On October 26 Doing Business turned its attention to the virtual world by launching Doing Business 2008 in Second Life. During the three-hour event, Dahlia Khalifa presented the report and took questions from Second Life residents on Activ8 Island. In total, almost 700 residents and their online personas, known as avatars, attended. Another 1000 tuned in by audio. Learn More – blog.doingbusiness.org The World Bank
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Excerpt:
World Development Report 2004: through the lenses of Marketing of Education Service in India
Dr. Amalesh Bhowal,Professor, Department of Commerce, Assam University.
E-mail: amalesh_b1@rediffmail.com
1.1 Introduction:
Article 10, contained in the Declaration On The Responsibilities Of The Present Generation Towards Future Generations, mentions that “The present generations should ensure the conditions of equitable, sustainable and universal socio-economic development of future generations… Education is an important instrument…”
There is a new looking at the world of education using the lenses of marketing. Evidence is the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). It aimed at deregulating international markets in services, including education. Corollary: Education is…
Long before anyone had heard of the Internet, early home computer users could read their morning newspapers online … sort of. Steve Newman’s 1981 story was broadcast on KRON San Francisco.
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Excerpt: To get more details, please visit http://www.shcri.com/reportdetail.asp?id=285 “The application of IC cards in the bankcard field is generally regarded as the inner requirements for enhancing the safety standards and service abilities of Chinese bankcards and the necessary measures to cast to the international bankcard EMV movement (from magnetic cards to smart cards ). In America, the EMV movement has been realized, the bank IC cards having substituted the magnetic cards. With the advancement of international EMV movement, the regions without IC movement will become the major targets of the counterfeit cards. Apart from the prevention of fraud risks with the…
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Excerpt: Private banking is derived from Swiss, specialized in the fortune management business of providing special financial services, promoting the cooperative value between commercial banks and customers and prolonging customer relationship value chains. The concept of private banking came out in China after 2005. In September, 2005, Swiss Friends Bank Co Ltd started its business in Shanghai and brought the concept of private banking to Chinese market. Since 2007, the profits of private banking were ten fold of other retail business. Therefore, more and more domestic banks began to involve in the private banking.
In recent years, many banks announced to set…
