https://ar.iub.edu.bd/handle/11348/300 2026-04-16T01:08:45Z 2026-04-16T01:08:45Z Alam, G.M. Shahidul https://ar.iub.edu.bd/handle/11348/425 2026-02-26T06:32:30Z 2010-07-01T00:00:00Z

BOQK REVIEW: Writing About Business: The New Columbia Knight-Bageho! Guide to Economics and Business Journalism, Terri Thompson, ed., NY: Columbia University Press, 2001, xxvi-422 pages. Alam, G.M. Shahidul Writing About Business: The New Columbia Knight-Bagehot Guide to Economics and Business Journalism, Terri Thompson, ed., NY: Columbia University Press, 2001, xxv+422 pages. Terri Thompson, director of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship at the prestigious Columbia Graduate School of Journalism when she had cobbled together the book under review, introduces its thematic content in these words: ln many ways the world has gotten smaller as developments in technology and the growth of the internet have brought us closer together. But one thing has not changed. Business and economies are complicated, and writing about them is risky. Everyday holds a chance for mistakes, misunderstandings, and misrepresentations. Therein lies the challenge presented by a field not very familiar with the general population of Bangladesh, primarily because, other than the odd exception, it is not one that is covered extensively or, more importantly, in its many intricacies, in the local media, nor one that is taught as a separate discipline in the country’s highest educational institutions, until recently, when the Media and Communication department of independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) introduced a course on Business Journalism in 2010. Thon1pson’s book should succeed in educating anyone interested in the practice of business and economics journalism, or, indeed, in just what it entails, although it is heavily biased towards the United States’ scenario.

2010-07-01T00:00:00Z Roy, Mihir Kumar https://ar.iub.edu.bd/handle/11348/424 2026-02-26T06:32:31Z 2010-07-01T00:00:00Z

Rural-Urban Migration in Bangladesh: The Need for Diverting Rural Migrants to Secondary Cities Roy, Mihir Kumar Bangladesh has been experiencing a rapid urbanization since independence in 1971, but the distribution of urban population is highly skewed and the capital city receives a disproportionate urban population. The other metropolitan cities are also growing faster than the secondary and tertiary level urban centers. The overarching aim of this paper is to examine how secondary cities can work to attract the rural migrants to make a more balanced distribution of urban population. The paper is based on information obtained from secondary sources. It tries to identgfit the reasons behind the rapid rural-urban migration in the capital city in general and secondary cities in particular. The paper reveals that as rural people migrate owing to economic reasons, the creation of economic opportunities in secondary cities is essential to divert these migrants to secondary cities for a more balanced distribution of urban population. The paper makes some tentative recommendations to strengthen the economic base of the secondary cities, including capaciajv building o/‘the local government in the secondary cities, which will promote these cities to be able to attract migrants.

2010-07-01T00:00:00Z Das, Ashim Kumar Dey, Nikhil Bhusan https://ar.iub.edu.bd/handle/11348/423 2026-02-26T06:32:31Z 2010-07-01T00:00:00Z

Financial and Management Accounting Practices in Small Business: An Exploratory Study in India Das, Ashim Kumar; Dey, Nikhil Bhusan Small Business promotion has continued to remain an important and integral part of Indian development strategy since her independence. The concentrated policy emphasis upon small firms as a vital vehicle of progress draws upon this sector's crucial role in generating employment and income at the regional level and acting as a shock absorbed during period of economic crisis. In the current business environment, firms are faced with intensijfiting competition locally and globally. It is vital in this environment that Small Business firms be equipped with appropriate and modernfinancial and managerial accounting practices in order for them to survive and remain profitable. Growing literature on financial and management accounting supports the argument that in small business, financial & management accounting is one of the key issues. It not only increases the success rate but also aflects the level of performance of a business. This research paper reports an exploratory study by raising some queries on the financial and management accounting practices of small businesses in India and attempts to _/ind empirical justification on the usefulness of these tools of accounting for decision making. The result of the study does prove that there is a wide gap between theory of financial & management accounting and actual practices by the small business in India. The study also reveals that firms not doing well are less likely to have knowledge on different tools of financial and management accounting.

2010-07-01T00:00:00Z Ghosh, Nilanjan https://ar.iub.edu.bd/handle/11348/422 2026-02-26T06:31:51Z 2010-07-01T00:00:00Z

Role of Thin Commodity Futures Markets in Physical Market Price Making: An Analysis of Wheat Futures in India in the Post-Ban Era Ghosh, Nilanjan There is a belief that even thin futures markets can act as a forum for reference pricing and create more volatility in the physical market prices. This article tests that hypothesis, given a few problems aflecting the efliciency of the wheat futures markets in India, after the resumption of wheat futures in May 2009 following a ban of more than two years. The article tries to answer three questions." D0 physical market players use the fixtures price of wheat as a reference price? Does the volatility in futures prices cause price volatility in the physical markets? What are the determinants of volume and volatility in the wheat futures markets, as also their interrelation? The article finds little evidence to suggest that futures price serves as reference price for transacting contracts in the physical market, and, as a natural corollary, futures market volatility cannot lead to volatility in the physical market. The level o/‘liquidity was low in the futures markets, as the markets were not only bereft ofspeculative volumes, it did not even seem to have served the purpose of hedgers. Hence, while rejecting the hypothesis set for testing, this article concludes that it is not possible for a thin market, bereft of adequate participation and liquidity, to provide a forum for discovering the reference price for the physical market, and thus it cannot destabilize the latter. These conclusions have been arrived with time series econometric analysis, consisting of Vector Auto regression (VAR) methods, Granger causality tests, Auto regression methods (AR), and seemingly unrelated regression equation methods.

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