International aid provides much-needed capital for development and public welfare in recipientcountries. With growing national strengths, China has transformed from a recipient to a key contributor of international aid. According to Wi...
2023, p. 682) as their wealth or the wealth endowments of people in their social networks allows them to survive without doing much until the crisis passes.
. While these strands of research offer important insights into the sources of dissatisfaction and thuswhypowerful states engage in institutional contestation, we know much less about the factors that shapehowthey contest international institutions– our NIPT closes this gap....
23). This resulted in a highly publicised rift and led key Artforum editors to resign. Since then, art magazines have in general become more commercially oriented but continue to play an essential role in the artworld’s reputational economy through their commentary, promotion, and advertising (...
Josh, who was entering his freshman year at Harvard, watched in shock as his father’s behavior played out publicly in embarrassing tabloid stories. His mother was often in tears. Jared, then 24, stepped in as CEO of Kushner Companies and attempted to clean up the mess. Charlie eventually ...
Harvard Financial Pain Grows as Blavatnik Joins Donor Revolt; Billionaire pauses gifts to school amid antisemitism furor; University is still richest in US with $51 billion endowment Janet Lorin – Bloomberg The list of Harvard University’s disaffected donors has added another billionaire: Len Blavat...
Public opinion is shaped in significant part by online content, spread via social media and curated algorithmically. The current online ecosystem has been designed predominantly to capture user attention rather than to promote deliberate cognition and au
Some endowment funds have guidelines stating how much of each year's investment income can be spent. For many universities, this amount is approximately 5% of the endowment's total asset value. Some elite institutions, such as Harvard, have endowments that are worth billions of dollars, so this...
Between 1985 and 2008, Harvard University's endowment generated 15.23% returns, while Yale pulled in 16.62%. Both endowments handily outperformed theS&P 500, which only grew 12% during that same time period. But there is no magic formula behind any one school's success. In fact, each univers...
“You can almost draw a line from his endorsement of Trump in early 2016 to his being much more, not just comfortable, but feeling invincible,” said one former Liberty administrator. “Because he was on an airplane with Donald Trump, and he’s at a rally, and he’s on TV....