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North Dakota Trade Office - Case Questions & Worksheets

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North Dakota Trade Office - Case Questions & Worksheets

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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

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The euro is the currency of 19 EU Member States. Denmark has 'opt-out' clauses in the Treaty exempting him from participation, while the remainder (several of the more recently acceded EU members plus Sweden) have yet to meet the conditions for adopting the single currency.

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Viewpoint: European Union
Topic: The influence on natural gas supply under the Russo-Ukrainian War

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Options A
Topic: Vitasoy International Holdings Limited (Vitasoy)

Vitasoy is an extremely popular brand from Hong Kong and is known from its famous iconic beverages including Lemon Tea and Soya Milk to name a few. As the market leader in its home base for ready-to-drink beverages, Vitasoy has gripped the imagination of Hong Kong and expanded to various beverages in the local market, including juices, tea, milk, and even water.

Although successful in China, Vitasoy can be found in Chinatowns (or Chinese supermarkets) across the western hemisphere and to a scant extent in South East Asia. However, its success is limited and not particularly outstanding in these parts of the world.

Therefore, our group will work on an international expansion analysis and business plan for Vitasoy, particularly with North America and Australia (as a potential springboard for future global expansion) by designing a distribution and promotion strategy across these geographies.

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Sage Tsui
Sapphena Tsui
Gloria Lung
Harry Chau
Calvin Kwok
Homer Cheung
Nicholas Leung
Jianwei Jiao

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Option B
Topic: Nord stream Pipelines

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Topic: Global Warming

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Tie up hair
Self Defence
Donation
Build something sturdy to hold things
Make a fire
sell it for money
write stuff

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Weapon
Trade
Fire Fuel
Art
Writing
Planting
Stirrer
Charity

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Start a fire
Protective weapon
Make architectural model
Conduct electricity
Selling to children
For writing
For drawing
For stabbing people
For playing dart
Clubbing people to death
Use a pencil to identify the authenticity of diamonds

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Hair accessories
Lock sth
Decoration
Drawing
Build models
Make music (Musical Instrument: Drum stick)
Chopsticks
Play game(s) e.g. Pick up sticks

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Please select a country in the dropdown menu below to see the values for the 6 dimensions. After a first country has been selected, a second and even a third country can be chosen to be able to see a comparison of their scores.

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The Democracy Index is an index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a UK-based company. It intends to measure the state of democracy in 167 countries, of which 166 are sovereign states and 164 are UN member states.

The index was first published in 2006, with updates for 2008, 2010 and later years. The index is based on 60 indicators grouped in five different categories, measuring pluralism, civil liberties and political culture. In addition to a numeric score and a ranking, the index categorises each country in one of four regime types: full democracies, flawed democracies, hybrid regimes and authoritarian regimes.

As described in the report, the democracy index is a weighted average based on the answers of 60 questions, each one with either two or three permitted alternative answers. Most answers are experts' assessments. Some answers are provided by public-opinion surveys from the respective countries. In the case of countries for which survey results are missing, survey results for similar countries, and expert assessments are used in order to fill in gaps.

The questions are grouped into five categories: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture. Each answer is converted to a score, either 0 or 1, or for the three-answer questions, 0, 0.5 or 1. With the exceptions mentioned below, within each category, the scores are added, multiplied by ten, and divided by the total number of questions within the category. There are a few modifying dependencies, which are explained much more precisely than the main rule procedures. In a few cases, an answer yielding zero for one question voids another question; e.g. if the elections for the national legislature and head of government are not considered free (question 1), then the next question, " Are elections... fair?", is not considered, but automatically scored zero. Likewise, there are a few questions considered so important that a low score on them yields a penalty on the total score sum for their respective categories, namely:

1. "Whether national elections are free and fair";

2. "The influence of foreign powers on government";

3. "The capability of the civil servants to implement policies".

The five category indices, which are listed in the report, are then averaged to find the Democracy Index for a given country. Finally, the Democracy Index, rounded to two decimals, decides the regime type classification of the country.

The report discusses other indices of democracy, as defined, e.g. by Freedom House, and argues for some of the choices made by the team from the Economist Intelligence Unit. In this comparison, a higher emphasis is placed on the public opinion and attitudes, as measured by surveys, but on the other hand, economic living standards are not weighted as one criterion of democracy (as seemingly some other investigators have done).

The report is widely cited in the international press as well as in peer reviewed academic journals.

Full democracies are nations where civil liberties and fundamental political freedoms are not only respected but also reinforced by a political culture conducive to the thriving of democratic principles. These nations have a valid system of governmental checks and balances, an independent judiciary whose decisions are enforced, governments that function adequately, and diverse and independent media. These nations have only limited problems in democratic functioning.

Flawed democracies are nations where elections are fair and free and basic civil liberties are honoured but may have issues (e.g. media freedom infringement and minor suppression of political opposition and critics). These nations have significant faults in other democratic aspects, including underdeveloped political culture, low levels of participation in politics, and issues in the functioning of governance.

