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Legal Treatment of Foreign Investment:The "World Bank Guidelines"
Ibrahim Shihata
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0792325257 |
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The landscape concerning same-sex relationships is changing. It is vital for lawyers to stay on top of these changes. Attorneys who represent lesbian and gay clients must provide creative estate planning that protects both parties, their children and their future.
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A Vital Guide to the Changing Legal Landscape.......2006-03-21
Attorney Burda has done the impossible, writing a "black-letter law" treatise in an easy-to-read and enjoyable style.
Practitioners will find it informative for its nuts-and-bolts practice tips, while members of the public will take away a 'how-to' roadmap (with forms!) when planning to protect themselves and their families.
I recommend this book without reservations -- not only for attorneys practicing in this field, but for smart individuals across the nation who attempt to balance the scales of justice while usually suffering inequitable treatment under the laws.
Good For Students.......2005-09-13
Ms. Burda's book provides guidance and training for the law student seeking to learn about a cutting edge nuance of estate-planning. With crystal clear language and outstanding organization, a law student finds him/herself wishing his/her law school professors followed Ms. Burda's instructional paradigm. This book is a must read for anyone seeking a career helping others plan for retirement.
Very insightful, very well-written.......2005-08-10
This book is an excellent resource for attorneys as well as non-legally educated persons. The book covers all issues that a person would need to take into consideration in creating an estate/living plan for a same-sex couple.
Absolutely Essential.......2005-06-09
This book is absolutely essential for any attorneys practicing in this field. Ms. Burda has put together not only the laws and state of affairs across the country but she has also included the much needed forms in order to accomplish the task. After all of our years in law school, only Ms. Burda has shown us exactly what these documents are supposed to look like!
A reader from Chicago.......2005-06-05
The Publishers Marketing Association just awarded this book a Benjamin Franklin Award at the June 2005 award ceremony in New York City. This book and the author Joan Burda, are well deserving of this prestigious award.
This is an excellent book for both lawyers and their clients.
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A valuable legal guide for unmarried or same sex partners........2005-06-17
Legalized marriage, or even common law marriage, gives a couple some automatic rights and privileges. This is not true of unmarried couples and same sex partners. If proper estate planning and power of attorney planning are missing from the relationship, then some distant, and sometimes unfriendly, relative might step in and ruin lives and property interests.
The book by Hoyt and Pollock, both experienced attorneys, is must reading for those not "legally married" and can guide the couple into disaster prevention steps. It is a common sense guidebook that avoids unfamiliar legal terms. I like the down to earth approach of these two authors and recommend the book highly.
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Sustainable Development of Dryland Agriculture in India
R.P. Singh
Manufacturer: Scientific Publishers,India
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ASIN: 8172334052
Release Date: 2005-08-25 |
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Sustainable development of dryland agriculture in India
Manufacturer: Scientific Publisher
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ASIN: 8172330928 |
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This resource offers tools designed for the special needs of small business owners—from startup to shutdown, from business planning to marketing, and from business financing to personal wealth—that are drawn from CCH’s online services of software tools and expert advice. Included are suggestions for marketing wisely and cheaply; tips for managing cash flow, including credit and collections; and techniques for creating a business plan that serves as an organizational blueprint and earns financial backing. Effective approaches to managing human resources are also examined, including payroll, benefits, and hiring and firing. This latest edition features updated laws and documentation on their impact on small business owners.
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A Complete Course in Small Business.......2005-07-15
Starting, Running & Growing a Small Business is something that you probably shouldn't do. 85% (or something like that) of small businesses fail within the first five years. On the other hand, if you're like me, you really have no choice, this is just something you have to do. I started my first one while in college. I had no idea of the problems that I would face, and sure enough it failed within a few months.
My second business lasted a little longer, my third for about ten years. Then it got cought in a classic inventory squeeze and boom it was gone too. When your business fails, you have to go to work for someone else. Hopefully you have learned something from the failure, and the next one works better. My current little business has paid me a living for some years, shows no signs of failing and is a hell of a lot more fun than having a boss.
