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Corporate Governance Mechanisms and Bank’s Performance Evidence from Nepalese Commercial Bank
Azalli Bijay Lal Pradhan(Azalli Bijay Lal Pradhan ),Hemant Kothari(Hemant Kothari ),Tika Ram Chalise(Tika Ram Chalise ) KINFORMS 2023 Management Review Vol.18 No.1
Good governance is foremost in order to develop good corporate working culture. Governance includes all formal and informal rules under certain principles of accountability, transparency, and the rule of law. The implementation of corporate governance certainly influences the performance of the firm. This study focuses on the corporate governance practices implemented by the commercial banks of Nepal and their impact on the bank’s financial performance taking 11(2010-2020) years secondary data. The data were collected from Banking and Financial Statistics published by Nepal Rastra Bank. In addition to this, different published articles, reports, books, and magazines were also used. Multiple regression analysis was used to test the significance and importance of corporate governance in Nepalese Commercial Banks, where the dependent variable used was financial performance (ROA ROE and MB ratio), whereas the independent variables were Board Size, Independent directors, Board Meeting, Bank size, foreign ownership, government ownership, Bank Age. The result shows a positive relation of Age, Board size, independent directors, foreign ownership, firms’ size with the performance of the bank, whereas board meeting and government ownership shows negative relation.
Righting Precarious Lives: Violence, Vulnerability and Responsibility for the Other
Jajati K. Pradhan 부산대학교 한국민족문화연구소 2017 Localities Vol.7 No.-
As we live in the world today, as we experience our life in our global connectedness, we very much come witness a more vulnerable and uncertain world structured by violence (both material and ideological) across the matrix of race, class, sex, colour, nation and other identitarian and differential categories leading to the precariousness of life. In context of the governance of everyday life and in such differential arrangement certain lives are recognized as livable lives (and, so, valuable lives) while others are not in the normative frame of the “human” owing to the devaluation and dehumanization of these lives who have always been branded as (human) Others and, as a result, subjected to violence, vulnerability and precarity. The critical implication of such a state of life is profound in the sense that it imposes ethical obligation upon the global community to respond and redress with collective responsibility the specters of injustice and suffering. At the center of this (in)human state of affairs lies a certain idea and operation of the “human” or “Humanism” premised on the Enlightenment and its legacy that has come under scrutiny in recent critical humanistic scholarship. This presses the need for rethinking and remaking of the human through an alternative scheme of thought, knowledge and subject-production toward an ethically grounded collective mode of living through the acknowledgement of interdependency and relationality. Informed by this theoretical optic and drawing on the ethical scholarship of Derrida, Butler and Jajati K. Pradhan Levinas, specifically their critical take on violence and responsibility, this paper argues that to resist and redress violence it is critically imperative to work toward a relational social ontology by reworking the human subjectivity for the collective wellbeing of all (precarious) lives.
Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor of the Urinary Bladder Managed by Laparoscopic Partial Cystectomy
Manas Ranjan Pradhan,Priyadarshi Ranjan,Ram Nawal Rao,Saurabh Sudhir Chipde,Krishna Pradhan,Rakesh Kapoor 대한비뇨의학회 2013 Investigative and Clinical Urology Vol.54 No.11
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the urinary bladder is a rare mesenchymal tumor with uncertain malignant potential. It often mimics soft tissue sarcomas both clinically and radiologically. Surgical resection in the form of partial cystectomy or transurethral resection remains the mainstay of treatment. Herein we report the case of an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor in a young girl, which was managed by laparoscopic partial cystectomy. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of laparoscopic management of an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the urinary bladder.
