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• Morocco: The Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges.(Book review)

  - 2006-06-22

  Morocco: The Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges. By Marvine Howe. Oxford University Press, 2005.448 pp. $29.95, paper. Morocco has been praised by the World Bank for having "one of the most successful programs of human development and political liberalization in the Middle East...

  Tags: FINANCE, Government, SOFTWARE, University of Oxford, World Bank

• New Sources of Development Finance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

  - 2005-03-22

  NEW SOURCES OF DEVELOPMENT FINANCE A.B. Atkinson, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 251 pages The urgent need for increased development aid promises to be high on the international agenda for 2005. In Europe, the newly committed Blair government takes on both the...

  Tags: FINANCE, Government, Investment, SOFTWARE, U.N., University of Oxford

• Walt Whitman Rostow

  - 2005-01-01

  Walt Whitman Rostow Walt Whitman Rostow (born 1916) was an educator, economist, and government official. Born in New York City on October 7, 1916, Walt Whitman Rostow was the son of Russian immigrants Victor Aaron and Lillian Helman Rostow. He attended Yale University, receiving a B.A. in 1936. Following graduation,...

  Tags: Europe, FINANCE, Government, Investment, professor, Strategy, U.S., University of Oxford, Yale University

• Sarbanes-Oxley, Corporate Governance And Operational Risk

  BNET - 2004-07-22

  The paper presents general discussion of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and its wider implications, with particular reference to operational risk management. The discussion concentrates upon conceptual issues: how one should define operational risk, how it can be measured, and some standard statements about operational risks which strike me as ill-conceived. In...

  Tags: Risk, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Corporate Governance, University Of Oxford, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Strategy, Security, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Management

• Reform! The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act.(Book Review)

  - 2004-01-01

  Reform! The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act Edward Pearce Jonathan Cape 343 pp. 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-224-06199-2 HISTORY TODAY BOOKSHOP PRICE 17 [pounds sterling] ON MARCH 1ST, 1831,...

  Tags: brink, FINANCE, Government, REFORM, sensation, Sir, SOFTWARE, University of Oxford

• Venice and Venetia Under the Habsburgs 1815-1835.(Book Review)

  - 2003-03-01

  By David Laven. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xi + 256. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. This is an important and scholarly revisionist work that offers a fundamental re-evaluation of Venice under Francis I and, in doing so, is important not only for...

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• Activities of Secretary-General in United Kingdom, 17 - 22 June.

  - 2001-06-25

  M2 PRESSWIRE-25 June 2001-UN: Activities of Secretary-General in United Kingdom, 17 - 22 June C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:22062001 Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in London from the Middle East on Sunday evening, 17 June 2001. On Monday his only...

  Tags: democracy, FINANCE, Government, Harassment, London, SOFTWARE, U.K., U.N., University of Oxford

• DEBATING DUSSEHRA AND REINTERPRETING REBELLION IN BASTAR DISTRICT, CENTRAL INDIA.(research)

  - 2001-03-01

  This article unpacks the history of a 'tribal' region in Central India to show that the current appearance of 'two-dimensionality' or stark opposition between the people and the state is a product of colonial and post-colonial policies rather than a pre-colonial relic. It challenges the idea...

  Tags: FINANCE, Government, India, kingdom, legitimacy, M., revenue, Taxes, trader, University of Oxford

• Chancellor announces new appointment to the Monetary Policy Committee.

  - 2000-05-05

  M2 PRESSWIRE-5 May 2000-UK GOVERNMENT: Chancellor announces new appointment to the Monetary Policy Committee C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04052000 Christopher Allsopp has been appointed to the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee MPC, the Chancellor Gordon Brown announced...

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• Come together, if you can.(United Nations report address structuring common global problems and solutions)(Brief Article)

  - 1999-05-08

  IN NATURE, life is poor, nasty, brutish and short. So noted an English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, 300 years ago. Today, many lives are shortened by disease, pollution and war--but who takes account? This question is tackled by the two dozen authors of a report, ``Global Public...

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