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the maximum sum to be contributed by each party in a joint venture or joint business undertaking
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How Smart (or Dumb) is Your Manager?
As I suspected it might, my post "Sales Management's 10 Dumbest Mistakes" flushed out some great "real-life" mistakes that I somehow missed. Here they are, credited to the perceptive community member who posted them: Agreeing to (or even worse, asking to) become...
Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Geoffrey James, sales, Setting Quota
Blog posts 2008-03-24
AAFA Urges United States to Highlight Benefits of and to Take a Positive, Pro-Active Approach to the Challenges of the Worldwide Elimination of Quotas
The termination of global quotas on textiles and apparel is part of a comprehensive set of multilateral trading commitments that were concluded as part of the Uruguay Round. They were negotiated as part of a single undertaking. Extending quotas at this late date not only puts at risk other Uruguay...
Tags: American Apparel & Footwear Association, quota, liberalization, termination, benefit
White papers 2004-09-30
The End of Textiles Quotas: A Case Study of the Impact on Bangladesh
This paper evaluates the effects on the Bangladeshi economy of phasing out textile and clothing (T&C) quotas currently maintained by industrial countries. The planned abolition of the quotas under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing in 2005 will alter the competitiveness of various exporting countries. Bangladesh relies heavily on textile...
Tags: IMF, Bangladesh, quota, agreement, analysis
White papers 2004-06-01
Assessing the Impact of the Phasing-out of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing on Apparel Exports on the Least Developed and Developing Countries
On January 1, 2005, the Multifiber Arrangement MFA, which establishes quotas on different categories of apparel and textile imports to the US and the EU, will be fully phased out. There is concern among many developing countries that the elimination of quotas will result in a loss of apparel and...
Tags: Free trade, Strategy, apparel, quota, developing country, sourcing, competitive advantage, agreement
White papers 2004-05-10
Output Regulation Of Multiproduct Firms: An Application Of The Quadratic Profit Function
The paper employs the Symmetric Normalised Quadratic SNQ profit function presented by Kohli (1993) to estimate for interaction effects between restricted and unrestricted outputs in firm production. Based on data for individual firms, the profit function is employed for revealing the spillover effects between regulated and unregulated outputs, the elasticities...
Tags: industry
White papers 2004-05-01
Tight Clothing: How the MFA Affects Asian Apparel Exports
International trade in apparel and textiles is regulated by a system of bilateral tariffs and quotas known as the Multifiber Arrangement or MFA. Using a time series of detailed product-level data from the United States on the quotas and tariffs that comprise the MFA, this paper analyzes how the MFA...
Tags: Free trade, National Bureau of Economic Research, quota, apparel, tariff
White papers 2004-01-01
AAFA President Expresses Outrage at China Safeguard Decisions on Bras and Dressing Gowns
The sudden re-imposition of quotas on products that have been liberalized for nearly two years will result in new quota costs that were not anticipated when contracts were written and products shipped. In response to a petition filed by a coalition of textile companies several months ago, the Bush Administration...
Tags: American Apparel & Footwear Association, quota, import, China, Bush Administration
White papers 2003-11-18
Sales Are Down ... Now What?
Constantly changing and adjusting compensation to reflect different market conditions requires a constant balancing act between making the sales compensation plan challenging, yet attainable. If quotas are set too high, the salespeople don't feel they can reach them and give up. If quotas are set too low, the cost of...
Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Benefits, quota, compensation, sales compensation, adjustment, sales
White papers 2003-07-15
Tariffs Versus Quotas in the Presence of Imperfect Competition and Cross-Border Externalities
In this paper, trade policies intended to affect the production of a foreign monopolist that generates negative externalities are considered. The optimal tariff and optimal import quota are derived, and which policy measure should be used to maximize domestic welfare is examined. It is found that if the domestic government...
