An effective tool of economic development is found in microfinance and is believed to provide sustainable mechanism for poverty alleviation. The microfinance institutions across the world operate on a few established models and have been able to make a considerable impact in the areas of...

The convergence of information technology (IT) with those dedicated to communication to create information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the recent centuries and decades has encouraged the application of innovations of technological, social and institutional forms to facilitate...

This paper examines the EU-Africa Joint Action Plan 2011-2013 and discusses its potential to be a win-win game. Should it prove to be functional, the Joint Action Plan will be a step forward towards other kind of alliances for security (not necessarily military alliances) made to assure the...

Much has been written about the socio-cultural functions of religion. It is equally important to discuss the role and impact of religion and ethics on development and promoting reform in civil society. In today’s South Asian context it is necessary to analyse religion both as a tradition and a...

This paper is to analyze if the EU-Africa Joint Action Plan 2011-2013 can be realized and it will be a win-win game. If it would prove to be functional, the Joint Action Plan will be a step forward towards other kind of alliances for security, which will not be necessarily military alliances,...

Undoubtedly, the transformations and changes that took place in the postsocialist Romania have affected the whole rural in many different ways. The withdrawal of the state in the position of mediator, the need for a developed private sector, the laws concerning denationalisation and...