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“How developing countries can leverage the sharing economy to their benefit”

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1.0 Working Title “How developing countries can leverage the sharing economy to their benefit” 2.0 Background and Academic Context Through an online website or an app customer to customer transactions are operating which are providing temporary access to goods and services with no transfer of ownership which excludes second hand economy in which goods are resold. With this said, public interest in sharing economy, also known as “collaborative consumption”, is growing, resulting in various impacts on today’s economic society. While there is no definite definition for sharing economy, one can look it as a web-based free compensation resource distribution (Cheng, 2016). The sharing economy idea really took off in 2011, when Silicon Valley companies Uber and Airbnb began making transportation and accommodation easy, affordable, and accessible for all. Uber now has a reported valuation of 48 billion dollars, and is one of the world’s most valuable private companies (Forbes, 201...

Academic Achievement of Senior Secondary School Students in Relation to their School Environment Dissertation

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Academic Achievement of Senior Secondary School Students in Relation to their School Environment Dr. Mrs. Agnese Dhillon*& Jyotsna Thakur** Abstract The present research was undertaken to find out the academic achievement of senior secondary school students in relation to their school environment. The sample for the study comprised 200 students (100 were from government and 100 from private schools) of Chandigarh. School environment inventory by K.S. Misra was used to collect data. The results indicated significant difference in academic achievement of students from government and private schools. Significant differences were also observed in government and private schools with regard to some components of school environment. Introduction      The children are greatly influenced by the environment in which they grow up and are taught. Academic achievement is prime and perennial responsibility of a school or any other educational institution. The bri...