Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in Bangladesh： A Statistical Analysis on State-Owned ＆ Private Commercial Banks

Corporate Social Responsibility （CSR） is integral and inseparable part of the long term business and sustainable growth and success, which plays an important role in promoting values both locally and internationally and usually is noticed as a developed-country sensation. As such, a great figure of literature on social arrangement of organizations has appeared in the perspective of developed states. CSR is an assurance of the organizations to action morally and add to financial progress of the people while improving the worth of the life of the employees and the local public in general. All over the world, CSR is essential for the organizations to confirm its sustainability. Though, CSR is a worldwide issue and all organizations practice it to some degree. In this paper, the authors made a determination to explain CSR and the related matter, and scrutinize the well-being performances of some State-Owned Commercial and Private Commercial Banks in Bangladesh. As the central bank of Bangladesh, ＂Bangladesh Bank＂ has advised the commercial banks to play an effective part in the well-being of people. Therefore, this paper is an attempt to discover the degree to which the mentioned banks in Bangladesh accomplish their CSR activities and to search the level of revelation for CSR in their annual reports. The research has been directed with secondary data collected from the annual reports of the mentioned banks of more than a few years. Against this backdrop, this paper debates the situation prevailing practices of CSR in mentioned banks. The paper presented here in the three fold continuingly reviews the literature concerning CSR in the context of the contemporary world; inspects the well-being practices and presents the data of CSR practices of the mentioned banks and lastly presents the limitations and recommendations for better CSR practices of the mentioned banks in Bangladesh.

The Role of Multilateral Development Banks and Institutions Are Important

These five recommendations cover the most critical aspects of infrastructure development:an attractive pipeline of projects,diversity of financial instruments and a conducive regulatory environment,the role of multilateral development institutions,as well as the management of project life-cycle pro-

Franchise Value Change Information of State-owned Commercial Bank and Securities Investment Risk

The investment strategy choice of state-owned commercial bank is related to its franchise value change information. This paper analyzes the franchise value change information of state-owned commercial bank. The franchise value change information shows that the franchise value of state-owned Commercial Bank is descending. Along with the descending of the franchise value, state-owned commercial bank strengthens its high risk investment motive when it chooses its investment strategy. State-owned commercial bank tends to run the high risk of investing securities because its investment variety is very sparse. Based on the theoretical principle of how to control securities investment risk, this paper proposes some countermeasures and suggestions that state-owned commercial bank strengthen the control of its securities investment risk in order to perfect its investment strategy.

聚集学术机构知识的中心机构库(Institutional Repository)探析

本文首先介绍了机构库的定义及产生的原因,阐述了机构库的特点及国内外相关项目,然后从知识产权保护、经费管理、质量控制等方面论述了机构库存在的问题,最后分析了图书馆应如何面对机构库带来的机遇与挑战。

机构知识库(Institutional Repository)及其案例研究

阐述了机构知识库的基本理论,对典型的机构知识库系统DSpace进行了分析,阐述了DSpace的体系结构、数字资源的提交及查找等方面的情况,以期对国内机构知识库的建设有所裨益。

Degree of financialization and energy efficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa: do institutions matter?

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7 emphasizes the need for economies around the world to double their efforts in energy efficiency improvements.This is because improvements in energy efficiency can trigger economic growth and considered as one of the‘green’growth strategies due to its carbon free content.To this end,some empirical studies have investigated the nexus between economic growth and energy efficiency,but the effects of the latter on financial indicators have not been sufficiently studied in the literature,at least in developing economies like Africa.This study examines the effect of energy efficiency improvements on commercial bank profitability under different political regimes(i.e.,autocratic and democratic political regimes);something previous literature had neglected.The study uses panel data,consisting of 43 African countries and the simultaneous System Generalized Method of Moments.We found that energy efficiency improvement is more likely to induce higher bank profitability in political institutions with the characteristics of centralization of power compared with those with decentralization of power.Furthermore,for the banking sector,the findings suggest that energy utilization behavior of clients should be included in the loan or credit valuation process.For the government,the agenda of energy efficiency should be aggressively pursued while taking cognizance of creating a political environment that weans itself from a‘grandfathering’behavior.

Growing Bigger——Chinese Banks Going Out

In November 2013,the Financial Stability Board(FSB)officially released the list of the year’s most important banks in the world.Fol-lowing the Bank of China,Industrial and Commercial Bank of China firstly ranked into this list.At the same time,a list of global top 100 banks was pub-lished by SNL Financial,where China’s four state-owned commercial

How to set up a foreign-funded or Chinese-foreign joint venture financial institution in Shanghai

If you are representing a foreign-funded institution in setting up a foreign-funded bank or financial company in Shanghai, you should have a representative agency already established within the boundaries of China for more than two years, and general assets at the end of the previous year should not be less than US $ 10 billion. The country or region you are residing in should have

Mixed oligopoly,state-owned banks’shareholding reform and foreign capital penetration

This paper examines the impact of the policy on eliminating the ratio of foreign shareholding in banks in a mixed oligopoly model.Its analytic results show that state-owned banks should encourage privatisation along with an increasing proportion of the domestic share in multinational banks.Furthermore,we argue that the increase in domestic stockholding of multinational banks raises domestic private firms’profits but decreases their social welfare in the deposit market.The results of numerical simulation show that when the quantity of private banks is fixed,foreign banks tend to enlarge their stake and strengthen their controlling power.

Does Property Rights Reform Improve the Efficiency of China's State-owned Banks?

