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The impact of investment funds on restructuring practices and employment levels

Gospel, Howard; Haves, Jakob; Pendleton, Andrew - 2010

One feature of the global economy in recent years has been the increasing number and importance of new investment funds (private equity (PE), hedge funds (HFs), and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs)), which are sometimes referred to as alternative investment funds (AIFs). This increase has...

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The impact of investment funds on restructuring practices and employment levels : Company case studies

Gospel, Howard; Haves, Jakob; Pendleton, Andrew - 2010

This report examines whether investment funds – in particular, private equity, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds – help to revive underperforming companies and thereby contribute to employment growth or whether, on the contrary, they strive to maximise financial returns at the expense...

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HEDGE FUNDS Transparency and Conflict of Interest

Narayan, Naik - 2007

The hedge fund industry has risen in 2007 to the top of the international political agenda, yet the debate surrounding it is limited by a lack of understanding of how the industry functions, or even how it is to be defined. The industry consists largely of investment funds operating from...

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Hedge Funds and Financial Stability

Stork, Philip - 2007

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Evaluation of the European commission's co-operation and partnership with the People's Republic of China : country level evaluation ; final synthesis report

MacKellar, Landis (contributor) - EGEval II; EEIG - 2007

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Working with China on the environment

Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Umwelt - 2009

This brochure presents the environmental co-operation of the EU with China by highlighting a number of selected …

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Final report of an audit carried out in China from 18 to 28 June 2013 in order to evaluate the measures taken by China to ensure that wood packaging material exported to the Europe...

Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Gesundheit … - 2014

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Reshaping the Chinese growth model – a formidable challenge of the 12th five-year plan

Melander, Annika; Rudolf, Moritz - 2011

Private consumption is a key component in the rebalancing of growth that China is seeking, and a challenging one. Not …. Understanding what drove the consumption share down to a mere 36% of GDP in China is thus vital. This brief explores the many … reasons for the high precautionary savings that followed in the wake of the reform process in China. In particular, the …

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Is China transitioning to a lower growth plateau?

Bertoldi, Moreno; Melander, Annika - 2013

China's economy slowed significantly in the first three quarters of 2012 and questions have been raised on a possible … understand what is driving this slowdown and how lasting it may be given China's importance as an engine for global growth. Is …

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Reform of the hukou system : a litmus test of the new leadership

Melander, Annika; Pelikanova, Kristyna - 2013

Since the release of the 12th Five-Year Plan in 2011, a reform of China's household registration system – the so … so far (beyond some experiments at the provincial level). In the context of growing urbanisation pressures in China, a …

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