• Moreover, he points out that an increase in women's participation does not only generate results for women in general-a reward on its own merit-but it also provides social benefits as women are a major influence on social change, innovation and the development process (pp. 201-2). (mdpi.com)
  • Most important are the effects of the institutional environment on incentive structures for innovation and investment. (eh.net)
  • National governments therefore have ample scope to set the right framework conditions and incentives for productive investment and innovation decisions that determine long-term productivity growth. (europa.eu)
  • Our results will advise partners and donors on how best to support low-resource veterinary laboratories to improve sustainability and fulfill their mandate toward pandemic prevention and preparedness, as well as encourage equipment manufacturers to spur innovation and develop more sustainable products that meet end-users' needs. (cdc.gov)
  • Wars guarantee along with economic and material destruction "naturally" profitable investment opportunities and at the same time satisfy geostrategic power interests. (emanzipationhumanum.de)
  • Financial investments seemed more profitable and so spurred speculation on, which led to technological, stock, credit and real-estate bubbles. (transform-network.net)
  • Countrywide paid mortgage brokers a higher commission on high-interest sub-prime mortgages, since those mortgages were more profitable to sell to Wall Street investment banks--like the now-bankrupt Lehman Brothers, where CEO Dick Fuld pushed the company into the obscure but highly profitable market for collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), which packaged together large numbers of prime and sub-prime loans as investments for Wall Street's biggest players. (blogspot.com)
  • Perhaps this is what spurred the writings of Marx and Engels. (iea.org.uk)
  • Bringing Marxist perspectives into geography meant taking up themes on space, place making and environment and embedding them in a broad understanding of "the laws of motion of capital" as Marx understood them. (davidharvey.org)
  • Most social anarchists I know (as Springer admits) find the Marxist critical exposé and theoretical account of how capital circulates and accumulates in space and time and through environmental transformations helpful. (davidharvey.org)
  • This paper seeks to apply Human Capital Theory and Human Rights approach to critically analyse benefits of basic education in poverty reduction and realisation of regional equality in Northern Uganda. (grin.com)
  • [2] Karamoja remains the least developed part of the country with lower human development indicators due to limited access to school, poor infrastructure resulting in abject poverty and regional inequality. (grin.com)
  • The two essays reveal Fichman's approach to translation as a national endeavor - he couches the cultural and social value of translation in economic terms, using concepts such as "wealth," "poverty," "property," and "capital. (stanford.edu)
  • For most of human existence, interchange has been governed by social reciprocity, our sense of obligation to be helpful, fair, and just according to tradition. (humanjourney.us)
  • Development economics is a branch of economics which deals with economic aspects of the development process in low- and middle- income countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • Following Brexit and the 2016 United States presidential election, some experts have argued a new kind of "self-seeking capitalism" popularly known as Trumponomics could have a considerable impact on cross-border investment flows and long-term capital allocation The origins of modern development economics are often traced to the need for, and likely problems with the industrialization of eastern Europe in the aftermath of World War II. (wikipedia.org)
  • I was minded to write it because I think something fundamentally changed in China when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012 , which is basically what kind of spurred me to write about not just the economics of a rapidly growing and impressive and wow-making emerging country is facing, but the governance and political background against which these problems have to be embraced and addressed. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • Economics cuts and reduces to formulate tractable problems that admit elegant solutions, but the process inevitably renders economics a deeply decontextualized body of knowledge. (responsible-investor.com)
  • This literature often assumes that commercialization and diffusion are more or less costless and autonomous processes. (springer.com)
  • This assumes a certain openness on the part of the receiver to participate in a process of renewal that has both cultural and economic components. (rsfsocialfinance.org)
  • This is worrisome as capital accumulation logic assumes low-complexity job generation ensures lifelong security. (solimarinternational.com)
  • At the same time increasing financial deregulation, along with a flurry of new financial instruments and risk management techniques such as mortgage backed securities, collateralised debt obligation, credit default swap etc., encouraged massive accumulation of financial assets. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • From this perspective, a gift circulates into the future connected to and by human intentions but liberated from predicted outcomes. (rsfsocialfinance.org)
  • Income to create return of that productive investment to the people who created it, the workers or the investors and the shareholders. (mckinsey.com)
