ACCOUNTING FOR PRIVATISATION IN BANGLADESH: TESTING WORLD BANK CLAIMS

The World Bank in Bangladesh

Health and education levels have improved remarkably, and poverty has been declining. Reducing population growth and attaining gender parity in school enrollment rates are notable achievements of recent years. In the past decade, Bangladesh has reduced infant mortality by halfóat a rate faster than any other countryóand has increased adult literacy rates by 8 percent for women and 6 percent for...

A WORLD BANK COUNTRY STUDY Bangladesh

Accounting for distress in bank mergers

The inability of most bank merger studies to control for hidden bailouts may lead to biased results. In this study, we employ a unique data set of approximately 1,000 mergers to analyze the determinants of bank mergers. We use data on the regulatory intervention history to distinguish between distressed and non-distressed mergers. We find that, among merging banks, distressed banks had the wors...

Testing the Exactitude of Estimation Methods in the Presence of Outliers: An accounting for Robust Kriging

Estimation of gold reserves and resources has been of interest to mining engineers and geologists for ages. The existence of outlier values shows the economic part of the deposits subject to the fact that don’t depend on the human or technical errors. The presence of these high values causes a pseudo dramatically increment in variance estimation of economical blocks when applying conventional m...

A Unified Accounting Information Framework To Modeling Bank Accounting Systems

This paper discusses the use of distributed middlewares as essential tools for facilitating electronic exchange of standard business document between managers, financial institutes, and trading partners in the banking sector. Internally, companies can benefit by creating information architectures that allow systems to easily exchange data. One less expensive and disruptive option that applies t...