Judy Aumentado, a 28-year-old Filipino working in Hong Kong, used to spend half a day and the equivalent of $5 just to send a few thousand pesos to her relatives in the Philippines. The money would arrive three days or more later. . Come next payday, Aumentado will essentially do the same thing: She will [...]
Archive for August, 2004
Phoning Home Money
Posted in Uncategorized on August 18, 2004 | 9 Comments »
Will : Inherit Wealth ? How about Values
Posted in Uncategorized on August 18, 2004 | 16 Comments »
A fresh definition of inheritance comes into vogue. Ethical wills date back at least to the 1970s, but there are ancient precedents for elders handing down advice and blessings to younger generations. read more >>>
The significance of history in education : Indian problem
Posted in Uncategorized on August 18, 2004 | 17 Comments »
(via economic times) I have always realized how important history has been in making decisions in business, strategy development etc etc. History has the richest repository of mistakes, methods which work and morals. The problem with Indian education as Dr Krishna Kumar states is that ” We have a national level madness of wanting to [...]
Money Migrants send home
Posted in Uncategorized on August 12, 2004 | 4 Comments »
(via IHT) Some migrant data : The number of international migrants has more than doubled since 1970. Worldwide, one in every 35 persons is now a migrant. In 1970, money sent home by international migrants to developing countries through official channels amounted to $2 billion. By 2003 the figure was $93 billion. If unofficial transfers [...]
The Most Successful country in World
Posted in Uncategorized on August 12, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
(via IHT) which is this country ? what makes a country successful. Sweden ranks right at the top. Why ? one of the reasons being. Swedes travel. They know the virtues – and temptations – of the outside world. They all speak English, even the garbage collectors. But they are not going to change quickly. [...]
We are all journalists now
Posted in Uncategorized on August 12, 2004 | 11 Comments »
(via wired) In his new book, We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, Gillmor chronicles the social and economic impact of weblogs, wikis, mobile technology and other networked phenomena on the business of news. Are bloggers journalists? Will phonecams kill the video star? Do more voices add up to more truth [...]
strategy vs tactics
Posted in Uncategorized on August 11, 2004 | 10 Comments »
(via emergic) (via Marketing playbook) We continue to misunderstand strategy and tactics… mostly doing one and thinking it is the other… below that can help differentiate better Strategy – Strategy a : The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship. – The set of decisions made [...]
Diversity and Development
Posted in Uncategorized on August 11, 2004 | 13 Comments »
This year’s Human Development Report, from the United Nations Development Programme, focuses on cultural diversity. Respect for it is crucial to development, but diversity also presents unique challenges for a country seeking to get richer read more >>>
The myth of overpopulation
Posted in Uncategorized on August 11, 2004 | 4 Comments »
There are projections that world population will reach 12 billion by 2050 is off. They simply extrapolate current levels of fertility, yet as we’ve seen, fertility rates are rapidly declining. The 2002 revision of the United Nations’ World Population Prospects’ median variant trend projects a world population of 8.9 billion by 2050. Given the rapidly [...]
Positivism : A new religion
Posted in Uncategorized on August 11, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Embrace a new religion called Positivism by Dr Mashelkar Download pdf file