China ＂s state-owned banks have undergone radical changes over the past two decades, including partial privatization and listing in both the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the Shanghai Stock Exchange. This paper evaluates the effects of these changes by analyzing the efficiency of Chinese banks over the period 1998-2012 using two frontier techniques and comparative analysis. The findings suggest that the performance and technical efficiency of the Big Four banks improved considerably after property rights reform, but this improvement is not sufficient to keep the banks at the production frontier. Tobit regressions confirm that static ownership effects are negative but that the property rights reform has had significant and positive effects on the technical efficiency of state-owned commercial banks. GDP growth and the financial crisis have had positive effects on the efficiency of Chinese banks, which is more significant for joint stock commercial banks than state-owned commercial banks. The results indicate the value of ownership reforms of state-owned asset management companies and insurance companies and the establishment of a countercyclical capital buffer.

The Reform of State-owned Commercial Banks in China: A Political Economy Perspective

This paper analyzes the logic of the reform of state-owned commercial banks during 1997-2006 from a political economy perspective, mainly by discussing three fields of the reform: shareholding system reform, marketization, and financial restructuring. It also points out the existing problems in each field. The conclusion is that although the reform is heading in the right direction and has already made great progress, it has largely been conducted at the technical level and the Government has avoided dealing with the core issue of the reform. More importantly, the consequences of the Government's policy—pursuing short-term objectives, like improving the short-term financial status of banks—puts the entire system in danger by accumulating long-term risks. This paper also provides some policy proposals and points out potential directions for further studies.

Merger and Acquisition, the Next Day in the Hellenic Banking System, Evidence From the Greek Financial Crisis Period

The aim of this study is to examine if the merger of banks improves the profitability of banks before and after the completion of the merger,in the Hellenic Banking System.For this reason,data were collected one year before the merger took place and then for the following years.The consequences of merging banks using different financial indicators,such as the capital ratio index,the foreign-to-equity index and the loan burden numerator,were also investigated.The effectiveness of interpreting the improvement of the bank’s financial image before and after the merger,for the years 2007-2016,years,before and after the Greek Financial Crisis,in the mergers carried out in the Hellenic Banking System was examined.

Competition and Cooperation——the under Constructing Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank(the Bank)initiated by China is a multilateral financial institution with its sphere of business focused on promoting the infrastructure construction of member countries.The Bank has attracted wide range of interests and discussions both in China and from the abroad.As the Bank will put

Maanshan Iron and Steel Design Institute under the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry

Founded in July 1962.Maanshan Iron and Steel DesignInstitute is an important design institute directly under theMinistry of Metallurgical Industry,and a state Class A designinstitute registered in World Bank and Asia DevelopmentBank,also a member unit of China International ConsultantsCompany and China Metallurgical Construction GroupCompany.It boasts a staff of 1.500,including 1,200 engineeringand technical people(400 senior engineers included).It has 22research offices,such as iron-smelting,steel making,steel-rolling,mining,dressing and sintering,34 engineering designfaculties,has well-equipped electronic computer stations,experimenting labs and printing factories,and has divisions inShanghai and Zhuhai. The institute is engaged in the engineering design,technical consultancy,supervision and general contract

China Institute Proposes Weaker Yuan to Boost Growth

China should actively guide the yuan’s exchange rate to about 6.93 against the dollar to help maintain economic growth and bolster employment,according to a report by the Ministry of Finance’s research institute.

基于持续改进理念促进二级医疗机构输血科(血库)建设:以河北省为例

目的调查河北省二级医疗机构输血科(血库)建设持续改进效果。方法选取全省35家二级医疗机构输血科(血库)作为调查对象,依据《河北省二级医疗机构输血科建设和管理评价标准》,于2021年7月、2022年8月分别进行调研,比较督导效果。结果经过督导,河北省二级医疗机构输血科(血库)设置、房屋设施、人力资源管理、仪器设备、质量管理体系、血液库存管理、输血相容性检测2022年显著优于2021年,两者比较差异有统计学意义(P<0.05);而清洁消毒、血液发放管理、信息管理系统、室内质控和室间质评2022年与2021年比较差异无统计学意义(P>0.05)。结论河北省二级医疗机构输血科(血库)建设持续改进取得了明显成效,但在清洁消毒、信息管理系统、室内质控和室间质评等方面仍需进一步改进。

金融支持白城市小微企业发展存在问题分析及对策研究

为推进白城市实体经济高质量发展,本文以白城市银行机构和小微企业为研究对象,深度挖掘白城市金融支持小微企业发展的融资难融资贵等问题,并对白城市100家小微企业开展问卷调查,根据调研结果,围绕如何提升金融服务质效,构建现代金融服务体系等方面内容,提出政策建议。

从中美大型银行比较看建设金融强国的路径——基于价值创造的视角

2023年10月底召开的中央金融工作会议提出“要加快建设金融强国”,将金融工作提升到国家战略高度。2024年1月,习近平总书记在省部级主要领导干部推动金融高质量发展专题研讨班开班式上发表重要讲话,提出金融强国需具备一系列关键核心金融要素,其中之一是要有“强大的金融机构”。在这方面,大型金融机构尤其是大型银行理应承担更大的责任,需要借鉴世界一流金融企业经验,不断提升市场竞争力和国际影响力。本文从价值创造的视角对中美两国大型银行进行比较研究,剖析两国大型银行在业务结构、经营效率、分配模式等方面的差异,在综合比较的基础上得出结论并提出建议,旨在为中国大型银行做优做强、高质量发展,以及建设金融强国提供一定的参考。