major economic indicators that are of particular relevance to Wal-Mart. Those six economic indicators are consumer price index‚ employment cost index‚ employment situation‚ product price index‚ productivity and costs and U.S. import and export price indexes. These economic indicators are their statistics are vital to the successful operation of a business. The consumer price index (CPI) is considered the most important measure of inflation. It also compares a fixed list of goods and services to a
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Lifestyle Campaign” with the aim to create awareness among students about obesity-related health problems. The Body Mass Index (BMI) gives an indication of the physical state of person as being underweight‚ normal‚ overweight or obese. BMI can be calculated by using the following formula: BMI = History Body Mass Index (BMI) The body mass index (BMI)‚ or Quetelet index‚ is a measure for human body shape based on an individual’s mass and height. It was devised between 1830 and 1850
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Commons @ Lingnan University CPPS Working Paper Series Centre for Public Policy Studies 1-1-2006 A survey report on happiness index and determinants of happiness in Hong Kong Lok Sang HO Gary WONG Follow this and additional works at: http://commons.ln.edu.hk/cppswp Recommended Citation HO‚ Lok Sang and WONG‚ Gary‚ "A survey report on happiness index and determinants of happiness in Hong Kong" (2006). CPPS Working Paper Series. Paper 82. http://commons.ln.edu.hk/cppswp/82 This
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and women‚ hence a gender based index not a female based index. In essence the Gender development index is a measure for the achievement of both women and men in three important dimensions: life expectancy‚ educational attainment and adjusted real income (after taking note of inequality between women and men). In essence the GDI is the HDI (Human development index) however taking into consideration gender inequalities. On another end the Gender empowerment index is one that focuses on three variables
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aggressive equity types of fund by analyzing their risk and return. This is done by measuring the performance of mutual fund‚ that is the Net Asset Value (NAV) of nine equity mutual funds and the prices on market portfolio or Kuala Lumpur Syariah Index (KLSI). Based on the nine Malaysian equity unit trust under studied over the weekly period of 2002-2006 using the method used by Sharpe and Treynor‚ the researchers are able to formulate explicit measures of a portfolio’s performance on the dimensions
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There isn’t really a direct hypothesis stated in this article. The author and researchers only include facts and statistics throughout each paragraph. Study Variables Throughout the article‚ people are the study variables. The body mass index of individuals is depended upon how much they are active and what they eat. The body
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Abstract The important aspect of contemporary financial analysis is the relationship between stock price movements and variations in macroeconomic aggregates. The paper examines the role of macroeconomic variables on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) stock returns movement in Bangladesh. In this paper‚ the analysis is conducted by using monthly data for the period span from January 2009 to December 2012. All data are collected from Dhaka Stock Exchange‚ Internet. Five macroeconomic variables have been
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7.14 Learning Activity Respondent’s Socioeconomic Index Case Processing Summary RESPONDENTS SEX Cases Valid Missing Total N Percent N Percent N Percent Respondent Socio-economic Index MALE 887 95.5% 42 4.5% 929 100.0% FEMALE 1024 93.6% 70 6.4% 1094 100.0% Descriptives RESPONDENTS SEX Statistic Std. Error Respondent Socio-economic Index MALE Mean 49.109 .6527 95% Confidence Interval for Mean Lower Bound 47.828 Upper Bound
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introducing a foreign business into a new country. The economic characteristics that will be assessed will be factors such as GDP per capita and GDP growth rate‚ Inflation and Unemployment‚ FDI inflows‚ FDI potential index‚ and FDI performance index‚ along with the country’s competitive index. There will be an explanation of how the factors mentioned above have effected the country’s economic freedom in the last 10 years and how it changed‚ how corruption changed in the last 10 years‚ and how governance
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CONSUMER CONFIDENCE ConCerns and spending intentions around the World QUARTER 1‚ 2013 2013 CONSUMER CONFIDENCE SERIES | 1ST EDITION CONSUMER CONFIDENCE REbOUNDS IN kEy ECONOMIES IN Q1 2013 Global consumer confidence indexed at 93 in Q1 2013‚ a two-point increase from the previous quarter (Q4 2012)‚ according to consumer confidence findings from Nielsen‚ a leading global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy. The increase was driven by the positive performance
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