The city is going to be European Capital of Culture, World Book Capital and host European Film Awards in 2016.

After World War I, Bucharest became the capital of Greater Romania.

Despite the theoretical possibility of capital being sent over vast distances to other parts of the world, much capital remained local.

Before World War II, venture capital investments (originally known as development capital ) were primarily the domain of wealthy individuals and families.

PARIS The world is witnessing a drastic decline of its natural capital.

The capital of Finland, Helsinki was bombed several times during World War II.

Moreover, globalization means that the US capital market s failure spreads misery around the world.

Since 1980, San Antonio has evolved into The Tejano Music Capital Of The World.

But even though net international capital flows are going the wrong way, there are still substantial gross capital flows outward from the world economy s core to its periphery.

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

In that year, Hong Kong raised 22 percent of worldwide initial public offering (IPO) capital, making it the largest centre of IPOs in the world and the easiest place to raise capital.

There is an outflow of capital from developing regions either to meet those rising costs or to be invested in the developed world, leaving those regions woefully short of capital for investment.

To celebrate its year as Cultural Capital of the Arab World, the festival will begin and end in Jerusalem.

The foreign partner supplied capital, technology, entrepreneurial expertise, and in many cases, products and services of world competitive quality.

Goryeo had a bustling economy with a capital that was frequented by merchants from all over the known world.

High world oil prices and capital inflows are strengthening the balance of payments and contributing to exchange rate appreciation.

Others cite the so called capital glut large inflows of external financing from China and much of the developing world.

The economist Barry Eichengreen once explored the imposition of capital levies in the aftermath of World Wars I and II.

Indeed, because of crime and corruption, that country was marked by the highest rate of capital flight in the world.

1986 World Cup Maradona captained the Argentine national team to victory in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, winning the final in the capital of Mexico City against West Germany.

Paris, in case anyone had any lingering doubts, remains the capital of the world or so it seemed for a night.

But how can savings patterns be so different often opposite in globalized economies that are well integrated into world capital markets?

The steady lowering of barriers to trade and capital flows across geographical borders was essential to promote industrialization around the world.

A reluctance of foreign investors to keep accumulating dollar assets will cause a smaller capital inflow from the rest of the world.

Other rankings In 2011, European University ranked 6th best business school in the world for female students by Capital magazine in France.

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But even though net international capital flows are going the wrong way, there are still substantial gross capital flows outward from the world economy s core to its periphery. And we can hope that these capital flows will carry with them the institutions and managerial expertise that have made the core so wealthy.

Some people used to argue that as long as one factor of production i.e., capital could move freely, the world could be equalized.

The world's indebted nations, unfortunately known as the Third World, transfer capital to the rich nations by paying interest on their foreign liabilities.

But poorer countries, for which international capital markets remain off limits, have no alternative but to rely on the World Bank and IMF.

They have acted as gateways connecting South Asia to the developed world, and have benefited from globalization, education, capital accumulation, and technological advancement.

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After World War II, the local Zanussi firm became a world giant of household appliances, and in 1968, Pordenone became capital of the province with the same name, including territory belonging to Udine.

Her human capital was no match for his financial capital.

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

This follows the World Bank depreciation assumption for an estimated capital stock of 11.21 billion in 1998 World Bank (May 2003), Twenty seven months Intifada, closures and Palestinian economic crisis An assessment , p. 19.

Ciudad Juárez, a sprawling Mexican border town that is now the homicide capital of the world, would have to be high on the list.

Taken by itself, today s 750 billion annual rate of household saving could replace that amount in capital inflows from the rest of the world.

Since the world does not export to Mars, some countries have to absorb these goods, and accept the capital inflows that finance their consumption.

The crisis challenged the Washington Consensus, which assumed that the world was moving gradually towards free movement of capital and market determined exchange rates.

The Basle rules on capital requirements and the World Trade Organization s rules on subsidies, intellectual property, and investment measures typify this kind of overreaching.

Alternatively, countries could impose stricter capital controls and financial market regulations to lock in savers, as the advanced countries did after World War II.

In the late 1990 s, the US hedge fund Long Term Capital Management convinced the world that its partners were masters of the universe.

The Imperial Library of Constantinople, in the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, was the last of the great libraries of the ancient world.

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