Why do I say all this, it's because if I had known what was printed in this book when I was first getting started I could have done a lot of things differently, a lot of things better, and understood a lot more about what I was doing in general.
This book is basically a full course in running a small business. It's better than what you'd get in college (I know I have an MBA.) because colleges teach you how to be mid-level management in large companies and in a small business all the rules are really different.
This is a wonderful book. Open it to just about any page and you'll find something that will help you. Note especially the opening paragraph, with everything you have here, you'll still need some good old-fashioned luck. But the rest of the book will teach you that you often make your own luck.
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Start, Run & Grow a Successful Small Business
Susan M. Jacksack
Manufacturer: CCH Incorporated
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ASIN: 0808004131 |
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Great Resource for Small Businesses.......2000-06-20
I was originally only looking for a publication that would give me tips on creating an effective business plan - then I came across this book! This is a GREAT resource for not only beginning a business, but is an excellent reference to use during the course of your business - whether to improve revenue, create better bookkeeping methods, evaluate/re-evaluate your market, etc. I would recommend this book to anyone who would like some good, sound advice on starting and running their small business. There are also great checklists, worksheets and other useful tools to use.
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This resource offers tools designed for the special needs of small business owners—from startup to shutdown, from business planning to marketing, from business financing to personal wealth—that are drawn from CCH's online services of software tools and expert advice. Covered in detail are suggestions for marketing wisely and cheaply; tips for managing cash flow, including credit and collections; and techniques for creating a business plan that serves as an organizational blueprint and earns financial backing. Effective approaches to managing human resources are also examined, including payroll, benefits, and hiring and firing. This replaces 0808004131.
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Fiducial's Start Run & Grow A Successful Small Business is a unique how-to book for the small business owner and would-be entrepreneur. It includes detailed information on the tough issues that so many of you face when you are just embarking on your dream to be your own boss. With a special emphasis on problem solving, START RUN & GROW is full of cost-cutting tips, step-by-step checklists, real life case studies, a model business plan, and other business documents to assist you in starting and operating your business.
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Japanese Capitalism Since 1945: Critical Perspectives
Manufacturer: M.E. Sharpe
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ASIN: 0873328345 |
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Little e, Big Commerce: How to Make a Profit Online (Virgin Business Guides)
Timothy Cumming
Manufacturer: Virgin Books
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ASIN: 0753505428 |
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Now that the first wave of dotcom mania has passed, the right way to run a website is becoming clearer. If you haven't taken the e-Commerce plunge yet, or if you want to get more out of your website, this book offers simple, plain-speaking advice on how to move forward. We'll introduce you to the world of e-customers, e-competitors and e-suppliers, taking you through the practical steps of getting and staying online. You'll find out what e-Commerce really is and how to do it properly - and above all, profitably - so you can make money instead of draining your resources. With the expert advice in this book, you can stay ahead of this fast-moving game.
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The only title that combines discussion and analysis on the methodologies employed by the major rating agencies together with those actually implemented internally by credit practitioners from financial institutions. Additional contributions come from regulatory bodies and academics involved in the credit ratings process.
Provides a unique insight and overview into the many types of ratings that are in use today enabling you to compare and contrast the benefits as well as the potential pitfalls and peculiarities of the various systems. Designed to help you implement or assess your own internal credit ratings systems with an overview of what is currently available and will alert you to possible problems with individual ratings systems. Will help to ensure your internal credit rating systems are in line with current regulatory requirements by presenting background information on the new Basel 'Internal Ratings Based Approach' as well as drawing upon relevant case studies that have been carried out on banks preparedness for this. Presents an up-to-date discussion on how corporate scandals, such as Enron occurred, together with retrospective analysis of the behaviour of public ratings to them. Discusses the possible flaws associated with the dependence on external ratings in particular situations.
Multi-contributor format edited by the best-selling author and practitioner Michael K. Ong.
