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    India’s Rail System modernization has been rightly viewed as a daunting task. The project tasked with achieving such modernization is even more daunting. The rail system is a critical element of India’s infrastructure and it is responsible for transporting over eight billion passengers every year. Carefully planning every activity related to its makeover is extremely critical. To start this project right, managing stakeholder’s engagement is a must from beginning to end. The communication between

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    fears about Cold War tensions and the threat of communism, the domestic post-war environment contributed to the emergence of the predominant American sociological and economic theory of the post-war years: modernization theory. Though many new theories have emerged since the development of modernization theory, of which Walt Whitman Rostow was one of the leading figures, and it has seen fluctuations in its popularity, it has remained a part of the discourse on development to this day. Over the years,

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    The Data Warehouse Modernization Tipping Point Presenter: Philip Russom, TDWI Research Director Recording Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2014, 9:00 a.m. PT, 12:00 p.m. ET Duration: 1 hour 02 minutes Hosting Company: TDWI-The Data Warehousing Institute for BI and Data Warehousing. URL to presentation: http://tdwi.org/webcasts/2014/05/the-data-warehouse-modernization-tipping-point.aspx?tc=page0 In Philip Russom’s webinar he provides an overview of what a Data Warehouse (DW) modernization is, why many users’

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    Introduction China’s thirty year run of almost 10% GDP growth is legendary and there are many reasons for this phenomenal growth. The journey of a poor communist country of the 1950s to a world economic superpower today reads like a novel comprised of economic plots and sub-plots along the way. After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the country started on the path to industrialisation in earnest. The hallmarks of industrialization were the consolidation of socialist

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    develop to prosperity or under develop to devastation. Modernization theory and dependency theory are competing strategies of how to lead a country towards development. Modernization theory contends free enterprise and international trade are two elements that lead toward positive development. Modernization causes a gradual differentiation and specialization of social and political structures that makes democracy possible. In opposition to modernization theory is dependency theory which states capitalistic

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    Theories of economic growth Modernization theory refers to a theory that can be used by developing countries to develop their economy, it evaluates how developing countries can use the developing processes used by developed countries to develop. The theory argues that in order for developing countries to see growth the developed countries have to aid the development so that the developing countries can grow and learn in their own improvement from the developed. the modernisation theory believes that

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    Today, most people think that something has happened regarding the importance of religiosity in everyday life, but nobody is quite sure how to generalize it, or even if it can be generalized. As industrialization and modernity has increased, religion has lost some of its social significance. This has been especially troubling for sociologists. Is it simply, as the "classic theorists" of secularization said a century ago, that when a society becomes modern it becomes secular too? Does modernity necessarily

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    Introduction: The modernization of money and interest never takes a smooth path: sometimes it breeds prosperity, but the next time it may bring catastrophe. As with fire, economists and policymakers throughout the financial history keep monitoring and intervening in money and interest, trying to grasp these tools but not get hurt: governments interpret underlying signals sent by interest and implement monetary policies to boost economic growth and avoid aberrations. Past failures in financial history

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    The Gramm-Leach Bliley Act also likewise termed as The Financial Services of Modernization Act of 1999 fundamental thought is that the obstructions among saving money, security and insurance agencies were expelled and not permitted to offer financial services as a part of general operations. It does not permit the combination of investment, commercial bank and an insurance company. Summarize the main idea of BITS Shared Assessment Program The BITS Shared Assessment Program is created by major

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    ARC’s settlement modernization initiative – what has changed? What a difference 2-3 years makes. Project Orion was a technology upgrade to change how ARC would manage the business. ARC did not have all the strategic building blocks needed to be as forward looking as the industry requires. Orion was going to modernize legacy systems that (1) manage customer information and (2) manage settlement. Currently, anytime ARC makes a change, these legacy platforms require 1 year lead time and a million dollar

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