"provident" is a correctly spelled and correctly used word in written English.
It is an adjective that means "Exercising or marked by forethought, thrift, or caution". Example: The provident investor made sure to thoroughly research each investment before committing his money.
Many developing countries require certain employers to contribute to a provident scheme providing a lump-sum payment in the event of death or disability or on retirement.
In response to the lack of opportunity for blacks in the medical professions, he founded (1891) the nation's first interracial hospital, Provident, to provide training for black interns and the first school for black nurses in the United States.
This becomes clear in Ammonius' speech in On the E in Delphi, where God is said to be "beyond everything" (epekeina tou pantos; 393B), but also in the On the Obsolescence of Oracles, where Lamprias defends the possibility of God being provident over many worlds, provided that these are of a finite number (426E).
The independent provident funds would then also hesitate.Possibly to sweeten political opposition to the change, the finance ministry said on February 2nd that the minimum return provident funds must offer will rise from 8.5% to 9.5%.
Any money received when earlier investments mature will also be subject to the new rule.According to one observer in Mumbai, over the next 18 months perhaps a quarter of the provident funds' assets are likely to mature.
COMPARED with much of the rest of the rich world, Britain has been provident.
IN 1880, Sir Joshua Waddilove, a Victorian philanthropist, founded Provident Financial to provide affordable loans to working-class families in and around Bradford, in northern England.
The contributory National Provident Fund provides retirement benefits for those in paid employment (a minority of the labour force, including many town dwellers, are engaged in informal employment).
Yes, that proportion is understated because it does not include the other fingers the government has in the economic pie, such as its huge landholdings, the Central Provident Fund (a mandatory savings scheme) and Temasek (a government-linked investment company).
One private health insurer, Western Provident Association, is so confident that topping up NHS cancer care will become commonplace that it has launched a policy covering cancer drugs the NHS will not pay for.Some say that, by allowing wealth to buy health, patient top-ups threaten the founding principles of the NHS.
They started to change their business model to one that could deliver higher volume at lower cost.Among those firms was BUPA an unusual concern in that its parent company, the British United Provident Association, has no shareholders and all surpluses are re-invested in the business.
