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Underlying causes of commercial bank failures in the 1980s
An examination of the contributions of economic and managerial factors to commercial bank failures in the 1980s.Bank failures
Defying Limits and Bounds: Glimpses of the life and science of a visionary biologist, Dr. S.Jones, Founder President, MBAI
Santhappan Jones was born on the 27'h August, 1910 at Kovalam in the Kerala
State as the fifth and last child of his parents. He had his early education at
Venganoor near Kovalam and at Trivandrum. He graduated from the Maharaja's
College of Science, Trivandrum in 1933 and worked in the same college as
honorary research scholar for an year. Later he joined the Zoology Laboratory
of Madras University on a scholarship under Prof. R. GopalaAiyer and obtained
the M.Sc. degree in 1937 for the research on breeding and development of
brackishwater fishes. His work on fishes attracted the attention of welllmown
ichthyologists like Dr. Baini Prasad, Dr. Sunderlal Hora and Dr. B. Sundara
Raj. He worked for a brief period at the Colombo Museum and Madras Christian
College before joining the erstwhile Travancore State Service as an entomologist
in 1937
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