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- Prudential to outsource British, Indian insurance jobs
- LONDON AFP — Prudential, Britain's second-biggest insurer, said Wednesday that 3,000 jobs, including 1,250 positions in India, would be transferred to British outsourcing company Capita in a bid to save costs. "Capita has committed that all employees affected will be offered roles on their existing terms and conditions of...
- Research articles 2007-11-28
- The unit root hypothesis for aggregate output may not hold after all: new evidence from a panel stationarity test with multiple breaks
- 1. Introduction Since the seminal work by Nelson and Plosser (1982), researchers have paid considerable attention to the presence of stochastic trends in macroeconomic variables. That work also changed the way macroeconomists think about secular trends and short-run fluctuations in business cycles. Since the existence of a unit root...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Institutional environment and sovereign credit ratings
- We use a sample of 86 counties to examine the cross-sectional determinants of sovereign credit ratings. We find that the quality of a country's legal and political institutions plays a vital role in determining these ratings. A one-standard-deviation increase in our legal environment index results in an average credit rating...
- Research articles 2006-09-22
- CAPITA (CPI).
- Outsourcing group Capita has been winning significant amounts of new business while also boosting its bid pipeline and increasing its margins. In the first seven months of the year, the group totted up GBP806m-worth of contract wins, extensions and renewals, including a GBP132m 10-year HR contract...
- Research articles 2006-07-28
- Global warming and the neglected greenhouse gas: a cross-national study of the social causes of methane emissions intensity, 1995.
- The human dimensions of greenhouse gas emissions and global warming attract considerable attention in macrosociology. However, cross-national analyses generally neglect greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide. The current study addresses this paucity through the testing of theoretically derived models for the social structural causes of the second largest anthropogenic contributor...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- State adoption of environmental audit initiatives
- An environmental audit is a voluntary internal review of all of a facility's operations and practices that relate to its environmental performance. Environmental audits can be designed to verify compliance with environmental regulations, evaluate the effectiveness of environmental management systems, and assess environmental risks at a facility. Given the potential...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- DR-CAFTA the stakes for Florida: Florida has more to gain than any other state if a free trade accord between the US, Central America and the Dominican Republic receives congressional approval. Passage, however, is far from certain
- A BATTLE IS BREWING IN CONGRESS over plans to slash barriers to trade, investment and business with the Dominican Republic and five Central American nations, and no state has a greater stake in the outcome than Florida. The Sunshine State stands to gain or lose billions of dollars in...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- British outsource firm Capita reports half-year pre-tax profit up 25 percent.
- By Nick Goodway, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 22--Capita, the group which runs everything from London's congestion charge to collecting the BBC licence fee, fully justified its return to the FTSE 100 last month with a sparkling set of...
- Research articles 2004-07-22
- Capita to provide admin for insurers.(Brief Article)
- Capita is to provide life and pensions administration services to the international operations of Prudential and St Jamess Place. The support services provider is to provide a full range of end-to-end life and pensions administration services for Prudentials international portfolio of new and existing business. Capita...
- Research articles 2003-12-04
- Business Support Services Firm Takes Loss after Deal Turns Sour.
- By Michael Clark, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 11--The possible loss of a major contract left business support services group Capita nursing a loss of 7 pence at a six-month low of 217 pence, making it one of the...
- Research articles 2003-07-11
- Daily Mail, London, Brian O'Connor Column.
- By Brian O'Connor, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 8--MR SPLITS PAYOUT "IS 2M SLAPS IN FACE FOR INVESTORS": Aberdeen Asset Management risked the wrath of split capital trust victims by paying out a total of UKpound 2.2 million ...
- Research articles 2003-01-08
- CANNED VEGETABLES.(statistics of various vegetables)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- GREEN BEANS - Supplies within the market are mixed depending on the processor A few select processors are promoting product in an effort to move their excess stocks, but overall supplies remain fairly limited. PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION OF CANNED GREEN BEANS Source:...
- Research articles 2002-04-29
- BBC selects Capita as preferred supplier to deliver the TV Licensing contract.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-13 December 2001-CAPITA: BBC selects Capita as preferred supplier to deliver the TV Licensing contract C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:13122001 Capita has been selected by the BBC as the preferred supplier to administer TV Licensing. In a contract expected...
- Research articles 2001-12-13
- Recession? Not Likely, But It May Feel Like One
- Although the weather may be "normal" as we head into winter, given the mild winters we've had for the past couple of years, it feels awfully cold. The economy seems much the same. The much-advertised slowdown the Federal Reserve Fed has been working toward is upon us. Whereas a few...
- Research articles 2000-12-22
- Report Shows State Milk Policies Lower Calcium Intake
- Business Editors LOS ANGELES--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 10, 2000 Putting the lie to dairy industry arguments supporting California's protectionist milk policies, a new Mad About Milk report reveals that the state's milk drinkers actually get far less calcium from milk than residents of nearby states as a result of those...
- Research articles 2000-08-10
- -BBC: Capita chosen to run BBC's new information service centre for viewers and listeners.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-29 September 1998-BBC: Capita chosen to run BBC's new information service centre for viewers and listeners C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:280998 The BBC has chosen Capita to set up and manage its new information service centre for viewers and listeners...
- Research articles 1998-09-29
- Pakistan's development and Asian experience
- To summarise the conclusions of this paper: 1. Pakistan not only has to deal with a cash flow problem, it also has to make the difficult structural adjustment of living within its means, after nearly 50 years of failing to do so. 2. Despite large resource inflows and...
- Research articles 1996-12-22
- Agricultural growth in China and Sub-Saharan African Countries
- 1. INTRODUCTION Agriculture remains a dominant sector in the economies of most African and several Asian countries. However, the poor performance of agriculture in Africa stands in sharp contrast to the robust agricultural growth in many Asian countries. (2) In this regard, the experience of China is perhaps as...
- Research articles 1995-12-22
- State decisions to limit tort liability: an empirical analysis of no-fault automobile insurance laws
- IntroductionSixteen states enacted auto insurance no-fault laws from 1971 through 1976 that generally contained two key features: (1) the purchase of first-party coverage for medical expenses and loss of income for drivers and passengers, known as personal injury protection PIP, was made compulsory; and (2) tort liability of negligent drivers...
- Research articles 1994-06-01
- The Problem with Per Capitas
- The Problem with Per CapitasRE: The Problem with Per Capitasagain, those are countries where the per capita statistic that matters is in an area of the sporting world. It is anomalous, rather than indicative of something more fundamental. See, for instance, my discussion of diseconomies of scale in The End...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
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