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... within and across turns. Significant dependencies are combined to produce interesting insights regarding speech rec- ognition problems and to propose new strategies for handling these problems. ... ‘Certain’ and ‘Anything Else’ (in this case Uncertain, Mixed and Neutral). By studying the dependency between binary variables we can understand how the interaction works. Table 2 reports in ... turns and rejections. Thus, the CERT – REJ interaction is explained only by the interaction between Certain and Rej and the in- teraction between Uncertain and Rej. 5 Results - dependencies In...

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... development and modernisa- tion and, in highlighting the poverty of the mainstream, offers critical insight into the theoretical perspectives that help explain global injustice and the political and ... (UK) IFC International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) IFI(s) international financial institution(s) IFU Industrialiseringsfonden for Udviklingslandene (Danish Industrialisation Fund) IMF International ... supporting me, and all of my family and friends, particularly my parents Christine and Colin for their unerring patience. Colleagues and students also need a mention, since intellectual influence...

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... to include more countries in decision- making, by extending mechanisms of inclusion to include new institutions, a regulatory initiative and a new IMF committee. The first new institution in ... meaning of ‘concessional’ that matters, and this defining falls to those doing the lending. Indeed, the idea that aid is a ‘concessional’ form of distributing money is based in regulations defined ... financial systems and institutions. We return to our two grand narratives – ‘crisis but salvation’ and ‘resistance but subordination’ – and find them both wanting: the failure to account for power...

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... efficiency and democracy, serving to check bureaucratic and petty bourgeois accumulation, job patronage and the politics of graft, increasing industrial flexibility and removing ethnic and racial ... ‘confidence’. In turn, the global markets for goods and services are constructed indirectly by this overriding market for finance, since it is the commodity essential to join in any of them. MONEY AND POWER [38] Bracking_04_cha03.qxd ... negative statistics on social wellbeing in Africa (see chapter 6) and some parts of South-East Asia and Latin America, and the collective myopia of those involved in high institutions to see their contributions...

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... bank, providing an insurance for convertibility in an ‘IFC-led and -syndi- cated “liquidity backstop” feature’, and by so doing contributed to greater integration and cross-provisioning in the international ... ii). MONEY AND POWER [48] Bracking_04_cha03.qxd 12/02/2009 10:56 Page 48 predominated in the 1960s and 1970s, but following the mid-1980s debt crisis in the middle-income developing countries, ... have nothing again tomorrow, if nothing changes in terms of relative power in the political economy of development. MONEY AND POWER [62] Bracking_05_cha04.qxd 12/02/2009 10:55 Page 62 business...

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... enterprises, and more latterly from direct involvement in financial companies in- country, and becoming instead a private equity emerging markets ‘fund of funds’, choosing to place its own funds in other ... shipping and inspection services; advisory services, principally in the fields of economics, infrastructure and natural resources; banking and fund management; and human resource development. In ... recycled MONEY AND POWER [84] Bracking_06_cha05.qxd 10/02/2009 12:34 Page 84 2008). Globeleq, formed by Actis since 2000, acquired power assets in Asia, Africa and Latin America in energy generation and...

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... market failures in international trade and finance, particularly adverse selection and moral hazard in interna- tional credit and insurance’ (Mellor and Masters 1991: 505), thus, in conventional ... existing, and a further twelve remained negative in 2005, with seven not recording. In other words, there was considerable disinvestment of ‘free-floating’ portfolio holdings within Africa in both ... development finance might not be helping, might not help to attain the MDGs in the future, and indeed, might be a process in which poverty is, in a counterintuitive proposition, embedded and produced. So...

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... 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 ... French and British, as illustrated in Table 6.3. Mean- while, Japan, a more recent major power in the international economy and with less historic influence in international financial and trading affairs, ... fallen, and partic- ularly in civil works contracts were reflecting instead the new competitive edge enjoyed by China and India globally in terms of industrial manufacture. In tables 7.4 and 7.5...

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... companies, and in sponsoring financial institutions and instruments. The IFC set up its Capital Markets Department back in 1971 and initiates a ‘high propor- tion’ of financial sector interventions ... World Bank and IFC, mainly on infrastructural projects, but during the 1980s and 1990s increased this co-operation through venture capital and finance companies, and in the early 1990s, in terms ... with some large investments also in mining and quarrying, particularly in South Africa. While these investment positions are comparatively small in global terms, are unevenly spread and are largely...

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... (in May 2003) was of a 14 per cent stake in Flamingo Holdings with a $16 million equity stake, a fully integrated horticultural business involved in growing, processing, packaging, marketing and ... of Parliament in March 2006 to the Infrastructure Zimbabwe Development Bank, in addition to debt financing for housing and mortgage finance in the Low Cost Housing Project, Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe ... CDC’s involvements are predominantly export- oriented or in the financial sector, illustrating well the role of DFIs in providing institutions and structures for the export, and then recy- cling,...

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... richer, and increasing their demands in global meat and petrol markets. That being said, there is still an intuitively powerful alternative explanation, that industrial conglomerates and finance houses ... reduction in their value, global inflation and rising oil prices since the oil-producing countries’ elites and the US oil companies have a shared interest in clawing back their profit margin as the ... representation and so forth, power is also concrete and material in its effects and practice. In this book power has been discussed unashamedly in terms of who has the money and the resources, in an instrumental...

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... Changing Role of International Bank Lending in Development Finance’, IMF Staff Papers, 32(2), pp. 517–63. Foucault, M. (1983) ‘Afterword: The Subject and Power . In Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow, ... reformed, including the institutions regulating trade and investment, immigration and devel- opment, as discussed here. The Great Predators, in particular, must be managed in a new incarnation ... Nation in Turmoil: The Experience of South African Firms Doing Business in Zimbabwe. The South African Institute of International Affairs, Business in Africa, Report no. 8, Pretoria. Gélinas,...

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... INDEX [ 238 ] independence: undermining 22 independent territories 70–1 India: contracts awarded 120–3 industrial strength 116 inelastic demand 199 inequality 96–8, 187; increasing 31; perceived ... 190–1; reinforced 32–3; remaking 203 inequality traps 12, 95 inflation 19, 199 infrastructure investment 194 infrastructure spending 128 injustice 190 instability 24 Institution of Civil Engineers ... Windus. Santiso, C. (2007) ‘Strengthening checks and balances in financial governance: The evolving role of multilateral banks in Latin America’. In S. Bracking (ed.), Corruption and Development: The Anti- Corruption...

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... 0(asn →∞) , since lim inf n → 0 α n,0 α n,i > 0 , ∀i ≥ 1. We obtain | |Jx n − JS n j x n || → 0(asn →∞) , (3:11) since g(0) = 0 and g is strictly increasing and continuous. By (3.7) and (3.11), ... generalized equilibrium problems and fixed-point problems in Banach space. Fixed Point Theory and Applications 2011 2011:17. Submit your manuscript to a journal and benefi t from: 7 Convenient online submission 7 ... 2.1(vii) and (iii) that there exists a point x Î E such that Jx = f 0 . By the definition of j, we obtain Qu and Cheng Fixed Point Theory and Applications 2011, 2011:17 http://www.fixedpointtheoryandapplications.com/content/2011/1/17 Page...

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