Browsing Papers of URS 2017 by Title
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Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting of Islamic Banks in Bangladesh
(United International University, 2017-10-28)Purpose: the study is aimed at finding out the CSR disclosure practice of the Islamic banks (IB) in Bangladesh Research Methodology: The study entails a content analysis of 6 full-fledged IBs in Bangladesh for the year ... -
Corporate Taxation and its Relationship with Governance Characteristics: Evidence from the Listed Companies in Bangladesh
(United International University, 2017-10-28)The study aims to examine how corporate governance affects corporate tax generation in Bangladesh. The sample consists of 21 companies listed in the Dhaka Stock Exchange. The secondary data has been organized and collected ... -
The Effect of Foreign Aid on Corruption in Africa and Asia
(United International University, 2017-10-28)Foreign aid is often given to less developed countries to transfer resources with the hope to bring benefits and improvements to the receiving society. However, various forms of corruption often hinders aid effectiveness. ... -
Establishment of University of Barisal and Its Impact on the Regional Development of Kornokathi in Barisal District
(United International University, 2017-10-28)The main purpose of this study is to examine the changes in regional economic development for the establishment of the University of Barisal in Kornokhathi of Barisal District. The examination process explains how the ... -
Exploring Selective Human Resource Practices: Evidence from a Garment Factory of Bangladesh
(United International University, 2017-10-28)The garment industry of Bangladesh has been the key revenue generating sector for the last couple of years. At present, the country generated about $28.4 billion worth of products in the fiscal year 2017 by exporting ... -
Factors Affecting Consumers’ Intention to Adopt Prepaid e-Metering System in Bangladesh: A Study on Dhaka City
(United International University, 2017-10-28)As a solution to the problem of non-technical losses of electricity, Bangladesh Government has taken an initiative to install pre-paid meters in every household or organization throughout the country. As it is a new ... -
Factors Affecting the Demand for Owners Occupied Apartment in Dhaka City
(United International University, 2017-10-28)In recent years the demand for apartments in Dhaka city has taken the great leap forward, though it is not strange to find the apartments remain unsold even after they are built. The main purpose of this paper is to identify ... -
Financial Performance Analysis of Selected Jute Companies of Bangladesh
(United International University, 2017-10-28)Bangladesh is one of the top jute producing countries in the world. There was a time when 90% of foreign currency income of Bangladesh came from the jute & jute product. Unfortunately at present foreign currency income of ... -
Flood Occurred in 2017 in Bangladesh And It’s Economic Loss Estimation
(United International University, 2017-10-28)Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries having great tendency to be affected by various natural disasters for its geographic location, deltaic configuration etc. So, Bangladesh is facing ... -
Fuzzy logic in the analysis of stock prices: Evidence from Dhaka Stock Exchange
(United International University, 2017-10-28)This paper gives an investor the idea to classify the calculated beta of a volatile stock and take decision based on values between 0 and 1. The slope or beta if compared to market index gives the information of how ... -
Impact of Learning Analytics on Product Marketing with Serious Games in Bangladesh
(United International University, 2017-10-28)Serious Games (SGs) are becoming popular worldwide to educate, train and inform other than entertainment but the absence of SGs is clearly noticeable in Bangladesh region. Although there exist a few educational games in ... -
Indispensability of Human Resource Management (HRM) for Government Primary School (GPS) in Bangladesh
(United International University, 2017-10-28)Poor education quality of government primary school (GPS) has a negative impact in the long run on destitute people in terms of economy and social disparity. This paper is to explore the rationality behind applying Human ... -
Industry Specific and Macroeconomic Determinants of Excess Liquidity of Commercial Banks in Bangladesh
(United International University, 2017-10-28)Purpose: Persistent increase in excess liquidity of commercial banks has become a major concern for Bangladesh’s economy and it has been considered as a major barrier to achieve expected economic growth in future. The ... -
Job Performance of Graduates in Bangladesh: A Comparative Study between Public and Private Universities
(United International University, 2017-10-28)The study strived to investigate present job performance of graduates in Bangladesh and compare the same between public and private universities mainly based on primary data. 29 executives of 21 commercial banks and some ... -
Livelihood Sustainability of Jamdani Weavers: A Case Study
(United International University, 2017-10-28)Jamdani is a traditional fine fabric produced around Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Though produced and found in several parts of the country as well as in neighboring country also, it is commonly known as Dhakai ... -
Migration and Remittances: Do Skilled Labor Remit More?
(United International University, 2017-10-28)Remittances has a significant role in the growth of an economy and the policy choice of exporting more skilled labor over less-skilled labor or vice versa could prove to be a decisive factor behind the growth. In spite of ... -
The Overall Problems and Prospects of Prepaid E-Metering System in Bangladesh: A Study on Dhaka City Dwellers
(United International University, 2017-10-28)Various attempts have been made to address the inconvenience of non-technical losses of electricity but none of them has proved to be completely successful in Bangladesh so far. Recently, Bangladesh Government has initiated ... -
The Overview of New VAT Law: The Value Added Tax and Supplementary Duty Act, 2012
(United International University, 2017-10-28)The aim of this paper is to find out whether the new VAT and SD Act, 2012 will be business friendly or not. For this purpose, the opinion of the chairman of NBR, and the viewpoint of many editors of different magazines, ... -
Performances and Challenges of Terracotta Business Sector in Bangladesh
(United International University, 2017-10-28)This paper is an output of the study on performance of the terracotta business sector in Bangladesh: challenges, opportunities and policy options. The main objective of the study is to assess the viability of terracotta ... -
Profitability and Its Determinants - An Empirical Analysis on Manufacturing Firm of Bangladesh
(United International University, 2017-10-28)Manufacturing sector is becoming one of the major growing sectors of Bangladesh by contributing on an average 15.2 percent of country's gross domestic product. The yearly growth rate of this sector is 10 percent from the ...