transnational corporations and the infrastructure challenge
Thinking outside the triangle collusion and rivalry between transnational corporations and the state in Batam, Indonesia
... development in the form of job creation and infrastructural strengthening, but the development is uneven The development path of the country begins to follow the demands of the TNC rather than the objectives ... investment and transnational corporations relocating production facilities This thesis will contribute to the literature on the collusion and rivalry between 25 transnational corporations and the state ... Southeast Asian Studies THINKING OUTSIDE THE TRIANGLE: COLLUSION AND RIVALRY BETWEEN TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND THE STATE IN BATAM, INDONESIA (111 pp.) Director of Thesis: Yeong-Hyun Kim The...
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TRANSNATIONAL MOTHERS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF ALTERNATIVE MEANINGS OF MOTHERHOOD
... delegating the role of the “discipliningmother” onto the children’s grandmother For instance, one mother said, “she (the grandmother) is the one who is there with him everyday, she is the one who ... motherhood and their willingness to become their grandchildren’s “substitute mothers” are crucial in validating transnational motherhood as a legitimate form of mothering The themes “Mothering as ... children, is hardworking and educates them and is there with them for good and bad.” Moreover, for the majority of participants, the construct of the “ideal mother” is influenced by their own maternal...
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The Greek Economy and the Crisis Challenges and Responses
... ultimately make the decisions necessary for their rescue and development But what did the people of Easter Island think when they cut down the last tree on the island to use in the building of their monuments? ... index, the US, Japan and Northern European countries form the top ten Italy and Spain are in the top 30, Portugal in the top 40 and Greece in the top 50 Of the BRIC countries, China makes it to the ... connect Southeastern Europe with the rest of Europe and include solar and wind energy potential; and (d) the development of linkages of Northern and Southern Europe with Central and Southeastern...
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preferred citation; glasberg, davita silfen. the power of collective purse strings; the effect of bank hegemony on corporations and the state
... attain their goals and further their interests Mills (1956) specified these relations in his analysis of the circulation of the power elite among the commanding positions of military, corporate, and ... industrial and commercial capitalists, on one hand, and finance capitalists on the other Therefore it does not weigh the relative significance of the resources each can bring to bear on the state The ... underline the notion that "banks are not the instrument serving the fund Rather, the fund is the instrument serving the banks" (Rifkin and Barber 1978, 117) Banks use pension funds to control corporations...
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Doing good business and the sustainability challenge
... trade ● They treated their employees very well by the standards of the day, both because it was the right thing to and because they thought it likely to increase productivity The Cadburys, at their ... Doing good Business and the sustainability challenge Conclusion The debate over the role of the state and business leads back full circle to the definition of sustainability and the reason why it ... dialogue with other civil society organizations, via the press and so forth For these other communication processes to work well, governments have the responsibility to protect the human and other rights...
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The Global Apparel Value Chain, Trade and the Crisis Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries
... those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent Produced by the Research Support Team The Global Apparel Value Chain, Trade and the Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities ... to the U.S market than the EU market, and their post-2007 export values and market shares have affected exports to the two markets differently, with increases in their share of the U.S market and ... although Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam have also continued to expand their roles in the industry On the firm side, the quota phase-out and economic recession have accelerated the ongoing shift to more...
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Ghana's biofuels policy: challenges and the way forward
... and were found to be not too different Palm oil and palm kernel oil had the lowest seed requirement to meet the national demand by 2015 and 2020 The other question worth considering is the land ... achieved by 2015 and 20 per cent by 2020, then the country needs to develop the capacity to produce about 298,646,472 litres and 692,426,224 litres of biofuels respectively On the other hand in scenario ... meet the set objectives and targets As stated earlier, B5 and E5 were expected to be introduced voluntarily onto the market by 2008 however was not done The basic reason is that the standards and...
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The critical challenge facing banks and regulators under Basel II
... knowledge and experience of the board and senior management – Awareness of the board and senior management in relation to risk management and control issues – Participation and involvement of the board ... Capital adequacy and capability to withstand risks – Adequacy and effectiveness of CAAP – Capital adequacy to meet current and future business needs and to withstand business cycles and adverse economic ... procedures and limits 12 Pillar factors (3) • Systems and controls (cont’d) – Internal control system and environment Segregation of duties and responsibilities Audit and compliance functions – Infrastructure...
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Tài liệu Activity 2.3: Identifying the Business Challenge and Vision Statement ppt
... Identifying the Business Challenge and Vision Statement Exercise 1: Identifying the Business Challenge ! State the business challenge (15 minutes) Participate in small groups as assigned by the instructor ... in preparing the perceived business challenge Use terms that are meaningful, understandable, and precise Write the business challenge in the space below Duplicate your business challenge on a ... Identifying the Business Challenge and Vision Statement 11 ! Develop a common business challenge for the entire class (10 minutes) Choose an individual to present the group’s business challenge to the...
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Tài liệu Long-Term Care for the Elderly: Challenges and Policy Options pptx
... over the next several decades, and the demand for healthcare services expands, the cost of paying for their healthcare will present provincial governments with a major fiscal challenge Under the ... there are waiting lists for them, the length of these lists and the burden on those waiting also depend partly on the stringency of the eligibility criteria and how they are applied Alternate ... spouse was in care and the other was still in the community (Stadnyk 2009) The fear was that a province could end up forcing the spouse in the community to sell the family home and move to pay for...
