Merchants Bankers Governors

Author : Drake Peter Joseph
Publisher : #N/A
ISBN 13 : 9813222433
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchants, Bankers, Governors: British Enterprise In Singapore And Malaya, 1786-1920 written by Drake Peter Joseph and published by #N/A. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of British enterprise in Singapore and Malaya from 1786 to 1920, when British vision, zeal and drive developed Penang, then Singapore and, finally, the peninsular Malay States. In the initial years, commerce and finance were paramount. The seeds of these commercial activities had been planted initially in the days of the East India Company but later, and more importantly, by individual merchant firms, supported by credit from London. These merchants were the driving force of British investment and development on the Malay Peninsula. While the contributions of the Malays, Indians and, especially, the Chinese to economic development should not be under-rated, in the period under review, their activities were steered and monitored by the British. This book presents an original and coherent account of British Enterprise in Singapore and Malaya in an important historical period and includes substantial new material from primary records of merchant firms and banks which will be of great interest to students, professionals as well as the general public.

Author : Neil Irwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780755362684
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alchemists written by Neil Irwin and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented and important insight into the secret world behind our economy.

Author : Liaquat Ahamed
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594201820
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lords of Finance written by Liaquat Ahamed and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the stock market crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression occurred as a result of poor decisions on the part of four central bankers who jointly attempted to reconstruct international finance by reinstating the gold standard.

Author : Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780894991967
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Federal Reserve System Purposes and Functions written by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an in-depth overview of the Federal Reserve System, including information about monetary policy and the economy, the Federal Reserve in the international sphere, supervision and regulation, consumer and community affairs and services offered by Reserve Banks. Contains several appendixes, including a brief explanation of Federal Reserve regulations, a glossary of terms, and a list of additional publications.

Author : Neil Irwin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101605804
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alchemists written by Neil Irwin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the first fissures became visible to the naked eye in August 2007, suddenly the most powerful men in the world were three men who were never elected to public office. They were the leaders of the world’s three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet of the European Central Bank. Over the next five years, they and their fellow central bankers deployed trillions of dollars, pounds and euros to contain the waves of panic that threatened to bring down the global financial system, moving on a scale and with a speed that had no precedent. Neil Irwin’s The Alchemists is a gripping account of the most intense exercise in economic crisis management we’ve ever seen, a poker game in which the stakes have run into the trillions of dollars. The book begins in, of all places, Stockholm, Sweden, in the seventeenth century, where central banking had its rocky birth, and then progresses through a brisk but dazzling tutorial on how the central banker came to exert such vast influence over our world, from its troubled beginnings to the Age of Greenspan, bringing the reader into the present with a marvelous handle on how these figures and institutions became what they are – the possessors of extraordinary power over our collective fate. What they chose to do with those powers is the heart of the story Irwin tells. Irwin covered the Fed and other central banks from the earliest days of the crisis for the Washington Post, enjoying privileged access to leading central bankers and people close to them. His account, based on reporting that took place in 27 cities in 11 countries, is the holistic, truly global story of the central bankers’ role in the world economy we have been missing. It is a landmark reckoning with central bankers and their power, with the great financial crisis of our time, and with the history of the relationship between capitalism and the state. Definitive, revelatory, and riveting, The Alchemists shows us where money comes from—and where it may well be going.

Author : Asli Demirguc-Kunt
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464812683
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Findex Database 2017 written by Asli Demirguc-Kunt and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011 the World Bank—with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Drawing on survey data collected in collaboration with Gallup, Inc., the Global Findex database covers more than 140 economies around the world. The initial survey round was followed by a second one in 2014 and by a third in 2017. Compiled using nationally representative surveys of more than 150,000 adults age 15 and above in over 140 economies, The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution includes updated indicators on access to and use of formal and informal financial services. It has additional data on the use of financial technology (or fintech), including the use of mobile phones and the Internet to conduct financial transactions. The data reveal opportunities to expand access to financial services among people who do not have an account—the unbanked—as well as to promote greater use of digital financial services among those who do have an account. The Global Findex database has become a mainstay of global efforts to promote financial inclusion. In addition to being widely cited by scholars and development practitioners, Global Findex data are used to track progress toward the World Bank goal of Universal Financial Access by 2020 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The database, the full text of the report, and the underlying country-level data for all figures—along with the questionnaire, the survey methodology, and other relevant materials—are available at www.worldbank.org/globalfindex.

Author : Henry Riversdale GRENFELL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Banking and currency. A letter to H. H. Gibbs, Esq.; Governor of the Bank of England, with ten letters reprinted from the “Observer.” written by Henry Riversdale GRENFELL and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Riversdale Grenfell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Banking and Currency. A Letter to Henry Hucks Gibbs, Esq., Governor of the Bank of England, with Ten Letters Reprinted from the "Observer.". written by Henry Riversdale Grenfell and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ohio. Secretary of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Secretary of State, to the Governor of the State of Ohio for the Year ... written by Ohio. Secretary of State and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1868- include the Statistical report of the Secretary of State in continuation of the Annual report of the Commissioner of Statistics.

Author : Ohio. Secretary of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 930 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statistical Report of the Secretary of State to the Governor and General Assembly of the State of Ohio for the Period Commencing ... and Ending ... written by Ohio. Secretary of State and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: