As we have seen in the last century the world has become smaller and globalization plays an important role in the economy nowadays. One of the most important goals of the government is to commit the economic growth, and as it can be seen on the example of BRIC countries one of the ways in order to do so is to attract Foreign Direct Investments. This research takes a closer look at what changed in those countries over the last decade and what the main factors are which could help to attract foreign capital.  This study aims to find out how did developing economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China, managed to attract FDI and which factors were the most important. Did the government play the important role in this process, or was it just natural due to the high amount of resources, like in Russian and Brazil? In order to do so, the paper will analyze the background and previous studies on this topic and help to develop the strategy for the economic growth by attracting FDI. The paper is analyzing impact of changes in certain variables on the change in FDI to the country. Variables are based on the previous researches, but can be changed based on the background in order to find a new view on the topic.

Economical criminality and various kinds of criminal activities to economics take a significant part in overall Lithuanian criminality. The growth of economical criminality is determined by more professional and more organized level of criminals. It is mainly criminality through economics which brings the biggest harm to the country and its people and when criminals steal the biggest sums of money. The number of various criminal activities to economics is constantly growing and none can escape from this. Separate region, districts and municipalities have separate and different distribution and spread of economical criminalities. Telsiai municipality and its districts hold the most popular economical criminalities that are connected with fiddling and illegal production, holding or realization of alcoholical drinks. Legal institutions are fighting with these criminal cases with all possible tools and methods, but not always it is enough. In order to eliminate effectively criminal cases such as: fiddling and illegal production, holding or realization of alcoholical drinks – it is necessary to analyze properly the structure of these criminal cases, tendencies, stimulating aspects and define the persons involved. This Paper of Master’s covers the analysis of economical criminal and other criminal cases connected with fiddling and illegal production, holding or realization of alchoholical drinks in Telsiai district. Beside analysis, the paper covers its legal assessment and... [to full text]

This study sought to find out the implications of poverty on schooling and management in the Centane Educational Unit. Centane Educational Unit is part of the Mnquma Local Municipality. The other Educational units that constitute the Mnquma are Butterworth and Ngqamakhwe. The Mnquma is one of the 7 local municipalities that form Amathole District Municipality. The other areMbhashe, Amahlathi, Great Kei, Ngqushwa, Nkonkobe and Nxuba. Quantitative and qualitative and research designs were used. Questionnaires and interviews were used to collect data from the principals, the school governing bodies parent members, educators and learners of 5 selected section 20 junior secondary schools. Participants were selected using a random sampling technique. The sample was made up of 5 principals, 20 SGB parent members (4 from each school), 10 educators (2 from each school) and 10 learners (2 from each school). Learners were selected from the senior phase. The total number of the sample was 45. The researcher analysed the data collected by means of Statistical Package for Social Sciences. The findings were that poverty- whether absolute or relative- had an adverse impact on schooling and management in the Centane Educational Unit. Its impact relates to parents’ inability to meet financial school requirements. This impact ranges from learners’ poor attendance to school, learners’ lack of concentration on studies, poor participation on extra-mural activities and parents’ failure to pay for school needs. On the basis of the negative effects of poverty on schooling and management recommendations were made in order to conscientise stakeholders on how best they could push back the frontiers of poverty and obviate its detrimental effects on our education system. The researcher encountered such limitations as the geographical location of schools which are scattered and far apart, working responsibilities and pressures, bad and impassable roads, financial commitments, negative attitudes of certain educators, principals and parent components of the School Governing Bodies (SGB) and officials of the Department of Education towards the researcher’s aims of undertaking this study. However, the researcher managed to work with the interviewees as she tried to address these challenges through interactions with her informants.

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There in the master work, after Lithuanian and foreign authors literature analysis, are presented the main rates and methods of an investment evaluation, discerned their advantages and disadvantages and practical application possibilities (IJSC “Baltijos garantas” under the example of Siauliai regional center). After the formulating of the absence of investment projects economic evaluation there were created a theoretical model of the economic evaluation, which is supplemented by the use of uncertain numbers. The theme of the final work has been read in the eighth republican graduates and postgraduates’ scientific conference “Economy and management in the dynamic volatile environment” (06/05/2005, Vytautas Magnus university) and in the IInd International student’s science and art works conference “Initiatives 2005” (25/04/2005, Siauliai university). The authors’ hypothesis, that project’s economic evaluation model combines all of the economic evaluation’s methods into one total unit and gives a possibility to evaluate an investment project miscellaneously, has been confirmed partly.

