Last year the government set up Big Society Capital as a social investment bank with the aim of radically changing the way Britain's social sector is funded.
"I think Big Society Capital is a good thing, but it is a limited amount of money and it is a bit of a drop in the ocean, given what is happening to the sector, with the deficit-reduction programme really hitting the sector, " he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
It has financial support from the Royal Society and a venture capital fund.
The building was under construction when it crumbled Friday morning in the center of the business capital, the society said.
He said the building society needed an injection of capital.
These pro-growth reforms are the result of tax competition, or the pressure to adopt competitive economic policies that is put on governments by an increasingly globalized society where both labor and capital are mobile.
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Society needs a stockmarket to allocate capital efficiently, rewarding the best companies with higher share prices.
We remain an amazingly prosperous society thanks to the accumulation of capital bequeathed to us by our more prudent forbearers.
Society has a limited amount of capital to invest in this transformation.
Attracting more women to these careers benefits them and also allows society to reap their full human-capital potential.
Development encompasses not just resources and capital but a transformation of society.
The Alzheimer's Society said that a large rise in the capital threshold could take thousands of people "out of the firing line" for huge costs.
Few recent presidents have come to the White House with such a bold vision to change society or been so willing to spend political capital in that quest.
In the long run, this will erode the social capital that makes a free, commercial society work.
Although Pakistan is an unusually turbulent society, nothing like this had ever happened in the capital before.
The outcome is being widely seen as a significant maturation of civil society in Singapore, which has grown into a financial capital and aspires for cultural leadership as well.
The United States is clearing the way for Soviet bond offerings in this country, affording the USSR extraordinary new sources of capital and unprecedented opportunities for strategic penetration of American society.
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"Benefit corporations are brilliant because they allow companies to pursue profit - for which no-one should apologise - and at the same time have a positive impact on society, " says corporate legal expert Laura Jordan of The Capital Law Firm in Washington DC.
The infrastructure and capital investment secretary said the ambition was for a "society that takes full advantage of the digital age" and would therefore ensure Scotland would "prosper economically, socially and culturally".
But society disagrees and will eventually force you out of business by draining you of your capital.
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The very word sharia which at its broadest can imply a sort of divine ideal about how society should be organised, but can also refer to specific forms of corporal and capital punishment is now political dynamite.
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The issue is whether we want society to be government-centered, with finances, liberties and decisions controlled in the capital.
The fact is that there is no empirical basis for financialism's underlying fundamental principles--that a corporation has no obligation to society other than to maximize short-term value for its shareholders, and that the capital markets should be their own sole regulators.
At the WEF Council on Financing and Capital on which I participate, we assessed the role of financial institutions in modern society.
Her working capital was divvied up among an alphabet of nonprofit organizations, including the SOS (Society of Separationists), UWA (United World Atheists) and PALA (Prison Atheists League of America).
And they will do quite well for at least another decade or two, living off mainstream industries such as autos, consumer electronics, semiconductors and other capital goods as they make a transition to a more investor and consumer-friendly society.
Scarce land, labor, and capital goods must be used producing those specific goods that are most valued by members of society.
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Here, in towns like Ramallah, capital of the West Bank, the brotherhood had been digging its roots deep into Palestinian society for many years.
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