The Magnitsky Act — a tool that allows the U.S. to deny visas to, or freeze assets of, human rights violators — was initially passed in 2012 after a Russian anti-corruption lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, who worked under Browder, died after being tortured in a Moscow prison in 2009.
Since health is the most precious asset of any human being, most people would buy organic food as these would keep them healthy (Van Doorn and Verhoef 2015; Lockie et al. 2004).
In September, a Cairo court agreed to freeze the assets of five human rights activists and three prominent NGOs.
The production, accumulation and distribution (explicitly and tacitly) of knowledge through institutions, networks and assets of organisational, human and social capital remain the salient characteristic of innovation.
Imagination is one of the best assets of the human mind.
In towns marked by the waste of assets, the waste of human potential, it is harder to imagine, against all immediate evidence, that it is possible to live anything other than a scrabbling, scrappy kind of life.
The U.S. should press harder for an end to the crackdown, which has included dropping probes into NGOs' funding from foreign sources, potential travel bans on activists, asset freezes and harassment of human rights activists.
HIP Investor, along with our research partner Solaron, has discovered at least a dozen companies -- including global firms Infosys and Tata -- that are pioneering the integration of human asset reporting into their financial statements.
Like other assets, human capital has value in the marketplace, but unlike other assets, the potential value of human capital can be fully realized only with the cooperation of the person.
Along with the redeployment of human assets came a reallocation of sophisticated hardware.
