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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 135–139.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., ripe for exchange, speculation, and juridification. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 finance capitalism maritime transportation the sea On March 19, 1783, British antislavery campaigner Granville Sharp recorded in his diary that Gustavus Vassa...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 438–450.
Published: 01 December 2015
... of land under speculative conditions. The growing demand for land for urbanization and industrialization, along with the availability of speculative finance capital in the real estate market, has made land a scarce commodity. In this land market, local capitals piggyback on finance capital and bid up...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 407–419.
Published: 01 December 2019
... it into a shadow economy that ultimately converges with financing for al-Shabaab, even as this economy sustains seafaring populations in the midst of economic precarity. Tracing dhow itineraries in tandem with shifting regulations across South Asia and East Africa, the article charts an alternate course of Indian...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 80–90.
Published: 01 May 2022
... finance reshapes the resources of the Eastern Mediterranean and migrant laborers depart its shores to work in textile mills in Argentina, Brazil, and the United States. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 slavery mercantilism Buṭrus al-Bustānī Robinson Crusoe...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 423–440.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Emma Park Abstract This article explores the incremental privatization of what is today East Africa's largest corporation, communications and finance firm Safaricom. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, British multinational Vodafone became a partial shareholder of Safaricom, with the government...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 208–223.
Published: 01 August 2023
... Sultan Abdülhamid II's transformation into a private landed property owner with the separation of his privy purse from the state treasury in the early 1880s, to show that despite the distinctive specificities of Ottoman law, institutions, and imperial finances, all three monarchs used private ownership...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 387–391.
Published: 01 December 2015
.... Our approach reveals the governmentalities, public cultures, and market actions that are characteristic of the present pursuit of value for profit and survival. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Speculation Divination Finance Economic Governance Uncertainty Vernacular Capitalism...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (2): 450–465.
Published: 01 August 2005
... the to released non-Plan were Commission and Finance Eleventh states, the the by is- provided of grants the imbalance redressing fiscal to of view sue Pro- a Reform with Fiscal (MTFRP) Term asked gramme Medium were the states undertake The Cen- to conditional. the from made grants were receive tre to states...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1998) 18 (1): 95–111.
Published: 01 May 1998
... Press. Bond , Patrick ( 1992 ). “Community Development Finance for Electrification,” in Theron, Paul (ed.) Proceedings of the ANC National Meeting on Electrification - University of Cape Town February 1992 . African National Congress and Center for Development Studies, University of the Western...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 481–485.
Published: 01 December 2015
... seen in capitalism the makings of a new eschatology and a new magical imaginary. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 capitalism India speculation References Appadurai Arjun . Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance . Chicago : University...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 118–134.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of State finances is a type of humiliation which Egyptians understand.” 9 What had started off as an unsanctioned reprisal seizing the Alexandria customs house had become a way to seize and also control autonomous centers of revenue calculation away from Egyptian nationalists, postponing and thwarting...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 148–163.
Published: 01 May 2024
.... Outside these imperial nodes, however, port development projects were attempted in very different circumstances, with port authorities having to use their own revenues to finance such projects. This set port development apart from other, more closely examined large-scale infrastructure development...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1988) 8 (1_and_2): 106–115.
Published: 01 August 1988
... Copyright 1988: South Asia Bulletin 1988 South Asia Bulletin, volume 8 (1988) Up to now, World Bank financing of Singrauli has
played a significant role in contributing to this nightmarish...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 392–407.
Published: 01 December 2015
... ): 3 – 20 . Balachandran Gopalan . “Reappraisal: Finance and Politics in Late Colonial India, 1917–1947.” South Asia 19 , no. 1 ( 1996 ): 77 – 101 . Bear Laura . “The Antinomies of Audit: Opacity, Instability, and Charisma in the Economic Governance of a Hooghly Shipyard...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 80–85.
Published: 01 May 2020
.... Kapur and Vaishnav, “Builders, Politicians, and Election Finance.” Situated in capitalist teleology, with its core investments in development and progress, these industry visions of an imagined backward-looking future anterior (“it will turn out that our current moment was X ”) utilize...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (2): 61–85.
Published: 01 August 1999
..., there was relatively little ex-
with improved weaponry to fight the competitive port of capital, as finance was “repressed” in order to
struggle, Jameson logically poses the question of the insure its support of domestic industry, and, to the
relevance of Lenin’s Imperialism, the objective of extent...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1988) 8 (1_and_2): 6–11.
Published: 01 August 1988
... exemption from taxation.
trial sector, heavily protected from external competition and
ii) Resources finance the government’s
provided with a whole range of incentives, has been appro...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 556–572.
Published: 01 December 2009
... Collection and Finance Adminis-
306. man and European Culture and Society (Durham, NC: tration in the Ottoman Empire, 1560–1660 (Leiden:
Duke University Press, 2005), 322. Brill, 1996); Darling’s introduction is titled “The Myth
5. Ibid...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (2): 16–23.
Published: 01 August 1999
... storefront in the heart of Crater? and European companies were forced to leave. Those
Commerce in textiles was only a quarter of the story; remaining were either Indian-owned or staffed by In-
the other three quarters more accurately depict busi- dian employees in senior positions of finance...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 466–480.
Published: 01 December 2015
... , 1995 . Clark Gordon L. Thrift Nigel Tickell Adam . “Performing Finance: The Industry, the Media, and Its Image.” Review of International Political Economy 11 , no. 2 ( 2004 ): 289 – 310 . Edelman David . “A Competitive Horse-Race Handicapping Algorithm Based...
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