One of the reasons that companies avoid paying their taxes is that they choose to use debts for their funding. In other words, tax saving, an activity of companies to avoid taxpaying, can be used to finance corporate projects. Furthermore, since institutional owners are more inclined to supervise, they may shrink managerial behaviors to avoid taxpaying. In this study, institutional owners’ supe...

Background & aim: Government of Ethiopia is promoting institutional delivery despite the fact that there are a high number of home deliveries in the country mainly in hard-to-reach areas. Choice of institutional delivery is vital for the reduction of maternal and neonatal mortalities. The present study aimed to investigate the determinants of institutional delivery in ...

The purpose of this paper is the empirically examination of the effect of the Institutional Quality Components (Voice and Accountability, political stability and Absence of Violence and Terrorism, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law and control of corruption) on the prediction of total stock price index. The study was carried out using data extracted from 53 countries from...

This paper is concerned with the question how we should understand cases on property rights in general, and land economics particular, which a remarkable level of growth (or other measures institutional performance) combined so-called ‘perverse’ institutions. That to say institutions that are not proposed by neoliberal politics, insights mainstream (orthodoxy) especially related market policies...

Risk for Ambulatory Disability as per the Class, Race, and Sex (CSR) Hypothesis Carlos Siordia1* & Hilario Molina II2 1 PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2 PhD, Department of Sociology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA Siordia was supported by grant numbers T32 AG000181 and U01 AG023744 from the National Institute of ...

The institutional Personal Learning Environment (iPLE) constitutes our vision of how Web 2.0 tools and services, and people arrangement and data sharing could be applied for delivering open, flexible, distributed and learner-centred learning environments to university members. Based on the iPLE, this paper explores a strategy that universities could follow in order to take advantage of the bene...

OBJECTIVE This study included 54-month-old children with a history of institutional care. Our goal was to: (1) examine differences in indiscriminate social behaviors in children with a history of institutional care compared with home-reared children; (2) test whether foster care reduces indiscriminate social behaviors in a randomized controlled trial; and (3) examine early predictors of indiscr...

Three approaches to the teaching of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) are identified, the Critical approach, the Pragmatic approach, and the Critical Pragmatic approach. Critical EAP is appealing pedagogically because of its restive questioning of discourse norms, although it can seem reactionary at times. By focusing on the acquisition of the same dominant norms, Pragmatic EAP has a clear go...