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Tài liệu Safety and security on the Internet Challenges and advances in Member States docx
... disease, and treatment options, the quality of the information they locate online becomes paramount.To this end, the Health On the Net Foundation (HON) aims to “help unify and standardize the quality ... for the design and layout, and Kai Lashley for editing The global survey and this report were prepared and managed by the WHO Global Observatory for eHealth: Misha Kay, Jonathan Santos, and Marina ... France (48) In the beginning, HON’s strategy and vision in improving the quality of medical and health information on the web was not well-known In 2004, the European Commission and the European...
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Water Issues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Challenges and Opportunities doc
... Soft sandstone, quartz and sand aquifers are generally very low in dissolved solids and minerals On the other hand, thermal waters of volcanic and tectonic origin in the Albertine Rift, and dissolution ... sub-catchments: (i) the Lualaba/ Tanganyika, (ii) the Kwa-Kasaï, (iii) the Oubangui and (iv) the main Congo The Lualaba is the main headwater source of the Congo River rising in the savanna highland plateau ... (PCEA) of the DRC The UNEP PCEA aims to evaluate the key environmental problems and threats facing the DRC and propose strategic options and Water Issues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
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IMPLEMENTING THE NEW BIOLOGY Decadal Challenges Linking Food, Energy, and the Environment pptx
... scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress ... understanding of microbes, their functions, and their interactions is essential to meet the goals set out in the New Biology report Charles Rice went further and suggested that understanding and ... and biofuel Some potential research goals • Understand more fully the genomes and niches of microbes • Understand the interaction of microbes with plants and animals and their role in plant and...
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THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CHALLENGE CHANGING TECHNOLOGIES AND EVOLVING POLICIES pdf
... improving the broadband infrastructure including expanding fiber to the home—thereby helping the United States catch up with other leading nations At the same time, he predicted that “bandwidth demands ... Deconstructing the Computer, and Software, Growth, and the Future of the U.S Economy The present report, The Telecommunications Challenge, examines the importance of telecommunications to the continued ... in the creation and development of the New Economy We are grateful for the participation and the contributions of the National Aeronautical and Space Administration, the Department of Energy, the...
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Postal Savings and the Provision of Financial Services: Policy Issues and Asian Experiences in the Use of the Postal Infrastructure for Savings Mobilization pdf
... ING Barings is also the fifty per cent owner of the Netherlands Post With the Postbank and the Netherlands Post under the same ownership, the two institutions can again tap the synergies possible ... made The Union Government retains the other 20 per cent There is no specific oversight by the central government of the States’ use of the borrowed funds once they are remitted to them, as they ... corporation, and several to privatized systems Europe has had the most occurrences of privatization of postal operations, and the entire systems of the Netherlands and Germany have been privatized The...
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The challenge of obesity in the WHO European Region and the strategies for response pptx
... of the countries it serves The European Region embraces some 880 million people living in an area stretching from the Arctic Ocean in the north and the Mediterranean Sea in the south and from the ... and medicine and are being published by the Regional Office Both the summary and the larger book illustrate the dynamics of the epidemic and its impact on public health throughout the WHO European ... The dynamics of the food system, particularly in the expanding markets of eastern Europe, needs further exploration and the evolution of the food supply, particularly the price and availability...
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Báo cáo " Changing for the better: Challenges and Opportunities" pptx
... write the first version, and then they sat together to either select the best version to improve on or choose to combine the strengths of all the papers into the second ... gave them the opportunities to show what they were worth, and most of them(2) proved extremely _ (2) One of them dropped out for failing to rise to the challenge of the project. ... as the innovators. Following is the early majority, making up a third of the population. These are the cautious followers of the early adopters. Then comes another third, the so‐called skeptical late majority, which ...
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Neighborhoods and the Health of the Elderly: Challenges in Using National Survey Data pot
... highlight the strengths and challenges in using two large, nationally representative data bases for the study of neighborhood effects on health in the elderly, the Health and Retirement Survey and the ... between 1968 and 1972 Thereafter, the majority of interviews were conducted over the telephone The HRS has many strengths for studying the effect of neighborhoods on the health of the elderly These ... over the lifecourse In summary, there is currently little research on the effect of neighborhoods on the health of the elderly Given the rapidly aging population, and the potential economic and...
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Cancer Research UK’s strategy 2009–2014: Cancer Research UK’s aim is to reduce the number of deaths from cancer. Our future plans are ambitious, but they are in line with the challenge and the responsibility we face. docx
... survival and in preventing thousands of new cases of the disease, both in the UK and across the world Cancer Research UK has been at the heart of this progress thanks to the sustained support and ... 46% in the 1970s Our work has been at the heart of this progress and has saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the UK and many millions more around the world • We were the first ... information on cancer in the UK, and is regularly quoted by the media, other charities and the Department of Health Through our media and PR work we have established the Charity as the authoritative...
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Economics and the Challenge of Global Warming pdf
... horizon, the high degree of scientific and economic uncertainty (not unrelated to the centuries-long timescale), the scale of the damages that may arise, and the global character of the challenge and ... weight Indeed, the larger the fraction of damages borne by poor countries, the lower the monetized damages, the weaker the abatement policy, and the more damages they will suffer The root problem ... which they were derived, and then trace them forward to their effect on production and utility functions, and from that to market and shadow prices, and to monetary values A simple listing of the...
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