This paper i wrote as an assignment under the Thabo Mbeki Leadership Institute programme (UNISA). The paper addresses the following question: Does the linear integration model of regional integration, based on the historical experience of the European Union (EU), provides the best overall framework for advancing regional integration in Africa. Please refer to current regional integration arrangements in Africa to motivate your argument: The linear integration model of regional integration, based on the historical experience of the European Union (EU), provides the best overall framework for advancing regional integration in Africa. Reference was made to current regional integration arrangements in Africa to motivate your argument.
This paper i wrote as an assignment under the Thabo Mbeki Leadership Institute programme (UNISA). The paper addresses the following question: Does the linear integration model of regional integration, based on the historical experience of the European Union (EU), provides the best overall framework for advancing regional integration in Africa. Please refer to current regional integration arrangements in Africa to motivate your argument: The linear integration model of regional integration, based on the historical experience of the European Union (EU), provides the best overall framework for advancing regional integration in Africa. Reference was made to current regional integration arrangements in Africa to motivate your argument.
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The Pennywise Quiz presents you with mind-boggling trivia from multiple angles of Economics, Business, and Finance that stipulates participants to exhibit knowledge most expeditiously. Learn all about Finances and Economics in the following quiz and see what you can earn and learn! To all the Business buffs out there, brush up on your business knowledge and rival, and prove your disposition.
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Finance and Economics Quiz Prelims held on the 28th of October 2016. Conducted by Abhishek Batni, Rijul Kapoor and Sandeep Rao for the Economics Socoiety of Manipal.
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Finance and Economics Quiz Finals held on the 28th of October 2016 for the Economics Society of Manipal by Sandeep Rao, Abhishek Batni and Rijul Kapoor
3. • The etymology of “______" relates to the
• state of being busy either as an individual
• or society as a whole, doing commercially
• viable and profitable work.
5. • Born 19 March 1943,he is an economist, academic and
statesman.
• He served as a European Commissioner from 1995 to
2004, with responsibility for the Internal Market,
Services, Customs and Taxation from 1995 to 1999 and
then for Competition from 1999 to 2004. He has also
been Rector and President of Bocconi University. He
was appointed a Senator for Life in the Italian Senate on
9 November 2011.
• He has been an international advisor to Goldman Sachs
and The Coca-Cola Company.
• His research has helped to create the 'Klein-____
model', aimed at describing the behaviour of banks
operating under monopoly circumstances.
• Who is he?
7. The word X, means ‘skilled artisan’ in Gujarati was adopted
from Portuguese word Y meaning Master or Teacher.
Portuguese present in Gujarat since 1500 in Diu. The
Kadias and Kadia Kshatriyas worked on building Diu Fort
and the Portuguese called them Y due to their skills at
fort building.
• X besides Carpenter ( for Suthar community ) also
meant Contractor (mainly for Xs of Kutch - majority of
whom worked as Railway, PWD & Forest Contractors
during British India).
• The word in Gujarat is today identified with people, who
are expert in Building Construction.
• X?
10. • Inspiration for the X symbol itself came
from the Greek epsilon – a reference to
the cradle of _____ civilisation -- crossed
by two parallel lines to ‘certify’ the stability
of the X.
• The X was established by the provisions in
the 1992 Maastricht Treaty.
12. The bank traces its ancestry to British India. The founding
in 1806 of the Bank of Calcutta, making it the
oldest commercial bank in the Indian Subcontinent. Bank
of Madras merged into the other two presidency banks,
Bank of Calcutta and Bank of Bombay to form Imperial
Bank of India.
• It is the 29th most reputed company in the world
according to Forbes. Also it is the only bank featured in
the coveted "top 10 brands of India" list in an annual
survey conducted by Brand Finance and The Economic
Times in 2010
• On 30 April 1955, the Imperial Bank of India became X.
13.
14. SBI
Extra trivia
• The symbol of the State Bank of India is a
circle and not key hole and a small man at
the centre of the circle. A circle depicts
perfection and the common man being the
centre of the bank's business.
• Slogan : "Pure banking nothing else"
15. X was founded in May 1993 through the initiative
of Peter Eigen, a former regional director for the World
Bank.
• In 1995, X developed the Corruption Perceptions Index
(CPI). The CPI ranked nations on the prevalence of
corruption within each country, based upon surveys of
business people.
• In 1999, X began publishing the Bribe Payers
Index (BPI) which ranked nations according to the
prevalence that a country's multinational corporations
would offer bribes.
