Category: Interesting Economic
Maintaining Employee Engagement During Tough Economic Times
Numerous studies have shown the direct relationship between employee engagement and an organization’s performance (ROI, profitability, production, sales, quality, turnover, etc.).Because employee engagement is directly correlated to employee productivity and company performance, it’s especially critical to focus on employee engagement during an economic downturn. Depending on how economic hardships are managed, we have found that
Managing Periodical Literature in Higher Education Libraries in Sierra Leone
INTRODUCTION At the General Conference of UNESCO held in Paris on 19th November, 1964, it was agreed that “a publication is a periodical if it constituted one issue in a continuous series under the same title” (Norman, 2008). Supporting this notion, a periodical literature is published at regular intervals over an indefinite period, individual issues
Economic Issues for Think Tanks and Radio Talk Show Hosts – Capitalism and Socialism
Welcome to today’s talk, on this rather interesting day of October, 22, 2012, yes a Monday, with an interesting stock market roller coaster and the last presidential debate. It appears that the economy is indeed still front and center. As the earnings on Wall Street roll in we see significant headwinds for our economy which
Corporate Governance and its Development
There is no doubt that interest in corporate governance has substantially increased in recent years. Not only have separate states adopted their own corporate codes but also changes in corporate governance are directed at a global level. For developing economies, corporate governance helps to achieve stable economic growth by means of effective management of corporations
Terrorism and Economic Growth: The Case of Pakistan
On 16 December 2014, a terrorist attack killed 150 people, out of which at least 134 were students, when Taliban gunmen abruptly attacked the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan (Lewis 2019). As a response to this incident, as well as other terror episodes that had been widespread in the country, the state and military
Reasons Why Monetary Policy Drives Forex Rates
Forex traders that use fundamental analysis for making trade decisions, especially in determining swing trade ideas, monetary policy decisions and central bank statements provide good clues in forecasting price behavior of currencies. After all, it is the central bank officials that decide on the level of interest rates and money supply. In turn, these determine
New Thought Christianity – A Brief History
New Thought: Ancient Wisdom New Thought and Christianity mix together about as well as Christianity and everything else. What’s important to realize is that the fundamental principles at back of the entire New Thought Movement predate Christianity, even the old testament by many thousands of years. Many scholars call these lessons The Hermetic Wisdom, but even
Economic Survival in the 21st Century – the Three Key Questions to Ask
In this “special report”, I want to pose a few important “philosophical questions” to my readers. Firstly — our Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, addressed the effects and implications of our aging population on things such as Social Security again in a speech [http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040828/ap_on_bi_ge/greenspan_32] that he made last Friday. Readers may remember that I also
Harnessing Green Energy In Nigeria Through Economic Growth
Nigeria has been making news lately for their renewable energy resources. Their wealth of renewable resources depends upon economic growth in harnessing oil and gas.Nigerian mining is about to take a large step forward and begin mining resources as never before. With its huge deposit of mineral resources as a country the president has given
Platonic-Fullerene Chemistry and Global Economic Collapse
On the 18th of February 2011, the Cornel University Library announced a quantum biological discovery by two Chinese scientists from universities in Mongolia. The scientists used mathematics to explain why proteins were folded in a strange way within DNA, in defiance of the 20th Century’s scientific world-view. An extract from the book entitled, Science-Art and