transparency opacity and hypocrisy the rise of sovereign wealth funds

... was based in the same nation as the SWF The variables Orig log(GDP) and Orig GDP growth represent the logarithm of the GDP in the year of the investment and the growth of the GDP in the calendar ... was based in the same nation as the SWF The variables Orig log(GDP) and Orig GDP growth represent the logarithm of the GDP in the year of the investment and the growth of the GDP in the calendar ... was based in the same nation as the SWF The variables Orig log(GDP) and Orig GDP growth represent the logarithm of the GDP in the year of the investment and the growth of the GDP in the calendar...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:21

... about the investment horizon and asset class performance, the size of the SWF, the ability to tolerate losses, the amount of untapped funding sources, and the maturity and sophistication of the ... which is more likely to be driven by the investment horizon and the nature of the liabilities 11 Additionally, the vulnerability of other assets and liabilities of the wider balance sheet may also ... acknowledge the associated risk of having to divest these assets at fire sale prices when the liquidity requirement kicks in.5 B Funding Source and SAA Whether the source of the funds should affect the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:21

... overview of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) Section 2.3 discusses some of the research papers on SWFs and their main findings Section 2.4 reviews some of the research papers on Hedge Funds (HFs) and their ... and go back to the 1950s With the emergence of SWFs as large global financial players10, policy issues arise The size of the funds as well as the likelihood of further growth, combined with the ... LMTI stands for the Linaburg-Maduell Transparency Index The Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute has created the LMTI and publishes the transparency rating of individual SWFs on a quarterly basis The...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 08:00

... overview of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) Section 2.3 discusses some of the research papers on SWFs and their main findings Section 2.4 reviews some of the research papers on Hedge Funds (HFs) and their ... and go back to the 1950s With the emergence of SWFs as large global financial players10, policy issues arise The size of the funds as well as the likelihood of further growth, combined with the ... LMTI stands for the Linaburg-Maduell Transparency Index The Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute has created the LMTI and publishes the transparency rating of individual SWFs on a quarterly basis The...

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2015, 15:55

... Territorial law and the rise of the state into two stages: at the first stage, the legal issue was identified; and the second stage concerned proof and the adjudication of the issue In both systems, the second ... overlook the essential kinship, not of the Roman and the English law, but rather of the Roman and the English lawyer’;60 and the similar constitutional development of European kingdoms61 and the common ... call himself the King of France (the territory) and not the King of the Franks (the people) He then stood ‘in the same relation to the soil of France as the baron to his estate, the tenant to...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... changes in the humananimal relationship and the rise of the veterinary regime from the time of animal domestication and the inception of livestock husbandry up until the present day The book, therefore, ... which involved neither the drudgery of tilling the land nor the harvesting of crops While the spread of agrarianism brought the existence of domesticated animals to the attention of the hunting peoples ... knowledge and understanding of the behaviour of other animals would have been imperative to the successful hunting of them The recognition of changing seasons, the migration patterns of animal...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... news of the massacre of St Bartholomew, of the treachery of the King of France towards the inhabitants of the Netherlands, and of the horrible cruelties perpetrated upon the inhabitants of Mechlin ... from the ships lying at anchor off the port waiting their turn to come in Were they to run against one of these, the sound of the collision, and perhaps the breaking of spars and the shouts of the ... destroyed the altars and carvings, and tore up the vestments, and threw down the Manes and the saints, and then did the same in the other churches in the town and in the country round, they behaved worse...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 12:20

... the land of the living Who was the father of the child or who the mother, is neither mentioned by Hennepin nor Charlevoix, and the office of Prothonotary, or Registrar of Births, Marriages, and ... Hurons, the Algonquins, the Iroquois, the Outagomies, the Mohawks, the Senecas, the Sioux, the Blackfeet, and the Crowfeet red-faces, were the undisputed possessors of the soil They held the mine, the ... Bay, and to the southward into the great lakes and the St Lawrence, take their rise The icy breath of the distant north and northwest sweeps down such rivers as the Ottawa, the St Maurice, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 02:21

... the coverage of events In the words of Theodor Wolff, within two weeks of the battle Hindenburg, on the other hand, had become Germany’s ‘new hero’.³⁶ The ‘Victor of Tannenberg’ was another of ... worthy of touching the sole of the feet of the genius it depicts: it’s blasphemy.’⁸³ The mayor of Berlin, on the other hand, remained entirely unmoved by such allegations Despite the fact that the ... in the Teutoburg Forest in ad 9, in Siegfried, the hero of the Nibelungen saga popularized as the German national epic since the beginning of the nineteenth century, and in the legend of the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 05:38