Tags: Tariff, Externality, Quota, Free Trade, Finance
White papers 2003-07-01
Setting Goals To Increase Sales
From the executive summary: ‘Too often managers push their sales staff to sell more when actually they could achieve much more if they got them to want more. The salesperson fueled by a burning desire to achieve his or her own personal goals sees more people, works harder and closes...
Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, salesperson, quota, billing, sales
White papers 2003-01-01
Dearth of a Salesman?
The unemployment rate is rising and more and more workers are having difficulty finding jobs. Nevertheless, in a survey released by Watson Wyatt Worldwide, many corporate managers say they are having as much difficulty attracting and retaining key salespeople as they did when the economy was thriving. Just under half...
Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, payroll solutions, CFO Publishing Corp., quota, sales, worker, survey, job
White papers 2002-06-20
Politics of Free Trade Areas: Tariffs Versus Quotas
This paper compares and contrasts the political viability of bilateral Free Trade Area FTA Agreements in the presence of tariffs and quotas. Assuming that the government maximizes a weighted sum of welfare and producer profits, it shows that the political viability of FTAs varies according to whether trade restrictions take...
Tags: University of Maryland, tariff, free trade, quota
White papers 2002-01-01

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No moss: but many moments
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "A rolling stone may gather no moss, but it does attain a certain state of polish." My Dad came up with that one. It was understood "moss" meant things like fat bank accounts, cars and homes on shady streets--sorta "mainstream moss." The saying fit...
Articles 2008-08-01
Rights watch: to plant a seed
"Mighty oaks from tiny acorns grow."--Stevens Point Daily Journal, August 1897. "Who's a Rifleman?" Mike "Duke" Venturino asks in his May 2008 "Montana Musings" column. "No one ever became a rifleman by shooting a few dozen cartridges a year." The Appleseed Project helps answer his quesuon. Named after...
Articles 2008-08-01
Prolacta Bioscience to Present Abstract on Human Breast Milk-Based Fortifier in Pre-Term Infants at American Academy of Pediatrics 2008 National Conference
MONROVIA, Calif. -- Prolacta Bioscience has announced that the American Academy of Pediatrics 2008 National Conference and Exhibition has accepted their abstract demonstrating the effects of human milk-based human milk fortifier on pre-term infants. The American Academy of Pediatrics 2008 National Conference and Exhibition NCE will take place October 11-14,...
Articles 2008-07-16
PaperCut enhances scalability of web-based application with Jetty and Webtide
Jetty web and application server chosen due to technical functionality, embeddable features and experience of Webtide team MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. -- Webtide, the main developer of leading open source HTTP server and Java web container, Jetty, today announced that PaperCut, the leading solution to monitor, quota and report...
Articles 2008-07-16
Webster in race to secure passport for derby debut
*RUGBY LEAGUE Hull's new scrum-half, James Webster, has until tea-time on Friday to get his hands on the British passport that will allow him to play against his former club in the Humberside derby two days later. The former Hull KR captain, now recovered...
Articles 2008-07-16
SKECHERS Denies Crocs' Baseless Claims
SKECHERS Says: "A Bear is not a Crocodile" MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. -- SKECHERS USA, Inc. (NYSE:SKX), a global leader in the lifestyle footwear industry, today announced that it denies all of the patent and trade dress infringement and unfair competition and trade practice claims asserted against the Company...
Articles 2008-07-16
SwRI Wins R&D 100 Award for Radioactive Element Migration Simulation Software
SAN ANTONIO -- Software that simulates the transport of radioactive elements beneath the Earth's surface has received a 2008 R&D 100 Award. R&D Magazine selected Southwest Research Institute's TDRW Time Domain Random Walk software as one of the 100 most significant technological achievements of the past year. "As...
Articles 2008-07-16
PharmaDirections Invents Unique Packaging for Pharmaceutical Products
Patent Filed on Method to Stabilize Acid or Base Labile Drug Products CARY, N.C. -- PharmaDirections, Inc. a drug development management firm, is pleased to announce they have filed an invention they developed for one of their clients. This is the latest in a series of 19 patents...
Articles 2008-07-16
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