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Who Reaped the Fruits of Slavery?
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William A. Darity
Published: 20 April 2020
...This chapter, which opens Part II, identifies the beneficiaries of slavery both in the near and longer term. It examines the key role slavery played in American economic development in both the North and the South. It stresses, like other chapters, how the case for justice must identify both...
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Published: 09 July 2015
... the merits of giving stakeholders a new or reinforced voice in terms of corporate governance. It then turns to the hypothesis of having institutional investors act as stakeholder representatives as well as the extent to which their ultimate beneficiaries can contribute to institutional investor governance...
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The Economics of Fiduciary Law
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Richard R. W. Brooks
Published: 09 May 2019
... to relationships or associations and, more specifically, to their associated rules of conduct. The chapter then discusses these three theoretical tracts of loyalty by reviewing the law and economics literature on beneficiaries and fiduciaries in general, and principals and agents in particular. The discussion...
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The Organ Shortage: A Tragedy of the Commons?
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Alexander Tabarrok
Published: 28 February 2002
... their organ donor cards. Yet, every year, the organ shortage tends to become worse as medical technology increases the number of potential beneficiaries while social apathy and fear keep the number of donors relatively constant. Today, roughly 60,000 people are waiting for organ transplants, although less...
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A Quick Summary of Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going
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Irving S Schloss and Deborah V Abildsoe
Published: 01 March 2001
...0 01 03 2001 To review, the basic steps that must be taken in your planning, if you are married with children, to pass your account down to the next generation are these: Do not annuitize your account, but elect the Minimum Distribution Option. individual beneficiaries contingent depending...
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Inheritance Law
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Henry Dyson
Published: 18 September 2003
... situate if their domicile is French is frequently misunderstood. This can lead to much confusion and dismay and often recrimination among beneficiaries who find that they are deprived as a result of the impact of French law of assets which clearly they were intended to inherit. None suffers more...
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BCR and Contract Law
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Lokke Moerel
Published: 26 July 2012
...This chapter discusses some contractual issues in light of the requirement that Binding Corporate Rules (BCR) should be internally binding on the group companies and employees of the multinational, and externally binding for the benefit of the beneficiaries of BCR. The latter requires discussion...
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Driving Innovation Through Medicaid
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Alonzo L. Plough
Published: 07 April 2020
... through research and demonstration waivers that allow states to experiment. The chapter then offers examples of innovative programming and service delivery in three states and looks at a major insurer’s commitment to address the root causes of homelessness among its Medicaid beneficiaries. However...
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Aadhaar and the MGNREGS
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S.K. Das
Published: 01 August 2015
... implementation challenges such as payment of wages, theft from beneficiaries, theft from taxpayers, ghost beneficiaries, beneficiary misuse, beneficiary management, social audit, and transparency. This chapter analyses the extent to which the Aadhaar programme can help with these implementation challenges...
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Published: 30 March 2023
...This concluding chapter outlines key themes as well as questions on philanthropic disaster response for exploration, reflection and research by policymakers, practitioners and researchers. How will we define and redefine ‘disaster’? How will the size, scale and beneficiaries of the philanthropic...
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Conclusion
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Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith and Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith
Published: 13 June 2023
... texts, and this chapter highlights areas for future study: in particular, the experiences of workers who are beneficiaries, and workers who live with a disability or chronic illness. Finally, the chapter offers a summary of changes and progress that can be seen when comparing this corpus of media...
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No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Sources and Consequences of Resource Choices
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Silke Roth and Clare Saunders
Published: 15 December 2023
... resources ICT accountability NGOisation professionalisation donors beneficiaries organisational change resource needs Founded in 1971, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF, Doctors without Borders) is one of the largest and most prominent humanitarian organisations. According to its website, 1...
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Published: 01 March 2009
... Woodard Lasker Charitable Trust and Michael E. DeBakey Foundation. This chapter addresses how people with specific sensory and physical impairments perceive various aspects of their health care. The data demonstrates that the vast majority of Medicare beneficiaries with or without disabilities perceive...
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Published: 18 September 2012
... reflected the strength of the economy during an unprecedented run of prosperity. Meanwhile, the array of entitlement programs that drove spending was increasingly shaped by political, demographic, and institutional forces, each with its own clientele of beneficiaries. That has made adjustments more...
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Evaluating policy effects
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Peter Knoepfel and others
Published: 01 March 2011
... beneficiaries. It presents five criteria that are generally applied when evaluating the effects of a policy — extent of impact, effectiveness, efficiency, relevance, and productive economy. It notes that these two preliminary stages aid in identifying the form and content of the various evaluative statements...
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Dignity and Responsibility in South African Law
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Drucilla Cornell and Nick Friedman
Published: 01 February 2016
...In chapter six, we develop Dworkin's complex notion of responsibility as this might be used to defend measures that must be taken by the beneficiaries of apartheid. dignity law South African Constitution Grundnorm Law’s Empire Dworkin liability responsibility Ackermann Justice affirmative...
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Thatcher’s refugees and Thatcher’s beneficiaries: discretionary migration in the 1980s
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A. James Hammerton
Published: 30 September 2017
... with Thatcher’s beneficiaries, supporters who attributed success in Britain to government policies, and seized initiatives in new fields like Information Technology, easily adapted to global mobility. ‘Migration on a whim’ draws on stories illustrating the powerful emergence of casually adopted mobility...
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The Value of Progress against Cancer in the Elderly
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Jay Bhattacharya and others
Published: 01 August 2012
... cases. Trends in expenditures and outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries suggest that changes in treatment during the periods studied may have improved outcomes for some but not all cancers evaluated, and even under favorable assumptions would only be considered cost-effective for a subset of cancers...
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Published: 01 July 2015
... are discussed. The chapter also considers the problem of defining trust from a comparative private law angle and especially the debate over whether trust belongs to property, obligations, persons or somewhere else. Finally, it examines the nature of the rights of trust beneficiaries and the private law concept...
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Trust and Patrimony
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Lionel D Smith
Published: 01 July 2015
... is a patrimony affected to a destination or purpose. It then considers the situation of creditors and beneficiaries in a common law trust before advancing the argument that, contrary to the position taken by Lepaulle, the common law trust is not a patrimony. It contends that only trustees have direct access...