Hybrid regimes are nations with regular electoral frauds, preventing them from being fair and free democracy. These nations commonly have governments that apply pressure on political opposition, non-independent judiciaries, widespread corruption, harassment and pressure placed on the media, anaemic rule of law, and more pronounced faults than flawed democracies in the realms of underdeveloped political culture, low levels of participation in politics, and issues in the functioning of governance.

Authoritarian regimes are nations where political pluralism has vanished or is extremely limited. These nations are often absolute monarchies or dictatorships, may have some conventional institutions of democracy but with meagre significance, infringements and abuses of civil liberties are commonplace, elections (if they take place) are not fair and free, the media is often state-owned or controlled by groups associated with the ruling regime, the judiciary is not independent, and there are omnipresent censorship and suppression of governmental criticism.

Listing by country is available on The Economist website.

Rank

Country

Score

Electoral process
and pluralism

Functioning of
government

Political
participation

Political
culture

Civil
liberties

Regime
type

Region[n 1]

Changes from
last year

23

South Korea[n 2]
8.00
9.17

7.86

7.22

7.50

8.24
Flawed democracy
Asia & Australasia

Rank

Country

Score

Electoral process
and pluralism

Functioning of
government

Political
participation

Political
culture

Civil
liberties

Regime
type

Region

Changes from
last year

In 2016, the United States was downgraded from a full democracy to a flawed democracy; its score, which had been declining for some years, crossed the threshold from 8.05 in 2015 to 7.98 in 2016. The report states that this was caused by a myriad of factors dating back to at least the late 1960s which have eroded Americans' trust in governmental institutions.

The 2017 Democracy index registered the worst year for global democracy since 2010-11, with Asia the worst-performing region overall. Venezuela was downgraded from a hybrid regime to an authoritarian regime.

Australia (ranked 8th) and Taiwan (ranked 33rd) both legalised same-sex marriage in 2017. In China, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, further entrenched his power by writing his contribution to the Chinese Communist Party's ideology, dubbed Xi Jinping Thought, into the party's constitution. Moldova was downgraded from a flawed democracy to a hybrid regime as a result of problematic elections. By contrast, Armenia was re-upgraded from an authoritarian regime to a hybrid regime as a result of constitutional changes that shifted power from the presidency to parliament.

In 2017 the Gambia was re-upgraded from an authoritarian regime to a hybrid regime after Yahya Jammeh, who was president from 1996 to 2017, was defeated by Adama Barrow, an opposition candidate in the 2016 presidential elections.

In 2019, France, Portugal and Chile were upgraded from flawed democracy to full democracy. In fact, this is a re-upgrade for the former two, which suffered from the eurozone crisis many years ago. By contrast, Malta was downgraded from a full democracy to a flawed democracy. Thailand was re-upgraded from a hybrid regime to a flawed democracy. Algeria was re-upgraded from an authoritarian regime to a hybrid regime.

The Democracy Index has been criticised for lacking transparency and accountability beyond the numbers. To generate the index, the Economist Intelligence Unit has a scoring system in which various experts are asked to answer 60 questions and assign each reply a number, with the weighted average deciding the ranking. However, the final report does not indicate what kinds of experts, nor their number, nor whether the experts are employees of the Economist Intelligence Unit or independent scholars, nor the nationalities of the experts.

The following table gives the number and percentage of countries and the percentage of the world population for each regime type in 2018:

World population refers to the total population of the 167 countries covered by the Index. Since this excludes only microstates, this is nearly equal to the entire estimated world population.

The following table gives the index average by world region, and the number of covered countries in 2019. Note that some regional groups (e.g. Eastern Europe and Asia and Australasia) are very heterogeneous and composed of full democracies as well as authoritarian regimes:

1. The region is defined by the official EIU report, for example grouping Turkey in Western Europe and all ^ post-Soviet states in Eastern Europe.

2. An exact score of 8.00 is considered a ^ Flawed democracy per the EIU website.

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The Democracy Index is an index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a UK-based company. It intends to measure the state of democracy in 167 countries, of which 166 are sovereign states and 164 are UN member states. The index was first published in 2006, with updates for 2008, 2010 and later years.

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Regional Political Risk Index | PRS Group

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Below is our most recent Political Risk Index (PRI) Table ranked from low to high risk within each region listed. The PRI is the overall measure of risk

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Apply F + O dice

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The jihadist movement Al-Shabab, based in neighbouring Somalia, has launched many attacks in Kenya, mostly in the north-east, but also two high-profile and mass-casualty assaults in Nairobi: on the Westgate shopping mall in 2013 and the DusitD2 complex in 2019.

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Provides an overview of Kenya, including key dates and facts about this East African country.

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standard test method for accelerated aging of electrochromic devices in sealed insulating  glass units

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Standard Test Method for Accelerated Aging of Electrochromic Devices in Sealed Insulating Glass Units

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Group 3 - Mission Impossible - Discussion

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Mission Impossible: Confronting Childhood Malnutrition in Vietnam

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Mission Impossible: Confronting Childhood Malnutrition in Vietnam

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