Exponential growth

1. Introduction At 1.8 million words, the Mahabharatha is one of the largest epics – roughly 10 times the size of the Iliad and Odyssey combined. At some level, this represents “big data”. Text is generally considered “unstructured” and therefore tough to analyze. But the growing field of text analytics and text visualisation tell us that there’s a lot more structure to plain text than one might think. Mahabharata is the longest epic in the world written around 300 BC, it was narrated by…

Introduction- Indian Hotel Industry The Indian hotels and motels industry has declined in 2013 but the industry is expected to accelerate back to growth in 2014 with double digit growth rate through the period 2014-2018. The industry has CAGR of 4.5% in revenue growth between 2009 and 2013 with $4.2bn revenues in 2013. The number of hotels increased with CAGR of 4.4% in the same period. Leisure is the largest segment in the Indian Hotels and Motels industry, accounting for 71.5% value whereas…

Internet users in Cambodia means there is enormous potential for business growth and employment opportunities in the technology sector. For Cambodian job seekers, there will be an increased demand for positions that require skills in math, science, and engineering – fields of study currently underrepresented in Cambodia. Filling these higher skilled positions would translate into higher wages and add to Cambodia’s economic growth. Technology has transformed how people live, learn, and…

a significant economic developments and in my opinion the Tokugawa shogun period provide the foundation for modern economic growth in and after the Meiji period despite that the Japan economy couldn’t growth as rapid as the European one. However, there are a historical debates about the modern economic growth in the Edo period. According to them, there was no economic growth during the Edo period and the economy itself was sluggish. At the governance of Tokugawa family there were a lot of…

Analysis of the luxury goods market in the emerging countries - business strategies, transformations and growth trends. Case study: Poland. CHAPTER I – GENERAL THEORIES 1.1. Definition of luxury - its theory, philosophy and history The word ‘luxury’, comes from the Latin – ‘glamour’, ‘luxury’. It is a general definition, that includes all the material goods, groceries, services and much more. The list of them is still growing. Some of them, are available to all consumers, but majority is…

In my opinion a country can experience economic growth without a rise in standard of living of the people. It is first important to know what GNP, economic growth and standard of living is. They are defined as follows: 1. GNP is the economic performance of a country; it is the total value of all the finished goods and services in a time span of one year by the country’s citizens. 2. Economic growth is the increase in the produce of goods and services per head of the population over a period of…

If Sport Obermeyer decides to produce all 10 styles in China initially the order quantities will differ as shown in the Table 5. style CV stability order with stability corrected stability Order with corrected stability (Hong Kong) Min. order quantity Order (China) expected coverage of forecast assault 0.27 3.71 1,632 3.71 1,712 1,200 1,712 0.7 seduced 0.28 3.61 1,588 3.61 1,666 1,200 1,666 0.4 entice 0.37 2.74 1,204 2.74 1,263 1,200 1,263 0.9 electra 0.38 2.66 1,170 2.66 1,227 1,200 1,227 0.6…

Sky-high cost of living - Adjust the linked exchange rate system in Hong Kong The Consumer Price Index of Hong Kong raises over four times since 1980`s(MTR,2014), which means the cost of living in Hong Kong went up with an exaggerated speed. Cost of living is a general term for the price of goods and services required for maintaining an average level standard of living(Business dictionary,2017). Although high cost of living might be common in the world, the situation of Hong Kong differ from…

In the recent years Bulgaria’s tourism industry, has increased a lot, in addition the potential for development and improvement continues to be high. The highest percentage in the tourism sector is in the seaside and ski resorts. The state agency for tourism says that the health and wellness tourism accounts for only 3% of the whole tourism industry in the country. There is defiantly a need for improvement in this sector, e.g. more spa centres, better advertising and more recreational buildings.…

1. What benefits have CEMEX and other global competitors in cement derived from globalization? More broadly, how can cross-border activities add value in an industry as apparently localized as cement? CEMEX and other global competitors in the cement market have definitely benefitted by being able to operate on an international level. An obvious advantage that CEMEX and quite frankly any vast corporation that reaches a global scale is diversification. Diversification has brought and brings…