why do we have quangos? how do they affect policy making? ho do they affect businesses?
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1. They make money for the friends of those in power (highly-paid Establishment figures get jobs running them)\n\n2. They can more easily be disregarded or distanced than if they were true governmental organisations\n\n3. Because we've always had them.\n\n4. Like private management consulting organisations  (Accentuire, McKinsey and the others) their advice is taken when it agrees with what those in charge want: but this way they can pin the blame on outsiders and deflect poltiical retribution. (In private industry, it's usually about firing people to increase short-term profits.)
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Have a look at the websites. I personally think they do, as it creates jobs and force people in to a specific area (and they spend money).\n\nDifficult one that is, good luck!!
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I'm correcting your grammar: \n\nHello, My name is Sharlyn . Today Im gonna talk ABOUT the Economic aspect of Singapore. First, let me ask:  HAVE any of you been to Singapore or THOUGHT ABOUT doing business there perhaps???\n\nDoing business in Singapore is acutally BENEFICIAL(desirable?) BECAUSE their economy is a highly developed and successful free market economy (meaning only businesses and consumers decide what they will produce and purchase, so basically there is no governmental intervention )
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Otherwise your business cannot grow and you will make a loss!\n\nProfits are good!\n\nLosses are bad!
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I don't know specifically but associations can usually help people out with those types of questions. Check with the Healthcare Distribution Management Association: http://www.healthcaredistribution.org/\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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Well that is a tricky question, because do you mean environmental like related to the planet or environmental as in a company's surroundings.\n\nEnvironmentally, all natural occurances affect business.  For example, snow could shut down a distribution center for a company in Florida, limiting the arrival of a new product.  But on the counterside, it increases business for a snow lodge, which is a positive effect, but one none the less.\n\nAs for surroundings, look at Porter's Five Forces.  Everything affects business, legal issues  consumer trends, new technology, all have an effect on how business runs.
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Is this a trick Q?  Following the stagflation that occured in the late 1970's (as a resuly of the Keynsian social democratic principles that characterised post-war politics) Thatcher and the conservatives followed liberalist political ideology as advocated by the likes of Hayek.. which included believing in private ownership and individual responsibility etc etc\n\nSo the effect Thatcher had on privatisation was to privatise many utilities/industries such as BT, BR, Steel etc  Some commentators argue that this increased efficiency and productivity..it certainly led to increased flexibility in the work place which for many workers may not be such a great phenomenon in the same way that trade union strangle holds were bad for business before.. (pendulum gone too far?) \n\nPossibly, but now that the major parties have resolved the big issues (Tories accepting some degree of social help needed/NHS to stay and Labour seeing that business must be competitive/privatisation has a place) both parties are fighting over middle ground so it can be said with a large degree of certainty that public ownership is likely to remain something that happened in the past.
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I'll join you bud. \nI've still not heard of a valid reason for having them. Stopping crime? Will it hell. And it'll spawn a whole new world of fraud with people making fake ones. Stop illegal immigration? They'll just buy one from Camden Market. \nAll I can think of is the safety in numbers...like the poll tax. www.no2id.net is a good place to start.
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The official reason is that they make an 'orderly market'. They must buy and sell to keep the market from sudden and dramatic shifts. So they are forced to buy and sell under certain conditions. \n\nIt is also true that the make full use of opportunities to buy and sell when they can make money. \n\nIt's an unpleasant trade-off. \n\nI don't agree with them or with this policy but that's what is happening.
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In British pubs, particularly in earlier times, bartenders kept track of customers' purchases on a slate behind the bar. Beer was sold in pints or quarts (the size of the glasses or mugs the beer was served in - no bottles back then), and had to pay up before they left. Hence, mind your Ps and Qs meant keep an eye on the tab you were running.
