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This text is concerned with the increasingly important and problematic area of financial exclusion, broadly defined as the inability and/or reluctance of particular societal groups to access mainstream financial services. There is growing evidence that deregulation in developed financial sectors improves financial inclusion for some societal groups, but may at the same time exacerbate it for others. In developing countries access to financial services is typically limited and therefore providing wider access to such services can aid financial and economic development.

New Frontiers in Banking Services: Emerging Needs and Tailored Products for Untapped Markets

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New Frontiers in Banking Services: Emerging Needs and Tailored Products for Untapped Markets

Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 3540464972

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The book is devoted to a subject which deserves growing attention from policy makers, financial operators and academics. It is the issue of unbanking or underbanking in developed countries.

With respect to this, the goal of the authors has been that of highlighting both in a theoretic framework and through the study of the main experiences investigated on field, the need/the opportunity for banks, financial institutions, public authorities and non for profit associations to devote more efforts in understanding the problem of financial exclusion in order to offer to low-moderate-income people (LMI people) new opportunities of accessing financial services (banking, credit and investment services).

The Political Economy of Financial Market Regulation: The Dynamics of Inclusion And Exclusion

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The Political Economy of Financial Market Regulation: The Dynamics of Inclusion And Exclusion

Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Publishing
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ASIN: 1845425189

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`This is the best book I have yet seen on the social and political implications of financial market liberalisation and regulatory change in a globalizing world. The authors systematically analyse the relationships between powerful private sector actors, policymakers and regulators, and other interested groups, identifying crucial neopluralist coalition-building processes leading to complex pro-market forms of reregulation. Each chapter examines these processes at several levels: competing actors and institutions in the financial sector itself; wider political processes and power relationships; and distributive outcomes - or who wins and who loses in the multi-level playing field of 21st century global finance.' - Philip G. Cerny, Rutgers University, Newark, US and University of Manchester, UK

This book focuses on recent financial market reforms, and their implications for social, economic and political exclusion. In particular it considers the hitherto under-researched question of whose interests govern the design of regulatory mechanisms and who influences the decision-making process. This process is set out as contested terrain, in which there are winners and losers, and in which there are inevitably circles of exclusion. The authors, comprising financial authority experts and academic specialists, expand the concept of exclusion beyond its typical social dimension to incorporate all actors, be they individuals or institutions not permitted to contribute to financial market regulation as a public good. As they point out, this may take the form of political, economic or indeed cultural exclusion. The book examines the conflicts that arise between various interests and how these are managed within the process of regulation.

The book has a focus on political financial sector reforms at the global level with special emphasis on how these reforms are implemented in the EU. The authors conclude that financial governance has to be embedded in broad legitimization structures, encompassing the participation or representation of a variety of interests affected by it, if they are to be deemed democratically legitimate. Furthermore, inclusion also has to show substantive effects on governance outcomes.

This volume opens up the debate about the future of financial market regulation and hence, policy makers, NGOs, researchers and scholars will find this interdisciplinary book of great interest. It will also appeal to political scientists, economists, financial market participants, regulators and economic policy makers in general and academics of sociology, political science, economics and finance in particular.

Tackling Financial Exclusion: An Area-Based Approach
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Tackling Financial Exclusion: An Area-Based Approach
Sharon Collard , Elaine Kempson , and Claire Whyley
Manufacturer: Policy Pr
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ASIN: 1861343256

Annual exclusions allowed for contingent trust beneficiaries.(Brief Article): An article from: The Tax Adviser
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Annual exclusions allowed for contingent trust beneficiaries.(Brief Article): An article from: The Tax Adviser
Timothy L. Galli
Manufacturer: American Institute of CPA's
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B00097R7UA
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from The Tax Adviser, published by American Institute of CPA's on September 1, 1997. The length of the article is 624 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Annual exclusions allowed for contingent trust beneficiaries.(Brief Article)
Author: Timothy L. Galli
Publication: The Tax Adviser (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 1997
Publisher: American Institute of CPA's
Volume: 28 Issue: n9 Page: 544(2)

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The Crummey Road. (IRS rules on when gift tax exclusions will be allowed): An article from: The Tax Adviser

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The Crummey Road. (IRS rules on when gift tax exclusions will be allowed): An article from: The Tax Adviser
Randi A. Schuster
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This digital document is an article from The Tax Adviser, published by American Institute of CPA's on May 1, 1997. The length of the article is 807 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The Tax Court validated the use of Crummey trusts with very limited withdrawal rights to make use of the $10,000 annual gift tax exclusion in Estate of Cristofani, but IRS rulings since that decision indicate that Crummey arrangements must meet certain requirements. The IRS has disallowed gift tax exclusions in TAM 9532001, AOD 1996-010, and TAM 9628004 because taxpayers failed to provide beneficiaries with notice or provided them with notice that was not sufficient to realistically allow them to exercise their withdrawal rights.

