In the last two decades, health sector decentralization policies have been implemented on a broad scale throughout the developing world, usually as part of a broader process of political, economic and technical reform (Litvack et al. 1998). This process has been fuelled by new efforts of democratization and processes for the ‘modernization’ of the state. These movements combined to promote acco...

IP based Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are being deployed as the solution of choice for site-to-site communication for a large number of enterprises. The provider networks that support these services are faced with unique challenges in terms of network planning. There is a lot of value in understanding the characteristics of VPNs from the perspective of planning, provisioning and maintenance ...

T his study investigates the impact of bank regulation on financial development in the MENA countries for the period 1995-2014. Restrictions on activity, foreign banks, and capital were used as proxies for bank regulation. Also, bank supervisory power, independence, private monitoring, and moral hazard were used as proxies for bank supervision. Liquid liabilities, private credit, and...

This paper examines the challenges and opportunities facing the agricultural biotechnology sector as it works to sustain innovations and further propagate its benefits into the new century. We survey the milestones of technological, legal, and economic precedence in this area and discuss institutional mechanisms for public and private partnership that can help agricultural biotechnology fulfill...

The objective of this study is to analyze the impact of the commercial banks credit on economic growth in Nigeria from 1992 to 2012. In order to examine the role of commercial bank credit to the economy, the commercial bank credit to the private sector of the economy is used to estimate its impact on Nigeria’s economic growth, which is proxy by gross domestic product. Using the ordinary least s...

The study examines the influence of demographic variables age, gender, marital status, educational level, occupation, monthly income and type of account held by the clients in non metro cities of Tamil Nadu, India. The paper builds on existing literature in demographic variables towards acceptance of internet banking. Quantitative analysis was carried out by collecting response through a well d...

this study was conducted to assess comparative examination of relationship between competitive intelligence with marketing effectiveness. for this purpose 110 branches managers of private and public banks in zanjan province were selected by stratified random sampling. the instrument of study were competitive intelligence (fahey, 2007) marketing effectiveness (kotler, 1997). results indicated th...

Because of the Increasing competition between enterprises in the current competitive market, the importance of continuous performance evaluation in the marketplace has increased. It has become increasingly important for banks, because as a key component of the financial system, banks allocate funds from savers to borrowers in an efficient manner to support economic activities. Along with the in...