Corporate America is taking a new step forward in efforts to keep their employees, especially women. The latest solution to the problem of declining employee retention rates is extended leaves of absence, some as long as five years.
Programmes are most common in areas like finance and accounting,
In 2000, the aquaculture industry produced 36 million tons of fish and shellfish. Since 1990, the industry has been growing at an average compound rate of around 10 percent a year; by comparison, farmed meat production grew 2.8 percent per year.
Traditional aquaculture required no more than a pond and
Mexico has had mixed success under the 10-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), say observers.
The successes of NAFTA have been:
Foreign investments flooded in to Mexico, rising to an annual average of $12 billion a year over the past decade, three times what India takes in.
The news media widely circulated the claim that one million species will become extinct by 2050 due to global warming. However, the study published in Nature looked only at 1,103 plant and animal species in five regions. It concluded that about 15 to 37 percent of the 1,103
Germany’s massive tax code may soon get a face-lift. The opposition Christian Democratic Union recently proposed scrapping the loopholes in the income-tax system and in return, it wants to cut taxes to three simple rates: 12, 24 and 36 percent. (The top bracket now stands at 45 percent.) The Free
