India is a vast, diverse and big economy and many studies in the past have been done on the issue of workplace diversity in India and for that matter world. An apt understanding of the subject can be very helpful in proper functioning of contemporary business organizations. Workplace diversity, its awareness level among employees and value being appended to diversity management in Indian organizations is the underlying purpose of this paper. Various demographic and regional dependant variables are tested to understand the attitudinal element of employees working in different Indian organizations of Northern and Eastern parts of India. The non-experimental, descriptive, and quantitative research design with stratified random sampling technique is employed in the present research. The results and hypotheses testing of the were interpreted using statistical techniques like Cronbach's Alpha, Pearson Correlation, One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and associated procedures like Levene Statistics, post hoc Games-Howell Test and Pearson Chi Square Test. The findings highlight that age, education, income, work experience have significant differences in attitude toward workplace diversity among the different sets of employees tested, nevertheless gender, marital status and region have none. Further, it was found that employees are well acquainted with the concept of diversity management, with Northern India having more diverse people working in organizations who seem to be less tolerant with people wearing different dresses and feel it is an obligation of the managers to manage diversity as compared to employees in Eastern part. Both regions perceive that diversity is valued in their organizations and immense percentages here are however not familiar with procedures relating to discrimination complaints.

This study investigates the impact that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has on economic growth in Nigeria through the use of annual secondary data from 1981 to 2013 collected from the World Bank's Africa Development Indicators. The econometric methodologies used in this research were Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), ADF unit root and the Granger Causality tests. The OLS results shows that FDI positively contributes to economic growth in Nigeria, but not statistically significant at the 5% level of significance. However, Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) has a positive and statistically significant contribution to Nigeria's economic growth. The unit root test shows that the variables were stationary and the Granger Causality test connotes a unidirectionary causation running from FDI to GDPbut not vice-versa. But no mutual correlation is found between GFCF and GDP. This study recommends that policymakers in Nigeria should increase capital formation (GFCF) in order to present an attractive platform that will stimulate and encourage FDI inflow which will in whole, facilitate the increase and sustenance of economic growth.

India's banking sector is now a days in a need to raise money in capital markets or some capital inflows through government due to the asset quality concerns and capital problems faced by them. Basel III capital ratios in April 2013 and 2014 showed that there will be a need of funds from either government or capital markets that will be required by banks to meet their liquidity requirements. Again, due to the increasing non-performing loans( NPLs) , Indian banks are in a need of a large amount of capital for maintaining the growth rate of economy and also for generating profits that are now a days insufficient for internal capital generation to fund loan growth. Average gross NPL ratio of public sector banks increased to 4.3% (of total loans), an increase of 3.4% from December 2013 to March 2013. At the end of December gross non-performing assets (NPAs) of Indian banks increased to Rs. 2.4 trillion, an increase of about 36% from last year. But if look from the other point of view, not only for investments, Indian banks need the funds for various other reasons too. One among them is to combat asset concerns. The purpose of this paper is to discuss all these issues in detail.