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Description "Rural and Women Entrepreneurship (RWE) Development Programme", which is managed by the Small and Medium Enterprises Branch. As a core contribution of UNIDO to poverty reduction, the programme supports rural people and women in their aspirations for entrepreneurial initiatives...

Description The dynamic role of micro and small-scale enterprises (MSEs) in developing countries as "necessary engines for achieving national development goals such as economic growth, poverty alleviation, employment and wealth creation, leading to a more equitable distribution of income and...

Description The importance of small scale industry sector (SSI) has been increasingly recognized in developing countries as a solution to the problem of scarcity of capital, widespread unemployment and poverty (see for example, Romijn 2001 and Junejo, et al 2007). In Ghana Rural Small-Scale...

Description The term agro-industry has acquired new significance in recent years in the wake of growing need of interdependence between agriculture and industry and the modernization of the former. In traditional agriculture system, various agricultural operations, storage facilities and...

Description This paper offers a critique of conventional approaches to so-called 'reputation management': the business function concerned with influencing, often through diverse communication practices, stakeholders' perceptions and estimation of an organisation's economic and social practices...

Description Representational models of communication behavior have been created in the United States to describe specific communication problems since the early 1940's when communication science was recognized as a separate social science. The three-dimensional model presented here describes the...

Description Progress in corporate sustainability is a venture that needs normative and strategic foundations and must be translated into practice through adequate concepts and instruments which guide managers and entrepreneurs. Additionally, it is also a question of changes of the way a company...

Description Business as the exchange of goods within trade situations can easily associated with basic features of traditional rhetoric. When we look at the exchange situation, we can state that the main objective as described above is the exchange of goods; in the traditional fields of study of...

Description Situations involving change usually are conflicted and confusing, requiring effective business leaders to employ rhetoric to make sense of their preferred course of action in a way that also makes sense "to the led." Internal and external stakeholders (e.g., customers, employees...

Description Internal communication in New Zealand is a relatively new field of research, particularly within the financial sector. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to investigate the internal communication of financial institutions. Three major themes were considered within the field...

Description Development experiences of the last decades have shown that human resources development is essential for food security and market integration. Achieving sustainable agricultural development is less based on material inputs (e.g., seeds and fertilizer) than on the people involved in...

Description Effective communication is essential to sound labour relations. Positive communication can be vital to the survival of aninstitution and reduces the possibility of conflict and labour unrest within the institution. In a country with a diversity of cultures, such as South Africa, the...

Description Completion of every construction project needs not only material labour, which is carried out on communication labour that produces construction commodity byboth skilled and unskilled labour (termed blue collar) on the site, andthe white collar workers in offices.The blue collar...

Description A two way information sharing process which involves one party sending a message that is easily understood by the receiving party. Effective communication by business managers facilitates information sharing between company employees and can substantially contribute to its commercial...

Description Insurance provides economic protection from identified risks occurring or discovered within a specified period. Insurance is a unique product in that the ultimate cost is often unknown until long after the coverage period, while the revenue-premium payments by policyholders-are...

Description Prices of oil and gas skyrocketed during the past couple of years, with this trend reversing from the second half of 2008. The prevailing global recession has cut down oil demand and caused prices to plunge. Worldwide, oil companies are continually pressured to replace depleting oil...

Description Financial statement analysis (or financial analysis) is the process of reviewing and analyzing a company's financial statements to make better economic decisions. These statements include the income statement, balance sheet, statement of cash flows, and a statement of retained...

Description This segment includes establishments engaged in providing financial services, such as financial advisory firms, investment research companies, stock exchanges and credit rating companies. Many companies involved in a variety of diversified financial activities, such as banking...

Description The project was mainly focused on detailed studies on financial statements of different coal and non-coal companies and calculation of financial ratios. Ratio analysis of three companies i.e. Indian Rare Earths Ltd. (IREL), Hindustan Copper Ltd. (HCL), Coal India Limited (CIL) and...

Description The development of Industries depends on several factors such as Human, Technology, Quality, Marketing and Financial among which the financial aspect assumes a significant role in determining the growth of Industries. The value of a firm is determined by four factors- its capacity to...