16.
17. • A X is a professionally managed type
• of collective investment scheme that pools
• money from many investors to buy stocks,
• bonds, short-term money
• market instruments, and/or other
• securities.
21. • by incorporating a wholly owned subsidiary or
company
• by acquiring shares in an associated
enterprise
• through a merger or an acquisition of an
unrelated enterprise
• participating in an equity joint venture with
another investor or enterprise...
• These are the methods describing what?
31. What is being talked about?
• It is a unique code created by Gordon Foster, Emeritus
Professor of Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin.
• Another format was developed by the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) and was published
in 1970 as international standard ISO 2108. Currently, the
ISO's TC 46/SC 9 is responsible for this. The ISO on-line
facility only refers back to 1978.
• Since 1 January 2007, A new format was adopted, a
format that is compatible with Bookland EAN-13s.
33. Who?
• He is an economist who was awarded the 1998
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his
contributions to welfare economics and social
choice theory, and for his interest in the
problems of society's poorest members.
• He is best known for his work on the causes of
famine, which led to the development of
practical solutions for preventing or limiting
the effects of real or perceived shortages of
food.
35. Id the project or FITB
• Dwivedi spent more than nine years researching
_______ and read over 180 books on the subject. For
him, _______ was "the first man with a national
consciousness.” And that is what made him take up the
project:
• “I am not interested in the present; my idea is to delve
into the past and link it with the present. After a great
deal of thinking I discovered that politics is the crux of
all sciences, just as _______ said....Today the question
of national consciousness is agitating the minds of our
countrymen. Was it not ________ who defined
Rashtra and paved the way for the first one?”
37. • There are varying accounts about how the Dutch-named
"de X Straat" got its name.
• A generally accepted version is that the name was
derived from an earthen X on the northern boundary of
the New Amsterdam settlement, perhaps to protect
against English colonial encroachment or incursions by
native Americans.
• In 1789, XY was the scene of the United States' first
presidential inauguration when George Washington took
the oath of office on the balcony of Federal Hall on April
30, 1789. This was also the location of the passing of the
Bill Of Rights.
• All blanks are same
• What am I talking about here?
39. • X is the largest foreign exchange dealer in the world
• with a market share of 21 %. X’s CEO and Chairman of
• the Group Executive Committee is Josef
• Ackermann since May 2002.
• • On July 26, 2011, along with its second quarter
earnings
• report, X reported that Y, head of investment banking
• and Jürgen Fitschen, will replace Josef Ackermann as
• co-CEOs starting next year.
• • X and Y?
41. • XY was founded in New York in 1869 by the German-
• born Marcus X. In 1882, X's son-in-law Samuel Y joined the
• firm. The company made a name for itself pioneering the use
• of commercial paper for entrepreneurs and was invited to join
• the NYSE in 1896.
• • In the early 20th century, XY was a player in establishing
• the initial public offering (IPO) market. It managed one of the
• largest IPOs to date, that of Sears, Roebuck and Company in
• 1906. It also became one of the first companies to heavily
• recruit those with MBA degrees from leading business
• schools, a practice that still continues today.
49. • the procedure by which the X is determined twice each
business day on the London market on the premises
of N M Rothschild & Sons.
• It is conducted in US$, GBP, and the euro daily at
10.30am and 3pm, London time, via a dedicated
telephone conference facility.
• The current five participants in the fixing,
• Scotia-Mocatta
• Barclays Capital
• Deutsche Bank
• HSBC
• Société Générale
51. • Due to the recent economic crises in the
US, Obama announced they will soon tax
the super rich citizens of the country
(people with over 1 million $ annual
income)
• What is this tax, perhaps aptly, called?
53. • born 2 December 1948 is a former Indian-
born American businessman who was the
managing director of management
consultancy McKinsey & Company from
1994 to 2003 and a business leader in
India and the United States. He was
arrested in late 2011 by the FBI on insider
trading charges stemming from the Raj
Rajaratnam Galleon Group case.
55. • X was announced in Britain by William Pitt
the Younger in his budget of December
1798 and introduced in 1799, to pay for
weapons and equipment in preparation for
the Napoleonic wars.
57. • Maurice Lauré, Joint Director of the
French Tax Authority, the Direction
générale des impôts, was first to introduce
on April 10, 1954, although German
industrialist Dr. Wilhelm von Siemens
proposed the concept in 1918.