KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT & INFORMATION SERVICE Issue 8
April 30, 2014
Title
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Doing Business 2014: Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium Size Enterprises
Publisher
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World Bank
Call Number :
00 000/03.09.03/WB/2013 This publication presents quantitative indicators on 11 areas of business regulations for 189 economies that covers: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency and employing workers. It aims to help mobilize policy makers to reduce the cost and complexity of government procedures and to improve the quality of institutions, so that entrepreneurs have great chance to grow their businesses and produce jobs, and workers are more likely to enjoy the benefit of these regulations such as social protections and safety. 278p. http://www.doingbusiness.org/reports/global-reports/doing-business-2014
Title
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The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence
Author
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Tom Peters
Call Number :
05/PET/2010 It is a book of tips, notions, suggestions, and actionable ideas that businesses should learn/review and get “back to the basics” of running a successful enterprise. The author provides essential wisdom for everyone – from the freelance to the small business owner to the head of a major corporation – 163 ways to excel at the “people side of business” by pursuing excellence at every level. 538p. www.harpercollins.com
Copies are available for loan to DTI employees and for research purposes only to external clients, on a first-come, first-served basis at the DTI Library, GF Trade and Industry Building, 361 Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenue, 1200 Makati City. For inquiries/ reservation, please call 751.0384 local 2130. Also visit http://elibrary.dti.gov.ph
Title
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Laws on Green Growth in Korea
Publisher
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Ministry of Government Legislation
Call Number :
45 410/11.02/MIN/2011
This book contains the background of the implementation of policies on low carbon, green growth and key elements of such policies as well as twenty major laws regarding low carbon, and green growth in Korea. It aims to help all readers interested in this policies and laws that will lead to both economic growth and reduction in greenhouse gas emissions simultaneously. 643p. www.moleg.go.kr
Title
:
Pagtatatag ng Kooperatiba
Publisher
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Technology Resource Center
Call Number :
45 608/03.09.06/TRC/2011 This publication presents major purposes and kinds of cooperative: credit, consumers, service, producers, marketing, and multi-purpose cooperative. It shows the problems that usually hinder the growth of the organization and also discusses steps and other systems to make the cooperative legitimate. 28p. www.trc.dost.gov.ph
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