Economies of the world are linked more today than perhaps any other time in history. Advancements in technology, increases in capital mobility and the shift of many nations to market oriented economies have been the primary causes. Recent crises in developing regions have remind…
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This study is concerned with the impact of foreign aid on development in third world countries. It focuses particularly on the negative impact of aid on recipient countries in a case study of Bangladesh. The Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) is a part of aid conditionalities…
This research project explores the impact of administering outside financial assistance on the interpersonal relationships of Indonesian church leaders with their peers. The study group consists of church and theological school leaders within The Wesleyan Church of Indonesia who…
This dissertation will examine in detail the transmission of real economic growth from: (1) OECD countries to less developed countries (LDCs); (2) United States to Western Hemisphere LDCs; (3) Japan to East Asian LDCs; (4) United States to selected Western Hemisphere countries; …
In this study, the author examines the impact of public policy changes in ownership and control of State-Owned-Enterprises (SOEs) during the first privatization phase on employment relations at the firm level in Tunisia. I have used the technique of Paired t-test statistics for …
The role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the industrial restructuring of developing countries is of concern to host countries. Nowadays, most countries compete for international investment. Every country, including Indonesia, is aggressively attracting inward FDI to furthe…
This dissertation contains three distinct studies that explore aspects of the phenomenon of country risk. For U.S. firms in particular, the Iran crisis and passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act raised the perceived importance of country risk. Various primarily Western org…
This thesis examines both theoretically and empirically the joint determination of alternative work and school outcome processes, and the impact of child work on human capital accumulation in the context of rural Bangladesh, where low levels of educational achievement coexist wi…
This thesis first examines the macroeconomic, poverty, and labor-market characteristics of India and Bangladesh. Given this background, the thesis will then examine the more topical issue of trade liberalization and its relationship to poverty in these countries. The analytical …
It is fair to assume that the level of participation in a world economy or in a local economic market depends on the capacity of business organizations to use technology efficiently. It has been recognized that conducting business in the world today is driven by information tech…
Earthquakes with the most fatalities seem to be located in developing nations. As a result, it appears that poor nations have a higher seismic risk than rich nations. A community's seismic risk assessment requires knowledge of its geophysical, economic, and social factors. Evalu…
This study investigated diversification activities of media firms and their impacts on financial performance. It adopted a pooled cross-sectional and time-series methodology. Data came from the top 26 media firms over a 12-year time period (1991 to 2002). Although most media stu…
This research addresses the effects of privatization on public employees. Specifically, it examines the employment implications of privatization. In the last decade, there has been a great deal of attention given to privatization, but very few investigators have systematically e…
This paper provides empirical evidence as to the positive dispersions in price and volume regarding the economic event of investments in the Internet, using stock data for firms listed on the emerging market stock exchanges in Brazil, India, Indonesia, Russia, and South Africa. …
In the past two decades, there has been an extensive study on exchange rate economics. But research on the exchange rate related to currency crisis still remains as a challenging area. In this thesis, on the empirical side, we try to find the impact of 1997 Southeast Asian curre…
State Owned Enterprise (SOE) privatization has become a major issue in both developed and developing countries of the world. During the 1980s, state owned enterprises were under scrutiny because of the accumulating evidence that such enterprises were performing poorly and creati…
The recent wave of financial crises in the 1990s and the 2000s resulted in severe economic distress among emerging market countries across several regions. The exchange rate plunged sharply at the time of crisis and output severely contracted. Using the quarterly data of the Asi…
Succession management systems seek to identify high potentials (either formally or informally) and offer career development opportunities in order to prepare talented employees for future leadership roles. Business experts have touted the importance of succession management syst…
Microenterprise development is usually affected by accessible finance. Lack of access to credit deters most microentrepreneurs because the formal sector has the impression that microentrepreneurs are not creditworthy. Cooperative Thrift and Credit Societies have evolved overtime…