work better and contribute towards improved efficiency in individual markets and enhanced competitiveness of UK businesses within the European Union single market. Competition policy aims to ensure Wider consumer choice Technological innovation which promotes dynamic efficiency Effective price competition between suppliers There are four key pillars of competition policy in the UK and in the European Union Antitrust & cartels: This involves the elimination of agreements that seek to restrict
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Migration into UK cities The UK now has many migrants living and moving here‚ as net migration - the difference between the number of people emigrating and the number of immigrants arriving in Britain - was 182‚000 in year ending June 2013 (Office of National Statistics). The amount of people who are migrating to the UK are causing some political problems‚ however they can also benefit the UK and themselves. There are some main reasons that migrants choose to move to the UK. Economic migration
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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect Journal of Policy Modeling 35 (2013) 1103–1123 Macroeconomic consequences of terrorism in Pakistan Zahra Malik‚ Khalid Zaman ∗ Department of Management Sciences‚ COMSATS Institute of Information Technology‚ Abbottabad‚ Pakistan Received 28 May 2013; received in revised form 17 July 2013; accepted 23 August 2013 Available online 7 September 2013 Abstract The objective of the study examines the macroeconomic consequences of terrorism
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[pic] Corporate governance developments in the UK Corporate governance developments in the UK are summarised as follows: Initial corporate governance developments in the UK began in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the wake of corporate scandals such as Polly Peck and Maxwell. Financial reporting irregularities led to the establishment of the ‘Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance Committee’ led by Sir Adrian Cadbury. The resulting Cadbury Report published in 1992 outlined a number
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Case analysis I. Macro environment Any changes in macro environment will inevitably influence on the company. PESTLE is a framework to estimate external forces (see Table 1) Table 1. PESTLE analysis Factor Current situation Implications Political/ Legal/ Environmental 1) Restrictions in marketing to children 1) ethical and legal aspects should be taken in marketing to children; damage to company reputation in case of offence Economical 1) Recovery after recession and economic downturn
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When you refer to other sources in your assignment‚ remember to acknowledge these correctly using Harvard referencing system. Failure to do so will result in an automatic referral Case Study ‘Talk Team UK’ is a London-based telephone banking company. The company has been performing badly for a long period of time. Its profit margin continues to fall and it has a large turnover of staff. You have been hired for your business expertise. Your task is to identify current problems at the company
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The Education System in UK Introduction By law‚ all children in the UK between 5 years old and 16 years old must receive a full-time education. Approximately 8.5 million children attend one of the 30‚000 schools in England. More than 90 percent of pupils attend publicly funded state schools. The remainder attend Private fee paying schools. 根据法律规定，5岁和16岁之间，在英国所有儿童必须接受全日制教育。约8.5万名儿童参加了30000 所学校在英国的一个。 90％以上的学生参加由政府资助的公立学校。其余参加私人自费的学校。 Education in the UK is divided into primary‚ middle‚ secondary
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Effects of the Industrial Revolution Working conditions What were the working conditions like during the Industrial Revolution? Well‚ for starters‚ the working class—who made up 80% of society—had little or no bargaining power with their new employers. Since population was increasing in Great Britain at the same time that landowners were enclosing common village lands‚ people from the countryside flocked to the towns and the new factories to get work. This resulted in a very high unemployment
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Democracy in the UK has many features‚ each one having positives and negatives points. The first feature is democratic elections. Elections in the UK are democratic to the point they are based on universal suffrage‚ free and fair‚ provide electoral choice these are the advantages of Democratic Elections. Disadvantages are that there might not be a good selection to choose from‚ choices are very limited. If the people are not happy with the result then they can re open nominations (RON)‚ this process
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Samantha Becicka Macro Study Guide Chapter 3 1 We have scarce resources so in our choices of consumption we wish to maximize the satisfaction we receive from those choices. The economist terms this maximizing the __utility_________ 2 Since it is unlikely that we can grow our own food‚ sew our own clothes or build our house‚ it would be better if we would __specialize___ in what we do best and __exchange_ for those needs that others do better 3 The term _product market___ is a place where and
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