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Qualitative refers to not measureing exact quantities, but rather how things relate. As opposed to Quantitative.\n\nFor example qualitativly it will require higher interest rates to borrow money for a riskier venture. Quantitatively it will cost you 1% increase in interest rates to purchase a rental house versus your residence.\n\nOne should be able to apply this tidbit of knowledge to forecasting methods too, although I might not know exactly what the ones are you are refering too. \n\nRather than saying how much something will be affect by an action you can say in what direction its affect will be. e.g. the city paying less to have the parks kept up will bring fewer people in to the open air market right next to the park whcih will tend to decrease the amount of business transactions. Even though more advertising by the market will increase it by a larger amount and it will go up overall. All of this as opposed to saying by how much business will be done because of these things.
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There's a lot of factors affecting the business\n\nThe Business owner/Entrepreneur\n\n- how much does the entrepreneur knows about the industry and the business\n- how is the fit between the business and the entrepreneur\n- how open and responsive is the entrepreneur to the opportunities around\n- how does the entrepreneur react when threats emerges\n- what is the personality of the entrepreneur and how does this contribute or distract from business relationships including employees\n\nBusiness model\n\n- how sound is the business model\n- how diversified is the revenue source\n- is there a demand for the product\n- is the business model sustainable\n\nBusiness Environment\n\n- how business friendly are the taxes\n- what is the overall macroeconomic condition \n- what is the condition of the local economy\n- what are the business regulations governing the industry and how restrictive are these\n- what are the advances in technology and how is the business owner adapting these changes\n- level of competition, not only domestically but internationally\n\nHere are some articles that talks of the impact of government on businesses:\n\nhttp://usinfo.state.gov/journals/ites/0106/ijee/strauss.htm\nhttp://rru.worldbank.org/PapersLinks/Benchmarking-Business-Environment/\nhttp://www.house.gov/smbiz/democrats/Reports/SBI3Q2005.pdf
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help you with problems you could have with their products.\n\n:>peace
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Well, they're somewhat less likely to trash your civil liberties or invasively crawl into your private life.  They're more likely to implement tax laws that will balance the budget yet still be reasonable from a business perspective -- no more "welfare for the wealthy".\n\nOn balance, they're all politicians so they're worthy of only minimal trust as such.
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what business?\nwhat geography?
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This is an excellent question! \n\n In America people are purchasing "Short Term" Policies are opening themselves up to a "world of problems".   You see in the United States we passed a law that enables employees be offered "Cobra" , Cobra is for your "protection".  Let me give you a couple of "What ifs"\na. I go work for ABC Corp. and call up a few "slick" agents who sell healthcare and they sell me a Short Term policy, sounds great!..11months into the policy the Doctor discovers a tumor in my body, and says it is Malignant- I have cancer.  So I call my short term company, and they say well your policy ends in 30days, I ask the company can I convert to a Permanente policy, and they say "NO", because of your medical conditions.\nb. Second Ex. I sign up with my employers plan, and I am diagnosed 11months into the plan with Cancer, and I decide to quite employment, I am offered Cobra!. So lets keep going, lets say I pay for Cobra for 18months (until it ends) and I am still having Chemotherapy, and thus un-insurable by health companies.  Here is the Good news!!!..I am eligible for HIPPA coverage !!!.."lifesaver"..any company offering health insurance will have to accept me into a HIPPA plan.  \n\nAs you can see the only way a person can take a risk with a short term policy if they can "See the future".. and if your crystal ball shows you not needing any health services over your lifetime, then just refuse coverage!..\n\nDo not trust any salesperson, read articles and do your research, Paul Zane's books are pretty good.
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right NOW my job is quite secure... but it's impossible to predict the impact the economy might have on it down the road.\n\nthe effect snowballs as people have less disposable income, and they spend less on non-essential items (such as eating out: i work in a restaurant.)  fewer customers lead to fewer employees needed, so the ones that remain are forced to work harder to cover the slack.  and as the cost of the raw materials (in this case food) increases due in part to higher transportation costs, the profit margin shrinks to a barely manageable level.  \n\nit is a scary time for small business owners and employees alike.  a one-word description for the way i feel about the whole economy is "cautious"... we are in uncharted waters.