There is no room for denying the critical importance of microcredit for economic emancipation of rural poor in Bangladesh or any such other country. In analyzing the effectiveness of microcredit program the microcredit providers (NGOs) use accounting profit of the borrowers' enterprises ignoring...

The purpose of this study is to analyse the performance of Islamic banks in terms of profitability of GCC region during 2008 global financial crisis. Bank specific data are taken from the Bank Scope database and macroeconomic data are collected from International Financial Statistics. Using a...

The Glass ceiling is an important barrier in the developing world like Bangladesh. But there are few studies on the private sector businesses of Bangladesh in this regard. Hence, this study aims to determine the influence of glass ceiling factors on the job satisfaction and job switching...

Government-Linked Companies (GLCs) are expected to show competitive performance in order to reflect the accountability of taxpayers' money. Therefore, this study is an attempt to assess the status of the current level of organizational learning orientation among the Government-Linked Companies...

As the recent Auditor General's report discovered some corruptions, weakness, and lack of control in asset management in the public sector of Malaysia, this study is an attempt to assess the status of current practices of accountability in public sector of Malaysia. This study collected primary...

Like many other countries, Public-Private Partnership (PPP) has been appreciated as an important way out for infrastructure development in Bangladesh. Though there have been recent successes in institutional and regulatory framework, other critical issues like transaction expertise, PPP...

Economic zone or export processing zone in a country is a purpose-built industrial park with infrastructure designed to suit the needs of foreign as well as local investors. In order to tempt foreign investors into the zones the host developing countries offer a variety of incentives. By...

The Sundarnbans mangrove forest has been an immense source of aquatic resources from time immemorial. Among the resources, harvesting of Giant Freshwater Prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii de Man 1879) plays an important role in the economy of the country, therefore, this investigation was carried...

This paper is an attempt to trace the relationship between interest rates and rates of inflation in the economy of Bangladesh. In view of this, a time series approach is considered to examine the empirical evidence of Fisher's effect in the country. By applying OLS and Unit Root test, the...

It is customary that when security prices fully reflect all available information, the markets for those securities are said to be efficient. And if markets are inefficient, investors can use available information ignored by the market to earn abnormally high returns on their investments. In...