Friday, December 28, 2012
Thursday, December 27, 2012
The Water Story
MACRO - Glaciers
MESO - Policies
MICRO - Individual household water supply
Thats it................
Saturday, December 22, 2012
How to find Active/ Potential Markets for private-public-participation (PPP) ?
Step 1:-
Read central government policies and long term plans (generally 5 years) of a particular sector.
Step 2:-
Learn about the programmes and schemes under the policies and long term plans and the budget allocation on these (financial plans and cash flows).
Step 3:-
Check for activities of the states (particular areas where they are utilizing the money and funds) [Also check about the background, status and budget utilization of these].
Step 4:-
Check for active/archive tenders for the implementation and use of technology from the specific department.
Notes
- Think the country operating as a business model, regardless of the details.
- Learn about the status of PPP in the particular state, look at the past history of the PPP in the state in terms of FDI and number of of past PPP projects. This gives a rough idea about how the state was open in the past.
- Read about the legalities/ regulations etc. applicable in terms of implementation of sector specific projects in the particular state and at the central level.
T.R. :-
- Allocated funds come from central govt./funding agencies in phases.
- There is some appraisal before, during and after the project, reports of which gives the status of funds and projects.
To see for information :-
- Central government plans, policy documents and reports.
- Central government and ministry websites of the particular sectors for schemes, programmes and their status and records.
- MOMs between government officials, Annual Action Plans (AAPs) between the central and state officials
- State government and particular department websites.
- Tender advertisements (summary, tender value, status)
- Funding agencies' reports and appraisal documents.
- Economic data provider websites
Fig 1: Development Finance and Related System
Sunday, December 16, 2012
From Professor David Swensen's Lectures
Three major determinants of investment return--asset allocation, market timing, and security selection.
Diversification
Bonds, Stocks, Alternatives
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Fish - lively change
A small glass globe with 3 fishes (red, yellow, blue - guppi and zebra) with some stones at the bottom, all placed on a fish painted paper plate.........some Lively change from the information world...... :-)
Updates...Guppi died under the attacks of zebra...
KFC sucks
Had Chicken in KFC for the first time........and the last time..........Worst chicken......These days I am not liking chicken and this made it worse........
Only good thing...KFC employed deaf and dumb people....being systematic, it was easy for them to operate easily, even at the counter.........
Only good thing...KFC employed deaf and dumb people....being systematic, it was easy for them to operate easily, even at the counter.........
Friday, December 7, 2012
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Friday, November 30, 2012
Safe CEF
Culture has direct correlation with economics........thereby effects finance.......as culture directs resource allocation
Business Tidbits 2
Second Principle: Once it is above zero line, Repeat the dynamics.........
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Monday, November 26, 2012
Terms......
Remittance : A remittance is a transfer of money by a foreign worker to his or her home country.
Related to financial flows between countries
Transaction cost : In economics and related disciplines, a transaction cost is a cost incurred in making an economic exchange (restated: the cost of participating in a market).
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Diet transformations
It seems like I have started to prefer roti sabji to chicken biriyani.........
Non-spicy foods is appearing more tasty than their spicy counterparts....
Non-spicy foods is appearing more tasty than their spicy counterparts....
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
The science
Energy from the sun reaches the top of earth's atmosphere as solar radiation. As the direct solar radiation enters the earth's atmosphere and travels through it, a part of this radiation is absorbed by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the rest travels further to reach earth's surface. the radiation absorbed by the earth's atmosphere results in heat. Upon reaching the earth's surface, a part of the direct solar radiation is absorbed by the earth's surface elements and a part is reflected back to the atmosphere by different surface elements. on the way back, a part of the reflected terrestrial radiation is again absorbed by the greenhouse gases. Finally the radiation leaves the earth's atmosphere and goes to the space.
Over the lifetime of earth, the greenhouse gas content of the atmosphere underwent fluctuations - reduced when absorbed by the biosphere through photosynthesis and increased when released by events like volcanic eruptions. A large amount of the atmospheric CO2, a component of the greenhouse gases was absorbed by the biosphere and were converted to their components. When the past biosphere fossilized, the carbon got trapped inside the earth's mantle, leading to reduction of greenhouse gas content of the atmosphere, which contributed to reduction of the inferno (earth). These fossilized biosphere, over time, got converted into fossil fuels (petroleum, coal etc.) and remained trapped inside the earth for millenniums.
With the growth of industries, human discovered the utility of the fossil fuels to provide vital sources of energy. The dependency of humans on fossil fuels as the vital source of energy resulted in the release of this trapped carbon in massive amounts, leading to the increase of greenhouse gas content in the earth's atmosphere. The natural greenhouse phenomenon got affected by this anthropogenic forcing, which lead to the the ongoing global warming and climate change.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Monday, November 5, 2012
The Song of The Pragmatic Mercenary
The Song of The Pragmatic Mercenary
My girlfriend from the countryside bade me farewell.
Before we were sitting together, me beside her.
She was weeping, I tried to see her face.
She put her face on my shoulder, we were near.
And the day came, she was standing waving her hands.
I took the bus, left her forever.
Nice were those days, but I left her forever.
She was weeping, I tried to see her face.
She put her face on my shoulder, we were near.
And the day came, she was standing waving her hands.
I took the bus, left her forever.
Nice were those days, but I left her forever.
to be continued............
