Christos K. Staikouras, Geoffrey E. Wood
The rate of return earned by a financial institution is affected by numerous factors. These factors include elements internal to each financial institution and several important external forces shaping earnings performance. The type of explanation would determine possible policy implications and oug...
Girijasankar Mallik, Anis Chowdhury
This paper seeks to examine the relationship between inflation and GDP growth for four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). A comparison of empirical evidence is obtained from the cointegration and error correction models using annual data collected from the IMF Interna...
Michel Chossudovsky
Introduction The Globalisation of Poverty Global falsehoods Policing Countries Through Loan Conditionalities The World Bank and Women's Rights The Global Cheap-Labour Economy Somalia: The Real Causes of Famine Economic Genocide in Rwanda Exporting Apartheid to sub-Saharan Africa Wreaking Ethiopia's ...
Shahzad Uddin, Trevor Hopper
Pravakar Sahoo
All five South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal) have been following consistent economic reform policy measures emphasizing the market economy and aimed at integrating their economies with the rest of the world. Consequently, all except Pakistan have experienced high...
Russell Smyth, Mohan Nandha
This article examines the relationship between exchange rates and stock prices in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka using daily data over a six-year period from 1995 to 2001. Both the Engle–Granger two-step and Johansen cointegration methods suggest that there is no long-run equilibrium rela...
K. A. Al Mamun, Khawaja A. Mamun
This article examines time series evidence to investigate the link between exports and economic growth in Bangladesh. Using quarterly data for a period from 1976 to 2003 the article finds that industrial production and exports are cointegrated. The results of an error correction model (ECM) suggest ...
Md. Lutfur Rahman, Jashim Uddin
In this paper we have investigated the interactions between stock prices and exchange rates in three emerging countries of South Asia named as Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. We have considered average monthly nominal exchange rates of US dollar in terms of Bangladeshi Taka, Indian Rupee and Pakista...
Jon S.T. Quah
Can corruption be combatted? Yes, but only under certain circumstances! That appears to be the experience of Asian countries where corruption is ubiquitous with the exception of Singapore--a that proved to be the only success story with a strong political leadership and better pay sales. Can this ex...
Dilip Dutta, Nasiruddin Ahmed
This paper investigates the existence of a long-run aggregate merchandise import demand function for Bangladesh during the period 1974 - 94. The cointegration and error correction modelling approaches have been applied. Empirical results suggest that there exists a unique long-run or equilibrium rel...
James Acheson
The primary objective of this volume is to begin to assess the degree to which the ideas of institutional economics can be applied to societies in the Third World. They discuss a wide variety of institutions from this perspective, including family budgets, revolving credit institutions in Bangladesh...
Jenny Corbett, Colin Mayer
Journal Article FINANCIAL REFORM IN EASTERN EUROPE: PROGRESS WITH THE WRONG MODEL Get access JENNY CORBETT, JENNY CORBETT St Antony's CollegeOxford1 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar COLIN MAYER COLIN MAYER City University Business School Search for other works...
Prema-chandra Athukorala
This three-volume set brings together a comprehensive selection of papers on development policy making and economic performance in the five major economies in South Asia – India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka – during the past half a century of the post colonial era.
Mohammad Mohabbat Khan
The present state of governance in Bangladesh is evaluated here using the concept of governance, particularly good governance. Bangladesh shows all the symptoms of an underdeveloped polity. Democracy has not been institutionalized. Politics continues to be dominated by big money, goons and people wi...
Nasiruddin Ahmed
This paper investigates the response of Bangladesh's aggregate merchandise exports to a real exchange rate-based trade liberalization programme during the period 1974-1995. The cointegration and error correction modelling approaches have been applied. The empirical results suggest that there exists ...