Worldwide Governance Indicators

Thesis: Foreign aid to Sub- Saharan Africa is/ has been detrimental for its development. Much of Africa has not realized any meaningful development for the last decades in spite of many countries in that region of the global getting substantial foreign aid for their development projects over time. The authors of this article argue that foreign aid to Africa has in fact been detrimental to many countries in their efforts to gain good governance and build strong state institutions. It is undeniable to argue otherwise that poor institutions, lack of accountability and weak rule of law are have contributed to poor development in most countries in Africa. However, other factors such as political instability, civil wars, high debt ratios and the lingering effects of colonialism have negatively impacted the development agenda in sun Saharan…

organizational and reporting structures may have the potential to create barriers to organizational excellence and impede the effectiveness of corporate governance. One such barrier has been identified as dysfunctional organizational politics, which have evolved from self-interest and a focus, among others, on rewards and influence, and need attention for its dissolution (Vredenburgh & Shea-VanFossen, 2009). Self-interest and focus of the two separate audit teams should be resolved by management…

Executive Summary EURAPCO is a European Alliance of mutual Insurance Companies, which includes eight independent Partners operating in 18 different countries worldwide. In 2014, EURAPCO`s Partners insured over 40 million customers and were accountable for 53 billion Euros of gross written premiums. At the same year, Alliance Partners employed over 67.000 people and, in fact, were providing insurance services to every 20th European citizen. In the present day, EURAPCO is facing new challenges…

Introduction American Way, which also called as Amway is an company to sell health, beauty, and home care products. Amway way was founded in Michigan, USA by Jay Van Andel and Rich Devos in 1959. It described as “the world’s no. 1 direct selling company” in which according to the Direct Selling News Global. Besides, it also ranked in no.29 among the largest privately held companies in the US. It has the business more than hundreds of country and territories. In Malaysia, AMWAY stands tall within…

widespread and powerful force of 19th century. Throughout the history, people sharing national identities have felt pulling power of nationalistic feeling. This feeling made people believe that one’s nation is better than other’s. In due time, revolutions, wars and ethnic conflicts have occurred because of love of one’s country. However, nowadays mentality of people is completely different from the way they used to think in the past. There is no doubt that nationalism had negative effects, but…

evaluation for recreational cannabis model. Although many organizations both public and private have held periodic evaluations of cannabis legalization policies and some indicators are constantly monitored, to date no impact evaluation or in depth study has been developed regarding recreational legalization, partly due to the short period of existence of the policies. However, ONGs, activists movements and the own states have remarked some of the most early results of the policies. The most…

Development Agency Canadian International Development Agency is responsible for efficient management of Canada’s capabilities and resources to achieve sustainable results while engaged in policy development worldwide. Over the years the government has been increasing the effectiveness of CIDA, such as on March 21st 2013, the Government of Canada announced the merge of CIDA and Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFAIT) through the Canada’s Economic Action Plan. The new…

Peugeot SA is a French brand which produces passenger cars, motorcycles, bicycles and related spare parts. The business started operating in 1842, manufacturing pepper, salt and coffee grinders. After half a century, Armand Peugeot became interested in automobiles, and that was the true starter of the company. By 1899 25% of all cars sold in France were Peugeot manufactured. Nowadays this company distributes its products in over 160 countries worldwide, sold under the Peugeot and Citroën…

KPMG is one among the Big Four. The latter designates the four largest financial audit groups worldwide that are Deloitte, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG. In fact, the company's name stands for Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler which is a merger between two auditor companies Klynveld Main Goerdeler and Peat Marwick. Actually KPMG is operating in 152 countries. Each national firm is an independent entity that is part of the universal KPMG network and so member of the KPMG…

questioning what factors contributed, an in to degree, to ending the Cold War. To answer these questions, it proves necessary to examine just what exactly was the Cold War, along with when did it end, as we attempt to better understand its conclusion. During this analysis, we discover one of the main disagreements over what factors led to the end of the Cold War, which proceeds from two theories of international relations: realism and constructivism. Were material factors, such economic…