... and the full abolition of foreigner investment restrictions in May 1998 making the market more efficient. As far as the whole period was concerned, extremely high temperature and humidity have a negative impact on stock returns, while extremely low humidity and extremely high cloudiness influence positively...

...B.N. Ghosh The magnitude of rural poverty is larger as compared to urban poverty in India. The basic explanation for sectoral poverty differentiates in India is the misallocation of resources and urban‐biased strategy of development. Investment allocation in Indian planning is not strictly based...

...Robert E. Looney The cornerstone of the government’s adjustment program is to increase the efficiency of private investment and activity by deregulating the economy and promoting competition. The counterpart of this fundamental strategy is the need to increase the effectiveness of the public sector...

...Rodney Wilson Reports that there are lessons which can be learned from the Western ethical “green” finance industry for Islamic investors. States that these are that the criteria for investment selection are different, and the modes of permissible financing may also differ, but there are screening...

... that to benefit from the information generated by others one must make one’s own substantial investment in technological capability. Or as it has been expressed, if one is to be an effective member of a network of information exchange or a collaborative programme one can only do so by having items of one’s own...

...Jamuna Prasad Agarwal Argues that the association of Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Czech and Slovak Republics (CEECs) with the European Union (EU) under “Europe agreements” is unlikely to divert any significant amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing countries because most...

... actions. Presents a simple model of investment in exogenously formed two‐person relationships and discusses the model under different assumptions as to agents’ homogeneity, pair formation and type observability. Discusses the possibility of endogenous type change and interprets it in terms...

...John B. Davis Explores Keynes′s long‐term policy proposals as social reform. Using early unpublished philosophical papers of Keynes, the argument is that Keynes′s long‐term policy proposals focused on reconciling “being good” and “doing good”. The socialization of investment was meant to bring...