Given the benefits of early childhood education, many countries try to ensure universal accessibility to early childhood education. However, with their limited budgets and chronic poverty, least developed countries face a huge disadvantage in providing access to early childhood education, especially for children of lower income families and those living in remote areas. This study aims to determine how accessibility to early childhood education and child development affects cognitive, learning, physical, and social-emotional readiness. We use ...

Earnings management usually refers to the efforts of firm managers or executives to manipulate the earning figures in financial reporting. In general, these activities can be perceived negatively, as they can stem from managerial opportunism. Managers can use earnings management to report earnings for their own benefit, e.g. to get advantage from their compensation plans. However, some may argue that managers can use earnings management techniques to communicate or convey certain information and to smooth the earnings to reduce volatility. ...

Non-communicable diseases have become a major threat to Sri Lanka as well as all developing and developed countries. Though the government provides all health facilities free of charge at public hospitals, people have to bear the out-of-pocket expenditure. The expenditure compared to other diseases is double the burden from non-communicable diseases

It has been nearly three decades since Thai basic education was affected by major changes adopted in the name of educational decentralization. A central aspect of implementing educational decentralization is shifting authority to schools. However, to date there is no literature that rigorously investigates the extent and degree of changes to reveal if decision making authority has shifted to schools. Moreover, the effects of the changes experienced by school settings have not been studied. In addressing these gaps, this study intends to: ...

The purposes of this research were 1) to study the effect of corporate governance on firm performance, 2) to examine the effect of corporate governance on competitive advantage, and 3) to find out the effect of competitive advantage on firm performance. The quantitative data consisted of 5-year longitudinal/panel data (2011- 2015). Only qualified companies listed in the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) were selected as population. The total of 203 shortlisted companies were good for 1,015 observations. The dummy variables derived from IOD corporate ...

This study is a network of emergency medical services outside of hospitals in the three provinces of  Khon Kaen, Nonthaburi, Ubon Ratchathani and Sa Kaeo provinces that has three objectives: 1) to study the operational processes of the network organization in Emergency Medical Services, 2) to study the effectiveness of the network organization in Emergency Medical Services, and 3) to present the models of the network organization in Emergency Medical Services right with Thailand that operated by Qualitative Research Methodology, In-Depth Interview, ...

This research explores the important factors affecting the effectiveness and the effectiveness of small biomass power plants all over Thailand. The objectives of the study include 1) to study and establish a model of the relationship between the factors that influence the effectiveness and the effectiveness of small biomass power plants. 2) to test and analyze the relationships between key factors affecting the effectiveness and effectiveness of small biomass power plants. This study uses the Mixed Method with Qualitative and Quantitative ...

This research aimed to 1) study the processing of the Waterside Housing Development Project of Bangkok, Thailand, 2) evaluate the effectiveness of the Project, 3) study the factors affecting the effectiveness of the Project, and 4) propose a model for resolving the encroachment problems of the public areas. The methodology used in this research was mixed methods, and the sampling are 960 participating households and 31 community leaders. The research found that the project could not entirely solve the canal encroachment problem. Only 42.37% ...