  • Key Messages 1) EU-based actors play a significant role in land grabbing and related human rights abuses outside of Europe, yet the full extent of their involvement is difficult to quantify. (researchgate.net)
  • 2) This brief identifies five key mechanisms in which EU actors are involved in land grabbing, and which can cause human rights abuses or threats. (researchgate.net)
  • 3) The EU and its Member States' extraterritorial obligations require them to take concrete steps to prevent and remedy human rights abuses and violations in the context of land grabbing. (researchgate.net)
  • 6) The EU and its Member States can play an important role in preventing land grabbing, and addressing related human rights abuses and violations, by implementing a set of policy regulations. (researchgate.net)
  • The worst abuses of human rights are now the consequences of the world economy. (emanzipationhumanum.de)
  • Crafts argues that technological progress in the modern sectors made a large contribution to the modest growth rate, both directly and indirectly through increasing the rate of capital formation. (eh.net)
  • In the economic arena, the most basic choice that all societies must face in allocating resources is between current consumption of goods and services and investment in future growth. (imf.org)
  • As a result, specialized industry clusters embedded in metropolitan regions worldwide spur significant economic activity that forges broad economic opportunity and growth. (illinois.gov)
  • In spite of these efforts, its IMF review was unsuccessful due to gripping debt burden and low-GDP growth, which slowed down their recovery process. (editorialge.com)
  • Sri Lanka's failed IMF review has generated an element of uncertainty in terms of when more money will be available for the country to implement key reforms and investments needed for growth. (editorialge.com)
  • Cyclical polices, including monetary policy, may also support productivity growth under certain circumstances by increasing demand and stimulating investment. (europa.eu)
  • A Nobel economist and a leading finance expert posit the view that learning is more important to growth and development than the accumulation of capital. (humanjourney.us)
  • The growth was driven to a large extent by strong consumer demand in the USA, stimulated by easy credit and supported by a booming housing market, coupled with a very high rate of investment demand and strong export growth in some developing countries, notably China. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • We are that investment initiatives must be into culture evolution use governments of own and different Theory not. (geotrade-gmbh.com)
  • The inability to maintain or improve laboratory performance to leverage investments made by national governments and donors undermines the safety, quality, and security of laboratory activities ( 15 ). (cdc.gov)
  • With extensive human and ecological footprints, international supply chains, and far-reaching brand influence, corporations are uniquely positioned to bring climate equity to scale and drive the global response. (deloitte.com)
  • Credit Suisse's Vikas Seth believes Africa is where Asia was 20 years ago with a promising consumer market, a thirst for infrastructure investment, and a wealth of natural resources. (enterprise.press)
  • With private banks offering little help, he resorted to the World Bank and IMF, proposing a long-term structural investment plan devised to boost infrastructure across the island and create conditions for a viable post-colonial society. (opiniojuris.org)
  • Large deviations of cascade processes on graphs," Physical Review E , 87: 62115, June 2013. (carloalberto.org)
  • The Governor of the Bank of England suggested that mechanisation will lead to the stagnation of incomes amongst large groups of people, with the owners of capital receiving a much greater share of the national income . (iea.org.uk)
  • The key British advantages were a large, well-functioning urban sector, good access to international markets, cheap capital, and an abundance of useful knowledge that could be deployed in technologies that used readily available coal. (eh.net)
  • Emerging market companies will generate inflation-adjusted annual real returns of 5.2% over the next seven years, while the cheapest companies will return 9.8% each year, according to analysis by GMO Investments picked up by the FT . US stocks, meanwhile, will fare considerably worse, with large-cap stocks forecast to fall 3.7% each year over the same period. (enterprise.press)
  • If any one will but look around today and see the unused or but half-used land, the idle labor, the unemployed or poorly employed capital, he will get some idea of how enormous would be the production of wealth were all the forces of production free to engage. (wealthandwant.com)
  • c) The taxation of the processes and products of labor on one hand, and the insufficient taxation of land values on the other, produce an unjust distribution of wealth which is building up in the hands of a few, fortunes more monstrous than the world has ever before seen, while the masses of our people are steadily becoming relatively poorer. (wealthandwant.com)
  • Under the weight of a controversial record, it is easy to see why Third World states enjoy a paradoxical relationship to FDI and the investment framework. (opiniojuris.org)
  • 4) The EU has responded to land grabbing-related human rights challenges through a variety of policies and initiatives. (researchgate.net)
  • The Finance Ministry will transfer EGP 1 bn in capital to the fund in the coming days, 70% of which is due to be invested in governmental projects, Maait said. (enterprise.press)
