He raised salaries across the board, promoted new officers to key positions, and disbursed large sums from Venezuela's extra oil earnings to the military's Plan Bolívar civic-action program.
Forced to disburse the sum unevenly, the white subjects (with an average age of 23) consistently shorted the "black under scarcity conditions" image with $7 or less, and awarded the control picture - the ambiguously mixed-race person - $8 or more.
That sum, disbursed in the final weeks of 2013, implies again that the company will raise more in its IPO than the currently listed $100 million flat.
The majority of the sum went to the winner, with smaller sums disbursed to the other finalists.
As the functions of the RFC grew, however, and as it began to assume responsibility for disbursing huge sums of money, it tended to become involved in politics.
In fairness, the obstacles are many: incompetency, corruption, the sheer complexity of disbursing huge sums, the multiplicity and difficulty of the tasks at hand — defense, education, health, prisons, courts, police, disaster relief, regulation of markets, banks, drugs, food safety.
If we accept that poverty reduction is not fundamentally a financial problem but a problem of weak institutions, pressures to disburse large sums of money with limited staff oversight and in situations of fragile governance appear an unlikely recipe for development success.
There have been numerous media accounts of G.I.s disbursing vast sums of money to the locals.
In addition, current HIV donor funding mechanisms still disburse considerable sums through non-government organizations (NGOs) and district health offices that oversee or offer support at this level.
The inaugural honor consists of one $400,000 grand prize and four $150,000 innovation awards, disbursed in lump sums to five recipients.
