Quota may refer to:
Affirmative action
Computing
Electoral systems
Military
Trade
See also
- Quota share, distribution of a quota amongst individual entities
Racial quotas in employment and education are numerical requirements for hiring promoting admitting and/or graduating members of a particular racial group while discriminating Reservation in Indian law is a form of Affirmative action whereby a percentage of seats are reserved in the public sector units union and state civil services Quotas in Pakistan were introduced in order to give equal opportunity for jobs representation in assemblies and educational institutions to women non-Muslims and people from under developed A disk quota is a limit set by a System administrator that restricts certain aspects of File system usage on modern Operating systems Types of In Party-list proportional representation systems an election threshold is a clause that stipulates that a party must receive a minimum percentage of votes either The Droop Quota is the Quota most commonly used in elections held under the Single Transferable Vote (STV system The Hagenbach-Bischoff quota is a formula used in some voting systems based on Proportional representation (PR The Hare quota (also known as the simple quota) is a formula used under some forms of the Single Transferable Vote (STV system and the Largest remainder method The Imperiali quota is a formula used to calculate the minimum number or quota, of votes required to capture a seat in some forms of single transferable vote or The Quota System (also known as The Quod) introduced by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in 1795, required each English county to provide a quota An import quota is a type of protectionist Trade restriction that sets a physical limit on the quantity of a good that can be imported into a country in a given period Individual fishing quotas (popularly abbreviated to IFQ) are one kind of catch share a means by which many governments have tried to regulate fishing A quota share is a specified number or percentage of the allotment as a whole ( Quota) that is prescribed to each individual entity (see Non-tariff barriers to trade
Dictionary
quota
-noun
- A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.
- (business) A time-measured goal for production or achievement.
- (business, in trade) A form of protectionism used to restrict the import of something to a specific quantity. (Sawyer & Sprinkle, International Economics, 2nd Edition , 2003, p 157)
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