Political capital means the capital that will improve or enhance the NGOs status, possession or access in the existing political system.

Moreover, political instability has focused development efforts on stabilization, drawing resources away from social and economic capital into political capital , in order to attain greater political stability, which may have distorted income distribution and wealth.

More fundamentally, creating the regulatory institutions conducive to ownership separation may be impossible unless a society's political orientation towards labor and capital is more favorable to capital.

Most politicians craft policy to serve their local constituents and to protect their personal political capital.

The capital and largest city is Bangkok, which is Thailand's political, commercial, industrial, and cultural hub.

These two leaders have limited political capital, and they need more than their own goodwill to succeed.

He found that, owing to capital flight and political pressure for delay, the results were often disappointing.

Political interference in the stock market is not merely about taxes on capital gains, dividends, and income.

On April 1994, the capital was moved again to its present location on account of political considerations.

Second, there is no political reward for fighting a preventive war, while there is great political capital to be earned by acting after problems have exploded.

The Obama administration has staked significant political capital on the wager that Myanmar s promise may finally bear fruit.

Second, too many governments particularly in rich countries fail to invest political capital in preventing and treating drug abuse.

A modern Asian strategy for Russia call it Project Siberia should combine Russian political sovereignty with foreign capital and technologies.

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

The researchers developed a Moral Resources and Political Capital approach to examine the contributions of volunteerism in promoting the civil society.

The reason is not that the periphery offers an attractive labor force from which capital profits, but rather that the core especially the United States offers a form of protection for capital against unanticipated political disturbances.

Despite Putin's so far unsuccessful fight against terrorism, his popularity remains high, so he has the political capital to make tough internal reforms.

After independence, Lima became the capital of the Republic of Peru but economic stagnation and political turmoil brought urban development to a halt.

Bush must begin to use what political capital he has left to support enlightened immigration reform, along the lines of the Kennedy McCain bill.

The contentious political environment in which these arrests have occurred has grown out of the Ethiopian government's plan to expand Addis Ababa, the country's capital.

Much as Serbia still considers Kosovo to be one of its provinces, key parts of the international community have invested too much financial and political capital in Kosovo to want to reopen the question of its political status.

The alternative is like in the 1930s unending stagnation, depression, currency and trade wars, capital controls, financial crisis, sovereign insolvencies, and massive social and political instability.

A move by army officers in Tripoli against Qaddafi and his sons might end the conflict, with military commanders getting the credit and the political capital.

Given the unanimity with which Kennedy was confirmed, she may be able to use her own political capital to help sell fast track authority in Congress.

Globalization, the flow of information, goods, capital and people across political and geographic boundaries, has helped spread some of the deadliest infectious diseases known to humans.

Vijaya became the political and cultural center of Champa around 1000 AD, when the northern capital of Indrapura was abandoned due to pressure from the Viet.

Efratti of From Nation's Capital to Nation's Capital adds

Her human capital was no match for his financial capital.

Its capital, Belgrade, was also the federal capital of Yugoslavia.

But the same and perhaps worse can be said about China, yet the EU has invested much political capital in a strategic, multifaceted partnership with its rulers.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has invested considerable political capital in the revival of peace negotiations, and Israel can use that to its advantage as well.

Capital exporting developing nations should be willing to accept greater transparency in the operation of sovereign wealth funds and pledge not to use them for political purposes.

During World War II, for example, political support for great fortunes diminished and the government sharply increased taxes on capital gains, dividends, and high incomes in general.

What s striking about Ortega s move is that he is ready to risk so much political capital, not only expelling Lewites from the party but canceling his challenger s permits to hold political rallies and forbidding him to use Sandinista party symbols.

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The sustainable livelihood framework (SLF) proposed in the project document as a tool for analysing the success of the project is based on the following set of broad success indicators natural capital, physical capital, social capital, human capital and financial capital.

More than 40 countries and institutions have endorsed the New Deal way of working, committing themselves to building better partnerships and to investing the required resources and political capital.

His choice of destination Karachi, Pakistan s largest city and his political base, rather than Islamabad, the county s capital suggests the depth of the crisis now bubbling below the surface.

The evidence suggests that other factors such as the quality of economic and political institutions are at least as important in determining how much capital a country will attract.

Fortunately, there are some policy precepts and ideas that governments would do well to invest their political capital in if they want innovation and its attendant prosperity to resume.

The agreement comes after a month of political and military instability that saw rebels advance on the capital Bangui in an attempt to overthrow Bozizé during a military advance.

Previously, thanks to the gold standard and Britain s political stability, the City of London had been the world s key source of capital and financial guarantees for more than a century.