government and other charitable organizations.

CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere) is an international humanitarian organization that helps in cases of emergency. The organization formed in 1945 focuses on fighting poverty in the whole world. The organization in ...

Electronic Arts (EA) has four primary divisions, namely EA games, EA Sports, EA Maxis and EA Al Play. EA Games, the label being analyzed in this paper is the biggest division with the most numerous studio and development teams. The label has action-adventure, role-playing, racing and fighting games in its portfolio (EA, 2015). The primary business level strategy of EA Games is through a vertical complementary strategic alliance because it shares resources and capabilities with other firms through partnerships, licenses and joint ventures. The strategic alliances formed within the company’s value chain allows it to gain competitive advantage. ...

Punic Wars are series of wars in the III-II centuries BC between Rome and Carthage for the influence over the Mediterranean Sea. It has ended by complete victory of Rome and the destruction of Carthage State. By the mid-260's BC Roman Republic finally took control of the Apennine Peninsula. Further expansion of Roman Republic has made it inevitable war with the Carthage the a powerful state in the North Africa that has controlled a large territory of Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica and major sea routes in the western Mediterranean. Relations between Rome and Carthage for a long have been friendly. ...

The Europeans played a major role in the creation of order in the disorderly world, especially during the age of war. The European societies as well as the states sought to establish order in the twentieth century after many of the societies in the world were disturbed and weakened by the warfare, conflicts, revolutions, and global epidemics that defined this period. The influence of the Europeans on the international society was essential and extensive throughout the period. The role of the Europeans was pronounced in the theoretical ideologies, the political ideologies, and the technological approaches that enabled the creation ...

Fenton, William. "Using Sponsorship to Drive Environmental Awareness And Change." Journal of Sponsorship 3.2 (2010): 124-129. Business Source Complete. Web. 7 Mar. 2014.

This articles explores how sports organization use sponsorship money to develop some attractive platforms for brands to showcase their showcase their environmental initiatives and produce new environmentally friendly products. The author adds that other stakeholders such as energy companies and automobile sector, which have the incentive to reduce emission, are currently making significant contribution to such organizations. This article will help in completing this research because it offers descriptive details on the efforts of ...

Chapter 4

- The firms are pursuing cost leadership strategy and in this strategy advertising is essential. It is considered fixed cost because it is showing the people or shifting their focuses on the products with similar qualities as their competitors’ products but at a lesser price. On the other hand, product-differentiation strategy is based on advertising the unique qualities of the products and their reasonable costs.

- The actions the firms can take to ensure that economies of scale exist are 1- they make sure that the volume of production reach the optimal level where the average cost per unit ...

IMF Throws Ukraine $27-billion Lifeline as Third Recession in 6 Years Looms

The article that was published in financial post portrays the money crisis Ukraine is going through, where the country is caught up in international debts. Ukraine government owns Washington lenders a loan of US$14 billion, 1.6 billion Euros to European Union and US$3 billion to the Russian government. These debts have weakened international business with a majority of countries as they claim the country is on the verge of bankruptcy and thus they could not involve themselves in business links unless the debts are paid. The situation has attracted the attention of the International Monetary Fund to intervene and ...

Ventura County is one of the counties in California. Being a county with a vast coastline (extending to 42 miles), it is in between Malibu and Santa Barbara surrounded by the Pacific Ocean (“County of Ventura California, 2014).

It is home to a population that is both culturally and ethnically diverse. The county’s major form of attraction is its mild climate for the whole year and the numerous geographical scenic areas around the county. As the county progresses thru the years, Ventura is now considered as rank 11 (out of 58) in terms of population (“County of Ventura California, 2014).

True cloud competencies

In the midst of fresh companies coming up to provide cloud based services each day, the first step is to decide a provider whose main capabilities are concentrated on the cloud. On premise vendors of systems have extremely dissimilar sets of skills, software design, business models, approaches, as well as infrastructure as compared to those central part competencies of a cloud service provider. Much of cloud computing companies’ businesses achievement is dependent on an optimistic performance experience of the system. It is for this reason that real multi-tenant companies for cloud computing places an important resource ...

