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Cyber Attacks Are Major Risk in New Global Resilience Ranking

Material Handling & Logistics

Haiti is the bottom-ranked country followed by Venezuela and Nepal—also the same order as last year. The United States saw its rank in political resilience drop over the last year from 31st to 46th. Lawson, CEO at FM Global. Some Specific Findings for US.

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In Chains: How to Approach Human Trafficking in your Supply Chain

Elementum

In the United States, the conscious use of forced labor is explicitly banned. State Department’s 2014 “Trafficking in Persons” report included a tiered ranking of Asian countries based on how they complied with international forced labor standards.

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Happy Diwali 2022

Enterra Insights

.”[1] Diwali is a national holiday celebrated throughout India, Singapore, and several other South Asian countries and Asian immigrants have introduced this joyous celebration to people in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, and elsewhere around the globe who now regularly celebrate Diwali with them. ”[4].

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

Between 2007 and 2010, during attempts to win firearms supply contracts with law enforcement and military agencies in Indonesia, Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Turkey, gun maker Smith & Wesson’s sales employees allegedly embarked upon a spate of unethical transactions, via third-party representatives, with foreign officials.

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Digitizing the COVID Vaccine: India’s Got This Figured Out

NC State SCRC

In our conversation this week, Ran shared with me the current vaccine roll-out plan underway in INdia, which immediately struck me as the most logical approach to vaccine roll-out I’ve seen yet, (certainly a more centralized and coordinated approach than what we’ve observed so far in the United States).

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Sustainability, Consumption and Realistic Expectations

QAD

In many affluent areas of the United States, you’ll often see garages overflowing with so much stuff that there’s no room for the family cars. In 1950, the average size of a new home in the United States was 983 square feet. Nepal created the least at.007 Most people don’t think they are materialistic. metric tons.

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Sustainability, Consumption and Realistic Expectations

QAD

In many affluent areas of the United States, you’ll often see garages overflowing with so much stuff that there’s no room for the family cars. In 1950, the average size of a new home in the United States was 983 square feet. Nepal created the least at.007 Most people don’t think they are materialistic. metric tons.