In these days, the adoption of information technology (IT) in business operations is no longer privilege to large organizations; Small-Medium-Enterprises are also trying to adopt the IT in process of gaining the benefits of using it. Nigerian SMEs have been slow to adopt EDI due to perceived...

The issue of the current account is important for policy makers, since it provides information about quantity of foreign resources that must be borrowed to fund domestic investment. This study examines the relationship between current account balance as a percentage of GDP and real interest rate...

This paper provides empirical evidence on the soundness and relevance of the Ricardian equivalence hypothesis (REH) for Pakistan over the period 1960__2009. Time series properties have been examined in order to take care of the criticism made against the previous studies on REH notably...

Europe is under debt threat, facing the biggest crisis of uncertainty. One of the biggest limitations of global integration of the EU is that small and weak countries could not fall in line with strong economies. This crisis is the example in this regard. The summit at Cannes failed to give a...

This article includes the analysis of the conditions needed for venture capital (VC) market creation and the perspectives in Lithuania. The successful case of VC in Silicon Valley is shortly presented. The theoretical part of the article is up for revealing the differences of the venture capital...

This paper analyzes the foreign trade gap between 36 countries and regions and the role China plays from 1978 to 2007. The paper finds that the absolute gap among those countries increase, but the relative gap decrease, the gap between the developing and the developed decrease, the...

The purpose of this study was to examine the challenges of the change process experienced by CSO in becoming partly-privatized organization and to suggest better ways of going through the transition. This research was done through oral and questionnaire based interviews and therefore resulted in...

Academic libraries have a performance appraisal system comprising setting of goals, feedback, participation and incentives for performance. This study aimed at evaluating the performance appraisal system in the KNUST and GIMPA libraries in Ghana and give recommendations on improving the system....

Sri Lanka has strived hard to launch its economic reforms that favoured a greater role to FDI. The present study is an attempt to find the growth performance and forecasts of FDI inflows to Sri Lanka. The study concludes that Sri Lanka has not been able to attain the growth rate which can match...

The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of the prevailing organizational culture on the adoption of green marketing in chemical-industry companies in three countries: Syria, Kuwait and Jordan. The research used a survey methodology. A questionnaire was designed and administered...