Oral testimonies from Greek Cypriots who lived through the dictatorship’s 1974 coup d’état on Cyprus and subsequent Turkish invasion frequently present narrators as mere pawns in a macro-scale historical drama, having little to no control over or understanding of broader events unfolding around them. On one level, this rings true, individual soldiers civilians were rarely if ever able dictate p...

This article presents a socio-linguistic analysis of interpreting in conflict zones and paints picture the limits on interpreter’s agency when working field. It focuses behaviour towards cultural linguistic barriers communication between foreign military personnel civilian population Lebanon. The aim is to analyse level that interpreter has deployment, taking into account context narrative feat...

Dividend policy has long been an issue of interest in the financial literature. To date, a number of studies published on agency costs and dividend policy but most of them are on developed markets, It is well known that the emerging markets are quite different from developed markets in all respects. So, the existing published evidence is of limited relevance in identifying the influence of agen...

There is a general perception, based upon casual observation and some systematic empirica! study, that public enterprises are inefllcient.! This paper takes this to be true, and is concerned with the problem of providing a rigorous analysis and explanation of this inefficiency.2 Privatisation, which, in the U.K. at least has received its primary impetus from political and ideological motivarion...

Closed-end funds have been a topic of interest among academics and professionals on five counts. First, they tend to sell above their net asset value at their commencement. Second, they start selling at a discount within a year. Third, this discount is volatile but mean-reverting. Fourth, the news of open-ending a fund reduces the discount although some discount persists till the actual event o...

After more than 20 years of sporadic separatist insurgency, the Free Aceh Movement and the Indonesian government signed an internationally brokered peace agreement in August 2005, just eight months after the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated Aceh's coastal communities. This article presents a medical humanitarian case study based on ethnographic data I collected while working for a large aid agen...

Rural banks with local government ownership as majority shareholders aimed to increase public welfare and earn profits. state-owned (also enterprises (SOEs)) also have agency conflict, which may due increased political content. Post-merger acquisition (Post-M&A) the COVID-19 pandemic increases rural bank risk in lending. The research objective is determine impact of on Data were collected f...