The CACG, for example, advocates that the director has to have integrity, common sense, business acumen and leadership.

One of the Acumen Fund fellows at my organization,

There is strong pressure for us business to perform certain financial results.

And so with patient capital from Acumen and other organizations,

But strong legal fundamentals are no less important for creating a business friendly environment.

Policies must not be based on the fiction that good loans were made, and that the business acumen of financial market leaders and regulators will be validated once confidence is restored.

The business plan acknowledged the importance to UNCDF of a strong, well defined partnership with UNDP .

It is also a tribute to your own personal integrity and diplomatic acumen.

And then IDEO and Acumen spent several weeks working with them to help design new social marketing campaigns, community outreach strategies, business models, new water vessels for storing water and carts for delivering water.

And then IDEO and Acumen spent several weeks working with them to help design new social marketing campaigns, community outreach strategies, business models, new water vessels for storing water and carts for delivering water.

Thus, tourism professionals in both countries have received strong government assurances that business will continue as usual.

It has a strong infrastructure and a flourishing insurance business, as well as a prosperous tourist industry.

Credit that mainly to the other 30 , especially to strong exports and a rebound in business capital spending.

Strong, strong, strong.

I can only talk from my own experience, but in eight years of running Acumen fund,

There are several key areas where the legal and regulatory framework could have a strong impact on the business environment.

In all the fast growing countries of the region, Governments had given strong support to private business and to exports.

Confidence is important, but it must rest on sound fundamentals. Policies must not be based on the fiction that good loans were made, and that the business acumen of financial market leaders and regulators will be validated once confidence is restored.

To fulfil their role, they need strong linkages among themselves and with larger business partners as well as efficient support systems.

Aman Foundation, to set up a self sustainable life support ambulance service in Karachi, facilitated by Acumen Fund.

I am certain that her political acumen and diplomatic skills will contribute greatly to the work of the Committee.

And so, it was really those lessons that made me decide to build Acumen Fund about six years ago.

Nevertheless, three key areas are identified below in which the legal and regulatory framework could have a strong impact on the business environment.

Business was business.

Business is business.

Bashar may lack his father s acumen, but he, too, knows a simple truth peace with Israel is the price to pay.

But it is becoming increasingly difficult for factories in the region to remain in business under conditions of weak global demand and strong local currencies.

Strong people don't need a strong man.

And no historical acumen is needed to understand that nationalism was the source of Hitler s National Socialism and, therefore, World War II.

One of the best known is Acumen Fund, led by Jacqueline Novogratz, a TEDster who got a big boost here at TED.

Business is business, my dear.

The business cycles of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush share strong similarities and are different from pre 1980 cycles.

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Strong!

Strong

Too strong for you. Too strong for you.

I can only talk from my own experience, but in eight years of running Acumen fund, I've seen the power of patient capital.

True, Yasser Arafat was not a model democrat, but his charisma and political acumen were crucial for holding all the Palestinian factions together.

During the 1990 s, private investors looked at big, lumbering central banks as cash cows, long on money and short on financial acumen.

Sure, they solicit. Business is business.

Strong bones, strong body. Milk does a body good.

And so, Anuj and Acumen have been talking about testing the private sector, because the assumption that the aid establishment has made is that,

My first business was a dressmaking business

Business association? What business association is this?

Business is a ruthless business, my dear.