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Reading transformations
Yes !!! I learned to read ebooks and pdfs in laptops and desktops..........
Thanks to anti-glare high refractive glasses and MY PATIENCE.........
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Diffusing mosquitoes
It is good to have mosquito nets in the windows, but just check the size of the mosquitoes in the region, before fixing the net. Smaller mosquitoes can diffuse through the nets and you will end up killing them the entire night.
Size of net holes must always be smaller than the size of mosquitoes, so always do due diligence in the region before getting one.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Around corporate systems
- Corporations ----- Main Entity/ Products/ Projects
- Management Consulting ----- Specific expertise/ services
- Investor ----- Investment/ Wealth Management
- NPOs ----- Human resource capacity building/ deep penetration
- Government/ Multi-lateral Institutions ----- Regulatory bodies/ policy
- Information technology ----- Information systems/ MIS
- Banks/ Financial Services ----- Finance
Modern Aryan Society
Corporations - Temple systems
Entrepreneurs - Vaishyas
Investors - Temple founding heads/ Yogis
Astrophysicists/ Macro-Economists/Theoretical physicists - Yogis/hermits
Mathematicians - Ascetic/ Sannyasis
Financial experts - Priests
CEOs - Kings/ Ruling class
Management consultants - Brahmins
Finance - Religion
Options - Dakshinas
Private Equity - Patrons of temple systems
Doctors/engineers/IT technicians/applied scientists - Sudras
Corporate office - High temple
Models - Vedas/Upanishads/scriptures
Data - mantras
Government administrators - Kshatriyas/ subordinate ruling class
Informational technology - Thought waves
Computers - Temple library and signal receiving mind of refined yogis
Internet and Database - Temple library
Global/Macro-economics - BRAHMAN/BRAHMA
Applications of science/ scientific method - disciplining method/ YOGA
National universities - Gurukuls/monasteries
Research institutions and laboratories - ashrams
Professors/ teachers - gurus/authors of purans
Microscale traders/workers/labourers - Mlechhas
Center of Cardinal direction/GPS - Mount Kailash
Local celebrities - Gods/goddesses
Sophisticated people/ those pursuing art or cultural activities - Gandharvas
Scientists/Researchers - Rishis/Munis
AC rooms/boardrooms- Garba-griha
Chambers for think-tanks - Himalayan/mountain caves
Sitting posture in arm chair - Yogic/meditative posture
Executive arm chair - Singhasan
Investment returns - Prasads/Ashirbads from head priests
To be continued...........
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Friday, October 19, 2012
Friday, October 12, 2012
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Relations between Climate Change, Sustainability, Kyoto Protocol, Carbon Trading and Funding of Activities of Small and Medium Enterprises
Scientists
found that the temperature of planet earth is rising and that climate is
changing. The cause of the current climate change was attributed to emissions
of green house gases by fossil fuels and low energy efficient technologies.
Kyoto Protocol tried to come up with few instruments and mechanisms to address
the change in climate and to facilitate the development of sustainable low
emission technologies in a market dominated by established high emission, low
energy efficient technologies. At the protocol, developed countries pledged to
reduce their carbon emission to certain levels to address climate change. One
of the instruments that was formulated was carbon trading. This is a cap and
trade system in which a central body fixes the emission limit of different
countries and the member countries are allocated limits or caps to greenhouse
gas emission level. These caps are also allocated to corporations and large
companies. The companies receive or buy the allocation caps from the central
authorities and continue with their operations. If the countries or companies seems
to exceed the allocated emission levels, they have few options like trade the emission
units among themselves (emission trading), invest in low emission sustainable
technologies and projects or cut their present productions and operations. Now,
in order to facilitate the investment in low emission technology, the Kyoto
protocol came up with few mechanisms, two of which are clean development
mechanism (CDM) and landuse, landuse change and forestation (LULUCF). CDM
allows a developed country to invest in sustainable low emission projects in
developing countries and obtain certified emission reduction (CRM) certificates
on successful completion of sustainability projects. These CRM certificates
thus allows developed countries to obtain extra emission units and at the same
time facilitates transfer and growth of low emission technologies in developing
countries. LULUCF also facilitates afforestation and carbon sequestration
projects in developing countries and provides emission reduction certificates
to developed countries and corporations. It is in the position of facilitating
CDM and LULUCF projects and providing emission reduction units that small and
medium sized enterprises say XYZ in
developing countries (INDIA) come into play. These SMEs obtain funding through
intermediaries like venture capitals, capital investment funds etc. to
undertake low emission projects like sustainable energy, technology change etc.
In case of XYZ, there are a number of such projects like biomass briquettes,
change to solar technology from diesel for salt production, marketing and
selling of natural salt, mangrove habitat regeneration, watershed development
etc. These activities belong sustainable development projects and thus receives funding allocated
for emission reduction projects from developed countries and corporations. These
enterprises generally have good connections with the community and ground level
knowledge and thus facilitate sustainable development and technology transfer
in developing countries upon receiving the allocated funding and sustainable investment
funds from the developed countries and corporations. Upon completion of the
sustainable development projects, the enterprises provide the project results
and data like area of land-use change etc. to the corporations and countries
directly or through intermediaries, who thereby convert them and obtain the
emission reduction units.
Friday, September 21, 2012
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Friday, August 31, 2012
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