The idea of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is not something new for the corporate world. However, in the recent past, there has been a shift as far as understanding and implementation of CSR is concerned. CSR rather than being a philanthropic activity has started being looked at by the...

The productivity of enterprises in low income countries like Ethiopia is insignificant and very low. This low productivity feature is even more common among Small and Medium Enterprises. This paper present the effects of access to bank credit on productivity of small and medium enterprises. The...

Communication is increasingly at the center of human activity and crucial to the success of individual professionals and their organizations. Moreover, communication in various organizations (companies, schools, etc.) encompasses all the means, both formal and informal, by which information is...

Housing finance is a high flying sector these days and is expected to grow at phenomenal growth rate (expected 36%). The banks and financial institutions have brought changes to their strategies as there is shift from buyers market to sellers market. Liberal tax rates by the Govt., low and...

Housing Finance is a specialized form of finance and efficiency of housing finance system in a country is one of the basic indicators of the growth of its economy. Hence understanding the efficiency and effectiveness of housing finance system is very much essential and relevant. This paper...

The Growth in Housing and housing finance activities in recent years reflects the buoyant state of the housing finance market in the country. The financing institutions have come to see good value in funding this component of the economy. With a growing number of players, the housing sector is...

Capital structure decisions are among the most essential and vital decisions for any company because of their impact on value and cost of the firm. The main intent of this study is to find out the determinants of the capital structure of IT firms in Singapore traded on the Singapore Stock...

This paper attempts to identify structural breaks and estimate volatilities of logarithmic returns of Indian Rupee (INR) and Singapore Dollar (SGD) measured with respect to USD, controlling for simultaneous temporal dependencies among various alternative asset classes. Combining a methodology to...