the impact of financial sector policies on banking in ghana

... mirrors the myriads of interactions taking place in a company and the value created in each of them. The problem is not the amount of relationships since firms have the help of sophisticated information ... function of other metrics. The results of some studies about the lead/lag relationship between financial and non -financial metrics show that there is a strong association between non -financial ... there is not an accepted academic model of measurement. The increasing interest in developing measurements which justify investments in CRM includes financial and non -financial measures, since...

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... partnerships on the practice of budgeting. 4. To examine the impact of cross-service programmes on budgeting practice. 5. To compare the two authorities and examine the emergence of innovations in ... pressures. One authority in the north of England had a declining traditional manufacturing base, high levels of unemployment and a relatively large proportion of population originating from the Indian ... Overview The focus of this project was on post-1997 policy innovations for the local government sector and their impact on traditional budgeting practices. By studying the budgetary practices of...

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... explaining the variation of default across the companies in the sample. It would seem that defaulting firms did not use the proceeds from the sale of their bonds to finance an expansion of their investment ... SIGNALS OF DEFAULT The definition of default can have a wide spectrum of interpretations. In this paper, the definition of default is based on the same criteria adopted by S&P in rating the outstanding ... presents the details of the sample bond rating at time of origination and the third quarter of 1989. From exhibit II, approximately 10% of the companies in the sample were originally rated in the...

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... recommendations for the target populations. Finally, the researcher present the limitations of the study, future research directions. 5.1 Conclusions The object of this study is to examine the impact of ... profitability. In light of the above points, the general objective of the study will be to examine the impact of working capital management on the profitability of construction firms in Vietnam. Similarly, ... efficiently. The theoretical contribution of this study is to enrich the existing literature by investigate the impact of working capital management on construction firms’ profitability in Vietnam...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:45

... with increased risks of early mortality, insofar as they reflect abrupt termination or non-initiation of breastfeeding due to separation of mother and child, and earlier intake of contaminated ... one of 22 departamentos in Guatemala; seven of 27 provinces in Indonesia (representing seven per cent of the national population); the three southern regions in Sudan; and nine of 34 districts in ... decline is observed in the analysis after controlling for other characteristics of the mother and child. This study leads to the conclusion that mothers in most developing regions improved their...

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... conducting multidisci-15 plinary research on environmental factors that may be re-16 lated to the development of women’s health conditions (as17 defined in section 486). The Director of the Institute ... section in consultation with the Director of1 9 the Office of Research on Women’s Health and with the2 0 advisory council for the Institute.21 ‘‘(b) R ESEARCH , T RAINING , AND I NFORMATION AND 22 E DUCATION .—23 ‘‘(1) ... stem1 from environmental factors.2 ‘‘(d) C OORDINATION OF C ENTERS ; R EPORTS . The3 Director of the Institute shall, as appropriate, provide for4 the coordination of information among centers under...

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... announces the merging of 39 of the country’s 45 savings banks into several institutions, along with an infusion of €11 billion in public funds to reorganise and boost the capital levels of the merged ... the traditional focus on risks at individual financial institutions with an approach which also considers the interaction between the banking sector and government fiscal conditions:  If ... debt. Moreover, the deterioration in government finances limited the ability of these sovereigns to support the troubled banks. In the case of Argentina, the forced conversion of banks’ foreign...

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... assess the impacts using our 6 indicators for each of the 84 developing countries and 5 regions. Second, we assess the impacts of SLR using existing populations, socio-economic conditions and ... the reading of these results, we follow a similar structure of presentation for all regions. (i) Latin America and the Caribbean region As shown in Table 4, the impact of SLR in Latin America ... agricultural extent. Indeed, most of the impact of SLR on the agricultural sector of the region would take place in the A.R. of Egypt which would experience a severe impact (Figure 2f). Even...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

... evidence on the cost of being socially responsible in investing. The Journal of Investing, 6(4): 31-36. Guerard Jr, J. B. 1997. Is there a cost to being socially responsible in investing? The ... O’Brien 1988). Therefore, by examining the impact of CSR on investment recommendations and, by extension, on equity-holders’ expectations of value creation, our work broadens the scope of the CSR ... 2006), in defining corporate social performance as one multidimensional construct capturing “a business organization’s configuration of principles of social responsibility, processes of social...

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... consumer trust in Internet shopping was unveiled through a theoretical model including trustworthiness of the Internet merchant, trustworthiness of the Internet as a shopping medium, infrastructure ... commerce Consumer disposition to trust, reputation, privacy, security, the information quality of website, the company’s reputation strongly affects on Internet consumers’ trust. Then, Internet consumers’ ... personality-based, experience-based factors on the purchase intention with the mediation of trust in the context of Vietnam B2C environment. Little or no research is available in the area of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2014, 16:30

... primary fatigue in MS include hypo-function- ing within the central nervous system [34], reduced glu- cose metabolism in the cortical regions of the brain [35], reduced inhibition of the primary ... [52]. Due to the relatively high incidence of depression in MS, both the eti- ology and the influence of exercise on depression are areas that warrant further investigation. In the present study, ... interests. Authors' contributions NS was involved in all aspects of this study. She was involved in the concept and design, data collection and collation, data analysis, writing and editing of the manu- script....

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... December 2010. The inclusion criteria for the diagnosis of BM S were in accordance with those in the International Classification of Headaches, which describes the following criteria for the diagnosis, ... Two independent examiners (two experts oral pathologists) performed the clinical oral examinations to confirm the absence of oral lesions. The control group consisted of healthy patients seen in ... seen in the Dental Clinic of Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais for periodic reviews of their dental condition. They were not receiving any treatment at the time of study, and the patients in the...

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... questionnaire that assesses the individual's view of how their MS has impacted upon their daily functioning during the previ- ous 2 weeks. Responses for each of the 29 items in the questionnaire ... primary fatigue in MS include hypo-function- ing within the central nervous system [34], reduced glu- cose metabolism in the cortical regions of the brain [35], reduced inhibition of the primary ... [52]. Due to the relatively high incidence of depression in MS, both the eti- ology and the influence of exercise on depression are areas that warrant further investigation. In the present study,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... of the QoS gain achieved by adoption of AL-FEC, very few con- tributions concern the gain on QoE. In particular, in [3], the authors analyze the reduction of the wireless packet loss by the integration ... impossibility for the decoder of reconstructing some frames of the video. The content of the unrecovered lost packets determines the perceived annoyance of the resulting artifacts. In Figure 4, the artifacts ... used for computing the effects of PLR variation. Based on the performed analysis, an optimization of the quality a ssessment and of the monitoring system can be done. The adoption of an objective...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... forcing international business in control. 14 another interesting example of the application of Hofstede's model for cultural differences: if you want to advertise cell phones in China, ... international supply chains (WWF China). In terms of environmental issues, IKEA shows its determination of building and maintain a good corporate image in order to build a long-lasting relationship. Another ... individual contribution. Promotions in U.S. companies are based primarily on individual performance. Training is often undertaken with hesitation because of the cost and the concern that the trained...

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