The document attempts to investigate globalization and savings behavior in Pakistan. This paper takes into account the importance of globalization as a determining factor for national, private and public savings. The Ordinary Least Square method is used for empirical analysis. The analysis is performed in two stages. In the first phase, descriptive statistics and correlation matrix are described. In the second phase, multivariate analysis explains that globalization determines Pakistan's saving behavior. The study concludes that the consumer price index, the real interest rate and workers' remittances have a positive and significant influence on savings. The government deficit has a marginally significant impact on savings, while foreign direct investment has a negative but significant impact on national and private savings. Public savings are directly and insignificantly affected. Trade liberalization has a negligible and positive impact on national savings, but has a negligible negative impact on public and private savings. Given the role of globalization and the saving behavior in Pakistan, the government is suggested to provide a favorable environment and tax incentives to improve foreign direct investment. This will increase savings in the country. To this end, the country's industrial and agricultural sectors must be stable. Furthermore, it is necessary to create an investment friendly business environment in Pakistan.

This study investigated the effect of Corporate Governance (represented by Asymmetric Timeliness Measure and Market To Book Ratio) on accounting conservatism (represented by Gender Composition of the Board, Composition of Audit Committee and Risk Management Committee) of quoted firms in Nigeria. Ex-post facto research design was used. The population of this study comprised 17 food and beverage firms listed on the Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX) as at December 31st, 2021 from which 14 were selected by Purposive sampling technique. The study period was 10 years (2012 to 2021). Data were obtained from the published audited financial statements. The study used descriptive and inferential statistics for data analysis. Findings from the study revealed that Corporate Governance jointly had no significant effect on Asymmetric Timeliness Measure (ATM), AdjR2 = 0.035; F (6, 133) = 1.84, P-Value= 0.09 and Market To Book Ratio (MTB), AdjR2= 0.109; F = 11.70, P-Value= 0.07. This study concluded that Corporate Governance had no significant impact on Accounting Conservatism of quoted firms in Nigeria. It was recommended that policy makers should pay close attention to corporate governance policies and measures such as the Gender Composition of the Board, Composition of Audit Committee and Risk Management Committee in order to enhance accounting conservatism and bring about accounting conservatism and by extension improve the quality of financial statements.

Digitization process, as an important means to achieve high-quality economic development, has an important impact for entering the international market. In order to investigate whether the digitization process can improve corporate competitiveness, this paper empirically examines the impact mechanism of digitization process on corporate competitiveness using a sample of A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2010 to 2021. The study finds that firms' digitization process can significantly enhance their competitiveness. This finding remains valid after controlling for endogeneity, dynamic effects, and sample selection bias. In terms of the impact mechanism, firm digitization process can promote their competitiveness through the channels of increasing the trade credit financing, improving the information disclosure quality, and reducing the firm default risk.