The chief advantage that most publicly traded corporations enjoy – and the primary reason why private companies decide to go public<span> – is greater access to financing through capital markets. Public corporations can also protect their owners and managers from many legal liabilities, although some privately owned companies can accomplish this as well. Corporations with stock on listed exchanges can also offer stock options to employees, improve their brand equity and receive a form of complimentary advertising.</span><span>
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The Declaration of Independence of the United States
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Basic industries are those exporting from the region and bringing wealth from outside, while nonbasic (or service) industries support basic industries. Because of data problems it is not practical to study industry output and trade flows to and from a region. As an alternative, the concepts of basic and nonbasic are operationalized using employment data.
The basic industries of a region are identified by comparing employment in the region to national norms. If the national norm for employment in, for example, Egyptian woodwind manufacturing is 5 percent and the region's employment is 8 percent, then 3 percent of the region's woodwind employment is basic. Once basic employment is identified, the outlook for basic employment is investigated sector by sector and projections made sector by sector. In turn, this permits the projection of total employment in the region. Typically the basic/nonbasic employment ratio is about 1:1. Extending by manipulation of data and comparisons, conjectures may be made about population and income. This is a rough, serviceable procedure, and it remains in use today. It has the advantage of being readily operationalized, fiddled with, and understandable.
