Recent financial crises highlight weaknesses in financial markets and the need for regulatory and supervisory bodies (RSB) to improve the stability of financial markets. Currently, international institutions like the IMF and the World Bank place the independent RSB among their principle policy...

The paper presents an alternative narrative to the what led to conflict in the once peaceful Swat Valley in Pakistan. The widely discussed view has been that Talibanization is what led to the conflict but this paper argues that it was in fact bad governance over a period of time that led to this...

Linking indegenious knowledge of the community with modern techniques to mesure, analyse and reduce disaster vulnerability is one way of engaging and moblising community capacity. This paper discuses he use of the local/ indegenious knowledge into disater management. It suggest a way to moblise...

This paper provides a comparative assessment of the market share, reach to the poor, and performance of faith-based and public schools in Sierra Leone using data from the 2004 Integrated Household Survey. One-third of primary school students attend government schools and more than half are in...

The objective of this paper is to provide a descriptive analysis of domestic work time in Sierra Leone using a 2003-2004 household survey that for the first time provides information on time use. Basic statistics on the time allocated to domestic work according to gender, age, urban/rural...

The article is devoted to questions of social responsibility and social activities of higher educational institutions (universities). It is analyzed the theoretical concept of social responsibility of higher educational institutions. It is outlined the role of stakeholders in the acting of...

This paper suggests a theoretical model of inclusive green growth. Paper analyses development mechanism through which natural resource capital regenerates (or at least non-degrade) and contributes to economic growth. Climate change is a threat to save natural resources which is a crucial...

CSR activities as applicable under the new company law in India may be used as sustainability strategy by the business. In order to comply with the mandate and with a positive mind set to augment implied benefits thereof, author investigates selected business scenarios to find an optimal pattern...

A transition from the extensive type of economic development to sustainable should provide the minimization of the non-renewable natural resources use and effective use of renewable ones, improvement of environmental quality and increase of the state’s ecological security and lead to stable...