However, when family members lend to one another, they might issue a loan at a below-market rate in an effort to help their family members. However, the IRS mandates a minimum interest rate that must be applied
An applicable federal rate is an interest rate used in a few ways by the IRS. The most common use of this rate is to calculate...
The study sought to establish the necessity of women on boards following the affirmative action of at least one-third of female representation of public sector organizations in Uganda. There is scanty literature about women on boards in Uganda and a grounded theory methodology was applied. Twenty-t...
Imputed interest is a term used in tax law to describe a situation where a lender charges no interest on a loan, but the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considers the loan to have been made at an interest rate that is "imputed" or implied by market conditions. This can happen when a l...
Since 2014, China’s photovoltaic poverty alleviation projects (PPAPs) have developed rapidly with the strong support of the Chinese government. Nevertheless, empirical evidence on the contribution of PPAPs in improving the livelihoods of poor rural families is lacking. In order to overcome this knowle...
In nature, the dominance hierarchies described above determine priority of access to food. The hierarchical position of an individual is fully acquired around 18 months of age and is not correlated with size or fighting ability: the social status of females is determined by their mothers' social ...
A key capitalist process that relates to, and in some ways underpins, many of the above-mentioned processes is ‘financialisation’. Epstein (2005) refers to financialisation as the ‘increasing role of financial motives, financial markets, financial actors and financial institutions’ in the econ...
Zimbabwe envisions being an upper-middle-income economy by the year 2030. The vision 2030 has infrastructure development as a stand-out pillar upon which it is founded. The vision envisages well-developed, modern, efficient and resilient infrastructure a
Although the number of FGCS participating in higher learning has increased in Africa, there is also a rise in the failure and attrition rate among FGCS when attempting to navigate higher education compared to non-FGCS counterparts (Engle, Bermeo, & O’Brien, 2006; Prospero & Vohra-Gupta, ...
The initial interest rate, also known as the teaser rate or start rate, is the introductory rate on an adjustable or floating-rate loan. It is usually lower than most other interest rates and often stays consistent within a specific time frame. ...