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  2. Art Fund - Wikipedia

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    Art Fund (formerly the National Art Collections Fund) is an independent membership-based British charity, which raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation. It gives grants and acts as a channel for many gifts and bequests, as well as lobbying on behalf of museums and galleries and their users.

  3. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    A more general definition is that a currency is a "system" of money (monetary units) in common use, especially within a particular nation. current account A country's current account is one of the two components of its balance of payments, the other being the capital account (also known as the financial account).

  4. Economics - Wikipedia

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    Economics (/ ˌ ɛ k ə ˈ n ɒ m ɪ k s, ˌ iː k ə-/) is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work.

  5. Money supply - Wikipedia

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    In some economics textbooks, the supply-demand equilibrium in the markets for money and reserves is represented by a simple so-called money multiplier relationship between the monetary base of the central bank and the resulting money supply including commercial bank deposits. This is a short-hand simplification which disregards several other ...

  6. Gross domestic product - Wikipedia

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    Gross Domestic Product ( GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value [2] of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country [3] or countries. [4] [5] [6] GDP is more often used by the government of a single country to measure its economic health. [3] Due to its complex and subjective nature, this ...

  7. Public finance - Wikipedia

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    Portal. v. t. e. Public finance is the study of the role of the government in the economy. [1] It is the branch of economics that assesses the government revenue and government expenditure of the public authorities and the adjustment of one or the other to achieve desirable effects and avoid undesirable ones. [2]

  8. Resource allocation - Wikipedia

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    In strategic planning, resource allocation is a plan for using available resources, for example human resources, especially in the near term, to achieve goals for the future. It is the process of allocating scarce resources among the various projects or business units. There are a number of approaches to solving resource allocation problems e.g ...

  9. Monetary economics - Wikipedia

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    Monetary economics. Monetary economics is the branch of economics that studies the different theories of money: it provides a framework for analyzing money and considers its functions (such as medium of exchange, store of value, and unit of account ), and it considers how money can gain acceptance purely because of its convenience as a public ...