Second, in 2001, weak capital spending in the corporate sector (accounting for 10 of GDP) underpinned the contraction.

The group agreed that rules and procedures governing the acquisition of corporate control in the capital markets and extraordinary transactions such as mergers and sales of substantial portions of corporate assets should be disclosed.

Shifts in the distribution of income away from labor and toward capital, which have boosted corporate profits as a share of production.

The implication is that countries should first strengthen their domestic financial sectors and corporate governance, and only later open the capital account.

According to conventional wisdom, the corporate tax burden is borne principally by the owners of capital in the form of lower returns.

OIOS is of the view that UN Habitat has not adequately defined its corporate role in raising domestic capital for the Facility.

China s corporate sector has financed much of its investment out of retained earnings without having to raise capital from the household sector.

Changing that pattern will require a restructured financial system that allocates savings efficiently, based on fiscal and capital market discipline and corporate governance reform.

In a world of mobile capital, corporate tax rates matter, and business decisions about how and where to invest are increasingly sensitive to national differences.

Defenders of low rates for capital owners argue that it minimizes double taxation of corporate income first of the corporation and then of its shareholders.

There are plenty of profits to be made actual taxes on capital are not too high, and cheap finance is available to the corporate sector.

Host regulators are increasingly nervous about banks that operate in their jurisdictions through branches of their corporate parent, without local capital or a local board of directors.

Obama s temporary first year expensing proposal for capital purchases (a good idea as part of a permanent corporate tax overhaul) could get folded into broader tax legislation.

A recent study found that taxing capital gains and dividends as ordinary income, subject to a maximum 28 rate on long term capital gains (the pre 1997 rate), could finance a cut in the corporate tax rate from 35 to 26 .

Today s capital markets raise money for governments, corporate clients, and individual customers, manage pension funds investments, and bet on the level of interest rates or the stock market.

And, as corporate profits have grown, those who share the capital gains in one way or another have also seen their incomes increase faster than the national average.

Corporate identity.

Corporate strategy

Corporate responsibility

Here, UN programmes such as UNDP could act as catalysts for integrating aid, as a form of seed capital, into the enhancement and facilitation of positive corporate contributions to development.

Corporate leaders realized that economic incentives accrued from being a good corporate citizen.

Pricing Corporate Governance

Corporate specific reasons.

Noting the growing realization that reorganization regimes are critical to corporate and economic recovery, the development of entrepreneurial activity, the preservation of employment and the availability of finance in the capital market,

Sharp rises in sovereign, corporate, and interbank liquidity spreads will increase the cost of capital, and increases in risk aversion, volatility, and sovereign risk will undermine business, investor, and consumer confidence further.

With 20 20 hindsight, it is clear that in 1997 98, weak bank regulation and corporate governance aggravated the depth of the economic contraction that followed the sudden stop of capital flows.

Corporate identity external reality or internal fit?, Corporate Communications An International Journal, 5 (1), pp.

The top personal income tax rate (also levied on capital gains), the sales tax rate, the corporate tax rate, and the gas tax are all at or near the highest of any state.

The Secret Corporate Takeover

Politics and Corporate Money

The Corporate Tax Conundrum

Unblocking Corporate Governance Reform

Whose Corporate Social Responsibility?

Principles of corporate communication.

Operationalizing the corporate strategy

Even in the US corporate sector, defaults will rise, owing to sharply higher corporate bond spreads.

(a) Capping of corporate costs, while corporate functions address strategic matters of governance, oversight and inspection

In the ensuing discussion, questions were raised regarding the precise definitions of general terms such as corporate responsibility , corporate social responsibility and positive corporate contribution , and regarding the notion of a corporate responsibility for development, as well as UNCTAD's mandate in this regard.

Corporate strategy Vision 2006 2007

Expert Meeting on Positive Corporate

Van den Bosch, De Jong and Elving (2005) explored possible relationships between corporate visual identity and reputation, and concluded that corporate visual identity plays a supportive role in corporate reputations.

This approach, which secures growth and cuts unemployment without raising the deficit, is needed to energize the private sector and mobilize some of the capital that has accumulated on corporate balance sheets in recent years.

And, as former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently noted, US fixed capital investment has fallen far short of the level that history suggests should have occurred, given the dramatic surge in corporate profitability.

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital.

Towards a definitive model of the corporate identity management process, Corporate Communications An International Journal, 4 (4), pp.