There was a time not so long ago when Americans, regardless of their political stripes, rallied around their president. Once elected, the man who won the White House was no longer viewed as a Republican or Democrat, but the President of the United States. The oath of office was taken, the wagons were circled around the country’s borders and it was America versus the rest of the world with the president of all the people at the helm....Suddenly President Barack Obama, with the potential to become an exceptional president has become the glaring exception to that unwritten, patriotic rule.
Corporate governance when viewed as priceless intangible capital or as an instrument used for increasing capital supply and capital market liquidity embedded in a firm’s organization and transactions, it can influence the ease and cost at which a firm generates external finance for its investment opportunities. Hence it is a prerequisite for external finance. The effect of corporate governance on external lines of finances has created a dichotomy in the financial and business sectors in most developing countries especially in Africa. The contemporary challenge is how best to integrate disenfranchised sectors especially in African south of the Sahara while improving on corporate governance and reducing capital cost at the same time, particularly for small firms.
Benefits and Challenges of a Lion & Dragon Cooperation
China is a growing new empire and an economic force to reckon with in contemporary times. Most developing economies trading with China regard it an opportunity to do gainful business, considering its market size and growing industrial base. This paper examines Sino-Cameroon trade relations with the principal objective of assessing how mutually beneficial these relations have been to both countries and more so for Cameroon. Secondary data was used to analyze observations and discussions. The findings reveal trade has not been mutually beneficial and skewed in favour of China; recording soaring trends in deficits and imbalances.
By Peter Mokwe Ikomey
Deregulation, trade liberalization and economic globalization are impacting largely on the supply and demand of goods and services on a global scale. For the most part, economic globalization and the pressures that come with it are gradually changing previous market arrangements between countries and defining new trade patterns as well as the establishment of new economic partnership agreements amongst independent states. It is evident that ‘previous colonial trade blocks’ are now disintegrating and the forging of new trade ties now en-vogue, this write-up therefore attempts at examining and analyzing the issues, perspectives and challenges that have characterized trade relations between China and Cameroon within the economic globalization era.
During the tripartite conference of 1991, one of the agreements upheld by all participants was that there should be a constitutional provision that a presidential mandate would be 5 years, renewable once, giving a maximum of ten consecutive years at the helm of state, if the people wanted. A singlehanded-modified version of this agreement was inscribed in the 1996 constitution in article 6(2) which provided that each elected president of the republic would serve a term of seven years renewable once.. ..In doing this, Cameroonians were aware that by nature, human beings are vain, self-seeking and easily corruptible, making them victims of the allures of power and honours, or of the material benefits bestowed on them by those in power. They were also confident that 10 years were largely enough for any good intentioned individual to serve the people in the capacity of president of the republic.
Secrets of the Millionaire MindbyT. Harv Eker (Order)
If you are thinking about buying this book, then you obviously would like to be a millionaire. Do you actually like millionaires and respect what they have achieved, or do you resent them for what they have, or think rich people are bad? If you resent them then you may have have a poor person's attitude to wealth, and think that by becoming wealthy you may turn into that very thing you despise, and accordingly sabotage yourself subconsciously. Make no mistake, this is a very good book, with proven formulas that work. For example, thoughts, feeling, actions = results. Rich people focus on opportunities, poor people focus on obstacles. As you read this book, you will discover many interesting insights into how to become wealthy. You will also discover the mindsets of rich people compared to poor people. It is very illuminating to see the connection between how people think and how they do.
Given the unprecedented economic, political and military power of the U.S. ruling class, it may seem like a pipedream to believe that working people can ever take over. And yet, there are good reasons to believe the foundations of this colossus may not be that strong. First, the natural evolution of capitalism, in which the big fish eat up the small fish, has channeled an unbelievable concentration of wealth into the hands of an extremely tiny group. Only 1% of the population now owns just over half of all stocks and bonds and the richest 5% of the population holds 60% of all the wealth in our country. In reality, there are a few thousand families with hundreds of millions and billions of dollars in assets who control the main banking, finance, manufacturing, extraction, media, communications, transport, aerospace and real estate corporations.
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