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Cape Breton University
Cape Breton University, formerly University College of Cape Breton, is a public university in Sydney, Nova Scotia, renamed in 2005, with about 9,100 students from more than 70 countries.
Cape Colony administration
The Cape Colony administration was the British colonial government of the Cape of Good Hope from 1806 to 1910, gaining responsible government in 1872 and joining the Union of South Africa in 1910.
Cape Coloureds
Cape Coloureds are a Western Cape South African community of mixed Khoisan, slave (East, Malaysia, Central Africa), and European descent, shaped by colonial classification, apartheid disenfranchisement, District Six removals, and Afrikaans culture.
Cape Dutch
Cape Dutch, also known as Cape Afrikaners, refers to the Dutch settlers at the Cape of Good Hope, their spoken dialect, and a regional architectural style.
Cape Gelidonya wreck
The Cape Gelidonya wreck, also called the Gelidonya shipwreck, is a Late Bronze Age merchant ship that sank around 1200 BC off Turkey carrying Cypriot copper and scrap bronze.
Cape Malays
Cape Malays: Muslim, largely Afrikaans-speaking community of Cape Town descended from VOC-era slaves and exiles from the Dutch East Indies and Indian Ocean colonies; classified as a Coloured subgroup in 1950.
Cape Qualified Franchise
The Cape Qualified Franchise was the Cape Colony's voting system from 1853, under which men of any race could vote on property and salary qualifications.
Cape Town Stock Exchange (CTSE)
The Cape Town Stock Exchange (CTSE), formerly 4 Africa Exchange (4AX), is a South African securities exchange listing small and medium-sized companies in equities and debt.
Cape Verde–Mauritania Maritime Boundary Treaty
The Cape Verde–Mauritania Maritime Boundary Treaty, signed at Praia on 19 September 2003, divides the two countries' exclusive economic zones and continental shelves along a median line.
Cape Verdean Creole
Cape Verdean Creole (kriolu, kabuverdianu): a Portuguese-lexified creole, mother tongue of nearly all Cape Verdeans and its diaspora, with over a million speakers, 15th-century origins, Sotavento and Barlavento varieties, and no official status alongside Portuguese.
Cape Verdean democratic transition
The Cape Verdean democratic transition was Cabo Verde's peaceful change from a one-party state to multiparty democracy between 1990 and 1992, won by the Movement for Democracy.
Cape Verdean escudo
The Cape Verdean escudo is the currency of Cabo Verde, issued by the Banco de Cabo Verde and pegged to the euro at 110.265 since 1998.
Cape Verdeans
Cape Verdeans (Cabo-verdianos) are the Creole people of the Cabo Verde archipelago and their diaspora, descending from Portuguese settlers and enslaved Africans after 1462, speaking Kriolu, independent since 5 July 1975, and living today mostly abroad.
Capella University
Capella University: Minneapolis-based online university owned by Strategic Education, Inc.; HLC-accredited since 1997; known for FlexPath, its 2013 direct-assessment, subscription-based competency degrees.
Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co.
Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., 556 U.S. 868 (2009), a 5-4 Supreme Court due process case: Justice Brent Benjamin had to recuse from a $50 million appeal after Massey CEO Don Blankenship spent $3 million on his election.
Capetian dynasty
Capetian dynasty: royal house of France founded by Hugh Capet, elected king in 987; direct line of fifteen kings ruled to 1328, then Valois and Bourbon branches to 1848.
Capetian House of Anjou
The Capetian House of Anjou was a French cadet branch founded in 1246. It ruled the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily from the 13th century.
Capita
Capita, also known as Capita Group, is a British outsourcing and professional-services company that runs business processes and customer operations for UK government bodies and private clients.
Capital (economics)
Capital in economics is a stock of produced, durable means of production, also called capital goods, that yields services over time and is distinct from land and labor.
Capital (radio network)
Capital, also known as the Capital FM Network, is a British contemporary hit radio network owned by Global Media & Entertainment that began as London's Capital Radio in 1973.
Capital accumulation
Capital accumulation is the growth over time of an economy's stock of produced means of production, as new investment adds to the stock and depreciation subtracts from it.
Capital adequacy ratio
The capital adequacy ratio, also known as the capital to risk weighted assets ratio, is a bank solvency measure comparing regulatory capital to risk-weighted assets, with Basel III minima of 4.5, 6, and 8 percent.
Capital asset pricing model
The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is a finance model from the early 1960s that prices an asset's expected return from the risk-free rate and its beta.
Capital budgeting
Capital budgeting, also known as capital planning, is the process firms use to evaluate major investments, most often with net present value and internal rate of return.
Capital Constellation
Capital Constellation is a New York-based private markets investment platform managed by Wafra, formed in 2018 to take minority stakes in young alternative asset managers and co-invest alongside them.
Capital control
A capital control is a government restriction on cross-border capital movement, such as a ban, quantitative limit, tax, or approval procedure, permitted under the IMF's Articles of Agreement.
Capital deepening
Capital deepening is an increase in capital per worker, such as machinery or education, distinguished from capital widening, which only keeps pace with workforce growth.
Capital Dynamics Global Secondaries
Capital Dynamics Global Secondaries is the private equity secondaries program of Capital Dynamics, buying existing limited partnership interests in mature buyout, growth, and venture funds.
Capital expenditure
Capital expenditure, or capex, is money a business spends to acquire, build, or improve long-lived assets like buildings and machinery, recorded on the balance sheet rather than expensed immediately.
Capital flight
Capital flight, also called flight of capital, is the departure of capital from a country driven by perceived abnormal risks at home, from mismanagement to fear of confiscation.