Given that around 20 percent of the members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are identified as least developed countries (LDC's), global trade negotiations, resumed after the Cancun fiasco of September 2003, must address some major development issues in the spirit of the Doha Development...

This paper attempts to analyse the recent financial crisis in Indonesia and its effect on stock prices of the country. This study also investigates the long-run relationship between exchange rates and stock prices using the cointegration method. Our results indicate that there is no long run...

The bottom of the pyramid (BoP) approach popularised by Prahalad and Hart (2002), calls for the engagement of business with the bottom segment of the global income pyramid, and has attracted considerable attention and debate. The BoP lens is applied chiefly to communities experiencing ?extreme...