Learn about Public Limited Companies (PLCs), their definition, features, advantages, disadvantages, and examples. Discover why PLCs are essential in business.
The different bond funds consist of government bond funds that invest in various types of US Treasury bonds, municipal bond funds that invest in different types of municipal bonds, and corporate bond funds that invest in various bonds issued by corporations. Bond funds are also categorized into lo...
market access [22,23]. Transnational corporations that produce and/or market commodities harmful to health influence trade agendas through lobbying, framing, and access to institutional processes [19]. Many governments have faced trade challenges to their health policies at various World Trade Organizati...
Several examples can be quoted of public policies that have been ineffective or have run vastly over THE IMPORTANCE OF STRATEGIC FINANCIAL LEADERSHIP IN THE UK PUBLIC SECTOR IN A TIME OF FINANCIAL AUSTERITY 29 budget. Moreover, in 2010 the Institute for Government conducted a poll (IfG 2010) ...
FIGURE 3.3: The UK's public sector balance sheet, 2000–2016 (% of GDP) 400% 300% 200% 100% 0% ASSETS n Financial public corporations assets n Other assets Net Worth LIABILITIES n Financial public corporations liabilities n Pension liabilities n Other liabilities -100% -200% -...
References can be found in markets such as Germany, Austria, Belgium, Romania, the US, the UK, Spain, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Sweden, Russia and Tunisia, Tanzania, South Africa and Ghana. Examples of major references in Europe include De Lijn and NMBS/SNCB in Belgium; Arriva, Veolia,...
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises (2011), Guiding Principle 4; the Commentary makes clear that where acts of a business enterprise ‘can be attributed otherwise to the State, an abuse of human ...
Although the National Plan for Disaster 2010–2015 has advocated for the preparation of City Corporation Disaster Plans, neither of the Dhaka city corporations has been able to develop a disaster plan of its own. The Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has no typical master plan, development plan, or...
Du Junfei, a sociology professor, used two examples to illustrate his concerns: first, many senior citizens were excluded from social service because they were unable to use their health code during the COVID-19 pandemic; and second, the family of a 94-year-old woman had to carry her to ...
One of the clearest examples of how political forces determine the operation of monetary policy is the creation and development of the euro. When the French government renewed the attempt at a monetary union in 1988, the West German government was extremely skeptical. With the prospect of German...