Banks play an important role in the economic development of every nation. They have control over a large part of the supply of money in circulation. Since, the appearance of private commercial banks is the larger portion of the banking sector in Bangladesh, thus this study is intended to measure the performance of selected private sector banks (five), listed on both the Dhaka Stock Exchange and...

Environmental concerns have moved from being a fringe issue in any project to main agenda items at senior executive meetings Walton et al. 1998 . Massive construction activity is taking place globally to accommodate the migration of world population to urban areas, a proportion that is expected to reach 60% by the year 2030 Syal et al. 2006 . In recent years India has seen major economic growth...

This paper presents electricity utilization and saving potential assessment for residential lighting demand side management program. The assessment involves combined Baseline Energy Use method and Analytic Hierarchy Process which represent technical and customer preference approaches, respectively. Residential lighting load curve and lamps’ share of ownership are estimated based on the first me...

BACKGROUND Differential exposure to environmental hazards is one component of the social gradient in health. Few studies have investigated the association between socioeconomic characteristics and environmental hazards in a Canadian context. We assessed the relationships between pollution emissions and socio-economic characteristics for 27 municipalities on Montreal Island. METHODS Pollution ...

Both China and India, the emerging giants in Asia, have achieved significant economic development in recent years. China has enjoyed a high annual GDP growth rate of 10 per cent and India has achieved an annual GDP growth rate of 6 per cent since 1981. Decomposing China and India’s GDP growth from 1981 to 2004 into the three factors’ contribution reveals that technology has contributed signific...

Few cases of hydatid disease have been reported in India. The general impression is that the disease is rare. It is only occasionally that cases appear in the hospitals in large towns, and even these very often are not clearly brought out in hospital reports. The provincial annual reports in India show no separate heading for hydatid disease, and in hospital reports they are included under tumo...