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Is BP Amoco Ethical?

(Stonehill and Dullum, 1990; 34). When looking at BP the general approach as well as specific issues needs to be considered and lo...

International Trade Increases and Oil Price Impacts

and as such this theory was built upon and developed by theorists such as Ricardo, which helps to explain, to a greater extent, wh...

NIGERIA OIL, AND THE CURSE OF BLACK GOLD

of Nigeria, which is exporting more oil (United Arab Emirates, 2009). Granted, the systems of government are very differe...

IMPACT OF OIL PRICES ON THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY

One of the culprits of all of this change involved spiking oil prices, which led to an increase in gas prices at the pump. This, i...

Loss of Well Integrity

This essay discusses maintaining oil and gas well integrity and identifies guidelines for safety. The BP Deepwater event is used a...

Oil Prices

The writer looks at the different events or influences that could result in oil prices increasing. Events such as war, natural di...

"Cancer Alley" and Environmental Justice

This paper describes the case made against Shell Oil Company by the residents of "Cancer Alley," a stretch of the Mississippi with...

Business Issues in sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa has some of the poorest countries in the world. They also have some of the most corrupt politicians and busines...

Finance 101

The paper is presented as an introduction to for a student studying finance. A number of different terms and concepts are defined...

Measures to Reduce the Risk of Terrorism in the Finance and Accounting Sector

inevitably requires money laundering to take place. To consider the way that measures that are found within the accounting and fi...

The Concept and Tools of Corporate Finance

One of the main areas of assessment is that of investment assessment. A number of tools exist, but to understand what these tools ...

Hong Kong Disneyland Loan Syndication

and the operations as a result of the interest created by the loan (Esty and Kane, 2003). The actual shortfall in the financing w...

Assessing Sustainable Healthcare Policies for Zambia

COMPLIMENTARY GOODS 41 FIGURE 6 BUDGET AND DETERMINATION OF DEMAND CHOICE 43 1. Introduction There has been a gradual shift ...

Three Questions on Behavioral Finance

is made. Mayes cites 6 reasons that may impact on a rational judgment, these are overconfidence, fear of regret, cognitive dissona...

Financing Considerations: American Superconductor Corporation

companys decision to go public with its stocks rather than relying on debt financing was that their products had been placed in th...

THE PHILOSPHY OF PUBLIC FINANCE

people like it or not. This is vastly different from a corporate structure. If a corporation tries to raise taxes on a good or ser...

Islamic Banking and Finance

mainstream, and many mainstream banks are setting up Islamic banking divisions, Hong Kong and Shanghai banking Corporation (HSBC),...

Political Action Committees and Their Influence Upon Campaign Finance

United States (The Economist 1997). Amongst them, they contribute about one-third of all the funds collected for campaigning (The ...

Factors in International Finance and Trade Development

to wonder if the currency regime would be a tripolar one (Tavlas, 1998). Despite these glitches however, one currency has tended t...

Federalist 10 and Campaign Finance Reform

In six pages James Madison's Federalist 10 is considered within the context of problematic campaign finance reform with the propos...

The Debt Financing Industry

A paper discussing business growth and debt financing. The author provides examples of various types of financing. This five pag...

Capitalism's Anglo American Model and the German Economic Alternative

In eight pages this paper compares these two capitalist models in terms of the advantages and disadvantages of each, the influence...

Government's Role In A Market Economy

do not believe government is the best resource for solving social or economic problems and that government involvement decreases b...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

The Economy of the City of Birmingham, UK

this has changed; the general movement in many manufacturing industries has been to shift production to lower coat areas, usually ...

United States Economy 2000 - 2003

dollars) Real GDP per Capita (2000 dollars) 2000 $9817.0 $9817.0 $34788 $34788 2001 $10128.0 $9890.7 $35524 $34692 2002 $10469.6 $...

The Economy of Saudi Arabia

Before considering an country as a potential destination for investment it is necessary not only to look at the markets and the ex...

The Performance of the Economy in Brazil during the 2008/9 Global Recession and Impact on the Retail Industry

improvement, and as such it is likely to be an increasing market, and it appears that there is a recovery underway in 2010, the IM...

Finding an Economic Model for a Developing Country

and a open business environment (Huff, 1993). The has been active attraction of foreign direct investment, supported by the way th...

Is the Ghanaian Economy Ready for Part-Time and Remote Tertiary Education Provision?

2010). This has meant in terms of education and the educational infrastructure there was an inheritance fro the former colonial p...