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Showing 1 to 20 of 209 for “"merchants"”.
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Using Supervised Learning Methods to Credit Score Informal Merchants
… data-driven credit scoring models for informal merchants using supervised learning methods. The study uses data collected from Nomanini, a financial technology company that facilitates loans to informal merchants in Lesotho. The objective of the study is to help Nomanini develop accurate credit …
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MARKETS AND MERCHANTS: ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA, 1700-1775
… systems, and the replacement of part-time merchants who appeared in the colony only seasonally with a permanently resident merchant community. In time these merchants came to represent a Virginian, rather than a British, point of view when making economic decisions.</p><p>The sources of …
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Princes, diwans and merchants : education and reform in colonial India
… of kings, queens, diwans (prime ministers) and merchants. My source material is in English and Gujarati. I draw evidence from princely states across India with a focus on Hindu Rajput and Pathan Muslim states in the Gujarat (specifically Saurashtra) region of western India, neighboring the …
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Homes of Capital: Merchants and Mobility across Indian Ocean Gujarat
… were and continue to be home to itinerant merchants, many with origins and investments around the littoral from Arabia to Southeast Asia. I argue that rather than a point of origin or return, Gujarat's merchants--many of whom are themselves itinerants from Arabia, Persia and Northwest …
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Merchants, commissioners and wardmasters : municipal politics in Cape Town, 1840-1854
Merchants,Commissioners and Wardmasters: Municipal Politics in Cape Town, 1840-854 explores the social, political and economic changes and conflicts that helped to determine Cape Town's evolution in the mid nineteenth century. The focus lies on the dominant classes who were involved in municipal …
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Merchants and business district revitalization : a case study of Codman Square
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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The Sethi merchants' havelis in Peshawar, 1800-1910: form, identity and status
This study of the Sethi merchants' havelis of Peshawar was undertaken with the premise that domestic architecture provides an alternative and compelling narrative about historical and cultural changes undergone by Indian society. The Sethi havelis constructed over a period of a hundred years …
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The merchants of York, Beverley and Hull in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
… religious concerns. It argues that in each town, merchants played a significant role, and as their commercial fortunes were affected by endogenous factors, so was their position within each town. Chapter 1 gives a brief historical outline of each town's development, up to and including the period …
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Locality, Identity, and Geography: Translocal Practices of Huizhou Merchants in Late Imperial China
Recognizing, with local history, the diversity of local environments in China, I try to dispose of the (sometimes inadvertent) implication that these diverse locales were discrete. By highlighting the interconnectedness that was created by the movement of people, this dissertation brings out the …
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Physicians, pharmacists, and merchants: Professionalization of medicine in early modern China, 1500-1900
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Assessing financial well-being of merchants by analyzing behavioral patterns in historical transactions
… to estimate financial wellbeing indicators for merchants, by looking at behavioral patterns of their customers in historical transactions. The transaction data for about 10,000 merchants in a specific country, was analyzed in terms of their diversity and propensity of customers for factors like …
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Merchants of the City: Situating the London Estate of the Drapers’ Company, c. 1540-1640
Through a case study of the Drapers’ Company, this thesis examines the role London’s livery companies played in the built environment of the early modern City.1 Broadly, it is concerned with tracing institutional topographies of the urban environment and examining the city’s development in relation …
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Living Beyond Frontiers Social Network Analysis of Genoese Merchants in the Castilian Atlantic 1450-1530
This dissertation studies the role of Genoese merchants in the Castilian Atlantic from 1450- 1530. It aims to study through quantitative analysis their community, forms of association, and financial enterprises. Furthermore, it takes the study of the sugar cane production and the beginning of the …
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"Gamblers and Merchants" The Politics of Implementing Post-Crisis OTC Regulatory Reform: The US and EU
This study investigates the political sources of change in the regulatory authority for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives that were brought about by the global financial crisis of 2008. OTC contracts have grown in popularity since the 1980s as firms in advanced market economies have increasingly …
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Crossing the borders of a merchant class: imaging and representing elite status in the portraits of the Hong merchants of Canton
Portraits of hong merchants produced in the latter period of the Canton Trade (1820-1840) portray these merchants in a new manner — one that previously had not been seen in China. These portraits depict Chinese subjects through a pastiche of signs associated with China's elite, yet the medium of …
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Operating Outside of Empire: Trading Citizenship in the Atlantic World, 1783-1815
… and ships as spaces for negotiation between merchants and the state. The dissertation follows the experiences of former British colonists in America who won independence and then immediately tried to find a way to get back into the British empire. For American merchants, such as Nicholas Low, …
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Constructing Community: Tamil Merchant Temples in India and China, 850-1281
… language inscriptions patronized by south Indian merchants in south India and China. Between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, Indian Ocean trade was at its apex, connecting populations on European and Asian continents through complex interlocking networks. Southern India's Tamil region, in …
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Essays on the political economy of development
… deals between government officials and merchants have negative social externalities, motivating policies to reduce this form of corruption. Chapter 1 analyzes a model with the following two components. Guanxi, or connections, between officials and merchants remove the risk that merchants …
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Consumerism in urban Russia in the 1880s and 90s: Exploring conceptions of time, space, and modernity through bicycle and watch advertisements
… I argue that the way in which consumers and merchants constructed a dialogue of meaning around particular objects; the way in which objects are consumed by a culture gives insight into the values, morals, and tenure of that culture. The paper preferences newspaper ads and photographs as the …
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