This article aimed to study the performance of rice production in a case study of Y Yen district, Namdinh province in the Red river delta and suggest some recommendation to improve the performance of rice production in the study site. The paper is based on the semi-structure, standard questionnaires and PRA methods to collect data from 48 representative rice producers. The results showed that average land area of rice production was low at 0.27 ha per household, but rice productivity was rather high as 5.34 tons per ha in Spring crop. The average revenue was 34.79 million VND, value added was 17.5 million VND. The production cost was too high, at 29.06 million VND, occupied 83.5% total revenue, which led to the low net income of the household at only 5.7 million VND per ha, accounted for only 16.5% of revenue. Counted on a hectare, hired labor cost took part 29% of total cost, proportion for the material equipment was 26.7%. Fertilizers and pesticide cost accounted for 28.7%, of which, 20% belonged to NPK. Some suggestion to improve the benefit for farmers were: reducing the production cost by using optimal fertilizers, pesticide; good material and equipment management; and applying technology and machine in rice production.

Tiatr, which has a history of more than 100 years, is a type of musical theatre popular in the state of Goa on the West coast of India as well as in Mumbai and with expatriate communities in the Middle East, London and other cities where Konkani speakers have a considerable presence. The dramas are performed mainly in the Roman Konkani dialects and include music, dancing and singing. Tiatr today revolves around social, religious and political themes. It is considered to be a mirror of Goan culture. The first original tiatr script was written and directed by JoãoAgostinhoFernandes, entitled “Belle de Cavel” or “SundoriCavelchi” in 1895 in Bombay and for all his consistent devotion and encouragement over fifty years, he was conferred the title “PaiTiatrist” (Father Tiatrist).Tiatr as a form of entrepreneurship has created direct as well as indirect employment for many artists as well as back stage support staff. Some families are fully dependent on this form of entrepreneurship for their livelihood. The economy of the state to a large extent is supported by this form of entertainment. Realizing its importance in the Goan economy, the government of Goa has devised various schemes financial as well as non-financial for the development of tiatr. However, it still needs the attention of policy makers as it has bright prospects, Goa being a tourist destination. The article tried to find out over a period of time how this form of entertainment evolved based on secondary data and through personal interaction with the producers of Tiatr.

Insurance sector globally has tremendous opportunities for growth due to improved awareness and literacy among masses and it occupies an important place in the complex modern world. To cover the risk factor life insurance sector is the biggest in the world with about 360 million policies which are expected to increase at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 12-15 per cent over the next five years. The insurance industry plans to hike penetration levels to five per cent by 2020.. The present paper is an attempt to analyse the growth of insurance sector in India and initiatives taken by IRDA for promoting consumer education.

Water („the elixir of life‟) is a basic need for life of all living organisms. Though the earth‟s water resources are abundant and renewable, 97% of water is saline and only 3% is fresh. Humans use water for 1. Agricultural, 2.Industrial, 3.Domestic, 4.Recreational and 5. Environmental activities and the vast majority of such uses require the less-abundant fresh water. As the world human population is growing and demands to support modern lifestyles are increasing, tremendous pressure is exerted on natural water resources leading to water stress and water crises. There is competition among nations and even among regions of a nation for the scarce water resources available. As agriculture accounts for an estimated 70% worldwide water use and rural India still predominantly depends on agriculture as the main source of income, suitable policies, strategies and plans to safeguard water resources need to be adopted for a sustainable and inclusive rural development. The present paper is basically a review of relevant literature. It shall: 1. focus on the world water scenario, 2. highlight the effect of water scarcity on sustainability and inclusiveness of development, 3. enumerate the available solutions for scientific and economic management of water resources and 4. elaborate the various attempts to tackle the water related problems by the Government of India with international assistance. The findings and conclusions may offer some useful hints, tips and guidance for nations of rest of the world to formulate their country-specific strategies of water management.

In this study, Corporate Governance was examined to ascertain its impact on the Nigeria economy using some selected organizations from the south east region of Nigeria as its case study. The sources of the data used for this research were primary and secondary data. A total population of 12,319 people was eligible to participate in this research work. Three hundred and eighty seven (387) respondents were used for this study which was determined using Yaro Yamani sampling technique. Questionnaires were administered to the respondents; all were answered, completed and returned. The descriptive method was used to analyze the data generated for the research. This was supported by tables showing questions, responses of Yes or No, and their percentages. The hypothesis was tested using general regression analysis, goodness- of-fit, descriptive statistics and correlation statistical analysis. From the findings, many respondents were of opinion that corporate organizations operations improve in many forms/ways the Nigerian economy. This means that corporate governance to a large extent impact on the Nigeria economy.

