Social Sciences and Humanities

The presence of public services in adequate level is a crucial factor to achieve economic welfare and social development. Based on this view, TOPSIS model was used in this paper to rank the governorates of Iraq in terms of spatial distribution of public services and changes within 2007-2012 have been evaluated. Methodology of this research is descriptive, comparative, analytical and questionnaires method. Data used in this research are taken from statistical book published under the title of IHSES.

Strengthening human resource development (HRD) is the priority of the government of Indonesia to face the free competition in a free progressively labour market which expands the opportunities for employers and employees amongs ASEAN countries.

This paper is a result of an innovation project completed by us under Delhi University, Cluster Innovation Centre. In this study, we tried to understand the mechanism of formal and informal sector managing E- waste. The informal sector manages more than 90 percent of India's E-waste. Low infrastructure set-up and operational costs enable them to make the profit and dominate the market.

Deppen logistics is one of the leaders of the zero load industry. It has been trying express logistics business on November 1, 2013, positioning clearly and service standards, and is committed to developing the "zero-carrying" express.Through the field research, this paper USES the SWOT analysis method to analyze the development of Deppen expressShape, and give development countermeasure.

Liberalization and globalization of the Indian economy has thrown new challenges before the academicians, researchers and professionals and the emerging challenges have forced them to join hands with each other in providing accounting education in India. Development in global accounting is the burning challenge globally including India. The growth of multinational firms and international business has given impetus to international co-operation in the setting of international accounting standards.

The study examined the impact of capital market on foreign portfolio investment in Nigeria for the period 1986 to 2014. The study specifically assessed the relationship between market capitalization, all share index, total new issues and foreign portfolio investment in Nigeria. To achieve these objectives, the study adopted the ex-pose facto research design. The desk survey method was used to collect time series data from the CBN statistical Bulletin for the period under study. The ordinary least squared multiple regression technique was used to analyse the data.

The objectives of this paper were to carry out a meta-analysis for the tourism and service businesses in Pattaya, investigate current situation of its tourism, expectations of tourists, problems and obstacles, future tourism and service businesses and influential factors for stability and sustainability of tourism and service businesses in the studied area. Meta- analysis, Delphi technique and survey research were employed in an integrative approach, with focus group.

History is the story of post happenings and events. It acts as a laboratory that experiment with the past. Past gives us the answer of our quest regarding People’s present behavior. With a deep rooted study of history, knowledge can be gathered regarding the present world, that how it has changed over time. According to a Philosopher George Santayana, “without learning lessons from the post you are deemed to repeat them in future”. Our Country, India also witnessed various atrocities and violence from the beginning.

In this study, we examine the valuation of Initial Public offering (IPO) of 109 different companies during the three time periods - January 2014 to December 2014, January 2015 to December 2015 and January 2016 to December 2016. This period is designated as the period when India was regaining the political stability.

In a competitive and brand conscious market, like Kenya, building brand equity of any product is a challenging task. Companies need to assess the prior experiences and future aspirations of consumers to possess these brands. In this context, we examine the effect of advertisement and word of mouth on brand equity. Data was collected from 384 shoppers from three supermarkets Eldoret town, Kenya, through self-administered questionnaires using systematic sampling technique. Out of these, 346 were used for the purpose of this study, which provided a response rate of 90 percent.