A cartel is a group of similar, independent companies which join together to fix prices, limit production or share markets or customers among themselves. The most significant feature of this anti-competitive activity is its restriction of competition between the parties involved in the...

Historically, the mining industry has taken a 'devil may care' attitude to the impacts of its operations; operating in areas without social legitimacy, causing major devastation and then leaving when an area has been exhausted of all economically valuable resources. Cost benefit language has...

The paper stresses the need to keep the issue of corruption squarely in view in the development agenda. It discusses the causes and consequences of corruption, especially in the context of a least developed country with considerable regulation and central direction. Lack of transparency,...

The paper aims to shade intensive lights over risks allocation and its related aspects embedded with a construction contract. For this purpose, an in-depth study of different types of risks which generally arisen in large sized construction projects is presented within the paper. For making the...