User:Sapovadia

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Vrajlal Sapovadia is now with IIM, Indore, India as Faculty in area of Finance & Accounting. {He was Professor-Finance at [1]B.K. School of Business Management [[2]] [3], Gujarat University [4], Ahmedabad, India}. He is Chartered Accountant & Ph. D. In Management Accounting. He has authored 50 articles and research papers, few of them are published in International Journals (Harvard) and presented at International Organisation (World Bank) and International Events (CIRIEC, ICA, IIFET). His research area encompass Finance, Micro Finance, Cooperatives, Merger, Corporate Governance, Health, ICT etc. He is among first 2% aurhors on SSRN web portal [[[5]]] . He is Guide to Micro Finance Community at Development Gateway, USA [6]. He is observer member at ALNAP [7].

He was awarded partial grant to present paper on Role of Cooperatives in New Millenium at Switzerland by Gujarat State Cooperative Bank (2000). He was awarded fellowship by IIFET, Japan (2004), ICA (2004) at Chiang Mai [8], ICA 2006) at Columbo, World Bank Research Symposium at Washington DC, USA (2007) [9], Canada Congress at Saskatoon University, Canada (2007)and CIRIEC at Victoria University, Canada (2007) [10].

His writing at ICA [11] gives an idea of his work appreciated by world's apex cooperative institute. He was born in year 1956, in village Nanadiya [12]situated in Gujarat . He is member of ICAI [13] [14]and Researcher in Global Development Network [15] His area of expertise include Public & Micro Finance [16], Corporate Governance, Urban Management, Corporate Taxation, Merger $ Acquisition, Women Empowerment, Management Accounting etc. Among his most popular publication is Labor Laws in Harvard International Review [17] His one of writing was highlight article in Development Gateway [18] His contributions were recognised in UNDP conference on e-governance [19] , World Bank conference on education [20] , Change in Leadership at IMF/World Bank issue [21]

His blog on Sustainable Urbanisation [22] and Economies of Cooperation [23] may of interest to you. (Sapovadia 13:13, 7 November 2007 (UTC))

His seven papers are among the globally maximum downloaded papers on SSRN web site. His paper on Corporate Governance cum Accounting Standard is such maximum downloaded paper [24]

As a social reformer, he contributed lot against social evil like corruption, dowry, superstition and smoking/chewing tobacco/drinking liquor etc. He worked for correcting government administration, consumer awareness & consumer rights.