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This diagnostics toolkit is designed to help countries assess the
financial management of disaster risk and to provide a basis for
them to enhance financial resilience through insurance and other
risk transfer instruments. Disasters damage and destroy
infrastructure and disrupt economic activities and services,
potentially delaying long-term development and hampering efforts to
reduce poverty in the region. Countries require a strong enabling
environment for disaster risk financing to ensure the timely
availability of post-disaster funding. In the report, the framework
examines the state of the enabling environment and incorporates
lessons from country diagnostics assessments for Fiji, Nepal,
Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
This country diagnostic assessment seeks to strengthen financial
preparedness for disasters in Fiji, focusing on insurance and other
risk transfer instruments. It explores the current application of
disaster risk financing solutions by the government, businesses,
and individual households; related demand and supply constraints;
and opportunities for improvement. The assessment forms one of a
series of country diagnostics undertaken using a common methodology
to determine the state of the enabling environment for disaster
risk financing.
This country diagnostic assessment seeks to strengthen financial
preparedness for disasters in Nepal, focusing on insurance and
other risk transfer instruments. It explores the current
application of disaster risk financing solutions by the government,
businesses, and individual households; related demand and supply
constraints; and opportunities for improvement. The assessment
forms one of a series of country diagnostics undertaken using a
common methodology to determine the state of the enabling
environment for disaster risk financing.
As an extension of Volumes I and II of this series, this book
contains a detailed elaboration of the Tesla story, in a way that
also serves to examine the interaction of technology and economic
forces that determine the structural profitability of any industry,
especially capital-intense industries. The economics are the "five
forces" introduced to the management lexicon by strategic
management scholars. Here there is strong emphasis on the interplay
among product technology, production and supply chains, and "Wall
Street." The author is a retired business professor; his research
interest has been the management of technology and innovation. For
this book, he double-checked none of the 1,250 media items
collected, accepting their overall veracity at face value. This
approach advocates no one person, no one company, no one
technology, and no portion of the global automobile industry.
Analysis and practical application came foremost.
The need for good governance is now internationally recognised
because of the high correlation between corporate governance and
investor decisions. Good corporate governance improves the
financial performance of companies and the capital markets.
Appropriately, the Commonwealth member states are aware that to
develop their economies, they need good governance and integrity,
which are pillars for better economic and investment climate. This
means that the issue of corruption cannot be overlooked. All
Commonwealth countries that have not already done so are required
to develop and implement their own national good governance and
anti-corruption strategies. All the authors who have contributed
chapters to the book have alluded to the problem of corruption in
their various countries, especially in the developing economies.
Also, Transparency International reports that many countries lack
the political will to counter corruption. Countries such as
Mauritius and Rwanda provide great examples of how political will
to enforce good governance can bring about positive change, which
significantly influences the economic landscape of the country.
This book, Corporate Governance in Commonwealth Countries, a
compendium of contributions from accomplished authors, examines how
the Commonwealth has achieved a degree of consensus in developing
and promoting standards of corporate governance both in the public
and the private sectors in member countries. It reveals the various
organisations and institutions that have been at the forefront of
supporting and promoting corporate governance in Commonwealth
countries. It consists of 18 chapters, divided into six parts.
Parts I to V focus on each of the groupings of the Commonwealth
countries - Africa (19 countries), Asia (7 countries), Caribbean
and Americas (13 countries), Europe (3 countries) and the Pacific
(11 countries). Each part presents some background information
about each of the countries represented in the specific region,
such as the year each country joined the Commonwealth, the World
Bank Classification of the country, official language, currency in
use, the population, corruption perception index score, and the
ease of doing business in each country, among others. Part VI
presents insights into corporate governance developments in
selected Commonwealth countries - Ghana (Chapter 6), Malawi
(Chapter 7), Mauritius (Chapter 8), Nigeria (Chapter 9), Pakistan
(Chapter 10), Rwanda (Chapter 11), Swaziland (Chapter 12), Tanzania
(Chapter 13), Tonga (Chapter 14), Uganda (Chapter 15), United
Kingdom (Chapter 16) and Lake Chad (Chapter 17). It ends with
Concluding Remarks and Recommendations (Chapter 18). The chapters
present the relationship of each country with the CW and the
corporate governance developments in each country. Chapter 17
examines corporate governance challenges in the management of Lake
Chad, an Ancient Lake surrounded by four countries - Chad (on the
east of the Lake), Niger (on the North Western side of the Lake),
Nigeria (on the West side of the Lake) and Cameroon (on the South
of the Lake). The latter two countries are member states of the
Commonwealth. The Lake Chad Basin Commission was formed in the
1960s after many African countries had gained their independence
from Britain. The book adds to our knowledge of corporate
governance at the international level, especially within the
Commonwealth, comprising a unique collection of nations - ranging
from the developed economies through to vastly differing levels of
emerging economies at varying stages of transition. Academics,
researchers, business and finance students, investors and
government agencies with an interest in the Commonwealth and
corporate governance will find the book authoritative and
insightful.
The world of options is considered high-risk by many. At its
original options treading in the modern era began in the early
1970s when the first listed calls were offered on a short list of
companies; a few years later, put trading was added. Since this
time, options trading has become available on most companies on the
large public exchanges. However, the high-risk reputation of
options has persisted through the years, even as dozens of new and
often conservative strategies have been introduced. Today, the best
use of options is not to speculate on price movement, but to hedge
market risk in equity portfolios. Many strategies can combine
hedging with income, establishing advantageous circumstances for
risk-averse traders. It is possible to apply several strategies to
reduce risk and in some instances, to eliminate market risk
completely. This book examines the many ways this can be
accomplished, based on options for three highly-rated companies.
These are qualified as a first step by exceptionally attractive
fundamental attributes and trends: Higher than average dividend
yield with dividend increases over at least 10 years; a range of
moderate price/earnings ratios each year; growing revenue, earnings
and net return; and level or declining long-term debt as a
percentage of total capitalization.
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