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A Taxonomy of Credit Models.......2003-03-13
This well edited collection of the most critical and state-of-the-art models in both asset-level and portfolio credit models is a must have for any serious practitioner in the credit markets.
The subjects range from simple loan scoring approaches to complex CDO portfolio rating approaches and span every asset and approach in-between.
An excellent reference for credit risk managers and portfolio managers alike.
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How can service providers survive and prosper in the increasingly impersonal information age? How can businesses "personalize" their services in the anonymous world of e-commerce and automated service contacts?
Discover how in this book designed to help businesses navigate the changing customer service landscape. THE BRAVE NEW SERVICE STRATEGY explores the nature of customer service, looking at its dramatic transformation from the traditional "seller-buyer" relationship to what the authors call the "pseudo-relationships"of today. Then it explains how such relationships can benefit both parties; why some businesses fail in the service arena; and, most importantly, how readers can start, structure, and build their own business in such a way that excellent service is guaranteed.
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Insightful and Useful.......2006-01-27
With the Industrial Revolution, and the current changes happening with the advent of the Information Age, the interactions between companies and customers has become progressively less personal. Today, customers do not have a long-standing relationship with the people they purchase goods and services from. Instead of relationships, customers now have "encounters" with businesses and services. Many companies, however, still say that they are trying to build relationships with customers. This, say the authors, is a flawed strategy. Customers know the difference between a relationship and an encounter, and they are not fooled by the organizations attempts to convince them that they are in a relationship.
It is possible to build customer loyalty, without pretending that there is a relationship between customers and the organization, say the authors. The better strategy, is to build on the strengths of encounters (speed, convenience, low-cost service, familiarity and uniformity) rather than attempting to build a pseudo-relationship that the customer will know is inauthentic. The goal is to create "enhanced encounters" not "pseudo-relationships."
Enhanced encounters emphasize five essential qualities:
1. Trust: In enhanced encounters trust is built by repeated positive service.
2. Convenience: The service should be available for the maximum number of hours with the minimum amount of waiting.
3. Customized, not Personalized: As many choices as possible should be open to the customer, without impeding efficiency of service.
4. Uniform but Unique: Whenever possible, the encounter should establish a theme with wide appeal to customers.
5. Quality: Emphasize quality whenever possible.
A Good Read!.......2001-04-27
Barbara A. Gutek and Theresa Welsh believe that companies can improve their relationships with customers if they find the approach that best fits their business. The authors emphasize the difference between real relationships - ongoing, personal contacts between a customer and an individual service provider - and mere encounters - where the customer's relationship is with the company and a random variety of service employees. Many companies confuse the two, trying to turn encounters into relationships, and ending up with pseudo-relationships that alienate customers. Instead, realistically determine what you offer customers and what customers want, and then adjust your systems or policies accordingly. This excellent book provides executives and business owners with an insightful analytical framework for understanding customer relationships. While clear and well organized, it is sometimes repetitious - perhaps to be sure we all get the idea - but we [...] recommend it highly for the soundness of its concepts, if not the economy of its prose.
Nice Distinctions between Relationships and Encounters.......2000-06-13
This is an extremely well-written book. The authors are obviously excellent communicators and give wonderful examples in order to make their points. They segment different approaches to customer service brilliantly. The fundamental message is that if you can't really provide a mutual bond of trust with your customer (i.e., a relationship), then don't bother trying to fool anyone by saying all of the right things (i.e., a pseudo-relationship). In today's commodity marketplace we find an even greater emphasis on what was originally Fred Taylor's model of efficiency, via chain stores and vast corporate bureaucrasies. This outcome, say the authors, lends itself more to encounters than relationships. By enhancing encounters, therefore, companies can still satisfy the customer without the high cost of developing a relationship.
The only down side of the book for me was the discussion of technology (as well as several rather malicious pokes at Peppers & Rogers). The authors clearly chose only to view computer technology as an insidious and poorly implemented medium that threatened to reduce front line "encounter" people to automatons (albeit mildly useful in relationship environments). Although no one will argue that IT practitioners often do not understand business, the fact is that technology today is evolving into a very powerful tool for augmenting customer relationships. Granted, we hear a lot of unfounded hype about e-business, CRM and ERP systems. However, used appropriately, emerging technologies will help encounter businesses understand the needs of individual customers to a far greater extend than has been possible up to now.
