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Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives: Assets and Poverty Reduction in Guayaquil, 1978-2004
Fifty years after Oscar Lewis's famous depiction of five Mexican families caught in a \"culture of poverty,\" Caroline Moser tells a very different story of five neighborhood women and their families strategically accumulating assets to escape poverty in the Ecuadoran city of Guayaquil. InOrdinary Families, Extraordinary Lives, Moser shows how a more sophisticated understanding of the complexities of asset accumulation as well as poverty itself can help counter inaccurate stereotypes about global poverty. It provides invaluable insight into strategies that may help people in developing countries improve their wellbeing.
The similar socioeconomic characteristics and economic circumstances of the Guayaquil families in 1978, when Moser began her research, set the stage for a natural experiment. By 2004, these circumstances varied widely. Moser captures the causes and consequences of these developments through economic data, anthropological narrative, and personal photos. She then places this compelling story within the broader context of political, economic, and spatial changes in Guayaquil and Ecuador.
Moser describes how households in a Third World urban slum relentlessly and systematically fought to accumulate human, social, and financial capital assets. Her longitudinal account of their odyssey captures long-term trends and changes in perception that are missed in snapshot assessments. Chapters in this holistic story cover diverse issues such as housing and infrastructure, community mobilization and political negotiation, employment, family dynamics, violence, and emigration.
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Arbitraging Japan
For many financial market professionals worldwide, the era of high finance is over. The times in which bankers and financiers were the primary movers and shakers of both economy and society have come to an abrupt halt. What has this shift meant for the future of capitalism? What has it meant for the future of the financial industry? What about the lives and careers of financial operators who were once driven by utopian visions of economic, social, and personal transformation? And what does it mean for critics of capitalism who have long predicted the end of financial institutions? Hirokazu Miyazaki answers these questions through a close examination of the careers and intellectual trajectories of a group of pioneering derivatives traders in Japan during the 1990s and 2000s.
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Multinational Corporations
This work presents case-studies of the emergence and evolution of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) based in eleven developed and developing countries of widely divergent patterns of national development. From this analysis, Tolentino develops a comprehensive theory of the emergence and evolution of MNCs from a macroeconomic perspective.
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Trading the China market with American depository receipts
Discover the secrets of trading the Chinese markets with American Depository Receipts Introducing a new way to make virtually risk-free profits, Trading the China Market with American Depository Receipts teaches readers how to successfully trade U.S. listed American Depository Receipts (ADRs) of Chinese stocks . . . by using information that comes to light outside of Asian trading hours, but while the U.S. markets are still open. Filled with successful strategies for profitable trading made possible by interpreting business news to buy or short China ADRs before the information impacts those markets the next day, the book walks readers through this incredible opportunity step-by-step. Filled with case studies that show the success of the strategies outlined, the book explains where to look for price-moving information. Aimed at investors of all types who have access to a brokerage account that can trade U.S. securities—including online brokers—Trading the China Market with American Depository Receipts is the ultimate guide to making money from China in your own backyard. Explains incredible new strategies for trading U.S. listed ADRs of Chinese stocks using information released after the Asian markets have closed for the day Includes case studies that clearly show how this strategy has worked and continues to work Features lists of relevant underlying shares and their corresponding ADRs A low-risk strategy for profiting from foreign markets, Trading the China Market with American Depository Receipts shows how to use the U.S.-China time difference for profit.
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Guide to country risk : how to identify, manage and mitigate the risks of doing business across borders
\"A systematic approach to identifying, managing and mitigating country risks, backed up by case studies.\"--P. [4] of cover.
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Steel's
In a casual quest to find his long-lost great uncle Clayton Pickard, Dyer stumbled upon a little-known story of unbounded success and devastating failure in the history of Steel’s Stores. In 1919 L.R. Steel founded a five-and-dime store in Buffalo which would eventually grow to a chain of 225 stores across America and Canada (including one in Syracuse), with nearly 5,000 employees and 40,000 investors. The stores provided jobs for men returning to the workforce after World War I, employed women, the elderly and the disabled, and incorporated many of the business tactics that current corporations employ (vertical investment, P.R., even infomercials). Steel bought sugar factories and coal fields to produce for the stores, he sold millions of dollars’ worth of stocks in the company, and provided easy credit for both employees and customers. But by 1923, Steel was bankrupt and the company was struggling to satisfy outraged investors and federal investigators. Within a year, Steel would die of a stroke and his wife would move from the expansive estate named in her honor to a boarding house. Clayton Pickard, Dyer’s ancestor, had a meteoric rise through the ranks as a \"Steelite,\" but when he was implicated in the scandal he disappeared, leaving behind a wife and children. In the course of writing the book, Dyer discovered what happened to Clayton and what kind of life he led after Steel’s. The text explains in an understandable way the financial decisions which led to the company’s fall, and illustrates how this scandal relates to (and ultimately eclipses in scope) the original Ponzi scheme. The book has many photographs and clippings from \"Steel Sparks,\" the company newsletter, which provide a fascinating glimpse of the corporate, as well as the social, world of 1920s America.
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