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Title: The Crummey Road. (IRS rules on when gift tax exclusions will be allowed)
Author: Randi A. Schuster
Publication: The Tax Adviser (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1997
Publisher: American Institute of CPA's
Volume: 28 Issue: n5 Page: 272(2)

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Federal regulators look to nullify bank D&O exclusion. (bank regulators, directors and officers liability insurance): An article from: National Underwriter ... & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

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Federal regulators look to nullify bank D&O exclusion. (bank regulators, directors and officers liability insurance): An article from: National Underwriter ... & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Steven Brostoff
Manufacturer: The National Underwriter Company
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on November 29, 1993. The length of the article is 697 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) has asked the House Banking Committee to create legislation that would remove regulatory exclusions from banking industry and financial institution executives' liability insurance. The FDIC believes that the current exclusions prevent federal regulators from filing over $500 million in mismanagement claims against insolvent savings and loan officers. Many insurance and banking industry officials maintain that removing the exclusions would limit the availability of or increase the cost of hiring the executives.

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Title: Federal regulators look to nullify bank D&O exclusion. (bank regulators, directors and officers liability insurance)
Author: Steven Brostoff
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 29, 1993
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n48 Page: p2(2)

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Gifts of an ownership interest in a business not eligible for the annual exclusion. : An article from: The Tax Adviser

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Gifts of an ownership interest in a business not eligible for the annual exclusion. : An article from: The Tax Adviser
Anthony Bakale
Manufacturer: American Institute of CPA's
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This digital document is an article from The Tax Adviser, published by American Institute of CPA's on August 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1130 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Gifts of an ownership interest in a business not eligible for the annual exclusion.
Author: Anthony Bakale
Publication: The Tax Adviser (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2002
Publisher: American Institute of CPA's
Volume: 33 Issue: 8 Page: 500(2)

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Student activism and student exclusions in South Africa [An article from: International Journal of Educational Development]

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Student activism and student exclusions in South Africa [An article from: International Journal of Educational Development]
C. Koen , M. Cele , and A. Libhaber
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from International Journal of Educational Development, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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On average, about 25 percent of students leave higher education (HE) institutions annually in South Africa because they are excluded on academic and financial grounds. To resist such putouts, student boycotts and protests are common despite the fact that student organizations were incorporated into decision-making processes at HE institutions (defined as universities and technikons in South Africa) in 1997. By examining recent student protest behaviour, this paper explores the dimensions of various protests and examines some of the effects of student participation in HE governance structures.

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The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government.

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 40, Protection of Environment, Pt. 63 (Sec. 63.1-63.599), Revised as of July 1, 2006

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Code of Federal Regulations, Title 40, Protection of Environment, Pt. 63 (Sec. 63.1-63.599), Revised as of July 1, 2006

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ASIN: 0160763843

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Code of Federal Regulations, Title 40, Protection of Environment, Pt. 63 (Sec. 63.1-63.599), Revised as of July 1, 2007

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ASIN: 0160788102

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Code of Federal Regulations, Title 40, Protection of Environment, Pt. 63 (Sec. 63.8980 to End), Revised as of July 1, 2004

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`Pro poor' economic growth is widely recognized as an important means for reducing poverty in developing countries. Agricultural intensification, together with increased integration in input and output markets, is a key aspect of this approach. This book uses a new institutional economics perspective to review the effects of market liberalization on services to smallholder farmers. In many parts of the world, particularly in Sub-saharan Africa, the private sector has failed to fill the gaps left by the collapse of state supported input and credit supply systems. Using case studies from Ghana, Tanzania and Pakistan, the book investigates the difficulties facing the private sector in supplying inputs and credit and the conditions required for sustainable private sector investment to the benefit of rural people. The analysis has important lessons for donor and government policy makers and for companies wishing to make commercial investments. It is invaluable for researchers, academics and development agencies concerned with rural and agricultural economics and development.

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