Industry, Technological Progress and Development: The Case of Southeast Asia

Asian countries as Singapore, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, among others in the Southeast Asia and East Asia have been implementing industrial projects, which are accompanied by a clear process of progress and training human capital in terms of technology and innovation. These countries opted for development processes with a significant degree of direct or indirect state action, with strong investments in education and technology and innovation. This whole process would eventually promote an upgrade of these countries in terms of the system-world economy. Keyword: Asia, Technology, Innovation.

General Behavior and Indebtedness of Tocantins-Brazil between 2000 and 2018

The aim of this study is to analyze the general behavior and indebtedness of Tocantins State in Brazil, between the years 2000 and 2018. In order to reach the results, short-and long-term indicators of debt, as well as the behavior of the indebtedness are estimated. Data were collected from government account, extracted from the sites of the Audit Office of National Treasury Secretary and from the Estate Secretary of Tocantins. This paper is grounded on Agency Theory applied to public sector, and on descriptive statistics techniques by means of dispersion measures. Results show trends in behavior of public indebtedness in Tocantins. The first and second ones reveal tendency to decrease in the second half of the year, and to increase in the first half of the year, depicting a larger debt than the State paying capacity. The second and third trends, although distinct indicators, converge due to the increase of the debt indicators between 2014 and 2015. Keywords: Indebtedness, Indicators, Public Account, Tax Liability Law, Tocantins.

The Impact of Product Planning and Design on Financial Performance with Macro Environmental Factors as an Intervening Variable: A Case Study of the Publicly-listed Construction Companies in Taiwan

With the rapid change of the macro environmental factors, the operations and organizations of Taiwan's overall construction industry have also been greatly affected, and in retrospect, the publicly-listed construction companies in Taiwan have often encountered the phenomenon of Bermuda Effect of Real Estate. Hence, can good product planning and design adapt to the above-mentioned adverse environmental changes? The main purposes of this study are to verify the impact of Product- Planning-and Design on Financial Performance with Macro Environmental Factors as an intervening variable for the publicly-listed construction companies in Taiwan; besides, the directors or above of Taiwan publicly-listed construction companies as the research interview object, and this study uses the database of Taiwan Economic Journal (TEJ) to obtain the company's EPS information and adopts Purposive sampling to sample the population. In addition, this study firstly establishes the SEM model and then verifies the fitting effect of the Structural model, Measurement model and Whole model. These Findings Show that as Below • Product Planning and Design (PD) has a positive impact on Financial Performance (FP), but not significant; • Macro Environmental Factors (ME) have a positive impact on Financial Performance (FP), but not significant; and • Product Planning and Design (PD) and Macro Environmental Factors (ME), both of which have a positive interactive effect on Financial Performance (FP), but not significant. This implies that Macro Environmental Factors (ME) plays an important role in promoting Financial Performance (FP), which is also influenced by other factors. Keywords: Product Planning and Design (PD), Macro Environmental Factors (ME), Financial Performance (FP).

A Brief Literature Review on Structure, Conduct and Performance Paradigm: Critical Analysis for the Indian Industry

The paper critically reviews the famous study of the SCP paradigm in the Indian context. It also tries to compare and contrast both paper by Athreye & Sandeep Kapur[4] and Bhandari [5] concerning the research question, data, and model used, econometric technique, and finally, results. Keywords: Performance Paradigm, Indian Industry, Critical Analysis.

Happy Voyage: Application of Total Quality Management-TQM in Indian Tourism Industry with specific reference to Uttarakhand

In this paper author has tried to find out the factors hampering the development of Tourism sector in India. Author has used the extensive literature survey in order to find out the factors affecting tourism sector. For the smooth development of the tourism sector these factors need to be sorted out but in real life all of the factors can’t be sorted as it requires huge investment and would lead to mismanagement of funds. So bringing this thing into concern creator has utilized a conventional procedure where numerous approaches are vieing for consideration for example Pareto Analysis. Pareto Analysis is an innovative perspective on of issues since it animates thinking and sort out musings. This system encourages creator to distinguish the main 20 percent of makes that requirements be routed to determine the 80 percent of the issues. The estimation of the Pareto Principle for creator is that it reminds you to concentrate on the 20 percent of things that issue. of the things you do during your venture, just 20 percent are extremely significant. Those 20 percent produce 80 percent of your outcomes. Recognize and spotlight on those things first, however don't thoroughly overlook the staying 80 percent of causes. Author has used a self-designed questionnaire to detect the frequency of all important causes that hampers the development of Tourism sector from a group of 100 respondents from Dehradun. By plotting the response of the respondents on Pareto Chart author has tried to find out and has detected the most important factors that requires immediate concern to speed up the development of tourism sector. Keywords: Tourism Sector, Mismanagement, Pareto Analysis, Pareto Chart.

