UK-Ghana excellence rewarded: the New Connaught Rooms in London was the place to be on 3 July as professionals and business people joined to celebrate excellence in the UK Ghanaian Community at the annual Ghana Professional Awards (GPA) dinner night. Nana Amonowaa reports.
The Ghana Professional Awards (GPA), the brainchild of the indefatigable Emelia Bartels (a marketing consultant), are now in their fourth year. It was a truly "star-studded" event at the New Connaught Rooms in central London where the 2004 event was held. June Sarpong (from Channel 4TV) and BBC's Lisa...

Managerial ownership and corporate performance in Slovenian post-privatisation period.
Abstract The Slovenian post-privatisation period has been characterised by a decline in the ownership by nonmanagerial owners (employees) and state-controlled funds. On the other hand, domestic and foreign nonfinancial firms, Privatisation Investment Funds and managers have been increasing their holdings. The latter, namely the growing managerial ownership,...

Losing sleep at the market: an empirical note on the daylight saving anomaly in Australia.
This article was originally printed in the September issue and is reproduced here in full. The original version of the article contained several errors, which were introduced at the printing stage and were in no way the fault of the author. I Overview In a...

Good company: what have Islamic economics, animal rights protesters, social justice activists and ethical investors got in common? M Iqbal Asaria highlights the links. (Islam: Economics).
THE social justice protesters who disrupted gatherings of leaders of the industrial world in Seattle, Genoa and Quebec have highlighted on the international stage a growing unease with the operations of unfettered markets. For protesters the present arrangement perpetuates gross global inequity, made worse by rampant globalization. ...

Legislative heart and phase transitions: an exploratory study of Congress and minority interests.
TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION: DOES RACE MATTER? II. LEGISLATIVE HEART AND REPRESENTATION OF MINORITY INTERESTS A. Direct Versus Representative Legislative Voice B. Members' Policy Responsiveness: Existing Studies C. Legislative Heart as a Measure of Legislative Voice 1. The Quantitative/Qualitative...

Pennsylvania's success with local property tax reform: the split rate tax.
I Pennsylvania's Initiative Pennsylvania has been experimenting with a new approach to property tax reform which has already begun to attract attention in New York, Maryland, and other states. This policy offers an entirely different angle to the current mainstream dialogue on property tax "reform" which consists mainly...

Toward monetary union of the European Community: history and experiences of the European monetary system.
I Introduction ACCORDING TO THE SINGLE EUROPEAN ACT, the legal document formalizing the Single Market Program, the European Community (EC) shall adopt measures with the aim of progressively establishing an integrated internal market in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital will be ensured. Furthermore,...

Why Alan Greenspan should show you his hand.
The Federal Reserve System is the most powerful financial institution in the country. But its decisions are made in secret, and the Fed resists sharing the record of its deliberations with the government's other major economic players: the president and Congress. Rep. Henry Gonzalez, the Texas Democrat,...

Reflections on the economic future of Hong Kong.
Mah jiu paau. Mouh jiu tiuh. The horses will go on running. The dancing will continue. Deng Xiaoping's Pledge, in Cantonese, to the People of Hong Kong(1) I. INTRODUCTION The reunification of Hong Kong, one of the...

The Supreme Court's interpretation of the word "willful": ignorance of the law as an excuse to prosecutions of structuring currency transactions.
I. INTRODUCTION In Ratzlaf v. United States,(1) the United States Supreme Court held that to establish a "willful" violation of the federal statutes that prohibit the structuring of currency transactions, the government must prove that the defendant had knowledge that his conduct was illegal.(2) Structuring occurs when an individual...