ONE ACRE FUND: CASE STUDY The scene is Bungoma‚ Kenya; Moises Postigo is a buyer interested in purchasing fertilizer on a large scale for his not-for-profit organization the One Acre Fund (OAF). OAF’s mission is to provide fertilizer to farmers “who have nothing” on a credit like system and when the farmers produce their crops a percentage of their supplus would be returned to OAF. Eventually the farmers would no longer need a “free hand out” and will be able to support themselves and their families
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IRIE International Review of Information Ethics ISSN 1614-1687 Vol. 6 (12/2006) Ethics in Robotics Editors Prof. Dr. Rafael Capurro (Editor in Chief) University of Applied Sciences‚ Stuttgart‚ Germany‚ Wolframstr. 32‚ D-70191 Stuttgart E-Mail: rafael@capurro.de Prof. Dr. Thomas Hausmanninger University of Augsburg‚ Germany‚ Universitätsstr. 10 ‚ D-86135 Augsburg‚ E-Mail: thomas.hausmanninger@kthf.uniaugsburg.de Dr. Karsten Weber European University Viadrina‚ Frankfurt (Oder)‚ Germany
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University of Patras‚ Greece Department of Business Administration‚ University of Patras‚ Greece atsagkanos@yahoo.gr Athanasios Bellas Department of Business Administration‚ University of Patras‚ Greece Determinants of Non-Performing Loans: The Case of Eurozone vmakri@upatras.gr Athanasios Tsagkanos UDC 336.77 (4-672EU) ”2000/2008” DOI: 10.2298/PAN1402193M Original scientific paper bellas@upatras.gr Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank the two anonymous
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5. Federal Funds Federal Funds represent the asset to lending bank and liability to borrowing bank. The loan in Federal funds is short-term loan. Usually‚ the loans are for one to seven days. These funds help the bank to correct short-tem fund imbalances. Federal funds rate is interest rate charged in the federal funds. It is same for all banks borrowing in federal funds market. Federal funds market more active on Wednesday because that is final day of each particular
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Hedge Fund Strategies Problem Set: Backtesting the Carry Trade (Macro Strategies) Prof. Andrea Frazzini In this problem set‚ you backtest the currency carry trade using the data provided in the accompanying Excel spreadsheet. You can do the problem set using Excel or any other program of your choice. Please answer in the space provided (no more than three pages for questions 1-6). 1. For each month of the sample‚ rank the countries based on their interest rate (hint: Excel has a function
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Q5 Federal funds borrow money from a bank to another bank. The interest rate is the Fed funds rate. This rate is not set by anyone directly‚ but is determined by the market. Due to changes in supply and demand conditions‚ often change rate. Fed by adjusting the money supply to influence the federal funds rate. Q6 The Fed funds market let depository institutions reach the needs of short-term liquidity to other financial institutions. When they need short-term funds from the Fed funds market‚ it borrowed
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Additional Funds Needed Method: Most companies expect growth in sales‚ which means its assets also must grow. Asset growth requires additional funds‚ so the firm may have to raise additional external capital if it has insufficient internal funds. If we assume that none of the firm’s ratios will change‚ we can use a simple approach‚ the Additional Funds Needed (AFN) method‚ to forecast financial requirements. • Required Increase in Assets In a steady-state situation in which no excess capacity
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Hedge Funds & Vulture Funds - Their existence and their impact on the Indian Economy The funds have given a plenty of opportunity for people to diversify their portfolios but they are very mysterious. Let us have a look in the context of Indian economy what effects does this mysterious funds have on the country. Submitted By: Pralabh Bhargava (07BS2905) Rishikant (07BS3437)   ICFAI BUSINESS SCHOOL HYDERABAD BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE It is Certified that this project report
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Students in Clarksville‚ Tennessee are among the luckiest. The city has five colleges and universities within its borders. Ambitious students need only apply to the college of their choice and go. Well‚ those who have the tuition money can do that. Those who don’t may feel the frustration of being so close and yet not being able to do anything about their aspirations. But students and their parents who know about title loans in Clarksville know that they don’t have to wait for the money to arrive
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My Philosophy of Educational Leadership I strongly believe that educational leadership plays a vital role in all human race. The ultimate purpose of education is to educate all students and give everyone equal opportunity to succeed in life. Through knowledge‚ skills and attitudes‚ all individuals can achieve their goals in life. The combinations of knowledge and skills as well as the common values will help our students bloom into adults and become responsible and productive citizens of our beloved
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