Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner CONTENTS AN EXPLANATORY NOTE In which the origins of this book are clarified. vii PREFACE TO THE REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION xi 1 INTRODUCTION: The Hidden Side of Everything In which the book’s central idea is set forth: namely, if morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work. Why the conventional wisdom is so often wrong . . . How “experts”— from criminologists to real-estate agents to political
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Table of Contents: LIST OF ILUSTRATION 5 Executive Summary 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 7 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION: 8 1.1 PURPOSE 8 1.2 SCOPE: 8 1.3 BACKGROUND 9 1.4 METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION 10 1.5 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY: 11 CHAPTER TWO: PROFILE OF IBBL 12 2.1 INTRODUCTION: 12 2.2 DEFINITION OF ISLSMIIC BANK: 12 2.3 Historical Background of IBBL: 12 CHAPTERFOUR: FOREIGN EXCHANGE OPERATION 49 OF IBBL 49
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Table of Contents: LIST OF ILUSTRATION 5 Executive Summary 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 7 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION: 8 1.1 PURPOSE 8 1.2 SCOPE: 8 1.3 BACKGROUND 9 1.4 METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION 10 1.5 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY: 11 CHAPTER TWO: PROFILE OF IBBL 12 2.1 INTRODUCTION: 12 2.2 DEFINITION OF ISLSMIIC BANK: 12 2.3 Historical Background of IBBL: 12 CHAPTERFOUR: FOREIGN EXCHANGE OPERATION 49 OF IBBL 49
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1.0 Introduction Risk is the element of uncertainty or possibility of loss that prevail in any business transaction in any place, in any mode and at any time. In the financial arena, enterprise risks can be broadly categorized as Credit Risk, Operational Risk, Market Risk and Other Risk. Credit risk is the possibility that a borrower or counter party will fail to meet agreed obligations. Thus managing credit risk for efficient management of a Financial Institution has gradually become the most crucial
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Chapters CHAPTER 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL MARKETING INTRODUCTION Managers around the globe are recognising the increasing necessity for their companies and organisations to develop the skills, aptitudes and knowledge to compete effectively in international markets. The emergence of a more open world economy, the globalisation of consumer tastes and the unabated expansion of Internet access globally all increase the interdependency and interconnections of nation economies across
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