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Question by Zachary: What is the difference between social return and financial return?
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What is the philosophy of The Women’s Equity Mutual Fund and of socially responsible investing (SRI)?
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As women social entrepreneurs, we have a sense of personal and social responsibility that needs to be reflected in the way we manage our personal finances. Doing good starts â€Ŕat home,†taking good care of our money by making wise financial decisions. These wise choices will allow us to create financial stability in the present and our financial independence in the future. Furthermore, we will be able to create sufficient wealth to take care of ourselves and to share part of our wealth with others. So, what steps do we need to take to ensure that we are managing our money wisely?
Step 1: Connect with your â€Ŕhigher self†and get clear about your values and priorities. Define clearly what is important to you, which determines how you will spend your money. As wise women, we will understand how much is â€Ŕenough†and shift our focus away from excess consumption and accumulation of things we do not need to be truly happy. This first step is critical as it will determine our financial goals. You may wish to heal your relationship with money as you go through this first step. Go to the â€ŔResources†section of Sabia Partners for suggested readings.
Introduction
The organisation that will be discussed is the National Health Services (NHS). Adrian (2002) explains that it is a public organisation that provides its services in Wales, Ireland, Britain and Scotland. NHS was formed with the main aim of bringing healthcare services closer to people. Before its formation, health care services were quite disorganised. Most people had to pay for services when they were receiving treatment. This problem has now been solved as patients are able to access health care even before they fall ill. The organisation is funded by trusts that finance health care providers who are then able to purchase health services from suppliers such as ambulance services, testing centres and care for the elderly. The NHS is driven by three main goals that is, to focus on the improvement of treatment, prevention and diagnosis of health services.
Commercial and social marketing are both issues that have received a lot of attention from the organisation. Although the NHS is a public organisation, it still needs to be able to carry out its services in an efficient manner. This necessitates the need to apply commercial marketing concepts in its operations. Social marketing will come in because the organisation deals with the public and is concerned about its well being. The definitions, applications and evaluations of the latter marketing concepts will be examined in detail below;
The Political Economy of Social Justice
Dr.R.Murali
Head, Department of Philosophy & Centre for Philosophical Research
The Madura College (Autonomous), Madurai -625011.
The comically complicated PSA (Personal Savings Account) legislation bouncing around Congress will raise taxes, increase investment risk, and expand the size of government. Let’s stop applying Band-Aids to spouting arteries. We are looking for a guaranteed retirement benefit program, and organizations capable of providing one. Additionally, we want the new program to reduce taxes, create jobs, boost the economy, cut prices, and increase salaries. Difficult? Not really.
This is the conceptual outline of a five-year implantation plan, a starting point for the brainstorming needed to develop the nitty-gritty details, rules, regulations, laws, and agencies. All that is needed is the will to change things productively. Politicians like to debate changes to determine why new ideas can’t be implemented. Here’s a plan that must be implemented. Have a listen, throw out an incumbent, and protect your future.
Labour and Social Development:
Improve Protection of Labouring Communities
By M. Nadarajah
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The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) organized a national workshop on ‘Taxation and Social Development’ in Kuala Lumpur, on 12 – 13 June 2002. The national workshop formed part of an ICFTU-APRO response to the 1997 Asian financial crisis which was concerned to understand the crisis affected social development and the social protection of labour in particular. The ICFTU-APRO holds that national governments are responsible for funding the maintenance of social safety nets and social development through taxation. Hence, the ICFTU-APRO conducts country case studies to examine taxation and social development and holds national workshops to discuss such issues with trade unionists.
http://www.defendingthetruth.com/articles/4808-proposals-change-social-security-benefits.html
During many elections, we have heard proposals from politicians to alter or change Social Security benefits. In this paper, I’m going to research and analyze these proposals to find out whether or not they would be beneficial to the Social Security fund, how it will affect all of us in the future, and the current beneficiaries who receive Social Security.
In the past few years, the anti-corporate movement (including those opposed to globalization) has gained a bit of steam.
What many people in the movement promote now is called Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the idea that corporations should be responsible to all of society and the environment, as well as to shareholders.
It’s a shame they’ve gained momentum. After all, without modern corporations we would all be poorer, and in particular, few of us could expect to retire comfortably. More than anything else, modern corporations exist to provide pension income.
Meaning of CSR: – Social responsibility is fundamentally a philosophy or a vision about the relationship of business and society. It is treated as an investment and not a cost. It is a process of continuous improvement, not a fad, which begins small & grows and expands overtime. It is inextricably linked to profitability, as there can be no social responsibility without profits.
Importance of CSR: – This is a time of more Turbulence for a business & accelerating change. The challenges faced by today’s business include the following.
Socially responsible fund is a new concept in Indian context. But, this concept has acclaimed a vast popularity in the US mutual fund market. There, it is being used as an investment vehicle for years. Ethical funds, as they are popularly known, are specifically designed to cater the investment needs of people with personal ethical codes. This investing community is not in line with the normal investment practices.
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