conflict power and politics in the city 1973 kevin cox

... risk-taking in certain parts of the industry The CRMPG’s view was that “it is likely that flaws in the design and workings of the systems of incentives within the financial sector have inadvertently ... include quality of the business, the risk management in the business; the second, it is the quantum of bonus that is paid and making sure that is in line with the relative success of the business ... Banking Crisis: reforming corporate governance and pay in the City Remuneration in the banking sector Introduction The banking crisis has propelled the issue of remuneration practices in the...

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... on the one hand and the growing demand for healthy food on the other Another example might be the growing interest in local food, which is often equated with fresh and wholesome produce, and ... in a food system hitherto dominated by producer interests Chapter extends the thematic focus by examining the changing geographies of agri-food, contrasting the deterritorializing thrust of the ... apparent, since the basic components are often 12 Networks, Conventions, and Regions the same The only diVerence is in packaging and in the addition of Xavouring and colouring Fresh fruit and vegetables...

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... disappear in England as it has in France, all distinctions would thereby be lost Here Burke avows the central role of masculine heterosexual discipline in creating and maintaining social, political, and ... of Union in Irish and English writing rights of the citizens, and all interest in the constitution, in and to which they were born, was a thing conformable to the declared principles of the Revolution’’ ... to the United Kingdom were to be marginalized within the emerging national – and, increasingly, imperial – language canon And Gary Kelly locates the standardizing impulse more specifically in the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... wars During the first of these civil wars, in the 1960s, many Raga people were involved in the southern insurgency In Darfur, which was not directly affected by the conflict, joining the government ... papers in the National Archive in Khartoum Names of interviewees are not listed In some cases they requested anonymity, and in others there was not have time during the interview to explain how their ... participated in the state But in the second civil war, which began in 1983, the government succeeded in mobilizing people both in Raga and in Darfur into its armies and militias, to combat the new southern...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 20:20

... Using the word bvaginaQ (as in bThe Vagina WorkshopQ) in a monologue about sexual pleasure and orgasm perpetuates the myth of the vaginal orgasm Feminists in the late l960s, recapitulating insights ... the language of anatomy and physiology, providing readable information and multiple women’s testimonials In TVM, the power is in the performance itself, the process of the doing in public rather ... all the others in the room, is individualized In bThe Vagina Workshop,Q each woman lies on her own blue mat, looking at and learning about her own vagina and clitoris This individualizes and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20

... mark the position of the rising sun during equinox and the summer and winter solstices To observe these events required standing on the observatory pyramid to the west and facing three minor ... portals to the Underworld; and (4) the division of the world into the four cardinal points, including the centre point, and their corresponding colours (Ashmore 1992: 174) Factors such as these were ... cooking, eating, storage, and sometimes bathing take place in the k’o´ b’en (“kitchen”), whereas sleeping, dresso ing, and the receiving of guests occur in the nah (Hanks ´ 1990: 333–334) In the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 00:20

... preventing minor conflicts from spiraling out of control, vegetation might inhibit violent crimes in some residences without increasing violent crimes in others On the other hand, by increasing informal ... vegetation and sense of safety in residential settings The findings from residential settings are in direct contrast to those obtained in studies of nonresidential settings: In residential settings, the ... (1988) Landscape care: Perceptions of local people in landscape ecology and sustainable development In Landscape and land use planning: Proceedings from the 1988 International Federation of Landscape...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 11:20

... Army officer and then spent twenty years in a variety of sales, marketing, and training roles in the pharmaceutical industry Mike is also a speaker and adjunct professor teaching in the doctoral ... the ideas in this book in three main categories: Training and development services: direct training for teams and individuals Train the trainer services: Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) certification, ... through the crowded bullpen of the sales department, his face burning, his limbs tingling Did they know? Were they staring? The infamous grapevine of Starr Industries was quite clear on the matter...

Ngày tải lên: 29/05/2014, 16:41

... take institutions and social /power relations for granted but calls them into question by concerning itself with their origins and how and whether they might be in the process of changing In other ... disciplinary ferment in the field of international relations (IR), and new issues have stimulated new ways of understanding them The end of the Cold War and the consequent decline in the predominance ... position and experience while remaining committed to producing the kind of knowledge that can contribute to the lessening of women’s subordination Understanding subordination and uncovering the gendered...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:14

... from the breast, to awaken in another individual an echo returning to the ear Man thereby at once discovers that around him there are beings having the same inner needs, and thus capable of meeting ... Lorenzo the Magnificent son of Piero di Medici.” The meaning of the text is found in this address: Machiavelli wants to explain princely power to the prince in order to inspire the prince to act ... between these two; it is a work of politics, written for the Italian princes of its epoch, according to their taste, according to their principles, and to the goal which Machiavelli indicates in the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:45

