"Why Women Are Paid Less than Men"‚ Thurow A professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management for more than forty years‚ consultant for government and private corporations as well as author of various books that address economic and public policy issues‚ Lester C. Thurow published his article “Why Women Are Paid Less Than Men” in the New York Times on March 8‚ 1981. In this article‚ Thurow presents an explanation for the historical disparity between men and women’s wages. Based upon the statistics
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versus floating exchange rates Introduction The exchange rate regime The exchange rate regime is the way a country manages its currency in respect to foreign currencies and the foreign exchange market. Each country has its exchange rate policy which determines the form of a government influence on the currency exchange rate. There are three main type of the exchange rate regime: • a floating exchange rate‚ where the market dictates the movements of the exchange rate‚ • and the fixed
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Can literature “tell the truth” better than other arts or other areas of knowledge? John Stuart Mill once proclaimed that there are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. This means that one cannot perceive the truth without understanding it. For example one cannot know the truth of Pythagoras’s theorem being that a right angled triangle’s hypotenuse’s square value is equal to the squares of both its other sides. This is because
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Research Proposal Consumer Attitudes and Purchase Intentions in Relation to Organic Foods in Peninsula Malaysia Abstract The aim of this study is to find out the three (3) significant variables forming the positive attitude towards the buying the organic food in Peninsula Malaysia‚ which eventually lead to the ultimate intention in buying the organically-produced food. The different variables are focused on demographic characteristics on household income‚ product attributes and lastly the
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the Business Decision Making Course Title: Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business Unit Title: Business Decision Making Student Name: Koushik Group: B Submission Date: 14/04/2014 Executive Summary It is considered that initially the marketers needs to analyze the situation‚ Situation Analysis‚ to find out some opportunities to satisfy unfulfilled customer needs and also understand
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CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM Introduction Cellular telephone or Mobile telephone commonly referred as mobile phone or cellphone is a long-range‚ portable electronic device that is used in mobile communication. In 1990’s‚ few messages were sent through SMS (Short Messaging Service)‚ but in year 2000 text messaging has been develop and gain popularity so the number of subscribers increase. In the late 60 ’s‚ cellphone were initially introduced in the Philippines
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in which it will exchange fixed payments of 8 percent for floating payments of LIBOR + 1 percent. The notional principal is $50 million. LIBOR is expected to 7 percent‚ 9 percent‚ and 10 percent‚ respectively‚ at the end of each of the next three years. a. Determine the net dollar amount to be received (or paid) by Cleveland each year. ANSWER: End of Year: END OF YEAR 1 2 3 LIBOR 7 9 10 Floating Rate Received 8 10 11 Fixed Rate Paid 8 8 8 Swap Differential 0 2 3
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The consumer decision making process consists of six basic stages. Factors affecting the decision making process are a consumer’s demographic‚ social‚ and psychological characteristics. STIMULUS: A stimulus is a cue or drive meant to motivate a person to act. A stimulus can be any of the following: Social‚ Commercial‚ Noncommercial‚ Physical. A prospective consumer may be exposed to any or all of these types of stimuli. If a person is sufficiently stimulated‚ he or she will go on to the next step
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penalties and other informal extensions of short term credit. When events happen in the economy it can impact the demand for consumer loans. For example‚ generally within the first quarter of the year consumers are receiving their tax returns. If there is a consumer has borrowed a payday advance and they receive a payday loan they are more than likely going to pay off their loan‚ instead of re-borrowing‚ because they have more disposable income and no longer needs a payday advance. So that can generate
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surveys‚ journals and accounts left by surveyors and travellers‚ and reports produced by enquiry commissions. T li R b E u C p N re © e b to t o n h s d e Fig. 10.1 Cotton being carried from the village to the mandi‚ Illustrated London News‚ 20 April 1861 258 THEMES IN INDIAN HISTORY – PART III 1. Bengal and the Zamindars As you know‚ colonial rule was first established in Bengal. It is here that the earliest attempts were made to reorder rural society and establish a new regime
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