The aim of the thesis is closing theoretical approaches of financial analysis and implement it into the practical part. The thesis is divided into four parts and nine chapters. The core chapter is Analýza výkazu ziskov a strát. General summary of the thesis can be found in chapter Záver. The annex and list of used literature are also contained.

Humans are evolutionarily programmed to respond positively to nature, and maintaining a connection to it is necessary to the health and well being of every individual while we collectively stride for the goal of sustainability. This Thesis proposal will examine land and water restoration through the service of a sustainable community center. Environmentally low impact, organic, and vernacular design will be investigated as a means to heal, site and community with various techniques of resilient applications. The area of research is the Blackstone River Valley, once the heart of America’s first industrial revolution. Canals, factories and mills bordered the shores of the Blackstone River and left the land and water with a legacy of pollution. The Blackstone River was once known as the most polluted waterway in the country, with extensive toxic sediment that continues to require remediation. The Thesis is located on the former Fisherville Mill site, a brownfield-designated area in the town of Grafton, Massachusetts. This design will be a possible prototype for other mill sites within the Blackstone River Valley by re-inserting an environmental and economic component into the site. The goal will be to return a degraded location into a site that will allow the community to reinvest in a spirit of reverence for their land and water.

Nesta tese trabalha-se a origem e o histórico dos Blocos Econômicos em geral e do MERCOSUL em particular e, dentro do MERCOSUL, são esmiuçados o Tratado de Assunção, o Protocolo de Ouro Preto e a atual estrutura institucional do MERCOSUL, bem como o processo de internalização das normas ali existentes. Também são traçadas, dentro do sistema presidencialista, as condições históricas e sociais que o favoreceram, a história do presidencialismo dentro dos Estados-Partes originários do MERCOSUL, além de se fazer uma análise da atuação do Poder Executivo, nesses Estados. A seguir, reunindo MERCOSUL e presidencialismo, é investigada a integração como política de governo, onde se verifica a interferência do sistema presidencialista nas decisões do MERCOSUL, tanto no aspecto de união aduaneira, como voltadas para a criação de um mercado comum, com uma análise das dificuldades e implantação desse mercado. Na conclusão, com a criação do mercado comum, analisa-se a relação que se estabelece entre esse mercado e o sistema presidencialista. / In this thesis work is the origin and history of economic blocks in general and of MERCOSUL in particular and within MERCOSUL, are detailed the Treaty of Asuncion, the Ouro Preto Protocol, and the current institutional structure of MERCOSUL, as well as the process of internalizing standards there. They are also outlined, in the presidential system, the historical and social conditions that favored the history of presidential within the States Parties from the MERCOSUL, in addition to doing an analysis of the performance of the executive power, in those States. Then, joining MERCOSUL and presidentialism, it investigated how the integration policy of government, where there is the interference of the presidential system in the decisions of MERCOSUL, both in the aspect of the customs union, as directed to the creation of a common market, with an analysis of the difficulties in deployment of this market. In conclusion, with the creation of the common market, analyses are the relationship that is established between this market and the presidential system.

