This research focuses on an economic assessment of micro finance institutions (MFIs). Usually researches on MFIs consist of pure theoretical, empirical and institutional view. However, this study provides a different view by incorporating the financial model of MFI in a general …
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An industrial cluster is a group of firms that are specialized by sector, located in close geographic proximity and consist of mostly small and medium sized enterprises. An introduction to these clusters is provided in Chapter One. Chapter Two develops a model to examine the con…
This dissertation focuses on Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and its applicability in China and Chinese culture. The primary goal is to examine the critical success factors (CSFs) to successfully implement U.S. CRM solutions in Chinese markets. The research questions focu…
This dissertation consists of introductory chapter and an additional three papers. There are three common aspects in these three papers. First, the main topic of each paper is the nominal exchange rate regime. Second, the entire three papers use a Markov Switching Regime model a…
Utilizing International Political Economy (IPE) perspectives, I analyze trade reform policies in Bangladesh under the research query: What were the major forces for trade liberalization in Bangladesh? In particular, what were the relative importance of donors, the government and…
This research proposes a multi-provider appointment overbooking model to minimize the impact of patient no-shows. The objective of this research is to mitigate resource underutilization due to appointment cancellations and no-shows in multi-provider outpatient clinics. Most outp…
This study performs a case study analysis of two of the more important presidential decisions in post-9/11 U.S. foreign policy in order to accomplish two goals. First, the study examines the decision-making processes of the two cases as part of an effort to develop a more nuance…
Context. HIV treatment access is now a reality in Nigeria. Concerns have now shifted from issues of treatment access to that of treatment retention, quality of care and treatment outcomes. Information on predictors and prediction models of loss to follow-up and treatment outcome…
The research presented here lies at the intersection of phylogeography, phylogenetics, and community ecology and aims to understand how evolutionary processes have contributed to the diversity seen around the world. This diversity is investigated at the population, species, and …
The Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) has had a perennial problem of succession in the office of the bishop. The office is characterized by powers and privileges. As a result, senior clergy use every means to ascend to power for personal gain. Reports of bribery, ethnic divide, int…
"Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments" provides students, faculty, and instructional designers with a clear, concise introduction to the major pedagogical and psychological theories and their implications for the design of new learning environments for schools, unive…
This book describes the structures of molecules, i.e. their shape and size, as determined by experiments or advanced theoretical calculations, and gives an introduction to the simple concepts that chemists use to interpret these structures.
