The purpose of this research was identifying socio-economic characteristics affected on respondents’ participation in contract farming. The survey was conducted using structured questionnaire in populous states namely Kedah, Kelantan, Terengganu, Pahang, Perak, Selangor and Johor in Peninsular Malaysia. A total of one-hundred and sixty seven FFV farmers were randomly selected and personally int...

The editorial by Jeremy Shiffman, “Knowledge, moral claims and the exercise of power in global health”, highlights the influence on global health priority-setting of individuals and organizations that do not have a formal political mandate. This sheds light on the way key functions in global health depend on private funding, particularly from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

This paper attempts to identify the core values in natural law as a shared value system, based on theories and issues confronting world today. It identifies doctrines that influence major thinking then proposes minimum content for constitutionalism such values. The purpose is with clarity over-riding principles of justice solving practical problems. methodology adopted doctrinal, conceptual, an...

Sharia banks in conducting business activities must be based on sharia principles. Based the mandate of Law Number. 21 2008 concerning Islamic Banking and BI Regulation 6/24 / PBI 2004 that DSN has duty authority to stipulate fatwas regarding products services Banks which carry out To ensure deposit at Bank Muamalat comply with standards set by DSN, a research was conducted Indonesia, Palu bran...

An employer-enforced individual mandate has some substantial advantages over the mixed employer and individual mandate embodied in the Clinton administration's proposed health plan. Economic reasoning strongly suggests that almost all of the cost of an employer mandate will fall on workers and that in any case the incidence of an individual mandate is the same as that of an employer mandate. Ho...

Government procurement contracts generally garner a small number of bids, and it is not uncommon for only one bid to be considered. This paper quantifies multiple factors determining the extent of competition observed in the United States federal procurement data for commercially unavailable IT and telecommunications service contracts. We develop, identify, and estimate a principal-agent model ...