Nesta tese trabalha-se a origem e o histórico dos Blocos Econômicos em geral e do MERCOSUL em particular e, dentro do MERCOSUL, são esmiuçados o Tratado de Assunção, o Protocolo de Ouro Preto e a atual estrutura institucional do MERCOSUL, bem como o processo de internalização das normas ali existentes. Também são traçadas, dentro do sistema presidencialista, as condições históricas e sociais que o favoreceram, a história do presidencialismo dentro dos Estados-Partes originários do MERCOSUL, além de se fazer uma análise da atuação do Poder Executivo, nesses Estados. A seguir, reunindo MERCOSUL e presidencialismo, é investigada a integração como política de governo, onde se verifica a interferência do sistema presidencialista nas decisões do MERCOSUL, tanto no aspecto de união aduaneira, como voltadas para a criação de um mercado comum, com uma análise das dificuldades e implantação desse mercado. Na conclusão, com a criação do mercado comum, analisa-se a relação que se estabelece entre esse mercado e o sistema presidencialista. / In this thesis work is the origin and history of economic blocks in general and of MERCOSUL in particular and within MERCOSUL, are detailed the Treaty of Asuncion, the Ouro Preto Protocol, and the current institutional structure of MERCOSUL, as well as the process of internalizing standards there. They are also outlined, in the presidential system, the historical and social conditions that favored the history of presidential within the States Parties from the MERCOSUL, in addition to doing an analysis of the performance of the executive power, in those States. Then, joining MERCOSUL and presidentialism, it investigated how the integration policy of government, where there is the interference of the presidential system in the decisions of MERCOSUL, both in the aspect of the customs union, as directed to the creation of a common market, with an analysis of the difficulties in deployment of this market. In conclusion, with the creation of the common market, analyses are the relationship that is established between this market and the presidential system.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:34:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo Aiache Cordeiro.pdf: 1179811 bytes, checksum: 742d3d7cd8ff5c1e0e920295acf21639 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-08-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation aims to analyze the Constitutional Principle of Free Competition, specifically regarding its role as fact the limits the abuse of economical power. In order to accomplish that goal, it was necessary to define what economical power is and in what moment the application of that power turned out to be abusive; but not putting apart other aspects that concern that issue, such as: the general definition of power and its relations with the law system. It was also analyzed, in a general way, the legal principles, considering the conception of the word principle , its own evolutional and normative origin, the distinction between principles and rules, the notion of legal system and the relevance of the principles concerning the society s evolution. So, the following step consisted in studying some general aspects related to the competition, aiming to better understand the role played by the principle inserted into the article 170, incision IV, of the Brazilian Constitution. Having this in mind, an approach was made to the historical evolution of the competition until now, the etymological origin of the words competition and rivalry , the accurate definition of what free competition is, and to other relevant aspects. In doing so, in the last chapter, which is the kernel of this paper, the Constitutional Principle of Competition and its contribution to the limitation to the economical power has been explained in details, and also clarified its content, its interests that effectively protect itself, its distinction from the postulate of free initiative, its pragmatic character and its efficacy, but not forgetting the other matters related to the issue, and that are equally important, they are: the role of the State in defense of the free competition, the action of the agencies that regulate the maintenance of a healthy market, the process of concentration, the defense of the competition and the influence of the tax incentive toward the competition. / A presente dissertação tem por escopo principal analisar o Princípio Constitucional da Livre Concorrência, especificamente, no que toca à sua atuação como fator limitador ao abuso do poderio econômico. Para tanto, foi necessário delinear o que é Poder Econômico e a partir de que momento o uso deste poder passa a ser abusivo, sem deixar de lado outros aspectos relacionados ao tema como, por exemplo, a definição genérica de poder, as relações deste com o direito etc. Vencida a primeira etapa, no segundo capítulo, fez-se uma análise dos princípios jurídicos de maneira geral, apreciando a conceituação da palavra princípio , seu iter evolucional e normatividade, a distinção entre princípios e regras, a noção de sistema jurídico e a importância dos princípios no que diz respeito à evolução da sociedade. O passo seguinte foi o estudo de alguns aspectos gerais relativos à concorrência, com intuito de melhor entender o papel desempenhado pelo princípio inserto no artigo 170, inciso IV, da Constituição Federal. Assim, abordou-se a evolução histórica da concorrência desde a Antigüidade até os tempos atuais, a origem etimológica das palavras concorrência , competição e rivalidade , a determinação precisa do que é livre concorrência , dentre outros aspectos relevantes. Finalmente, no último capítulo, e cerne deste trabalho, explicitou-se, pormenorizadamente, o Princípio Constitucional da Livre Concorrência e sua contribuição para a limitação do poder econômico, aclarando seu conteúdo, os interesses que efetivamente protege, sua diferenciação com o postulado da livre iniciativa, seu caráter instrumental e sua eficácia, não esquecendo de outros assuntos relacionados ao tema, e igualmente importantes, a saber: o papel destinado ao Estado na defesa da livre concorrência, a atuação das agências reguladoras na manutenção de um mercado saudável, o processo de concentração e a defesa da concorrência e a influência dos incentivos fiscais na concorrência.