Overall, a very worthwhile read.
Aldous Huxley Redux.......2000-04-22
The subtitle is correct. The authors do indeed provide strategies for effectively "aligning customer relationships, market strategies, and business structures." They make a key distinction between encounters with customers and relationships with customers. As Jeffrey Gitomer and others have already observed, "customer satisfaction" is measured in terms of each transaction whereas "customer loyalty" depends upon a relationship of repeated transactions. Gutek and Welsh obviousy agree. In the Preface, they assert that "This vital -- and misunderstood -- distinction between the two fundamental ways to deliver service is the catalyst to structuring the business for maximum success." Their excellent book is then divided into ten chapters which guide the reader through a step-by-step process.
For example, Chapter One "looks at customer perceptions of some common practices that result from mistaken ideas about what constitutes a relationship." Chapter Five identifies several different types of encounter and then examines one specific kind: "when the individual service provider is replaced by a machine." In Chapter Ten, the final chapter, the authors bring the reader back to the central question (ie What are the basic causes of customer dissatisfaction and how can they be avoided or eliminated?), then discuss "the trends that will be important for success in the years beyond 2000."
As technological connectivity rapidly and extensively replaces so much of direct human interaction, it is imperative to understand the differences (as well as the implications of those differences) between an encounter with a customer and a relationship with a customer. Gutek and Welsh have made an invaluable contribution to our understanding of those differences...and to our understanding of how to achieve and then sustain enhanced relationships with those whom we are privileged to serve.
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Should Britain Join the Euro: The Chancellor's Five Tests Examined
Patrick Minford
Manufacturer: Inst of Economic Affairs
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ASIN: 0255365276 |
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European economic and monetary union is driven by politics, but the economic costs and benefits of Britain's membership can and should be assessed, argues Professor Patrick Minford in this careful and succinct analysis of the cases for and against Britain adopting the Euro. The core argument is the reduction of exchange-rate risk, but because the euro is a regional currency that has fluctuated considerably against the dollar, exchange-rate variability might not be less under the Euro and could even increase. In any case, financial markets can diversify away such risks. Minford sees substantial costs of membership: increased variability of UK output, employment and prices in response to shocks; damaging harmonization of tax rates, social support and regulation; and the possibility that British taxpayers will have to meet some of the costs of big projected state pension deficits in Germany, France and Italy. He concludes that EMU, "as it is constituted and planned would be strongly against British interests to join".
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Basic information on foreign and domestic policy, national security, political system, parties and elections, government and administrative structure. Participation in international organizations, treaties and regional unions. International and foreign policy and more.
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This investment guide contains basic information on economy, business, export-import and investment climate, opportunities and regulations. Provides strategic information on economy, industrial development, banking, and government. Includes information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually.
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This investment guide contains basic information on economy, business, export-import and investment climate, opportunities, regulations. Provides strategic information on economy, industrial development, banking, and government. Includes information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually.
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Benin Investment and Business Guide
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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Benin: A Spy Guide (Russian Regional Investment and Business Library)
Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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ASIN: 0739784463 |
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Everything a successful "spy" must know on the country. Strategic and practical information on government, national security, army, foreign relations, economy, technology, mineral resources, as well as culture, history, traditions, government and business contacts and more...
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Benin Investment and Business Guide (World Investment and Business Guide Library)
Igor Oleynik
Manufacturer: International Business Publications USA
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ASIN: B00005R4OZ
Release Date: 2006-01-01 |
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Ultimate guide for conducting investment, export-import activity in the country. Strategic and business info, contacts, regulations and more. Updated annually
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Ultimate guide for conducting investment, export-import activity in the country. Strategic and business information, contacts, regulations and more. Updated annually
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