Introduction

This chapter gives an analysis of the results of the study to derive insights on why insider threats remains to be one of the leading and challenging security issues to deal with. The results of the study present a vague picture of what motivates insider threats in private organizations. The questions of why, what and how will be answered with references to the data obtained from the study. This section also demonstrates the actions taken by organizations and tries to link it with theoretical frameworks and pool of knowledge developed by earlier scholars.

Analysis

The belief that insider threats ...

According to the National Institutes of Health, 61.5 million Americans experience mental illness annually while around 13 million have to live with a serious mental condition, like depression and bipolar disorder (as cited in National Alliance on Mental Illness, 2013). One of the ways to deal with these conditions is the use of psychological therapies. Psychological therapy takes different forms, such as interpersonal therapy, family-focused therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy. Among these therapies, the most predominant is the last one, cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT. The National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists (n.d.) states ...

When Hitler occupied Poland in 1939, it marked the beginning of Second World War. In the next six years (1939-1945), this war cost approximately 60 million lives around the world with Europe having maximum number of casualties. In this chapter, we would analyse the origins, course and the final outcome of this war especially focussed on the European region.The original idea behind Hitler's military build-up was to have control of natural resources spread outside Germany. Hence a war over these regions not only gives access to these resources but shows its domination and retains its lost glory from the previous ...

The entire America used to be one of the money and resource-generating colonies of the British Empire. The Americans have received too much sufferings, more than what they could take, and so an uprising commenced. This uprising was later on called The American Revolution. The focus of this paper will be on the contributions of the American revolutionary force allies—France and Spain, and their reasons for joining in the revolution. There are several controversies that until know, remains vague and unclear to a lot of people. During the American Revolution, 13 British Colonies located in North America joined ...

There is truly nothing better than curling up in a cozy chair with a snack and a fantastic book. It is easy to get so caught up in parenting, marriage and work that personal time for book exploration is set aside never to be enjoyed. One of the best things for the human soul is to be fed by a nourishing and educationally delicious book. People don’t realize it but they have a set of criteria against which an author’s work can be measured. Ultimately, that criteria determines if it is worthy of time in that cozy chair. Kevin Trudeau’s book ...

The carriers plying the Trans –Atlantic route formed immunized joint venture alliances; Sky Team (Delta, Air France and Alitalia), One World (British Airways, Iberia and American Airlines) and Star alliance, in a bid to reduce operating costs heightened by the global rise in jet fuel prices and deal with the challenge of the reducing demand for their services all while maximizing profits. (Russell, 31)

The hallmark of these joint ventures has been the capacity cuts by various airlines like Delta at 7%, and American at 9.6%, these airlines anticipate further cuts in capacity in the future occasioned by harsh ...

Introduction

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is distinguished by insulin resistance and a relative disorder in insulin secretion. The production and development of the disease is not completely understood and we find genetic factors as well as environmental factors affecting the insulin release. The disease is increasingly common and basically caused due to obesity and sedentary lifestyle. The chronic metabolic disorder affects both the insulin secretion and insulin action. It is the suppressed hepatic glucose production as well as lower insulin-mediated glucose uptake by the muscles that contribute equally to postprandial hyperglycemia.

The dominance of risk factors

Nearly 400 million people worldwide are affected by diabetes and ...

Executive Summary

The report discusses various aspects relating to Air New Zealand Limited and The Warehouse Group where the objective is to issue a recommendation to the investors as which stock might offer better return to them. The report begins with a succinct discussion about both the companies which is then followed by assessment of their financial trend using their latest issued annual report and past three year stock price movement.

The next section deals solely with the financial aspects where we unearthed the capital structure of the companies, required rate of return, calculated their free cash flows and ascertained their intrinsic ...

Introduction

This dissertations main porpoise and focus will be to address if the British armed forces will have any role in future international conflict. It will address the beginning of the British Empire all the way to the empire that we know today. After this we will look at concerns and threats that the British might face as well as the rest of the world and how this could have an impact on the British role in any future conflict. After having discussed all of the concerns we will look at the ability through advances in technology for any involvement ...

