...This is a good article. Click here for more information. Page protected with pending changes level 1 Bahrain From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Changes must be reviewed before being displayed on this page. Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Bahrain (disambiguation). Kingdom of Bahrain مملكة البحرين Mamlakat al-Baḥrayn Flag Coat of arms Anthem: نشيد البحرين الوطني Bahrainona Our Bahrain Sorry, your browser either has JavaScript disabled or does not have any supported player. You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. Location of Bahrain (circled in red)in the Arabian Peninsula (light yellow) Location of Bahrain (circled in red) in the Arabian Peninsula (light yellow) Capital and largest city Manama 26°13′N 50°35′E Official languages Arabic Ethnic groups (2010[1]) 46% Bahraini 45.5% Asian 4.7% other Arabs 1.6% African 1% European 1.2% Other Religion Islam Demonym Bahraini Government Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy - King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa - Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa - Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa Legislature National Assembly - Upper house Consultative Council - Lower house Council of Representatives Independence - Declared Independence [2] 14 August 1971 - from UK [3] 15 August 1971 Area - Total...
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...GCC Pharmaceutical Industry March 31, 2013 Alpen Capital was awarded the “Best Research House” at the Banker Middle East Industry Awards 2011 GCC Pharmaceutical Sector | March 31, 2013 Page | 2 Table of Contents 1. 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY............................................................................ 6 Scope of the Report .................................................................................. 6 Key Growth Drivers .................................................................................. 6 Key Challenges ........................................................................................ 6 Trends .................................................................................................... 7 2. 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 GCC PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY OVERVIEW ...................................... 8 GCC Pharmaceutical Market Overview ............................................................. 8 The UAE Pharmaceutical Market .................................................................... 11 The Saudi Arabian Pharmaceutical Market ...................................................... 13 The Kuwaiti Pharmaceutical Market ............................................................... 15 The Qatari Pharmaceutical Market ................................................................. 16 The Bahraini Pharmaceutical Market .............................................................. 17 The...
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...answers to these questions will provide a better understanding of globalization and its economic implications for the GCC economics and the rest of the world. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. First, there is a brief discussion of the major forces behind the increasing globalization of the world economy in recent decades as well as the alternative views of the implications of such phenomenon for the development of the third world countries. Second, there is a section on the degree to which the GCC economies are integrating into the global economy. Third, there is a discussion of the challenges and opportunities of globalization in the context of the GCC countries. Finally, there are some policy implications from the preceding analysis. I....
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...This article was downloaded by: [University of Glasgow] On: 06 August 2013, At: 08:28 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Journal of Transnational Management Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/wtnm20 Diversification, Strategy, and Stability of Lebanese Banks: A Non-Parametric DEA Approach Rock-Antoine Mehanna & Youssef Yazbeck a b a b Sagesse University, Furn el Shebak, Lebanon Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon Published online: 14 Jun 2012. To cite this article: Rock-Antoine Mehanna & Youssef Yazbeck (2012) Diversification, Strategy, and Stability of Lebanese Banks: A Non-Parametric DEA Approach, Journal of Transnational Management, 17:2, 155-166, DOI: 10.1080/15475778.2012.676939 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15475778.2012.676939 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in the publications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Any opinions and views expressed in this publication are the opinions and views of the authors, and are not the views of or endorsed...
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...Investing in a Rebound The 2010 A .T. Kearney FDI Confidence Index® The Global Business Policy Council is a strategic service that assists chief executives in monitoring and capitalizing on macroeconomic, geopolitical, socio-demographic and technological change worldwide. Council membership is limited to a select group of corporate leaders and their companies. The Council’s core program includes periodic meetings in strategically important parts of the world, tailored analytical products, regular member briefings, regional events and other services. Global Business Policy Council A.T. Kearney, Inc. 8100 Boone Boulevard Suite 400 Vienna, Virginia 22182 U.S.A. 1 703 891 5500 telephone www.atkearney.com I n the two years since A.T. Kearney released its last Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index, the global economy has faced unprecedented turmoil—a housing market collapse, a banking system teetering on the edge, rising unemployment and falling sales across almost all industries. In the 2010 FDI Confidence Index®, we examine the future prospects for international investment flows in the context of these tumultuous times. While conditions have improved, senior executives at the world’s largest companies remain wary of investing during the current climate, and few expect a full turnaround before 2011. Amid the economic downturn of the past two years, several emerging markets remain attractive to foreign investors. China, India and Brazil are in...
