Does product diversification and emphasis on profitability in microfinancing alleviate poverty?

Profitability and Curvilinearity: A Study of Product and International Diversification

The study of diversification and firm performance lies at the heart of the strategy literature (Dess, Gupta, Hennart, & Hill, 1995). Nevertheless, in spite of all the efforts of researchers to untangle the diversificationperformance relationship milieu, there is still much confusion surrounding this vital issue. One potential source of confusion centers on the type of diversification being purs...

Does Diversification Affect Capital Structure and Profitability in Pakistan?

Diversification has become a common strategy of corporate risk management along with availing other potential benefits. The intent of this study is to identify and analyze the nature of relationship that exists between diversification and capital structure as well as profitability in Pakistan. For this purpose we use the 10 years’ (2000-2009) data of all the companies of chemical and food secto...

on some bayesian statistical models in actuarial science with emphasis on claim count

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Commodities , Diversification and Poverty Reduction

The problems of developing country dependence on a narrow range of commodity exports are well-established. Many poorer developing countries have continued to generate a substantial proportion of their total export revenues from one or a small number of basic food commodities. In addition to the problem of declining world market prices for basic food products typically exported from developing c...

Poverty, Policy and Place: How Poverty and Policies to Alleviate Poverty Are Shaped by Local Characteristics