China is the hometown of tea, and tea industry is a traditional industry with a long history of China. It has a certain importance in China's import and export. However, the competitiveness and position of Chinese tea industry in the international market is continuing to decline…
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Occupational noise induced hearing loss (occupational NIHL) is one of the leading causes of permanent hearing impairments not only in developing countries since developed countries such as the US also have a large number of employees who are at risk of occupational NIHL. A numbe…
The implosion of the 2008 financial crisis ignited fears that integration would transmit the crisis' effects throughout the global system. Examining two countries, Bangladesh and Zambia, this project shows that low-income countries with relatively little integration also saw neg…
Several factors influence the health status and outcomes of any nation's population. Remarkable disparity also exists between the industrialized nations and the developing countries in terms of the health status and outcomes of their populations. The literature review indicates …
Background. Iron deficiency is the most common preventable nutrition problem in developing countries today. Enough is known about iron metabolism that a computer model should be able to predict individual responses to iron supplementation. If construction of such a valid model w…
The non-NGO literature provides evidence that employees' perceptions about their organization's support of them influences their commitment to their organization. NGOs, which have an increasing presence in the developing countries, have not been a target for this type of organiz…
Development specialists have praised the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICT) for its potential to make peripheral economies catch up with the industrialized core economies. Does the ICT revolution have this liberating effect? This study sheds doubt on …
Recent researches in the field of international business have revealed the existence of a number of lacunae in the understanding of the function of subsidiaries in developing countries. This is particularly suggestive of the ways they operate in such countries, the ways they bui…
Information problems often limit economic activity in less developed countries and it is well known that under these conditions, contracts and personal networks can facilitate market exchange. This dissertation investigates the role of market institutions and community organizat…
This study examines cross-national variation in the female labour force participation in developed and developing countries, where Canada and Bangladesh are used as examples. The general findings of the study are that in Bangladesh female labour force participation largely depen…
The relation between socioeconomic status and health status in developing and developed countries continues to generate an extensive literature. My thesis examines how the interaction between poverty, deprivation and lack of access to collective assets and resources influence th…
In this study we develop a framework examining technology absorption strategies and performance among LDC firms. We derive hypotheses regarding the impact of two main technology absorption strategies: Learning by doing and creation of volume flexibility on performance. Learning …
Este estudo visa avaliar os riscos relacionados com as alterações climáticas em diferentes cenários, principalmente os riscos de se tornar num sistema financeiro sustentável, impulsionado pelo acordo de Paris, metas europeias e agendas estratégicas locais. Bem como avaliar a lim…
Despite increasing changes in the business environment, the results of the studies reveal that management accounting systems do not change or change at a much slower rate than expected. This failure has raised much debates at the topic of management accounting research during th…
As restrições financeiras têm sido um tópico de pesquisa constante na literatura. Para micro e pequenas empresas o seu impacto é particularmente importante, considerando a sua dependência de crédito para sobreviver. Estas empresas são responsáveis por grande parte do dinamismo d…
This thesis has two objectives. The first is to analyse the consumption, saving and borrowing behaviour of agricultural households. Specifically, by using the permanent income hypothesis (PIH) as a theoretical framework, and secondary data sources, this thesis argues that consum…
The oil and gas industry, Nigeria's fulcrum of economic growth and development, is a highly regulated sector. Findings from studies show that organizations and firms are both constrained and enabled by the institutions in their environment. This quantitative correlational study,…
In this dissertation, I analyze the impact of employment with respect to real exchange rates in developing countries. Previous studies focus on only developed countries such as OECD countries. But country characteristics and industry characteristics in developing countries are v…
Malnutrition and infectious diseases among preschoolers feature prominently among the major public health concerns in developing countries. Existing evidence tends to support the view that despite the dramatic improvement in human health in the past decades, the gap between rich…