Tag: Palestine
Legal origin and Shareholders protection
In the past decade, LLSV spearheaded a rapidly evolving mass of literature emphasising the part played by legal institutions in moulding the national pattern of financial management and economic growth. What the literature argued was a core concept for corporate governance was the protection of investor rights against the expropriation by insiders and legal enforcement ...
Towards an effective UN role in combating impunity for crimes against journalists
Journalists do face grim challenges in their reporting whilst, there is a sharp rise noticed in the attacks against them worldwide. These attacks became a phenomenon due to the impunity for those aggressors. There is clear lack of accountability and there is failure from organisations concerned with journalists in their pursuit to offer proper advocacy ...
Stopping migration by making Gaza livable
The only long-term way to stem the flow of Gazans taking deadly risks to try to leave the Strip (such as digging cross-border tunnels or migrating illegally across the Mediterranean), and to attract home the former residents with the specialized skills the economy needs to thrive, is to end the Israeli/Egyptian blockade. This would once ...
The Gaza Strip: Reversing the Desire to Flee- II
Flight under conditions of duress or desperation is nothing new for Palestinians. Since 1948, when more than half a million Palestinians were forced to leave their homeland to make way for a new country in their midst, there have been several large waves of Palestinian outmigration or forced displacement. Yet this flight has in many ...
The Gaza Strip: Reversing the Desire to Flee- I
“Physically, the prisoner is powerless. But in spirit he gnaws unceasingly at the roots of the thorny hedge.“ — The Lager Echo, a prison camp newspaper on the Isle of Man, WW I. (Kenneth Helphand 2006) Densely populated with more than 1.8 million residents, the Gaza Strip is one of the most chronically unstable ...
Agency Problem
For several decades, the separation issue between ownership and control has been reflected in agency theory, where providers of services are regarded as agents of the people on whose behalf the service is performed (Jensen and Meckling, 1976; Stulz, 1988). According to Jensen and Meckling, the relation between the financiers and managers – the agency ...
Controlling Shareholders
The second half of twentieth century witnessed a trend of increasing larger groups of shareholders as the favoured mechanism to counter the managerial agency problem (Bhagat et al., 2004). These large shareholders might be controlling blockholders or institutional investors who invest on behalf of others. Their stake in the corporation might be only a minority ...