(a) Profit and development This topic will comprise threads such as

Sustainable livelihoods. Sustainable development.

That was the basic principle of development a social obligation derived from the profit motive.

Ideally, the reinvestment of profits, or the absorption of profits by fiscal measures and their utilization for financing development, should provide channels to bolster investment, incomes and savings.

Profit

Firms which have diversified vertically tend to be the largest in terms of their turnover, but are among the less profitable and achieve the lowest rates of growth. The best growth performance is achieved by firms diversifying into related areas, while diversification into unrelated areas yields the highest profits but slow growth.

Very lucrative.

The interest again!

Positive corporate contributions to development could support these initiatives, including through charging of lower interest rates and reduction of profit margins.

Bringing It Back Home

They thus forego the benefits of either specializing in profitable crops or diversifying into non traditional areas.

Longline swordfishing is often only marginally profitable, if profitable at all.

The Profit Sharing Economy

Pressure for quot concrete quot results is observed and behavioural models are sought among quot profit making quot enterprises without there necessarily being any understanding of the intrinsic characteristics of the processes of human and community development, which by definition cover a more prolonged timespan.

Lives versus Profits

Whatever gives the best profit.

For developing countries, market access barriers coupled with high transportation costs (which could account for up to 30 per cent of total landed costs) not only decreased margins, but also curtailed the development of the industry.

People, service, profit.

The oil is priced off the margin.

And so the margin is natural gas.

No. Fair enough? But you do get 5 of the profits.

There goes my percentage.

There's the airplane ticket over and import duties, hidden taxes, profit markup...

I wish simply to recall that, if trade barriers were lifted, the developing countries would generate potential profits of 130 billion more than double the 50 billion needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Prospective project sponsors will also be concerned about their ability to transfer abroad or repatriate their profits.

However, a comparison of several developed countries still found that, for most countries, the more competition there was in their markets (mainly assessed from levels of concentration), the higher the convergence in long run profits and speed of profit adjustment. See Peter A.G. van Bergeijk and Robert C.G. Haffner, Privatization, deregulation and the macroeconomy Measurement, modelling and policy, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 1996.

A sorcerer's profit on Wall Street?

You don't even break even, much less show a profit.

The turnover of Andøya Rocket Range has also increased, and the Range also made a good profit in 1994.

For any adjustments of losses and benefits happened in previous years, in case the amounts involved are relatively huge, it is required to give detailed information about the contents of such adjustments, reasons therefor and amounts affected.

First, executives for whom shared profits already account for a significant portion of income may resist programs that distribute profits to more workers, fearing that their own income would decline. Even when such programs increase overall profitability, they could reduce the profits going to top management and shareholders.

Urges the UNCTAD to undertake studies on the necessary measures to bring about a balance in cost and benefits for the developing countries in adopting the new trade and economic regimes taking into account their different levels of development and ability to compete.

What meaning do the Millennium Goals have if developing countries cannot gain access to markets or a fair return on their exports?

Entrepreneurs in developing countries must be prepared to participate in a globalized economy that demanded efficiency, competitiveness, productivity and high profits.

It costs 50 bucks just to install it on your computer, making the publisher about another 275 million.

CA That's a high gross margin business. I like it.

We care how we make our profit.

It's not very lucrative, but it gives me plenty of spare time.

An enterprise invested by the people's government or any of its departments or organs shall hand over the payable state owned profits to the treasury.

We had marginal profit I did.

And the last area is profit itself.

Because there is no profit in it.

Her father's estate is a good 3,000 a year.

Surprisingly, Stephen's statistics showed that these 29 Hollywood blockbusters generated US 14.8 million of profits on average, while the profit rate only reached 3.7 .

Of the 53 sales partners concerned, the performance of 50 was below the 50 per cent net profit target and the remaining 3 were inactive.