While the role of commercial banks in financing economic growth and reducing poverty and income inequality is well documented in cross-country setup, the regional variations of the banking services within a country and its association with poverty reduction is understudied. Understanding of the...

While the role of commercial banks in financing economic growth and reducing poverty and income inequality is well documented in cross-country setup, the regional variations of the banking services within a country and its association with poverty reduction is understudied. Understanding of the...

We investigate whether performance enhancement motivates the changes to the constituents of the Standard and Poor's 500 Index, and whether these changes in fact enhance the Index's performance. To test these, we compare the performance of the stocks that were deleted from the Index to the...

In this paper, investigation has been made to analyse the marketable and marketed surpluses of leading crops viz. different varieties of rice, wheat, potato, mustard and lentil. This study suggests that marketed surplus as percentage of total production was found highest in potato (64 per cent)...

The key concern of this research is to assess the growth, fluctuation and price flexibility of Aus, Aman, Boro, wheat and jute crops during the last two decades of the twentieth century. Real prices of all the crops have been falling significantly during the study period. The price instability...

A study of changing cropping pattern for a period is important to understand the shifting nature of the composition of crops in the crop sector and the economic and non-economic factors that cause the cropping pattern change. Over the last quarter of a century of post-Bangladesh years, cropping...