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Human capital is one of the critical resources for organizations around the world, and it requires significant learning and development (L&D) investments as a structured approach to become a learning organization. The study evaluates the relationship between cultural intelligence and learning organization by analyzing 364 responses received from employees-working across Indian organizations from varied sectors. The dimensions used for measuring learning organization in the study are – information sharing and accessibility, systematic problem solving, acceptance of error and experimenting with new approaches. Results demonstrate a significant positive relationship between learning organization and its four dimensions and cultural intelligence. The findings have implications for organizations to inculcate learning organization disciplines for improved cultural intelligence while also bridging the gap in the existing literature.

Social Responsibility is the commitment of corporate houses towards the society. Corporations must take into account, their decision and operations that are going to affect the masses at large. CSR shows the way business achieves ethical and moral standards and gets an equitable distribution of economic, social and natural resources to fulfill the suppositions of their stakeholders. Corporate Social Responsibility is not only confined towards customers but also towards their employees, suppliers, investors/shareholders and government too as they actually constitute a society surrounded with an interactive environment. This research is mainly focus on holistic view of CSR and recent CSR practices of corporate houses to develop the rural areas through providing basic infrastructural services and also trying to remove regional imbalance caused due to operational loopholes or inability of authorized agencies.

Skilled birth attendance (SBA) is a key health intervention used by roughly two-thirds of women in Ghana. The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) provided by the Government of Ghana is widely expected to improve maternal health outcomes by removing financial barriers to health services. Using data from the 2011 national Ghana Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey implemented by the Ghana Statistical Services and UNICEF, we examine the effect of insurance on SBA using a multivariate logistic model, controlling for a number of enabling and predisposing factors and past experience with the health system. Our sample is 2 528 women who had a birth in the two years before the survey. Our results show that women with health insurance are 74% more likely to use SBA than women without health insurance. Results also underscore that health insurance, while it eliminates a monetary barrier, does not solve health services availability problems and widespread geographic disparities in coverage of SBA persist. Additionally, we find that higher parity women and poor women are much less likely to use SBA and should be the focus of health interventions in order to fulfil development goals. Health insurance may indeed be a useful mechanism to improve coverage of SBA though further work to understand the effect of health insurance on other maternal outcomes is warranted.

Despite the large numbers of displaced persons and the often-lengthy periods of displacement, little is known about the impact of forced migration on long-term under-five mortality. This paper looks at the Brass Method (and adaptations of this method) and the Preceding Birth Technique in combination with a classification of women by their migration and reproductive histories, in order to study the impact of forced migration on under-five mortality. Data came from the Demography of Forced Migration Project, a study on mortality, fertility and violence in the refugee and host populations of Arua District, Uganda and Yei River District, Sudan. Results indicate that women who did not migrate in a situation of conflict and women who repatriated before the age of 15, had children with the highest under-five mortality rates compared with women who were currently refugees and women who repatriated after the age of 15.

BACKGROUND: The Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 (United Nations 2015) set national targets for reducing maternal mortality, putting pressure on governments of countries lacking comprehensive statistical systems to find other ways to measure it. One approach tested since the 1990s has been to collect necessary data through national population censuses. OBJECTIVE: This paper reviews maternal mortality data from the 2010 round of censuses for several countries to determine whether the census is useful for monitoring maternal mortality. METHODS: Data on births, deaths, and pregnancy-related deaths from two censuses for 10 countries was evaluated using standard methods; adjustments were applied to the reported numbers if so indicated. RESULTS: In general, the censuses underreported births moderately and underreported deaths by larger amounts; except in one case, proportions of pregnancy-related deaths appeared plausible. Adjusted estimates of the pregnancy-related mortality ratio (PRMR) were generally higher than estimates from Demographic and Health Survey sibling data or estimates of maternal mortality developed by cross-national studies. CONCLUSIONS: Analysis of recent data confirms results of earlier assessments: Census data provides imperfect but still valuable information on maternal mortality. Data requires careful assessment and often adjustment, resulting in estimates with large uncertainty. CONTRIBUTION: This paper provides additional evidence as to whether maternal mortality can usefully be measured by population censuses in countries lacking civil registration data.