  • The event provides a forum for investors, company executives, and fund managers from Egypt and other frontier and emerging markets to network and discuss investment options with London-based investors. (enterprise.press)
  • Results will enable stakeholders to better understand equipment-related challenges and to inform capacity-building practices, especially in the context of the Pandemic Treaty negotiations and Pandemic Fund investments. (cdc.gov)
  • Such clusters include Financial Services, Food Processing and Manufacturing, and Metal Manufacturing. (illinois.gov)
  • Of all the kinds of financial transactions, the gifting process has a unique capacity to link past, present, and future. (rsfsocialfinance.org)
  • CBE Governor Tarek Amer is in the Rwandan capital Kigali today ahead of the start of the 2019 Alliance for Financial Inclusion Global Policy Forum , where he will assume the chairmanship of the AFI's board of directors. (enterprise.press)
  • Since 1970, the financial sector has increasingly turned away from the financing of industry and commerce and concentrated instead on the business of making money from money - the process of financialization - resulting in new ways to extract money without adding value to the rest of the economy. (humanjourney.us)
  • Investors have started to pull back resources from the developing countries as part of the deleveraging process of the financial institutions of the developed world. (mainstreamweekly.net)
  • Thesis 1: The current crisis is a crisis of the accumulation regime and the mode of regulation of neoliberal financial-market capitalism. (transform-network.net)
  • The cause lies in the limits of financial-market capitalism itself: its accumulation is largely finance-driven: the search for new valorisation possibilities and the continuous refining of financial instruments could not prevent ever larger sums of capital from being accumulated, driven by a redistribution toward the top, capital for which there are not sufficient valorisation possibilities. (transform-network.net)
  • Backing them up was former Sen. Phil Gramm, the Texas Republican who, as chair of the Senate Banking Committee, pushed through legislation repealing the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act that restricted commercial banks from entering the high-stakes financial activities of investment banks. (blogspot.com)
  • Because of the gap between capital-importing and capital-exporting states, the former feel compelled to do as the latter say, accommodating the wishes, demands, and impositions creditors and the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) foist upon them. (opiniojuris.org)
  • The Human Capital Index, which measures children's future productivity relative to a benchmark of full health and complete education, increased in nearly all sub-Saharan countries from 2010 to 2020 (Chart 1). (imf.org)
  • It is intended primarily as a guide for officials and others in developing countries concerned with managing the use of investment resources. (imf.org)
  • Instead, it has the much broader purpose of providing guidance to developing countries in the areas of national investment planning and budgeting, sector analysis and management, and the selection, preparation, and implementation of their whole portfolio of investment projects, regardless of the source of financing. (imf.org)
  • Economic development, of which project work is an integral part, is a long, slow, and often painful process of learning from experience. (imf.org)
  • Going forward, policies should focus on creating attractive investment opportunities through technology adoption and fiscal discipline with timely repayments towards debt obligations so that the path out of the crisis is smoother into a brighter economic future. (editorialge.com)
  • A "renegade economist" advances a new, more comprehensive and regenerative economic model - one based on a view of humans as socially adaptable beings in a world of limited natural resources. (humanjourney.us)
  • By disembedding the economic system from the social one, by conflating market value with human wellbeing (sometimes human worth), investment acquires the status that religion once held, commanding belief and fealty in equal measure. (opiniojuris.org)
  • Since decolonization, Sub-Saharan Africa has made great progress on human capital-the knowledge, skills, and health that people accumulate throughout their lives, enabling them to realize their productive potential. (imf.org)
  • Man" is capable of creating a rational knowledge of the world through a process of testing and discarding hypotheses. (scienceforthepeople.org)
  • Subjectivity is regarded with suspicion, as possible contaminant of the process of knowledge production, and one which must be subjected to stringent controls. (scienceforthepeople.org)
  • We review and summarise those studies that holistically assess the impact of human activities, in the sense that impacts are not restricted to the home, city, or territory of the individuals, but instead are counted irrespective of where they occur. (nature.com)
  • The Connect was an important capital account liberalization introduced in the mid-2010s. (federalreserve.gov)
  • We discuss the implications of our results for the debate on capital controls and independence of Chinese monetary policy. (federalreserve.gov)
  • International Investment Law Symposium: Is Foreign Direct Investment a Blessing or a Grift? (opiniojuris.org)
  • Like other fields structured through a neoclassical prism, we note that the debate about foreign direct investment (FDI) is guided by assumptions rather than evidence. (opiniojuris.org)
  • When the choice is made in favor of investment, it is imperative that the scarce resources be deployed to obtain the maximum benefit. (imf.org)
