A major worry here is the fact that the high costs of healthcare in the United States do not necessarily buy the best health care services. The chief concern for corporations like GM and Ford is the ever growing healthcare costs and massive healthcare liabilities. A recent trend has been for major industrial corporations to…
Access to personal healthcare and behavioral model of health services use
Access to healthcare means the ability of an individual or a family to avail of medical facilities and treatments if and when they need it most. Today, access to healthcare is available to only the middle classes in the United States. The country, in spite of being the world’s leading economic power, has failed to…
Ratan Tata: Leading the Tata Group into the 21st Century
The Tata group, alongside Reliance and Birla conglomerates, is a household name in India. The group had risen to this prominence through its enterprising, innovative and ethical leadership over the course of more than a century. First under the auspices of Jamshetji Tata and later under the inspirational leadership of J.R.D. Tata, the group has…
California Public Service System: Challenges and Opportunities
The California Public Service System, officially called the State of California Personnel Board (SCPB), is a key institution in the state. First instituted in the year 1934, the civil service system has upheld high standards of equality and fairness in its history. The history of SCPB is intricately linked to the history of the country…
The views of Robert Maxwell and Harold Edey on accounting policy, creative accounting and regulation
Robert Maxwell was credited with saying that Accountancy is not the exact science which some of us once thought it was, and in an academic paper, Edey (1989) stated that Accounting reports can provide no more than approximate (rough is a better term) indications of the financial health and state of a business. Profit is…
Human trafficking in the United States and its relationship to poverty
In recent decades the issue of human trafficking into the United States has been an issue of contention in political debates. The southern border with Mexico is the primary channel through which illegal immigrants (most of them of Hispanic origin from Central American countries) attempt to sneak into the confines of the world’s most prosperous…
In what way was WWII the single most consequential event in Soviet history between 1921 and 1985?
Both the first as well as the second world wars are landmark events in modern world history. Both wars are marked by involvement of the prevailing world powers of the day. In the case of the First World War, the principal actors were the European powers of Britain, Germany, Austria, etc with nominal participation from…
National Health Service (NHS): A study of its Structure, Funding and Regulation, Strengths and Weaknesses
The National Health Service, which is a government run public health care enterprise, is an important institution in Britain. Both the Tory party and the New Labour Party have competed to claim the NHS as their own and no election campaign in Britain is without numerous references to the benefits offered by the NHS. While…
A comparison of the development strategies of India and China and their rates of poverty reduction
India and China are both touted to be the next economic superpowers. As both countries are home to close to a third of the world’s population, they have enormous human resources with which to capitalize on. Alongside this natural advantage in terms of human resource, the domestic and foreign policies of both nations have been…
Problems & Benefits Caused by the Industrial Revolution
The industrial revolution, which had its beginnings in eighteenth century England, is regarded as one of the most important events in modern history. The prevailing capitalist world order can be traced back to the revolution. With the onset of the industrial revolution, the then prevalent feudal social systems where gradually dismantled and a new economic…