Definition of disinvestment
: consumption of capital;
also
: the withdrawing of investment
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The correct formula is (investment - disinvestment) = (saving + borrowing).
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And as the trend of state disinvestment in higher education continues, there are fewer resources for ambitious efforts.
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But over the past two decades, its leaders have also worked hard to make the neighborhood cleaner and safer in the face of longstanding disinvestment.
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Large swaths of the city still bear the scars of decades of disinvestment and abandonment.
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The City of Cleveland has done extensive planning for hundreds of acres of land around the right-of-way, much of which is vacant after decades of disinvestment and abandonment.
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Prior to that, Kevin Logan, HSBC’s chief U.S. economist, says the Fed is on course to begin its disinvestment policy.
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In all of these states, Republican legislators paired such disinvestment from education with tax cuts for high-earners and business interests.
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Cities, including Fort Myers, Fla., also contributed to their disinvestment and decline.
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First Known Use of disinvestment
1936
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