The Usage of Twitter in Small Businesses for Countries with a Low Twitter User Base

This research aims to find the differences in the use of Twitter between small and large businesses, and how small businesses (SMEs) can follow and learn from their larger counterparts or refuse to use this platform due to the small number of Twitter users in that country. Design/methodology/approach: The research will use data obtained through multiple interviews with businesses in Amman Jordan, and uses secondary data gathered through a questionnaire regarding the usage of Twitter in the day to day life, Jordan is used as an example of a country with a low Twitter base. Keywords: Social Media, Twitter, e-WOM, Online Marketing Strategy, SMEs’.

Impacts of Leadership Empowerment on Psychology and Work Outcomes of Employees at Financial Institutions in Ho Chi Minh City

This study focuses on determining the impacts of Leadership Empowerment (LP) on the Psychological Empowerment (PE) and Work Outcomes (WO) of employees at financial institutions in Ho Chi Minh City. Based on the investigation forms of 361 employees working at financial institutions in Ho Chi Minh City, statistical methods, reliability assessment of Cronbach's Alpha scale, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation model (SEM) are used for the analysis. The results show that the LP positively affects the PE and WO of employees, and the PE positively affects the WO of employees. Keywords: Leadership, Empowerment, Psychology, Finance, Outcomes.

Effect of Budgeting on Financial Perfomance of Youth Groups Funded by Youth Entreprise Fund in Kapsaret Sub-County, Kenya

The study examined the effect of budgeting on financial performance of the Youth Groups at Kapsaret Sub-County. The study sought to answer the following questions; extent of budgeting by the youth groups at Kapsaret sub-county, factors affecting budgeting implementation and financial performance by the Youth Groups at Kapsaret Sub-county and budgeting effects on financial performance by the youth groups at Kapsaret Sub-county. The research design adopted for this study was Ex post-facto research design, the target population was the 82 youth groups being funded by the various financial institutions and YEDF in Kapsaret Sub-County Stratified sampling technique targeting youth groups managers and treasurers of the youth groups was used, 5 stratums were drawn from Kapsaret sub-county and data collected through simple random sampling technique. questionnaires administered to the target population was the source of primary data, Validity of questionnaires was tested using a pilot study on 6 Youth Groups out of the sampled groups and reliability was tested using the test-re-test method, descriptive statistic was used to analyze quantitative data presented through frequency tables, percentages, mean scores and standard deviation, chi-square was used to test the hypothesis. The study finding on the effect of standardized budgeting on financial performance using chi-square with the computed X2 value of 0.610 and the P-Value of 0.435,the study established out that there was no evidence of a relationship between standardized budgeting and financial performance yet on the effect of budgeting on financial performance computed X2 value was16.970 and the P-Value was 0.000, the study established out that there was evidence of a relationship between budgeting and financial performance. The study recommends that there should be effective budget implementation within the various youth groups particularly those funded by the YEDF, more funding should be provided to the youth groups funded by YEDF, more training and seminars to be offered to the youth groups on preparation and implementation of budgets and there should be constant monitoring and evaluation of the youth groups budgets and budgeting system by fund managers over time within the youth groups. Keywords: Budgeting, Financial Perfomance, Youth Entreprise.

Corruption and Covid-19’s Lethality: “So What?”

We aim to verify if there is an association between the level of corruption and the lethality on countries due to COVID-19 pandemic. Previous studies provide evidence that corruption can harm health outcomes, especially in developing and under-developing countries where resources are already scarce. We apply a strictly quantitative approach using dispersion graphics analysis and Pearson’s correlation on 171 countries. On countries from America, Africa, Asia and Oceania we observed that as more corrupt the country, higher its lethality, although in Europe this association is inverted. We attribute this last result to the continent possess the elderly population among other continents, the fact that countries loosened to earlier measures of physical distancing and cases of corruption were reported in some countries with a low perception of corruption. Therefore, corruption remains an issue that needs more understanding so we can decrease its effects on health outcomes and save lives, particularly in countries with weak healthcare systems. Besides, the next pandemic is coming and we need to be prepared. Keywords: Corruption, Healthcare system, Health outcomes, COVID-19, Lethality.

Trade and Manufacturing in Sub-Saharan Africa

Trade and manufacturing have gained momentum in economic debates across Africa as of late. In particular, this study attempts to shed light on the impact of trade openness on manufacturing in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using a dual comparative approach made of vector auto-regression (VAR) and general method of moments (GMM) applied to 36 countries, results indicate that trade openness impedes the development of manufacturing. The negative effect of trade openness, which remains very limited in scope notwithstanding, underscores an essential feature regarding the entire manufacturing sector in SSA. Indeed, the idiosyncrasies of this sector – namely, underdevelopment, nascent industries and lack of diversification, among others − severely undermine the resilience of countries in SSA as they face heightened international competition. Keywords: Trade openness, Manufacturing, Sub-Sahara Africa, Vector auto regression. JEL Classification: F14, F41, F60