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
  1. Think the country operating as a business model, regardless of the details.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.........

Friday, December 7, 2012

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Bug bitten


How the financial values get related to economic activities and vice versa ?


Friday, November 30, 2012

Safe CEF


Culture has direct correlation with economics........thereby effects finance.......as culture directs resource allocation

Business Tidbits 2


First Principle:   Whatever you do in the dynamics, whatever creativity, technology you apply........the final value must be Above zero line.........

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

Bonds or stocks






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....

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.




Saturday, November 17, 2012

4


Byasta manuser bhir, phursat nai,   
Eer majhe pran aai dhai,    
Tobu gaan gaya chai,    
Tai gaan gai.


Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Monday, November 5, 2012

MARKET ECONOMY


Coming soon.......


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.


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.


C-SE-B




Hey Sam, Mr. BOND can also make SKYFALL




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

I-a



PREFERRED EQUITY ==> PREFERRED SHAREHOLDERS

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Friday, October 19, 2012

Friday, October 12, 2012

Durgapuja Decoded






**What is Asur then ???
...........Asur is EMOTION, Thanks to Riddhiman.


**The intelligence is Cosmic intelligence / web as recommended by Prof. Sen.


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

mv signal



¦-3-2-3-2-¦¦


1---2-4-2-4---4-4---3-6-3---4-4---2



Sunday, September 9, 2012

Saturday, September 8, 2012

3



bodo samudra, choto dheu,
halka hawa, bristi-r chowa.



Friday, August 31, 2012

GLO1


SAB2


SAB1


O-PF-CF



Systems


Rann - Run



2

Bigato dhoreche hal, saugato diyeche tal.
Hal kothai niye jai, saugato jigges kore bhai.
Eer kono uttor nai, uttor jana nai !

1

Jhajri diye chingri maach bhaja tuli,
Tar sathe ene rekhechi geri gugli.
Aajke khaya hobe bhalo,
Rate-r belai bijli bati jalo,

Sakal belai maach dhoribo,
Aar raater belai tai bheje khabo.
Tobe bijli bati chai;
Noile maach bhajbo kemne bhai !!