Executive Summary

Charity Alliance is a non-governmental organization that deals with assisting families that are homeless in Boston, United States. This organization has been in operation for ten years, and has helped many families to get housing facilities. To a greater extent, the organization has also provided the basic needs of the respective families as a measure to caution the assisted groups. There are various opportunities for the organization to expand its mandate to other states in America. Many states have a challenge of dealing with the homelessness. Through an expanded mandate, the organization would be able to assist many families who ...

Introduction

Today, contemporary organizations emphasize upon building and maintaining strong relationships not only in the consumer markets but also business markets. Cooperative strategies such as strategic alliances and joint ventures are gaining immense significance in order to achieve sustainable growth and success in the competitive ad uncertain global environment. Business-level and cooperate level cooperative strategies are aimed at achieving short term or strategic objectives of the organization.

Samsung has entered into several successful strategic alliances to gain sustainable competitive advantage and strengthen its market position. Samsung has assessed its core ...

International Legal and Ethical Issues in Business

Abstract

For an agreement to be considered a valid contract, it should have four vital elements that include an offer, acceptance, intention to be under legal consequences, and consideration. If any of the mentioned terms are missing from the contract, it is not legally binding. Objective theory of contracts is a legal notion that rejects the enforcement of thelaw that appears to be too good to be true. The contract, according to this theory, is binding only if a reasonable person from outside will judge objectively that the offer has been made, and it has been accepted. The soft drink company, in ...

The objective of this essay will be the test scenario of Iran testing a nuclear device in 2021. This essay will be based on the United States’ strategy of applying instruments of power in an integrated manner in order to effective address the increasing security challenged that is posed by the Iranian nuclear test. The essay will answer the questions by applying one of the international relations models in order to establish recommendations and justification.

BACKGROUND

Iran has been developing a nuclear program since the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was in power in the late 1970s.The Iranian nuclear test and the capacity ...

Annotated Bibliography

Anderson, M. & Ramos-Reid, R. (2011) Core competence-definition and dynamics in the not-for-profit sector. School of Management Blekinge Institute of Technology Sweden.

The study is among the few that treats the subject of core-competences (core capabilities) within the nonprofit sector, explaining how it applies to the not-for-profit operations. The core competences concept is related to the added value notion, and the authors of this study aim to identify how nonprofit organizations can generate added value by optimizing their internal resources. Developing a multi-case study analysis, the book identifies that nonprofit operations follow the same patterns as for profit organizations for ...

The three most important Pivotal Events are:

- United States Founded 1776 - Iraq War 2003 – 2011 - Obama Presidency 2009

United States Founded 1776

The year of 1776 is very important in the history of United States. Most importantly the date of 4th July 1776, as it is on this date that The American Declaration of independence was issued and USA found its independence. In this year the country marked the official beginning of its nationhood and declaration of independence. The world saw the birth of the super power and the country that would be prove to be the strongest economy on the face of the ...

The research we conducted as a group indicated that out of the 307 train stations on the Sydney network, only 131 provided stress-free access. That is access for the disabled and special needs individuals such as elderly people and parents with children on prams. The need for improvement of facilities to aid the disadvantaged compelled our group to find a way of achieving that, and we partnered with Sydney Alliance, who shared similar goals with us. Sydney Alliance, is a non-governmental organization that advocates democracy and fairness. The advocacy occurs through citizen empowerment all across the country; they air their grievances, and ...

Facilitator:

Globalization is a worldwide phenomenon that prominently took place in late 1980s and the early 1990s affecting businesses considerably. Some of the renowned aspects linked to globalisation include, strategic alliances and joint ventures. In this context, the strategic alliances are a phenomenon that essentially accompanied globalization presenting in late 1980s and the early 1990s. According to Kang and Sakai (2005), in a research carried out in United States by Thomson Financial Securities Data, businesses had engaged in more than 9200 strategic alliance deals, both at local and international levels by 2005. However, this year recorded the highest number of deals in the ...

Introduction

Cooperative strategy is an essential means through which firms of different sizes are responding to the competitive forces in the current marketplace. It allows firms to operate together to offer products and services that surpass what anyone of them could offer on its own. Cooperative strategy also has various merits for the customers of the firms as well. Among the alternative rationales that are established for cooperative strategy on a business level, the most effective in developing a sustainable competitive advantage are complementary strategic alliances. This paper, therefore, aims to discuss the reasons as to why complementary strategic alliances are the ...

