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AbstractThis study investigates performance in the savings and loan (S&L) industry during the 1980s. Logistic regression is used to replicate the Benston (1985) study for the decade of the eighties. This study expands upon Benston's work by identifying the effects of new charters (1980 or later), and differing capital definitions (GAAP) versus RAP). The stability of the variables contributing to success or failure is also reviewed for the periods 1982–1985 and 1986–1989. The results of this study confirm the earlier findings of Benston. Net worth to total assets and return on total assets were negatively related to failure and were the only variables found to be significant in all analyses. Direct investments to total assets was not found to be significant. Further, newly chartered firms were found to be no more likely to fail than the other existing firms. There were no major differences in the statistical results when testing using the GAAP and RAP definitions of capital which suggests that regulatory changes in accounting rules did not have a major effect on firm survival.

This article considers the implications of migrant entrepreneurship education (MEEd) for sustainability and for the work of global adult educators. It will present some insights into the opportunities and challenges created by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the experience of running the Fresh Start MEEd programme. This programme, funded by the European Union (EU) in 2017-2019, brought together teams from three countries - the Netherlands, the United Kingdom (UK), and Belgium and involved three universities: Zuyd University of Applied Sciences (Maastricht), London South Bank University (LSBU); and University College Leuven Limburg (UCLL) in the province of Limburg, Belgium. The team found that there is no 'one size fits all' as each context and each community have differing starting points and needs. Central to this is an approach which is learner-centred, which enables participants' voices to be heard, and supports the co-creation of the programme. Education and learning are always a two-way process and migration offers us all a chance to learn from each other and to appreciate the rich resource of ideas and skills which migrants have to offer to communities. The first section of the article provides an overview of the implications of migration for sustainability and its relationship to delivery of the SDGs. Section two examines the Fresh Start migrant entrepreneurship programme as a model for working with adult refugees and migrants. It presents some of the opportunities and challenges for educators created by the SDGs. Section three provides illustrations from the work of the Fresh Start migrant entrepreneurship programme and section four considers some implications and ways forward.

Abstract This article will focus on the challenges of leadership and management of a key initiative of the 2005-2014 UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), namely the Regional Centres of Expertise in Education for Sustainability (RCEs). It will argue that in order to achieve sustainability, there is a need to move away from outdated hierarchical and technocratic models towards more flexible, democratic and empowering approaches to leadership.

A VAST CANVAS OF POLITICAL BATTLE HAS OPENED UP OVER THE POST-FINANCIAL CRISIS. IN THE CHANGED POLITICAL LANDSCAPE IT IS BE NO MEANS CLEAR THAT THE UNITED STATES WILL WIN OVER THE TAG TEAM OF ASIA AND EUROPE. THIS ARTICLE ARGUES FOR AN INTERNATIONAL REGIME THAT PERMITS MULTIPLE FORMS OF NATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY TO FLOURISH.

Examination of the relationship of Japan & the World Bank with specific interest in analyzing how & to what degree the World Bank acts as an autonomous variable in the international system. Illustrates how Japan was able to change World Bank perception & policy toward East Asian development by following an independent path working with East Asian countries' development projects. Nevertheless, the World Bank is shown to continue to work autonomously as a major agent of development internationally. The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth & Public Policy, a special 1993 study resulting from the Japan's request that the World Bank examine East & Southeast Asia, is examined here after reviewing the tension between Japan & the World Bank beginning in the 1980s & the process of preparing the study. It is concluded that the Bank's values & objectives are influenced & determined by world financial markets; the financial capital's owners, managers; & organizational structure & staff. While not taking direct orders from the US, this structure & set of values also represent US values & objectives, making the Bank less autonomous than it appears superficially. R. Rodriguez

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