Quality service and customer satisfaction are major challenges faced by the banking sector in Oman. This paper aims to comparative study of the factors affecting service quality in local and foreign banks in Oman. The quality of service provided in the service sector is of utmost importance in order to sustain in a competitive market. As far banking sector in Oman is concerned, the various policies are adopted by the banks to improve the service quality that includes e- banking, Phone banking, making available CDM (Cash deposits Machines) and ATM (Automated Teller Machines), easy loans, customer care service etc. This research paper is an attitudinal study of customers of two local and foreign banks in Oman. The customer feedback is collected through structured questionnaire, based on the five points Likert scale. The parameters of servqual model have been followed to test the service quality in the banks. An attempt has been made to explore and analyze the significant factors affecting the service quality of banks in Oman by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The key findings of the study are the level of customer satisfaction of local banks is better than the foreign banks in Oman. This is because of the quality of service provided by the local bank is better than foreign banks.

This paper provides empirical analysis of the impact of expansionary budget on living standard in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Relevant time series data were used from 1996 to 2015 which were collected from the Kaduna State Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning. The Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method was used to analyze static and log – linearized model of the data. The result of the regression analysis shows that expansionary budget which is represented by macroeconomic variables (ESE, ASE, RDE, SSE) in Kaduna State exert positive impact on standard of living. The paper therefore, recommended that the implementation mechanism of budgetary discipline should be adequately entrenched for effective implementation and as such the implementation mechanism of expansionary budget in Kaduna State should be checked for effective enhancement of the standard of living because if left unchecked it could jeopardize the entire effort of attaining the social and developmental goals.

The purpose of advertisements is to enhance buyer’s response to products or services offered by the firm, thus increasing its profitability. Attitude is a learned predisposition to respond in the consistently favorable or unfavorable manner to advertising in general” While the influence of advertising on consumer behavior is inevitable, consumers generally hold quite negative attitudes towards it. The main objective of the artical is to study the attitude of the students towards advertisements. By using the Likert scale modified suitably, the data was collected. In all 2108, students from all over Goa were surveyed. It was seen that the attitude of the students towards advertisements is positive and matured. The statistical tools such as Independent sample ‘t’ test and One way ANOVA were used to find out the validity of the statements and whether there is an association between the different categories of sample and the attributes. In spite of it being severely criticized, students still felt that advertisements should not be taken away from the T.V.

The importance of leadership cannot be underestimated for any type of organization, and much research has shown the essentiality of the component of emotional intelligence for effective leadership. Organizational culture is shaped by such crucial elements of the organization, which manage not just the resources, but essentially the human resources of the organization. The study aims at assessing the impact of leadership styles, emotional intelligence of leaders and organizational culture on organizational performance. The study adopts a descriptive research design, to explore the relationships between the variables under study, and outline their influence on the overall performance of the firm. The study supports the claim that leadership styles and emotional intelligence have a significant impact on the organizational culture, which further impacts the organizational performance. Moreover, a significant relationship between leadership styles and emotional intelligence is also found valid. Thus, the recognition of such relationships at work is critical for managers and leaders, of any sphere, of any kind/size of firms. The present research serves useful to leaders, managers, HR professionals, administration, and anybody interested in the sphere of improving organizational performance.

Globally, environmental problems have negatively impacted every area of human endeavours. Global increase in economic activities and the growing challenges generated by environmental activities have made the traditional accounting system ill-equipped to provide adequate information about the environmental activities of organizations. Conventional approaches of cost accounting have become inadequate because they have ignored important environmental costs and activities impacting consequences on the environment. Corporate neglect and avoidance of environmental costing have left a gap of financial incompleteness and absence of fair view of financial information reporting to users of financial statements and environmental regulatory agencies. The study seeks to provide a theoretical overview of accounting for social and environmental challenges and pointed out the superiority of Environmental Accounting over the Traditional Accounting in this wise, Our review showed that environmental accounting operating expenditures are not charged independently of other expenditures. There is also, absence of costing system for tracking of externality costs. Environmental accounting disclosure does not however, take the same pattern among listed companies globally. Considering the current limited exposure of many organizations to environmental accounting methodology, this study proffers an insight into new bases and design for environmental accounting. This paper posits that a lot can be done to douse environmental and social challenges and pacify those directly affected by applying palliative and preventive remedies using environmental accounting aspects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies as a tool.

In the light of growing market opportunities for the organized retail stores the present study focused on motivating factors of organized retail customers towards these stores. The study considered four important motivating factors for organized retail consumers namely convenient shopping , economic shopping , enjoyment shopping , idea shopping and their impact on visiting organized retail store. The purpose of the paper is to study the motivating factors in the shopping of organized retail store. The impact of demographic variables on motivating factors of organized retail consumers are explained in this paper. The statistical tools like ANOVA, Correlation Analysis and Descriptive Statistics were used for analyzing the primary data. It is found from the study that most of the customers visit the organized retail stores for convenience shopping and to get advantage of sales offers and promotions.