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The Potential Impact of AEC 2015 on the Small Farmers of Myanmar
Get PDFThe aim of this study is to find out the potential impact of AEC by comparing the farmers’ and the government officials’ perspective, and then find a solution for the farmers’ problem by using AEC. The research was done by discussing with six farmers’ family and three government officials. The participating farmers were chosen with the help of the government officials. The participants of the government can be divided into two, the one who had direct contact with the farmers and the one who formulate agriculture plans and development of agriculture sector.
The significant research findings were the following: 1) Problems and challenges of the farmers in the current situation; 2) How did the farmers perceived and understand the AEC?; 3) What were the farmers’ expectations and how did they prepare for the AEC?; 4) How did the government perceive the AEC?; 5) What will the potential impact of the AEC be for the small land farmers in Myanmar?; and 6) What should the farmers do in order to solve their problems and make wise use of the AEC
Empowerment of Muslim Women through Microfinance and Self Help Groups: A Case Study of Chennai City
Get PDFThe empowerment of women is one of the central issues in the process of development of countries all over the world. The Government of India has made Empowerment of Women as one of the principal objectives of the Ninth Five Year Plan (1997-2002) and also declared 2001 as the year of ‘Women’s Empowerment’. Women\u27s empowerment is a process in which women gain greater share of control over resources - material, human and intellectual like knowledge, information, ideas and financial resources like money - and access to money and control over decision-making in the home, community, society and nation, and to gain `power\u27. Microfinance is the provision of small amounts of financial services to low income poor and very poor self employed people. The participation of women in Self Help Groups (SHGs) made a significant impact on their empowerment both in social and economical aspects. This study addresses empowerment of Muslim women through microfinance and self help groups in Chennai city of Tamilnadu. The information required for the study has been collected from both the primary and secondary sources. Further statistical analysis has been undertaken using various statistical tools like logistic regression, student t test, F test, Chi square test, ANOVA, Duncan Multiple Range Test (DMRT), the Wald Test, etc
Relationship between Liquidity Risk and Net Interest Margin of Conventional Banks in Bangladesh
Get PDFNet interest margin (NIM) of a bank depends on several firm-specific factors. The aim of the study was to determine the effect of liquidity risk on the profitability indicating variable NIM of the conventional banks in Bangladesh. Seven banks were analyzed using the annual reports of the banks for the period of 2011 to 2015. Researchers applied descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression analysis to find out the results. The findings of the study provided evidence that cash to asset (CA) ratio had a negative relationship with NIM but a loan to asset (LA) ratio had a positive effect on the NIM. There was also a significant positive relationship between NIM and loan to deposit (LD) ratio. From the regression analysis it was clear that the LD, CA, and LA were able to explain the changes of NIM of the banks.
JEL Classifications: G 2
Tourism Marketing in Bangladesh: What, Why and How
Get PDFBangladesh is a fresh tourism destination. She has a vast prospective to develop tourism primarily because of its attractive unadulterated natural beauty, heroic historical background and archeological resources, which can be experienced all throughout the land. Tourism sector can play positive impact towards enhancing Gross Domestic Product (GDP).Many countries are now dependent on this sector for foreign currency earnings. Every destination country is trying to achieve more gain by developing this industry. The expansion of the tourism throughout the world has increased. Countries are trying to attract more tourists by adopting appropriate marketing techniques and strategies. A research revealed that the country has a positive trend in arrivals and earnings, and it can be increased to a significant level if the country can undertake appropriate promotion measures by increasing the allocation for this purpose. The country also needs to employ creative people for this purpose, and the quality of the promotional materials also needs to be developed. The paper has been undertaken to investigate how the use of promotional activities can help to develop the tourism industry by giving a special concentration in the case of Bangladesh by observing the current scenario, opportunity, and challenges. The study has intended to evaluate the effective & sustainable tourism marketing for this country
Leather Industry in Bangladesh: A Systematic Literature Review
Get PDFThere has been a moderate number of research works, published and unpublished, relating to the broader field of leather industry in Bangladesh. Research on and for the leather industry has undoubtedly grown-up in contemporary years. The existing socio-economic condition of Bangladesh provides an encouraging prospect for leather Industry. It attracted many economists, environmentalists and technical persons to do research works regarding various aspects of this sector. This study makes a humble attempt to present a brief review of the existing relevant literature on the leather industry of Bangladesh
Performance of Floriculture Industry in East Africa: What Lessons can Tanzania Learn from Kenya?
Get PDFIn the recent days Sub-Saharan African counties look at floriculture as a viable alternative to boost their foreign earnings through export of cut flowers. However, while the sector is second largest contributor to foreign earnings for Kenya, Tanzania is yet to fully exploit the potential for both production and export of cut flowers. This paper was set with an aim to make comparative assessment of performance of floriculture industries in Kenya and Tanzania. The study relied mainly on secondary data obtained from International Trade Centre (ITC) database, published previous survey reports and several national policies and strategies. The findings revealed that Kenya was performing better than Tanzania in terms of quantity of cut flowers exported to different destinations in the World and in-terms of value of earnings from export of those flowers. It was observed that while the floriculture sector for both countries had been growing in the past nine years, Kenya’s performance was far beyond Tanzania’s. Among the major hurdles to the growth of Tanzania’s floriculture industry included lack of efficient air transportation, absence of a National Horticulture Policy in place, unorganized farming systems without clusters and foreigners domination of the sector. The paper recommended for a number of measures to improve performance of floriculture industry in Tanzania including need to: (a) formulate national horticulture policy to guide expansion of the sector (b)engage in strategic negotiations with big cargo Airline Companies so that they can frequently land at Kilimanjaro International Airport for easy transportation of cut flowers to the different destinations in the world and (c) launch coordinated efforts by experts from the Tanzania’s ministries of agriculture, trade, transportation and finance to draw lessons from Kenya on how to grow floriculture in the country
The Determinant of CSR Disclosure of Mining Industry Listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange
Get PDFThe purpose of this study to determine and obtain empirical evidence about the influence of firm characteristics on a disclosure of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the annual reports of mining companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange (BEI). Corporate social disclosure needs to be done as a form of communicating the social and environmental impacts of economic activities on the organization of special interest groups; the characteristics of the company used as the study include profitability, leveraged, growth rate, firm size, market capitalization, media exposure, and ownership.
