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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"private wealth"”.
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From Governors to Grocers: How Profiteering Changed English-Canadian Perspectives of Liberalism in the Great War of 1914-1918
… to challenge the mainstream liberal notions of private wealth and laissez-faire policies as being inequitable and undemocratic. The federal government's unwillingness to seriously implement measures against profiteering led to rising discontent. Consequently, working-class English Canadians …
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South Africa's debt sustainability: A multi-factor approach
… bank, high level of financial development and private wealth and limited liquidity risk. However, the scope for increasing debt is not unlimited, the risks associated with rising inflation cannot be ignored and the national treasury's fiscal consolidation plan should not be abandoned. South …
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Caring Without Sharing: Philanthropy's Creation and Destruction of the Common World
… an instrument of elite power and tension between private wealth and democratic governance. In this dissertation, I examine how philanthropy can foster enduring spaces of human flourishing, or reduce beneficiaries to objects of pity, surveillance and domination. I trace philanthropy's evolution …
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Durham’s Self-Help And The Financialization Of The Bull City: Development Without Displacement? Or Displacement Without Development?
… identified as a developer seeking to close the wealth gap – inequality in the city also continues to grow. The findings show that despite Self-Help’s claims to supporting community, promoting affordable housing, bringing in jobs, honoring a black working class history, supporting a better future …
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Money Does Grow on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Lumber Baron
… creative capitalists freely pursuing individual wealth. The opposing "robber baron" perspective holds that the capitalist free-market system engendered a great disparity of wealth and resulted in social and environmental costs while accruing benefits to the few.</p> <p>In seeking to understand …
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Money Does Grow on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Lumber Baron
… creative capitalists freely pursuing individual wealth. The opposing "robber baron" perspective holds that the capitalist free-market system engendered a great disparity of wealth and resulted in social and environmental costs while accruing benefits to the few.</p> <p>In seeking to understand …
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Why affordable housing developers should go public : REITs as an alternative source of capital for housing development
… a fragmented nexus involving multiple public and private sector parties. Raising capital for affordable housing projects is notoriously complex; it is common to see individual apartment buildings funded by a mix of any of the following: public grants, federal tax credits syndicated through private …
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PAP Singapore : a case study of stationary bandit in a market economy
… has resulted in the extensive transfer of private wealth to the state. Four case studies are offered to demonstrate the impact of politics in the making of economic policy, the general effect of which has been to eradicate entrepreneurs in favour of state-owned entities. The analysis …
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Essays on inequality, interest rates and macroeconomic policies
… rates of around 1%; (b) an increase in the wealth-to-GDP ratio of around 30%; (c) wealth inequality to rise almost as rapidly as it did in the data. The second chapter, joint with Sebastián Fanelli, develops a theory of foreign exchange interventions in a small open economy with limited …
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Microfinance and the enhancement of economic development in less developed countries
It is the intention of this study to contribute to further rethinking and innovating in the Microcredit business which stands at a turning point – after around 40 years of practice it is endangered to fail as a tool for economic development and to become a doubtful finance product with a random …