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...
Geoffrey Wood, Iffath Anwar Sharif
Part I Overview: poverty and finance in Bangladesh - a new policy agenda, Iffath Sharif poverty and well-being - problems for poverty reduction in role of credit, Martin Greeley finance for the poor or poorest? - financial innovation, poverty and vulnerability, David Hulme and Paul Mosley the politi...
Ben Rogaly, Barbara Harriss‐White, Sugata Bose
Introduction - Ben Rogaly, Barbara Harriss-White and Sugata Bose Agricultural Growth and Agrarian Change in West Bengal and Bangladesh PART ONE: AGRICULTURAL GROWTH, POVERTY AND WELL-BEING Agricultural Growth and Agrarian Structure in Bengal - Sugata Bose An Historical Overview Agricultural Growth a...
Geoffrey Wood
Yijun Xing, Yipeng Liu, Shlomo Y. Tarba, Geoffrey Wood
Guanxi is a key construct in Chinese management and organization scholarship, and has been widely treated as a relational concept. However, it is necessary to gain a nuanced and contextualized understanding of Guanxi to examine its cultural antecedents by resorting to traditional Chinese cultures. W...
Geoffrey Wood
Rural class formation in Bangladesh is not a straightforward and uniform process of polarization between expanding capitalist farmers and poor peasants/tenants who are being steadily pushed off their land. There is certainly a rise in the incidence of landlessness but it cannot simply be attributed ...
Geoffrey Wood
Crashes in asset markets have been common throughout history, while financial crises, defined as crises in the banking system, have in some countries and periods been as common, and in others much more rare. This article examines historical attitudes to those events, and looks at some of the events ...
Bosse Kramsjo, Geoffrey Wood
FOREWORD by Famque Ahmed vi PREFACE vii GLOSSARY viii PART ONE: INTRODUCTION by Geoffrey D. Wood 1 PART TWO: CASE STUDIES by Bosse Kramsjo 35 Greater solidarity for greater power 37 Fights for legal control ofkhas resources 41 Khas ponds Housing Rice paddies A marsh A deep tubewell Vested land Resis...
Sarah Kreps
Abstract Observers of United States (US) interventions have almost universally characterized the 1994 Haiti intervention as multilateral, a model for how international cooperation can achieve common security goals. A closer analysis of the intervention reveals that the planning and execution of the ...
T.S. Hataley, Kim Richard Nossal
Abstract Enthusiasts of human security argue that what is needed in the post‐Cold‐War period is a foreign policy agenda that is more ‘people‐centred’ than the state‐centred focus of security policy during the Cold War period. Among the most enthusiastic proponents of the human security paradigm in t...
Forrest Capie, Geoffrey Wood
The Birth, Life and Demise of a Currency: 50 Years of the Deutsche Mark Get access Forrest Capie, Forrest Capie City University Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Geoffrey Wood Geoffrey Wood City University Business School Search for other works ...
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Olli Castrén, Tuomas Takalo, Geoffrey Wood
It is commonly thought that an open economy can accommodate output shocks through either exchange rate or real sector adjustments. We formalize this notion by incorporating unemployment persistence into a two-sided escape clause model of currency crises. We show that unemployment persistence makes a...