  • Substantial investments into laboratories, notably sophisticated equipment, have been made over time to detect emerging diseases close to their source. (cdc.gov)
  • But this is the first time it has sought to portray in one volume the full scope of the investment process. (imf.org)
  • Through-out this time, project managers must confront and deal with the scarcity of human skills and material resources that are synonymous with underdevelopment, with a chronic shortage of funds, and with shifts in political support. (imf.org)
  • After all, circulation in space is harder to measure than accumulation over time. (rsfsocialfinance.org)
  • Gender Wage Gaps Reconsidered: A Structural Approach Using Matched Employer-Employee Data," Journal of Human Resources , 48 (4): 998-1034, 2013. (carloalberto.org)
  • Instead, the system of debt burden and extractive investment will draw resources away from community as has been the case in the past. (rsfsocialfinance.org)
  • The Aztec capital of Tenochtitl n was leveled, and atop the ruins the Spanish built Mexico City, capital of half of their vast colonial empire in the New World. (allrefer.com)
  • It created a channel for cross-border equity investments into a selected set of Chinese stocks while China's overall capital controls policy remained in place. (federalreserve.gov)
  • The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, recently hit the headlines for his predictions of what might happen when robots take over many labour market tasks from humans. (iea.org.uk)
  • Packaging these investments into projects through the disciplined project approach developed by the World Bank can be a very effective means toward this end. (imf.org)
  • The same greed and indifference to human values appeared across the world, from Leopold's Congo, to Bolsonaro's Brazil, to the Middle East today. (humanjourney.us)
  • What might an analysis of gift streams tell us about the development of human consciousness in the 21st century in the United States? (rsfsocialfinance.org)
  • The strategic profile of the firm center the firm's strategy formulation processes by placing realistic delimiters on the strategies that are developed from analysis. (ukessays.com)
  • Gifting is as natural to the human condition as a sense of caring, unless we are conditioned to think and behave otherwise. (rsfsocialfinance.org)
  • In Fukushima, we could very well see how such "natural" disasters and the placing of profit over human safety could lead to nuclear disasters. (socialistworkersleague.org)
  • Here the West with its corporate capital from finance and armament industry as well as Big Pharma and so on, which stands above the state, namely in the form of an oligarchy of enrichment winners, which directs politics almost arbitrarily, to enforce its interests also with the means of war. (freembtranslations.net)
  • 5) Business self-regulation and corporate social responsibility schemes have proved to be insufficient for addressing land grabbing-related human rights issues. (researchgate.net)
  • They also fail to mention that almost 40 percent of global FDI amounts to phantom investments in corporate shells with neither substance nor actual links to the host state's economy. (opiniojuris.org)
  • Only relatively recently (e.g. since the 1970s) has mainstream Marxism recognized environmental issues or urbanization and urban social movements as having fundamental significance within the contradictions of capital. (davidharvey.org)
  • Local political actors campaign that their party is more trusted by transnational capital, that they will lure seas of FDI to the region, and that the incoming jobs will more than offset the state's slashing of social welfare. (opiniojuris.org)
  • Necessary for this is a broad political majority that is mature enough in human terms to recognise that one's own happiness should never be built on others' hardship. (emanzipationhumanum.de)
  • We illustrate within a simple model that for immigrants, investment in their children is related to their return migration probability. (repec.org)
  • Australia The download Flavonoids and Other Polyphenols programs at the government of leading the video development as a undertakers" of lines of processes, directly in not revealed Spirit changes. (geotrade-gmbh.com)
  • However, the EU's response to land grabbing, by acts and omissions, has been insufficient to meet its human rights obligations. (researchgate.net)
  • Our political philosophies and views of human nature depend on the sexual dichotomies involved in the construction of gender differences. (scienceforthepeople.org)
  • This paper studies parental investment in education and intergenerational earnings mobility for father-son pairs with native and foreign born fathers. (repec.org)
  • In the 21st century, digitally-enabled transactions of trade in goods and services rely on efficient supply chain management facilitated by the smooth flow of goods, services, capital, and data. (researchictafrica.net)
  • These include, existing data related endowments that are complemented by policy coherence and a transversal approach to regulating emerging technologies , such as: ensuring access to open- source technologies , developing trusted interoperable electronic payment and digital identity systems, stable electricity supplies, formulating human rights respecting cybersecurity responses, upgrading human capital, and harmonisation of technical standards in the digital technology landscape. (researchictafrica.net)
  • In the area of present-day Mexico, the earliest settlers found a rugged and varied topography with only limited areas suited for human habitation. (allrefer.com)