Estimation and Association of Genetic Diversity and Heterosis in Basmati Rice
Pradhan, Sharat Kumar,Singh, Sanjay,Bose, Lotan Kumar,Chandra, Ramesh,Singh, Omkar Nath The Korean Society of Crop Science 2007 Journal of crop science and biotechnology Vol.10 No.2
A representative group of 38 improved basmati lines including maintainers of sterile lines were studied for genetic diversity utilizing Mahalanobis $D^2$ statistics. A wide diversity was observed having ten clusters with high intra- and inter-cluster distance. Heterosis was estimated utilizing the cytoplasmic male sterile lines from the clusters having high intra- and inter-cluster distance. Highly heterotic hybrids were obtained from the hybridization programme. Cross combinations IR68281A/Pusa 1235-95-73-1-1, IR68281A/RP 3644-41-9-5, Pusa 3A/UPR 2268-4-1, IR 68281A/Pusa Basmati-1, IR68281A/BTCE 10-98, and IR58025A/HKR 97-401 were found to be highly heterotic for grain yield/plant with other agronomic and quality traits. Additionally, a positive association of intra-cluster distance with heterosis was observed, which could be utilized as a guideline for predicting heterosis in basmati hybrid rice breeding program. Also, a positive association between inter-cluster distance and heterosis was observed.
EXPLOITING NEPAL'S HYDROPOWER POTENTIAL : SOME PROSPECTS
Pradhan, Gyan the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam Un 1998 인문과학연구 Vol.4 No.-
This article examines the macroeconomic effects of hydropower projects in Nepal using an economy-wide, computable general equilibrium model. Hydropower projects can be expected to have important effects because of the considerable construction expenditures they involve and their electrical power generation. The finding here, as might be expected, is that hydropower projects will provide overall benefits, especially economic growth, although there may be an increase in tile general level of prices and a decline in traditional exports in the short term. The benefits will be particularly significant if private foreign investment can be attracted to finance such projects. To the extent that the projects are financed domestically, the overall benefits are modest because funding for the projects will have to come from foregone investments. Given Nepal's abundant water resources and the enormous demand for electricity in neighboring India and China, exploitation of this resource represents an excellent opportunity to finance the process of broad national development of Nepal. However, complex geopolitical problems in the region present serious challenges, and considerable political conviction will be required to see these projects through. It is imperative that hydropower projects are seen as equitable and take environmental issues into account through the highest degree of transparency and participation.
Pradhan, S.C.,Phadikar, J.K. Techno-Press 2009 Structural Engineering and Mechanics, An Int'l Jou Vol.33 No.2
In this paper structural analysis of nonhomogeneous nanotubes has been carried out using nonlocal elasticity theory. Governing differential equations of nonhomogeneous nanotubes are derived. Nanotubes include both single wall nanotube (SWNT) and double wall nanotube (DWNT). Nonlocal theory of elasticity has been employed to include the scale effect of the nanotubes. Nonlocal parameter, elastic modulus, density and diameter of the cross section are assumed to be functions of spatial coordinates. General Differential Quadrature (GDQ) method has been employed to solve the governing differential equations of the nanotubes. Various boundary conditions have been applied to the nanotubes. Present results considering nonlocal theory are in good agreement with the results available in the literature. Effect of variation of various geometrical and material parameters on the structural response of the nonhomogeneous nanotubes has been investigated. Present results of the nonhomogeneous nanotubes are useful in the design of the nanotubes.
Free vibration of functionally graded thin elliptic plates with various edge supports
Pradhan, K.K.,Chakraverty, S. 국제구조공학회 2015 Structural Engineering and Mechanics, An Int'l Jou Vol.53 No.2
In this article, free vibration of functionally graded (FG) elliptic plates subjected to various classical boundary conditions has been investigated. Literature review reveals no study has been performed based on functionally graded elliptic plates till date. The mechanical kinematic relations are considered based on classical plate theory. Rayleigh-Ritz technique is used to obtain the generalized eigenvalue problem. The material properties of the FG plate are assumed to vary along thickness direction of the constituents according to power-law form. Trial functions denoting the displacement components are expressed in simple algebraic polynomial forms which can handle any edge support. The objective is to study the effect of geometric configurations and gradation of constituent volume fractions on the natural frequencies. New results for frequency parameters are incorporated after performing a test of convergence. A comparison study is carried out with existing literature for validation in special cases. Three-dimensional mode shapes for circular and elliptic FG plates are also presented with various boundary conditions at the edges.