A Developing Country Perspective of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Test Case of Bangladesh Ali Quazi, The University of Newcastle Ziaur Rahman, IITM, Bangladesh Byron Keating, University of Wollongong Abstract The ‘social contract’ between the corporation and the community is of critical importance. The motivations for these contracts are continuously being revisited to understand how CSR programs can nurture and contribute to the growth of firms. While CSR issues are attracting a great
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IMPACT OF UNEMPLOYMENT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA (1970-2010) BY DUROSINMI TEMIDAYO.O EC/2008/622 DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCE CARITAS UNIVERSITY, AMORJI-NIKE ENUGU STATE AUGUST, 2012. i TITLEPAGE THE IMPACT OF UNEMPLOYMENT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA A PROJECT SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR IN SCIENCE (B.SC) DEGREE IN ECONOMICS BY DUROSINMI TEMIDAYO.O EC/2008/622 DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT
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ranged from discussions on basic issues of the definition of financial stability itself to issues of measurement, issues of choice of instruments to achieve the objective of financial stability and even issues on the degree of activism that central banks should adopt in pursuing this objective. 3. Traditionally, it has been believed that monetary stability leads to financial stability. However, as the events of the 1990s show, it need not necessarily be the case. While there are complementarities
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Karlstad, Sweden c Nowegian School of Management BI, P.O. Box 580, N-1301 Sandvika, Norway December 2000 PsycINFO classification: 3920 JEL classification: E21 Keywords: Customer satisfaction; Loyalty; National barometers 1 Journal of Economic Psychology, forthcoming. The authors thank Associate Editor Henry Robben, two anonymous reviewers, Richard Bagozzi, Andreas Herrmann and Kai Kristensen for their valuable comments and suggestions. We also gratefully acknowledge the support of the
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measures are combined. Based on the unique Japanese institutional features of main banks and business groups (known as Keiretsu), we construct a new measure that incorporates bank dependence and Keiretsu dependence. The new measure further improves the ability to predict bankruptcy of Japanese listed companies. Keywords Bankruptcy risk measure Á Accounting information Á Option pricing theory Á Japanese listed companies Á Bank dependence Á Keiretsu JEL Classifications G15 Á G33 1 Introduction When a company
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ID number: 12028548. Word count: 4,467 words. Date: 06/03/2013 Executive summary Every day when reading the financial newspapers or news on TV, I notice that the bad debt still has been the big problem of many economics. Bad debt increases which influences to the bank first, and then to the all of the economy. So, I want to do the research about the Credit Risk Management because in my opinion, this is the way to reduce bad debt effectively. In this report, I have researched about 3
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considered as potential determinants. Fish`s proposed causal mechanism makes his study even more suspicious because his references are anecdotal and his reasoning is culturalist. This is why, I decided to investigate his findings deeper and conduct a test on his claims that Muslims are culturally more egalitarian than Christians. The plan of this paper works in the following way: I will start with a literature review and continue with a brief summary of Fish`s data analysis and his major claims about
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Business and Economic Research ISSN 2162-4860 2013, Vol. 3, No. 2 Determinants of Firm’s Financial Performance: An Empirical Study on Textile Sector of Pakistan Ali Abbas (Corresponding Author) Hailey College of Commerce, University of the Punjab Lahore, Pakistan Tel: 92-333-897-4480 E-mail: mianali348@hotmail.com Zahid Bashir Faculty of Finance at School of Business, Economics & Management Sciences Imperial College of Business Studies Lahore, Pakistan Tel: 92-323-849-8515 E-mail: zahid.bashir
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FROM BANGLADESH Omar H.M.N. Bashar Deakin University, Australia ABSTRACT This paper explores the relative role of aggregate demand and supply shocks in affecting the output level and inflation rate in a low-income country vulnerable to various economic shocks. The study uses Bangladesh data, and following Cover et al (2006), employs a modification of the BlanchardQuah (BQ) approach, in which the two shocks are allowed to be correlated. Strong evidence is found for the hypothesis that aggregate
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The Health, Economic and Environmental Impacts of Urbanization in the Philippines Introduction As described by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (2007), “The world is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth.” More than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas. This global phenomenon is happening across different regions and development levels in the world. Richer countries in Europe and the Americas already large percentage of their population live in towns and
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