December 2011

Global climate change and emerging environmental and strategic security issues for South Asia

  Global climate change-essentially an adverse consequence of global warming, is principally caused by progressive build-up and extensive spread of greenhouse gases (GHGs) across countries, regions or continents because of earth’s rotational movement. The potent sources of GHGs are fossil-fuels and biomass. With the increasing pace of globalization, industrialization and rapid change of life-style, the...

Author(s): Amarendra Nath Sarkar

December 2011

The determinants of the demand for money in developed and developing countries

  This study examined the determinants of the demand for money in developing and the developed countries. The study employed a comparative analysis of the effectiveness of the determinants of the demand for money in both developing and developed countries. It was found out that income related factors or the scale variables are more effective in the developing countries while factors that work through the...

Author(s): Yamden Pandok Bitrus

December 2011

Effective risk management and company’s performance: Investment in innovations and intellectual capital using behavioral and practical approach

  Risk management is used to decrease the undesirable effects of market conditions and behavior on company’s activities and performance. This research focuses on ability of risk management response to out of control market factors to facilitate consistent profitability that leads to improvement in company’s performance. This is an empirical research that investigates the association of total risk...

Author(s): Mohsen Jafari, Arezoo Aghaei Chadegani and Vahid Biglari