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  2. Spain and the United Nations - Wikipedia

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    Spain ranks eleventh on the scale of financial contributions to the United Nations Regular Budget and is a member of the Geneva Group, made up of the largest contributors, which carries out exhaustive monitoring of administrative and budgetary issues in the United Nations system, including the specialized agencies and international technical organizations.

  3. Beneficial ownership - Wikipedia

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    Beneficial owner is subject to a state's statutory laws regulating interest or title transfer. [2] This often relates where the legal title owner has implied trustee duties to the beneficial owner. [clarification needed] A common example of a beneficial owner is the real or true owner of funds held by a nominee bank.

  4. Economic history of Spain - Wikipedia

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    In 1959, Spain entered the greatest cycle of industrialization and prosperity it had ever known. Foreign aid took the form of US$75 million in drawing rights from the IMF, US$100 million in OEEC credits, US$70 million in commercial credits from the Chase Manhattan Bank and the First National City Bank , US$30 million from the Export-Import Bank ...

  5. Business cycle - Wikipedia

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    For example, Milton Friedman said that calling the business cycle a "cycle" is a misnomer, because of its non-cyclical nature. Friedman believed that for the most part, excluding very large supply shocks, business declines are more of a monetary phenomenon. [43] Arthur F. Burns and Wesley C. Mitchell define business cycle as a form of ...

  6. Bourbon Reforms - Wikipedia

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    The Free Trade decree opened all ports in the colonies to trade with Spanish controlled ports, the colonies, or Spain. This act, in tandem with the crucial decision preceding it to open the islands of the Spanish Caribbean to all nine peninsular Spanish ports in 1765, helped establish the notion that the special privilege of trade that only a ...

  7. 2008–2014 Spanish financial crisis - Wikipedia

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    The 2008–2014 Spanish financial crisis, also known as the Great Recession in Spain [1] [2] or the Great Spanish Depression, began in 2008 during the global financial crisis. In 2012, it made Spain a late participant in the European sovereign debt crisis when the country was unable to bail out its financial sector and had to apply for a €100 ...

  8. Economic recovery - Wikipedia

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    The overall business outlook for an industry looks optimistic during the economic recovery phase. During the recovery period, the economy goes through a process of economic adaptation and change to new circumstances, including the reasons that caused the recession in the first place, as well as the new policies and regulations enacted by ...

  9. Procyclical and countercyclical variables - Wikipedia

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    Keynesian economics advocates the use of automatic and discretionary countercyclical policies to lessen the impact of the business cycle. One example of an automatically countercyclical fiscal policy is progressive taxation. By taxing a larger proportion of income when the economy expands, a progressive tax tends to decrease demand when the ...