... evaluation of the significance of the difference between these concerns and practices and those of the prophetic religions of Judaism and Christianity; if only because of the psychological theory of ... each of which takes up the question of the category of mission as part of the standard vocabulary of scholarly discourse about Christian origins and the history of other religious groups in the ... point of the loss of autonomy and, hence, the beginning of the end of the polis, is placed either at the battle of Chaironeia in 338 BCEechoing Lykurgoss statement that, With the bodies of [those...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:29

... about it; and on the Continent there are still some to be found who have never even heard of the disease" [2] The origins of the disease are vague [3] The first formal description of hay fever ... rural parts of the south of Great Britain than in those of the north ( ) In Norway and Denmark it has a subordinate place in the statistics of sickness relating to the earliest year of life Its ... principal seats are Germany, England, Holland, Belgium, France and Northern Italy while southern Italy, the southern provinces of Spain, and still more Turkey and Greece, enjoy a notable immunity...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... strategy of ethno-religious mobilization and validate the notion of the threatening ‘Other’.30 In particular, the ineptitude of the Congress in the 1970s and 80s31 and the inability of the state ... nationalism - The BJP and the ‘new’ face of Hindutva Revival of religious nationalism in the 1980s Caste – The regional barometer of the north The BJP’s advance to power Mandal and Mandir Chapter 3: The ... level; secondly, the effects of caste politics on the internal ranks of the BJP; and finally, the impact of these factors on the resilience of Hindutva and the extent to which the party has been...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2015, 21:08

... Most of them seemed too closed, to be friendly and warmhearted, and welcome us They told us everything they did in Vietnam and they thought about Vietnam in their travels Therefore, they helped ... about Vietnam tourism, what they hope and what they see? Then, teachers and students may know clearly about the fact of tourism in Vietnam It will help students have the right acknowledge about ... see, there is a vacation for the Western countries at this time Therefore, they spend more time and money for travelling, and for relaxing in some Southern Eastern Asian countries: Thailand,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2013, 15:42

... network There is a flow of resources within the network Points of Difference: • SN theorist (and early marketing researchers) seek to describe individual actors and their relations/patterns of connections ... buyers and sellers improve the likelihood of a transaction? – How does the value of information moderate the effect of social structure on relationship outcomes? • Typical Methods – Surveys and ... thought and practice? • • How does the marketing perspective compare to the sociological perspective? What are the three key perspectives of SNT that have influence marketing theory and practice?...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 20:15

... as the principle of the figurative synthesis, i.e., of the forms of intuition; space and time are themselves conceived as synthetic unities, and spontaneity, the absolute synthetic activity of the ... must be the transcendental synthesis of imagination This synthesis is an action of the understanding on the sensibility; and is its first application – and thereby the ground of all its other applications ... that “logic, then, has for its presupposition the science of appearing spirit, which contains and presents the necessity and, accordingly, the demonstration of the truth of the standpoint that...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... holding of reserves, while in the formal sector the transmission is less than full The required reserve ratio and the holding of excess reserves constitute another leakage in the flow of funds ... The new structuralist argument rests, therefore, on the contentions that the intermediation of the formal sector is not full and that informal sector resources, and not the other components of ... significant in the case of Kenya and Rwanda It is negative but not significant in the case of Zimbabwe, positive and statistically insignificant in the cases of Morocco and Tanzania We turn now to the subject...

Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 05:15

... a member of WTO, the MFN status with the US would contribute significantly to the inflow of FDI The authors then used their estimate to simulate the effect of the BTA on the inflow of FDI into ... within the manufacturing, while during the early part of 1990s, the majority of FDI inflows were in oil and mining sector, by the end of the last century and early this century, light and heavy ... the rapid export growth of Vietnam Parker et al (2005) also point to the substantial increase in the export of FDI enterprises in Vietnam after the conclusion of the BTA between Vietnam and the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 01:28

... test at the beginning of the school year The group of student was selected to be the target population of this research firstly because of the relative number of males and females in the group ... remember and the new words After some time, I usually forget the meaning and use of the words.” “If I see the words in the exercises many times, and the teacher explains the new words, then I can ... underline the new words in the reading text or write down the new words in a notebook Then I ask the teacher for the meaning and write down the meaning; sometimes look up the meaning of the new...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 00:23

... commerce and navigation, which bring gold and silver into the country On such a basis, Petty proposed the transportation of the wealth and population of Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland to England ... transportation of the wealth and people not only of Ireland, but also the whole of England apart from the London area, and the sinking of the whole except this area, made it possible for the London ... following form of government into all the nations they subdued The general of the army became king of the conquered country, and he divided the lands among the great officers of his army (afterwards...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 15:20