In the last decade or so, there has been a growing interest in an area that researchers are calling social entrepreneurship. This paper describes the structure and process of international development in Africa from the perspective of a social entrepreneur. It begins with a review of the latest concepts in social entrepreneurship, a movement spearheaded by individuals with a desire to make the ...

water quality trading is a new approach in pollution control which satisfies water quality standards suggesting minimum cost solutions. this method uses tradable discharge permits based on pollution transfer coefficient in a river. this paper tries to establish a water quality trading program in a river basin according to transfer coefficients between pollution sources and evaluate cost effecti...

This note demonstrates how performance measure congruity and noise determine an agency’s total surplus within an linear agency framework with multiple tasks. It provides a decomposition of agency costs, leading back to a congruity index previously proposed in the literature. In addition, it generalizes this index to a more general cost function, thereby highlighting the context specificity of t...

This study is anchored on Nigerian consumer products companies that are traded the Stock Exchange. research investigates connection between Corporate Governance quality, Agency cost, and Investment choice. Tobin's Q, Audit Committee, Board size, independence, Operational Expenses, Asset Utilization Ratio data were taken from yearly reports of 10 chosen firms over an 11-year period 2011 2021 to ...