... their own As the state loses interest in the well-being of its citizens, its citizens lose interest in the wellbeing of the state They look elsewhere for sources of identity and focuses for their ... But most books and films The Coming Conflict with China (Bernstein and Munro, 1997), Independence Day and Armageddon, and the “Y2K” furor come to mind here—offer the reader (and the policymaker) ... (1944/1957) in explaining the causes of the two World Wars, and to the ways in which knowledge and social innovation have transformed our relationship to the nation-state and to each other In chapter...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:51

... communities and institutions, going about their business within the inherited structures of class struggle So what are the critical institutions representing the power and interests of the rich? ... however, in explaining the intimacy between [ ] Bracking_02_cha01.qxd 12/02/2009 10:56 Page MONEY AND POWER the development industry and the promotion of capitalism, through detailing the interventions ... highlighting the poverty of the mainstream, offers critical insight into the theoretical perspectives that help explain global injustice and the political and social forces that are available across the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... to the context in which the money is found and its relative price The word we use in a particular context relies on how much the price is, who is doing the lending and borrowing and where in the ... negative real interest rates in the mid 1970s changing to high interest rates in 1979 after the Volcker Shock, and even higher in 1981; global recession in the early 1980s and again in the early ... www.mountainvoices.net/ lesotho.asp.html The inadequacy of the development duopoly of the modern and ‘other’, the developed and developing, is well critiqued since the seminal Culture and Imperialism...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... concentrated in the IFIs and large banks They exist at the ‘commanding heights’ (Arrighi 1994: xii), in the boardroom of the global economy, and their relatively small number explains in part both the ... machine to undermine the critique of global power to which the international worker and social movement is inclined It is the ‘gift from the American people’ stamped on the bag of corn in the ... and the public force to extend the field of their private investments, and to safeguard and improve their existing investments This is, perhaps, the most important fact in modern politics, and the...

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... MONEY AND POWER business cultures in their management of risk, in addition to financial instruments and sensitivity testing, and other modes of quantification and provisioning In this there is ... official in the CDC in 1993, referring to the case of Kenya, noted that the CDC would take investment decisions: by understanding the human nature of these people, how they are moving and the politicians, ... feature’, and by so doing contributed to greater integration and cross-provisioning in the international financial system, allowing the whole geography of ‘Turkey’ to effectively ‘join in , and move...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... partly offset by the establishment of the developmental discourse and its institutions, including the CDC Even in 1937 and 1938 there had been widespread riots in the West Indies against colonial ... Marx The CDC was in co-operation with the World Bank as early as 1950 in the co-financing of the Kariba Dam project in the then Central African Federation, ‘much the largest single CDC investment ... continued role of the CDC in winning back legitimacy for British commercial and state interests [ 71 ] Bracking_06_cha05.qxd 10/02/2009 12:34 Page 72 MONEY AND POWER In 1961 the CDC won the 1961...

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... the British state and an account of the changing role of the CDC in managing investment and liquidity The case study shows how one dominant core lender in the global interstate system, Britain, ... eight not recording any value, and Eritrea and Namibia not existing, and a further twelve remained negative in 2005, with seven not recording In other words, there was considerable disinvestment of ... the seven years since 2000, and were only positive in 2002 and 2003 The ODF flows remained healthily positive, but as the definitions indicate, these include finance transferring at non-concessional...

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... reflected its global power and predominant influence in the Bank, as well as it being the largest shareholder The numbers in parentheses in Table 7.2 are the rank order in which countries’ companies ... Scandinavian engineering firms and French and German firms whose employees are increasingly multilingual (ibid.) The multilateral organisations can thus be seen as the intermediaries in an institutionalised ... such as China In the early 1990s, the pattern of beneficiaries was more overwhelmingly the core creditor states, whereas now newly industrialised countries and India and China have joined in as major...

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... The remaining shares are owned by IFIs, and French finance institutions and companies The AFD has two permanent positions on the board of directors The Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Ministry ... think they will keep the CDC doing what they would like to keep the CDC doing, what it does To be called developmental in inverted commas On the other hand, CDC is, there is a pressure by the ... companies, and in sponsoring financial institutions and instruments The IFC set up its Capital Markets Department back in 1971 and initiates a ‘high proportion’ of financial sector interventions...

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... well the role of DFIs in providing institutions and structures for the export, and then recycling, of finance capital from the core states In Ghana the CDC worked in collaboration with the World ... 2008c) Also, Flamingo has processing, distribution and marketing operations in the UK, and is the UK’s leading supplier to supermarkets, including Marks & Spencer, Tesco, Sainsbury and Safeway As ... CDC’s investment will be used to support the company’s growth plans, which include the acquisition of other horticultural businesses in Africa and the UK to strengthen its supply chain and expand...

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