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The Stats For Working Women

September 27, 2013 Leave a comment

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Do you believe that women today can do anything?That they are to be found working at every manner of job as per their education.skills and inclinations?That with increasing education among women its only a matter of time till we automatically achieve gender diversity in the work-place?Take a look at the figures and tell me if you still think the same.

In Indian cities the proportion of working women has fallen from a little more than 14% in 1972-73 to a little more than 13% in 2011-2012.And in rural areas the proportion of women at work has shrunk from 32% to 18%.

Have so many women acquired passive incomes to quit work?So what do these figures say about the economic independence of women?

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The Harpex Index

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The HARPEX Shipping Index is the container ship index of the ship brokers Harper Petersen & Co. It tracks the weekly container shipping rate changes in the time charter market for eight classes of all-container ships. The index was compiled in 2004, but by using a database of 10,000 records, can be calculated retrospectively back to 1986.You can track this index here:Link.

The HARPEX index is considered a suitable indicator of global economic fleet shipping activity since it tracks changes in freight rates for container ships over broad categories.So it provides an insight into the transport of a much wider base of commercial goods than commodities alone unlike the Baltic Dry Index .

HARPEX is regarded as a Current-Activity Indicator, because it measures and charts the changes in freight rates for container ships that typically carry a wide variety of finished goods from a multitude of sellers. These are factory output goods headed for retail markets, at the other end of the supply chain from the raw materials of the BDI.

Today,many analysts prefer to track the Harpex over the BDI or in addition to the BDI ,as the massive growth in demand for commodities from emerging countries,especially China from 2005 to 2008 led to a significant increase in capacity. as the number of ships built surged through until the 2010 crisis that resulted in a major change in supply from relatively inelastic to highly elastic.

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The Baltic Dry Index

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The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) is a number issued daily by the London-based Baltic Exchange. You can monitor it here:Link.The index provides an assessment of the price of moving major raw materials by sea,

Most directly, the index measures the demand for shipping capacity versus the supply of dry bulk carriers. The demand for shipping varies with the amount of cargo that is being traded or moved in various markets.The supply of cargo ships is generally both tight and inelastic—it takes two years to build a new ship, and ships are too expensive to take out of circulation the way airlines park unneeded jets in deserts. So, marginal increases in demand can push the index higher quickly, and marginal demand decreases can cause the index to fall rapidly. e.g. If you have 100 ships competing for 99 cargoes, rates go down, whereas if you’ve 99 ships competing for 100 cargoes, rates go up. In other words, small fleet changes and logistical matters can crash rates.The index indirectly measures global supply and demand for the commodities shipped aboard dry bulk carriers, such as building materials, coal, metallic ores, and grains. Read more of this post

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Financial Times Global Masters In Management 2013 Survey

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wealthymatters After reading the news that IIM-C made it to the Financial Times Global Masters In Management 2013 list,if you are hunting for the complete list.you can find it here:Link But do note that the degree is MIM not MBA as is being carelessly reported. IIM-C has been judged to have the best finance module in its MIM program of all the 70- programs that made it to the list and the institution ranks 2nd in economics.