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  2. Corporate Equality Index - Wikipedia

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    When the HRC modified it, it became a 100-point system, as opposed to Grant's 10-point one. [7] In its first year, the Corporate Equality Index awarded its 100 percent rating to 13 businesses. [8] Each year, there has been an increase in the number of businesses that achieve this rating.

  3. Peter principle - Wikipedia

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    The cover of The Peter Principle (1970 Pan Books edition). The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not ...

  4. Education economics - Wikipedia

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    Education economics or the economics of education is the study of economic issues relating to education, including the demand for education, the financing and provision of education, and the comparative efficiency of various educational programs and policies. From early works on the relationship between schooling and labor market outcomes for ...

  5. Human Rights Campaign - Wikipedia

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    HRC is an umbrella group of two separate non-profit organizations and a political action committee: the HRC Foundation, a 501(c)(3) [3] organization that focuses on research, advocacy and education; the Human Rights Campaign, a 501(c)(4) [4] organization that focuses on promoting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights through lobbying Congress and state and local ...

  6. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    Also called resource cost advantage. The ability of a party (whether an individual, firm, or country) to produce a greater quantity of a good, product, or service than competitors using the same amount of resources. absorption The total demand for all final marketed goods and services by all economic agents resident in an economy, regardless of the origin of the goods and services themselves ...

  7. Equity (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Economic equity is the construct, concept or idea of fairness in economics and justice in the distribution of wealth, resources, and taxation within a society. Equity is closely tied to taxation policies, welfare economics , and the discussions of public finance, influencing how resources are allocated among different segments of the population.

  8. Human rights - Wikipedia

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    Economic, social and cultural rights are enshrined in articles 22 to 28 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the ICESCR. The UDHR included both economic, social and cultural rights and civil and political rights because it was based on the principle that the different rights could only successfully exist in combination:

  9. Social promotion - Wikipedia

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    It is also argued that social promotion, by preventing elementary students from advancing at their own pace, is a key reason why they do not take their education seriously. Eliminating the social promotion system could make the incentives of merit-based promotion more effective early in each student's academic journey.