Introduction

For more than 50 years, Samsung has directed all its efforts towards making world a better place through varied businesses. The business activities of Samsung range from advanced technology, plant construction, petrochemicals, etc. Though the company expanded itself through various businesses but the flagship company i.e. Samsung Electronics dominate the global market in manufacturing of high-tech electronics and digital media. Numerous factors have added in making Samsung the market leader including continuous innovation in manufacturing, offering reliable products and services, capable human resource, making alliances with partners and by adopting responsible approach to business and keeping worldwide citizenship.

Globalization is ...

Introduction

Different firms in the world today are continually engaging in co-operative strategies through cooperation with other firms in partnership and strategic alliances rather than forming completion between them. They mainly engage in strategic alliances joint forces for a sustained competitive advantage and a mutually beneficial opportunity (Gulati, 1998). Two or more firms in the same or different industries but operating at the same production stage may merge to share resources at that same level as in the case of horizontal integration. This acquisition usually results to the creation of a monopoly (Lateral integration). In addition, a partnership may exist between the firm and ...

Executive Summary

The case study is about a well renowned cosmetic brand INGLOT, a family owned business that was started in way back in 1980 and today is spread across 44 countries with its wide range of cosmetics. The report is going to focus on the company micro level and macro level road map. It will highlight the priorities, achievements and challenges faced to establish and expand both domestically as well as internationally. It will thereby conduct a strategic evaluation of the company by using VRIO strategic tool to find out the sustainability and competitive advantage of the company.

Since the company is vast ...

Introduction

Various Western manufactures and retailors outsource their wares to those in the third world companies. Although this is a sign of a healthy globalized economy, it has a downside too. In order to keep their overheads down, the manufactures in the third world countries, often overlook the working conditions at their facilities. At times, this has resulted in catastrophic accidents involving their workers. Once such accident in our recent memory was a fire at a garment manufacturing facility in Bangladesh; the facility supplied major Canadian retailors. Therefore, concerns are being raised about the need to have a certain minimum standards at those facilities; even if ...

Introduction

There are numerous multinational enterprises (MNEs), which dominate the global market and operate in different regions, but proliferation of MNEs has existed for more than 200 years now. Initially, multinational enterprises represented a segment of direct foreign investments in various states as they did not form joint investments with local firms. However, with the introduction of globalization coupled market liberalization, MNEs have had an opportunity to expand their market niche and enhance efficiency and productivity; a move that has propelled them to become key players in the business arena. Although MNEs dominant global markets, they have experienced several global financial crisis ...

Political risk refers to those risks that host countries make pertaining political decisions that will affect the profits and goals of a multinational corporation. This kind of risk can be managed and understood with sensible forethought. Government relationships are whereby the government creates relations with other countries through doing business and also investment that improves the country’s economy. It will be talking about how multinational corporations face challenges in different countries specifically in Russia, China and Japan and how they manage those risks. The United States would face risks like terrorism that is a very threatening scenario. Terrorism is the ...

Introduction

Hegemony is a circumstance where certain social alliance group exerts social authority over a smaller group in the social alliance by restraining, or by unfairly questioning their ideas so that the power of a superior class appears logically acceptable and natural. The purpose of hegemony is to maintain a moving equilibrium in order to restrict any disagreement that might arise. It is as a result of making meanings conform to the group’s ways of thinking.

The test case of “A slumber did my spirit seal” by William Wordsworth: is among his elegies of Lucy poems. This short poem received much criticism, as ...

“Bribery and corruption in the public sector, is endemic and unavoidable in all societies.”

Introduction In 2012, the biggest stories of corruption were the allegation against Wal-Mart regarding the payment of bribes amounting to US$24 million in its Mexican operations (Barstow, 2012). A year before, in 2011, a survey was carried out by the Transparency International in 30 countries for their views on corruption. “The results found that 27 percent, or more than one in four businesspeople surveyed, think that they had lost business in the last 12 months due to bribery” (Hardoon, 2012). Corruption is a multifaceted event that involves a wide variety of actions taken by individuals. A simple definition of ...