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...`çêéçê~íÉ=pçÅá~ä=oÉëéçåëáÄáäáíó=áå= íÜÉ=eçíÉä=fåÇìëíêó=Ó=^=`êçëë= `ìäíìê~ä=mÉêëéÉÅíáîÉ= qÉêÉë~=kçêÇ Miljö och hållbart företagande Magisteruppsats 2006:4 Centrum för tvärvetenskaplig miljöforskning Vår välfärd bygger på att samspelet mellan människa, samhälle och natur fungerar. Forskning om hur samhället vårdar basen för sin välfärd, och når hållbar utveckling, kräver kunskap från flera områden. Därför finns Centrum för tvärvetenskaplig miljöforskning, CTM. CTM är ett fristående centrum vid Stockholms universitet som verkar för samarbete över fakultetsgränserna. Vi samarbetar med alla institutioner vid Stockholms universitet som bedriver miljörelaterad forskning. CTM utvecklar tvärvetenskapliga utbildningar, samordnar större forskningsprojekt och informerar omvärlden om universitetets miljöforskning. Centrum för tvärvetenskaplig miljöforskning hette tidigare Centrum för naturresurs- och miljöforskning, CNM, och har funnits vid Stockholms universitet sedan 1990. Hemsida: www.ctm.su.se STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY Centre for Transdisciplinary Environmental Research Sustainable Enterprising Master’s Thesis (20p) CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE HOTEL INDUSTRY: A CROSS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE TERESA NORD Academic Advisor: Hans Rämö Stockholm University School of Business Master’s Thesis (20p), Fall 2006, Stockholm University ABSTRACT Attention to business ethics in varying environmental, economic and cultural contexts has become increasingly important as...
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...Internship Report: BANK ALFALAH LIMITED Submitted By: MAIDAH MASOOD Roll # 107 Section: “C” Morning B-Com (Hons) Session: 2005-2009 Hailey College of Commerce, University of the Punjab, Lahore. The evolution of Bank Alfalah signifies a movement from concept to reality; a reality to bring about a change in the banking industries of Pakistan; offering an alternative way of banking; providing people an opportunity to practice beliefs in their financial matters. Following privatization, Bank Alfalah emerged as new identity of Habib Credit and Exchange Bank with a revived purpose and commitment. Charged with the strength of Abu Dhabi consortium and under the leadership of His Highness Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al-Nayayan, the bank has already made significant contributions in building and strengthening both corporate and retail banking sector in Pakistan. At present the bank has expanded its operations across Pakistan in 74 cities with 189 operational branches. However, it has total 195 branches that include 23 Islamic Banking branches, five overseas branches three in Bangladesh and two in Afghanistan and one offshore banking unit in Bahrain. It is pertinent to note that all of its branches commenced their operations in “Real Time Online Mode”. Today Bank Alfalah is the fifth largest Banking operation in Pakistan. Since its inception, it has registered the fastest growth rate ever...
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...RESEARCH includes research articles that focus on the analysis and resolution of managerial and academic issues based on analytical and empirical or case research Interaction Between Forex and Stock Markets in India: An Entropy Approach Y V Reddy and A Sebastin Executive Summary Interactions between the foreign exchange market and the stock market of a country are considered to be an important internal force of the markets in a financially liberalized environment. If causal relationship from a market to the other is not detected, then informational efficiency exists in the other whereas existence of causality implies that hedging of exposure to one market by taking position in the other market will be effective. The temporal relationship between the forex market and the stock market of developing and developed countries has been studied, especially after the East Asian financial crisis of 1997–98, using various methods like cross-correlation, cross-spectrum, and error correction model, but these methods identify only linear relations. A statistically rigorous approach to the detection of interdependence, including non-linear dynamic relationships, between time series is provided by tools defined using the information theoretic concept of entropy. Entropy is the amount of disorder in the system and also is the amount of information needed to predict the next measurement with a certain precision. The mutual information between two random variables X and Y with a joint...
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...Proxy and the Saudis 14. Poppy’s Web 15. The Handoff 16. The Quacking Duck 17. Playing Hardball 18. Meet the Help 19. The Conversion 20. The Skeleton in W.’s Closet 21. Shock and . . . Oil? 22. Deflection for Reelection 23. Domestic Disturbance 24. Conclusion Afterword Author’s Note Acknowledgments Notes Foreword When a governor or any state official seeks elective national office, his (or her) reputation and what the country knows about the candidate’s background is initially determined by the work of local and regional media. Generally, those journalists do a competent job of reporting on the prospect’s record. In the case of Governor George W. Bush, Texas reporters had written numerous stories about his failed businesses in the oil patch, the dubious land grab and questionable funding behind a new stadium for Bush’s baseball team, the Texas Rangers, and his various political contradictions and hypocrisies while serving in Austin. I was one of those Texas journalists. I spent about a decade trying to find accurate information on Bush’s record in the Texas National Guard. My curiosity had been prompted by his failure to adequately answer a question I had asked him as a panelist in a televised debate with Ann Richards during the 1994 gubernatorial campaign. Eventually I published three books on Bush and his political consigliere, Karl Rove. During Bush’s presidency, many other...
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