Triumphant capitalism, which heralded the dawn of globalisation, made neo-liberalists proclaim the death of socialism, along with its positive variants namely, free education, minimum wage, employment creation, health care, and so on. However, the perceived triumph of a single orthodoxy seems to...

The socio-politics aspects of society affect the development process and so do traditional sex roles. This aspect of development has been largely ignored and the contributions of women have been discounted. Promoting women’s participation in economic development is an essential element...

The purpose of this paper is to outline a framework, whereby academic and small to medium sized enterprise owner-managers can interact and learn more from each other in an environment of mutual collaboration. This paper outlines a methodology, which identifies a set of critical performance...

This paper studies the impact of market opening to FIIs, on Indian stock market behavior. India announced it's policy regarding the opening of stock market to FIIs for investement in equity and related instruments on 14-th September 1992. Using stock market data related to Bombay Stock Exchange,...

Middle East has always been the region having the first priority in the cynosure of USA because of two reasons. The first and the most important reason is petroleum. 61.9 % of petroleum reserves on the Earth are located in Middle East region. Therefore, meeting the petroleum need of the USA and...

This article investigates the impact of financial sources on firm growth in Brazil. In particular underlying objectives of this paper is to answer the questions, does external or internal and formal or informal financial sources affects differently on firm performance?, and does financial...

One the structural sections in control process model is monitoring and measuring of the processes. Under this model, the process manager can control processes, that means, systematically monitor and assess he efficiency of processes and pursue a correction action in the case he find out...