This research is aimed to know the influence of financial performance according to management decision that doing corporate social responsibility to public society, investor and the stock holder. The Determinants of Corporate Social Responsibility have been investigated by scholars and practitioners by employing a variety of methods and factors. The purpose of this research is to test and analyze empirically the influence of profitability, leveraged, growth rate, firm size, market capitalization, media exposure and ownership toward corporate social responsibility disclosure.
Sampling Method used in this study is the method of purposive sampling is the sampling method based on certain criteria. The Sample in this research mining companies that are listed at Indonesia Stock Exchange over six years period 2016 until 2012. This research used purposive sampling method. Only 16 companies met the criteria and taken as a sample. The Analyst used was multiple regression analysis, which is proceeded by a test consisting of the assumption of classical test for normality, heteroscedasticity test, a test of multicollinearity and autocorrelation. Hypothesis testing is F test and t test.
The empirical evidence from this study show that firm size and board of commissioner have influence toward corporate social responsibility disclosure.While profitability,public share holder (ownership), growth rate, media exposure and leveraged do not have influence toward corporate social responsibility disclousure. Overall, the independent variables influence debt policy simultaneously.
JEL Classification Code: G2
Factors Affecting the Adoption of mHealth Services among Young Citizen: A Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) Approach
Get PDFIn Bangladesh, nearly everyone has access to a mobile phone and it is increasingly affordable and widespread in all clusters of people have significant impact to extend social relations. The telecom is one of the rapidly growing industries in Bangladesh. Mobile phone is playing a vary significance role with pervasive services. Dissemination of health related information to the general people was a great challenge for this highly populated country, but this problem is going to be erased by application of mobile phone in this regards. In this study attempted to determine and measure the various usages of mobile phone in Bangladesh among the young age group (patients) how they use Mobile phones to solve health related problem. Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is used as the theoretical underpin to conduct this study. A questionnaire survey method was used to collect data from respondents in different public and private universities of Bangladesh. The data were analyzed using the Partial Least Squire (PLS) method, a statistical analysis technique based on structural Equation Model (SEM). Findings revealed that perceived usefulness (p < 0.05) positively predicted the intention to use mHealth services, while perceived ease of use (p > 0.05) was identified as a less significant factor in the mHealth adoption in Bangladesh. The findings from the study can serve as input to promote citizen’s use of mobile phone for better self-management of health
Perceived Brand Equity in Professional Sports Teams: A Zimbabwean Consumers’Perspective
Get PDFThe study explored the antecedents, dimensions and market consequences of the brand perceptions held by Zimbabwean consumers for professional football teams and developed a strategic brand management framework that can bridge existing practical and theoretical knowledge gaps in the management of sports brands in the country. The study was grounded on the exploratory sequential mixed methods research design. In the qualitative strand of the study, data was collected by means of such qualitative data collection procedures as, free-thought listing, semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions. The findings from the qualitative phase were used to generate data collection instruments for questionnaire survey and assess the overall prevalence of the variables that were identified in the first phase from a large number of users of football brands. The NVivo 10 and SPSS version 21.0 software packages were used to analyze qualitative and quantitative data, respectively. The study identified and classified the antecedents of brand perceptions held by Zimbabwean consumers for professional sports teams into consumption experience-trigged antecedents, significant others-triggered antecedents and sports entity-triggered antecedents. The results show that fan loyalty trends for local professional football teams function in tandem with the ethnic identity systems in the country. However, the globalization of football has led to the dilution of national particularities in the game. The findings support the conceptualization of perceived brand equity in as an aggregate of brand awareness and brand associations. Zimbabwean consumers of football brands perceived European professional football teams as the market leaders in their brand category .South African professional football teams were ranked second and Zimbabwean professional football teams were positioned at the bottom of the brand leadership rankings in the minds of Zimbabwean consumers of football brands. The study illustrated how the brand the perceptions held by Zimbabwean corporate and individual consumers for professional football teams have generated negative and positive market consequences.
 
The Growth Explains its Reasons Itself: From the Retrospect of Bangladesh Economy
Get PDFBangladesh, a country with a potential economic growth had a rich agro-based economy before & after its independence. Being one of the most heavily populated countries of the world, it had to face several development challenges. Accelerated growth was just a demand of time that was pushing the whole economy towards Industrial & Service Sector where growth could be achieved swiftly. This research was performed to portray the structural transition in the economy of Bangladesh after independence. GDP at a constant price was used to represent The Growth of the economy. Step by step, the decomposition method was used to split GDP to the bottom & to get the most influential sectors & sub-sectors and their recent trends. The findings from decomposition method were supported by linear regression. A detail & authentic dataset (42 years) was used to clarify the transition to the economy.
JEL Classification Code: O14, O5