This paper while emphasising the importance of the concept of financial stability in the wake of recent global financial crisis attempts to highlight the significance of the soundness of banking sector in emerging economies where banking sector constitutes a lion’s share in the financial...

This paper presents a critical analysis of the Index of Socioeconomic Development of Rio Grande do Sul (Idese), identifying the distortions and inconsistencies of this index, analyzing each of the variables that make up its four blocks: Education, Income, and Household Sanitation, and Health....

Economists argue that the SME sector is the most important Romanian economy and also the only sector that can bring economic recovery. The entrepreneurs are the key to economic recovery and stimulates the enhancement of SMEs to contribute to ensuring economic growth resources in difficult times....

In this paper, we first briefly review the recent literature on climate change, resource scarcity and conflict. This is then followed by introducing an agent based computational model based on the theory of production and conflict which is capable of simulating the dynamics of micro-level...

The issue of frauds through payment cards has received a great deal of attention from authorities. A large share of card frauds can be ascribed to the phenomenon of counterfeiting of debit cards, widely used payment instrument in “face-to-face” transactions. With the advent of the Single...