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Real Prerogatives, Nominal Democracy, and ….. Social Sustainability?

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  Real Prerogatives, Nominal Democracy, and ….. Social Sustainability?     Prasad Rao, MTech, PhD Director, AltKuznets Sustainability Advisors   *********************Email  director@altkuznetsadvisors.com  for a pdf   *********** It’s a wonderful world they say… perhaps a fantastic Universe too. But the Universe is all of 9 Dimensions, so how do we reconcile the Nominal Democracy that operates in the 3G3D space around us? This apparently, is an esoteric issue that bears no relevance to the Sustainability theme that AltKuznets is staked in… or is it? Most all of us are aware Sustainability is dichotomized in to the Environmental and the Social. And Social Sustainability is all about Democracy and Egalitarian Rights. How then do we reconcile the 9D Galactic with Religion-Real, and the Real-Religion with the Nominal Democracy that operates in the 3G3D? And how could we ensure Citizens of the Nominal Democracy turn in their Real Status-sourced Prerogatives...

Green the Urban Concrete Jungle? A Sustainable Construction Proposal

Prasad Rao, MTech PhD PennState Director, AltKuznets Sustainability Advisors   Click here for the Biz Sales Office   Construction – both Residential and Commercial, is a primary economic sector worldwide that, beyond adding to the Nation’s GDP, contributes to societal growth, adds value to Businesses, and generates employment. Despite those credentials, the Construction Sector bears the burden of contributing to significant environmental externalities across the spectrum of its inputs, construction-associated pollution, and demolition waste. Construction figures prominently in Climate-change debate and policy priorities for reasons its share in the economic pie, and the externality-intensiveness of income-incremented upgrades to Property assets. In response, Governments worldwide have adopted the ‘Green Building Code’ [1] to incentivize Property Builders and Developers to increment environmental sustainability of their operations. While such Code is legislated and incentivi...

Network Closed-Cycle Conformance....

Network Closed-Cycle Conformance…. (…to Upgrade your PE!) Prasad Rao, MTech, PhD PennState Director, AltKuznets Sustainability Advisors Click here for the Biz Sales Office For decades, the Capital markets that valued Firm Equities, focussed unvaryingly on expanding Markets, Sales Volumes, Revenues and Profits. Then came Costs, Innovation and Industry Concentration. Other determinants of Market valuation, ratios and measures followed – Net Reserves, Tax Efficiency, Ad Effectiveness, Investor Awareness, so on and so forth. Sustainability took a back seat, and when it come in to focus, it leaned more to the Social than Environmental Sustainability. In other words, more of Corporate Social Responsibility and the less of Climate Change. It is indeed fortuitous that Governments, with a longer foresight due the responsibility of ensuring the safety and sustainability of its people, invested in R&D that yielded the Renewable Technologies of the day. However, and despite the various Renewab...

An FV Finance-mediated Recycling Policy: A Proposal

An FV Finance-mediated Recycling Policy: A Proposal Prasad Rao, MTech PhD. ,  Director A ltKuznets Sustainability Advisors director@altkuznetsadvisors.com Purchase a PDF Copy from AltKuznets Biz Sales Office I ntroduction T he global Nominal economy, with price-based competition and PE-based arbitrages in the Capital markets, has cumulated externalities in all three media. And though much attention focuses on Climate Change and its all too evident manifestations in Polar Melting, Forest Fires and Floods, the enlarging landfills of Plastics and other wastes are just as significant a concern for their multifarious impacts on Humanity and beyond . Conventional non-market and market-policies have had a limited impact on the enlarging crisis, and it is opportune to seek more drastic, innovative policies facilitated by technological progress in other fields, notably. The Recycling Market Recycling has assumed significant proportions in econom ies where competition imp...

Leveraging Household Consumption to Upgrade Firm PE

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Leveraging Household Consumption to Upgrade Firm PE       Prasad Rao, Director AltKuznets Sustainability Advisors Pvt Ltd altkuznetsadvisors.com   Click here for AltKuznets Biz Sales Office Introduction The economy of the past, characterized by volumes, prices, costs, taxes, and profit margins, sales-based competition has by and large, turned less important as a new economy, characterized by monetizations, multiple currencies, hedges and insurances, as well as Sustainability performance and Product niches takes centre stage. The new economy runs on different rules – rules that the Equity Market seemingly doesn’t mind, even is comfortable with. Finance has taken precedence of fundamental economic parameters. This new economy is characterized by global competition for CC Capital that is arbitraged through the PE multiple at which the EPS of competing Growth firms are negotiated and traded. Large FIIs, Mutual funds & Pension Funds, Sovereign Funds, and Sector Intere...

POLITICAL BOND-MEDIATED TECHNOLOGY & POLICY HEDGES

POLITICAL BOND-MEDIATED TECHNOLOGY & POLICY HEDGES (plus Political Support for NSI Monetization!)   Prasad Rao, Director AltKuznets Sustainability Advisors Pvt Ltd director@altkuznetsadvisors.com   Click here to buy a Copy from the AltKuznets Biz Office It is often the case that a Sector witnesses a technological revolution in a short period of time, and those innovations and technologies are promoted through multiple Design & Policy alternatives. Those Policy alternatives [1] compete with each other not only on basis Cause, Scale, Efficiency and Returns, but also their compatibility with Political regimes that may or may not eventually favour the technologies for reasons the social, technological & policy preferences of the People, and the Equity-Efficiency:Risk-Return imbalance. Consequently, certain innovative technologies and associated Designs & Policies might be benched across years, even decades until the Political regime switches. Further...