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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP) is known to be the first “self styled” 21st century trading agreement” (Financial Times, 2013). The twelve-member club comprises of The US, Peru, Canada, Chile, Mexico, Australia, Brunei, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and New Zealand. Its aim is to “deepen trade by addressing matters like government procurement, intellectual property protection and the conduct of state owned enterprises. It is also meant to update trade agreements including post-WTO…

BUSINESS MODEL Indigo Business model Indigo is India’s fastest growing domestic airlines. It has the highest load factor of 89.40%. The mission statement of indigo clearly indicates their business model: To be the best airline in India by providing the following values to the customer: • Affordable fares • On-time performance • Hassle-free service The strengths of Indigo include: Business Model, High Brand Awareness, Cost Leadership, innovation, Age of Equipment, etc. Indigo has Low Cost, not…

Introduction: London is one of the world’s most famous and expensive cities. It offers a lot of opportunities to people to work on it. However, most of the people cannot afford its property prices and cost of living there. London became the most expensive city in the world instead of Hong Kong for firms to locate labors. Moreover, its house prices are going up rapidly especially in the last year the prices have been increased by 18.4 percent. Due to that London became the priciest city in the…

Death. It is usually defined as the end, the final breath, the last of everything. It is an unavoidable and inescapable phenomenon of life. We always assume that it is an event of the future, one that will never touch us, until it does. Regardless of where the death occurs, be it in real life or one’s favorite television series, it elicits a reaction. Depending on one’s personality and upbringing, the response to death is highly variable. Several theories about how an individual reacts to a…

Neoliberalism and political economy Neoliberal political economy is another form of economy within the capitalist mode of production and replacing the Keynesian welfare state with pro corporate state. Post Soviet Union disintegration; most of the state adopted willingly and some places forcibly implemented the neoliberal economy. The neoliberal economy unlike the previous capitalist model came with more unprecedented development advanced information technology and promoting aggressive…

“Conflict in Sudan” Mohannad A. Shaddad Introduction: The protracted conflict in Sudan reflects the long standing economic disparities, political exclusion and social and cultural deprivation in the distribution of political and economic power between the centre and the peripheries. The country inherited from colonialism a highly centralized authoritarian governance system and an…

2. INTRODUCTION India's luxury market is expanding and is is expected to cross the $10 billion-mark by 2014 boosted by a new class of wealthy termed as the 'closet customers' who have joined the traditionally rich contributing to higher luxury sales, as per ET report. According to the CII-IMRB report, as a result of the economic slowdown in 2013 has impacted the luxury market to a certain extent but by mid-2014 the market is expected to revive and continue its growth trajectory and grow at…

AN OVERVIEW OF TELEMATICS 1.1 INTRODUCTION Telematics established in 1987 and later acquired by Bahri & Mazroei is a provider of Converged Building Systems, which covers ICT Systems (Information and Communication Technology) like Structured Cabling, Data Networks, Telephoning, etc. and ELV (Extra Low Voltage) Systems like Security, Fire, BMS, Guest Room Management Systems and Car Park etc. Telematics has “ISO 9001:2008; ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007 certification” and it’s arena…

He says that Western companies think they can avoid political risk by spelling out every detail in a contract, but "in Asia, there is no shortcut for managing the relationship."88 In other words, the contract is in the relationship, not on the paper, and the way to ensure the reliability of the agreement is to nurture the relationship. Even a deal that has been implemented for some time may start to get watered down at a time when you cannot do anything about it. A Japanese-led consortium…