Migration to tea plantations in Assam in the 19th century used indentured contracts. These contracts differed by conditions of harshness. Migration under the Special Act gained notoriety by giving tea planter the right of private arrest. Using a new set of migration by types of contract, the...

Objectives: The paper presents the results of an ecological-economic approach to identifying community-level factors that influence the physical growth of young children. Design: A cross-sectional design was used to obtain both the anthropometry and the ecological-economic data. Setting: The...

It often has been emphasised that the reflection of economic reality of company transactions is fundamental to financial accounting. Although this fundamental principle is widely accepted, there is not a general description of how reality can be constructed in financial accounting. This paper...

This paper addresses two problematic issues arising from the importation of terms into financial accounting: (1) the nature of economic reality; and (2) the role of assumptions. These two issues have stirred a lot of controversy relating to financial accounting measurements and affect...

Accounting is currently a very dynamic field at international level. Accounting information or its derivatives comprise an important segment of the information conveyed in the economic environment. Therefore, accounting is considered by some authors as the most important information source of a...

Economic reality is constituted by economic objects such as goods, commodities, money, value, price, and exchange that, together, give rise to the complex entity known as the market. Each of these categories is governed by exact laws that provide the conditions for settling objectively whether...

"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...

Vor dem Hintergrund dynamischer und komplexer Umweltbedingungen wird im Rahmen der Strategischen Managementforschung der Fokus bei der Suche nach Faktoren erfolgreicher Unternehmensfuehrung zunehmend auf interne Ressourcen und Faehigkeiten gelegt. Vor allem der Pool der Humanressourcen bietet...