The United Nations (UN) was founded immediately after the Second World War in 1945. The international organization was initially established by 51 country committed to developing friendly relations among member states upholding international peace and security, promoting social progress, promoting human rights, and improving living standards. Due to UN’s unique international character and the power within its founding charter, this organization can take action on a variety of issues. The organization can also provide a forum for its expansive member states so that they can express their views, through the Security Council, the economic and social council, the UN’s ...

Ans 1: Banque de France (BdF) and the French Central Bank (FCB) compile the data on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in France to understand the balance-of-payments. International Transactions Reporting System (ITRS) is used to compile the FDI data flow that is reported according to the sectorial analysis. The BdF, the French statistical institute (INSEE) and the Department of Foreign Economic Relations (DREE) collect the operations data of the partners of foreign Transnational Corporations (TNC) along with the operations of French partners abroad . The Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry collect the operational data from the foreign affiliates. As stated ...

INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

The pollution control efforts can be traced back to ancient human history where pure drinking water was an area of serious interest. This further became essential especially after the industrial revolution to protect and promote the environment in which we live and work. Various issues including the cost factors have been considered while enacting the laws. The international laws on environment along with having the laws of the individual countries also have all the various treaties and conventions. Some of the important laws among them are customary international laws on trans boundary resource pollution, UN economic commission on long ...

Question one:

Pakistan and Iran are two major nuclear powers in the Middle East? Iran is a definite threat to U.S. involvement in the Middle East. Pakistan is considered an ally but remains in constant political turmoil. What is the probability of Pakistan joining forces with Iran in becoming one major nuclear threat? How can the U.S. ensure this will not happen?

Answer

Being part of the wider Middle East, Pakistan is one of the countries with nuclear power in the region. The country successfully tested her weapons in 1988. On the other hand, though rumor has it that Iran could be on ...

Question one: How does the shift in development strategy during in the late 1970s in favor of structural adjustments, acted as a fuelling force for development?

Globalization is a broad concept that entails expansion of economic activities, transfer of capital markets, investments, and human labor, easy flow of goods and services across the borders, and integration of global economies. Globalization has created a viable platform where nations can import and export goods and services freely, exchange ideas, knowledge, research findings, and enhance diplomacy ties through market liberalization. In other words, it has turned the world into a “global village” where nations have an opportunity to engage in the international trade and contribute in economic development. Several factors have played a crucial role in fuelling globalization in the contemporary ...

“Bribery and corruption in the public sector, is endemic and unavoidable in all societies.”

Introduction

In 2012, the biggest stories of corruption were the allegation against Wal-Mart regarding the payment of bribes amounting to US$24 million in its Mexican operations. A year before, in 2011, a survey was carried out by the Transparency International in 30 countries for their views on corruption. “The results found that 27 percent, or more than one in four businesspeople surveyed, think that they had lost business in the last 12 months due to bribery” (Barstow, 2013). Corruption is a highly complex phenomenon; which ...

“The Dynamics of Social Change and Mexico’s EZLN”

The purpose of this essay, as stated by the author, is to provide a better understanding of Latin American social movements and to elucidate the apparent confusion and theoretical deadlock surrounding the study of Latin American social movements in the Mexican context. The author analyzes and identifies various forms of struggle and social movements, as they relate to the quest for social justice and political power sought by the peasant and indigenous communities of Chiapas and elsewhere in Mexico. The author attempts to explain the developments that led to and followed the January 1994 uprising of the Ejercito Zapatista de ...

Cooper H., Moore, L. Gruskin, S., and Krieger, N. (2004). Characterizing perceived police violence: Implications for public health. Am J Public Health. 94(7):1109–1118. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.94.7.1109

Hannah Cooper from the Medical Health and Research Association of New York, Inc. carried out the main bulk of the research for a study which characterized the perception of police violence in terms of public health by comparing a group of non-drug users to a group of drug users in NYC.

Three other authors contributed to the research design, the analysis of data and the interpretation of the results. Lisa Moore from the Department ...