1. Why are Microsoft‚ Intel‚ and other leading for profit companies interested in low-cost computers for the developing world? In 2005‚ Nicholas Negroponte‚ the founder of MIT’s Media Labs‚ announced the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program at the World Economic Forum. The concept was simple and appealing. Innovate a $100 laptop and distribute it to children in the developing world. No one can argue the power of getting kids access to computers/internet‚ and hence‚ access to a virtually limitless
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RATAN NAVAL TATA Chairman‚ Tata Sons Also known as: India’s ’most eligible bachelor’‚ even at 75. Theatre of Operations: IT‚ Communications‚ Engineering‚ Materials‚ Chemicals‚ Services‚ Consumer Products‚ Energy - all with global footprints Started his career with: Tata Steel‚ on the shop floor Favorite Allies: His German Shepherds Famous Quote: "I don’t believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them
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as deviant. If deviance itself is followed by the majority of people‚ it can then become the norm; even if that devious behavior is eating dead bodies. This article was about the survivors of a plane crash‚ a rugby team and their loved ones from Uruguay‚ and their struggle to survive from a sociological perspective. They were on their way to Chile for a match‚ but crashed along the mountains. The article tells their story‚
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Bond Ratings and Cost of Debt This table summarizes the latest bond ratings and appropriate default spreads for different countries. While you can use these numbers as rough estimates of country risk premiums‚ you may want to modify the premia to reflect the additional risk of equity markets. To estimate the long term country risk premium‚ I start with the country rating (from Moody’s: www.moodys.com) and estimate the default spread for that rating (US corporate and country bonds) over the treasury
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Name Movie: XXY Name Student: Anneloes Engels XXY The movie is about a girl‚ Alex who is hermaphrodite and lives in a quite place in Uruguay with her parents. One day old friends of her parents are coming with their son‚ Alvaro. Their visit has a purpose; to transfer Alex with a surgery to a girl (the father of Alvaro is a doctor). At the moment they are coming Alex stopped taking her medication and a decision has to be made soon….. The movie has a quite heavy subject; hermaphrodite. It
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Countries | No. hospitals | No. hospital beds | No. Psychiatric beds | No. Computed tomography units | No. Radiotherapy units | Afganistan | 0.4 | 4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | <0.05 | Benin | 0.5 | 5 | 0.2 | 0.30 | <0.05 | Bangladesh | 0.2 | 6 | 0.1 | …. | 0.1 j | Mali | 0.5 | 1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | Madagascar | 0.5 | 2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | <0.05 | Sudan | 1.2 | 7 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 0.2 | Uganda | 0.4 | 5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | Low income countries In Bangladesh‚ high out of pocket expenditure
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Tina Valler Period 5/6 The swordfish was first described in 1758 by Linnaeus. It was given the name Xiphias gladius which is still used in present day. The Family of this fish is Xiphiidae‚ Order is Perciformes‚ and the Class is Actinopterygii. When it is translated into English‚ the Latin term gladius means "sword"‚ referring to the long sword-like bill the fish possesses. Some of the English common names include broadbill‚ broadbill swordfish‚ and many others. The swordfish is named for
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Hello I am an Ecole lacombe junior high school student that is writing an essay about adversity‚ in each body paragraph will be certain situation that are overcome or solved. The stories in this essay that are example of Adversity are The shipwreck at the bottom of the world‚ Miracle in the andes and just normal school problems. Sir Ernest Shackleton and 27 of his crew members had sailed in hopes to become the world’s first crew to ever explore and traverse the land of Antarctica. Through the
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2-pages Executive Memo Recommendations regarding Starbucks ’ Future Internationalization “A 16 years Internationalization Strategy which led reaching one third of the world ’s countries and two thirds of earth ’s entire population .” March 2012 Consultant : Cyril-André LESAGE Introduction This short memo ’s goal is to provide some strategic advices regarding the future of Starbucks ’ internationalization. The following analysis will be divided in two main parts. First part will focus
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property‚ textiles and clothing and agricultural products (Richard Schaffer‚ 1996). The WTO replaced GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ) as the world’s global trading body in 1995‚ and the current set of governing rules stems from the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations‚ which took place throughout 1986-1994. While WTO is relatively young organization the multilateral trading system was originally set up under GATT about 50 years ago. The GATT preamble (1947) states that "trade and economic
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