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Response : Board Composition And Firm Performance : Evidence From Bangladesh – A Sceptical View, Khorshed Chowdhury
Response : Board Composition And Firm Performance : Evidence From Bangladesh – A Sceptical View, Khorshed Chowdhury
Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal
I have read the above paper with keen interest. The key finding of this paper is interesting: the appointment of independent directors has no perceptible influence on a firm’s economic performance in Bangladesh. The conclusion was derived from a sample of 274 firm-years. The implication of this finding is also very significant for regulators in Bangladesh and elsewhere ‘in their quest for harmonization of international corporate governance practices’ Rashid et al. (2010, p76). This paper also complements the results of an earlier paper on an allied topic by Bhuiyan and Biswas (2007) where they found that (p22) ‘corporate governance disclosure …
Annual Incidence Of Snake Bite In Rural Bangladesh, Ridwanur Rahman, M. Abdul Faiz, Shahjada Selim, Bayzidur Rahman, Ariful Basher, Alison Jones, Catherine D'Este, Moazzem Hossain, Ziaul Islam, Habib Ahmed, Abdul Hasnat Milton
Annual Incidence Of Snake Bite In Rural Bangladesh, Ridwanur Rahman, M. Abdul Faiz, Shahjada Selim, Bayzidur Rahman, Ariful Basher, Alison Jones, Catherine D'Este, Moazzem Hossain, Ziaul Islam, Habib Ahmed, Abdul Hasnat Milton
Graduate School of Medicine - Papers (Archive)
Background Snake bite is a neglected public health problem in the world and one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in many areas, particularly in the rural tropics. It also poses substantial economic burdens on the snake bite victims due to treatment related expenditure and loss of productivity. An accurate estimate of the risk of snake bite is largely unknown for most countries in the developing world, especially South-East Asia. Methodology/Principal Findings We undertook a national epidemiological survey to determine the annual incidence density of snake bite among the rural Bangladeshi population. Information on frequency of snake bite …