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Experiencing the armed struggle : the Soweto generation and after
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 354-369).This study explores the experiences of the rank-and-file soldiers of Umkhonto we Sizwe and the Azanian People's Liberation Anny. Extensive interviews by the author and other researchers reveal the voices of the soldiers themselves. The African National Congress and Pan African Congress archives at the University of the Western Cape and the University of Fort Hare supplement and verify these oral testimonies, as do some published sources. Most previously published materials about the armed struggle against apartheid have already focused on diplomacy, strategy and tactics, operations, leadership, and human rights abuses to the neglect of the soldiers' actual experiences. This study complements these with significant new oral history materials from the Soweto generation of soldiers and their successors. When dealing with MK, many authors have documented issues of the camp structure in Angola, and operations inside South Africa, so much of this detail is only addressed briefly, leaving space to explore the soldiers' experiences. In the case of APLA, very little has been written on its history, and more detail is provided on these subjects. This study therefore deals with the soldiers' politicisation and motivation for joining the armed struggle, their experiences in leaving South Africa and training in exile, the crises in exile which limited their effectiveness for a time, their return to fight in South Africa, and their difficulties in the "new" South Africa. These materials reveal that vast problems remain facing these veterans of the struggle against apartheid, and that they have the potential, if properly supported and employed, to contribute substantially to the development of present day South Africa. Conversely, if their neglect continues, they also have the potential to bring vast harm to the country. Further use of the investigative tools of oral history, especially if extended to the former soldiers' vernacular languages, is necessary to augment the history of South Africa, and these soldiers' contributions
Demográfia és növekedés – Ronald Lee és Andrew Mason növekedési modelljei és az általuk felvázolt jövőkép
Get PDFCikkünkben bemutatjuk Ronald Lee és Andrew Mason három, demográfiai alapú
növekedési modelljét, melyek közül az egyik az együttélő nemzedékek modellje,
kettő pedig neoklasszikus növekedési modell. Mind a három modellben a termékenységi
és túlélési ráták exogén változóként szerepelnek, a két neoklasszikus modellben
további exogén kategóriákkal együtt. A szerzők jövőbeli növekedési pályákat
szimulálnak a fenti két demográfiai mutató különböző szcenáriókhoz tartozó
értékei mellett. Tulajdonképpen a demográfiai átmenet egymás utáni szakaszait
írják le, eljutva a magas túlélési ráta és a reprodukciós szint alatt is csökkenő termékenységi
ráta időszakához. Legfőbb következtetésük, hogy az alacsony termékenységi
ráta negatív hatásai részben vagy teljesen ellensúlyozhatók a második
demográfiai osztalék segítségével
Population Change and Economic Development: What Have we Learned from the East Asia Experience?
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Economic Stagnation in Japan: Exploring the Causes and Remedies of Japanization
No full textJapan’s dramatic transformation from economic success to economic stagnation offers important policy lessons to advanced countries everywhere that are struggling with stagnation. The term ‘Japanization’ is often used by economists to describe long-term stagnation and deflation. Symptoms include high unemployment, weak economic activity, interest rates near zero, quantitative easing, and population aging. In the global context, what can governments do to mitigate the downward trends experienced by Japan? This judiciously timed book investigates in depth the causes of Japan’s ‘lost decades’ versus the real recovery achieved by the United States, and the lessons that can be learned.
This book helps to provide a basis for assessing a wide range of policy approaches from which policymakers and governments can choose to avoid economic decline. The expert contributions provide an overview of the pattern of ‘Japanization’ in a global economic perspective, analyze similarities and differences between the Korean and Japanese economies, and examine policy measures taken by Japan during the lost decades. From this analysis, the book proposes future policy solutions for countries experiencing ‘Japanization’.
Economic stagnation and the relevant policy reactions have been of keen interest around the globe since the global financial crisis and this book will be an invaluable resource for scholars, policymakers, and economic commentators alike.Preface
1. Introduction and overview (Dongchul Cho, Takatoshi Ito and Andrew Mason)
PART I AGING, INDUSTRY MATURATION AND JAPANIZATION
2. Japanization: Is it spreading to the rest of the world?(Takatoshi Ito)
3. GDP growth from the perspective of demographic change: Will aging Korea become another Japan?(Kyooho Kwon)
4. Export dynamics of Japan, Korea and China (Kyu-Chul Jung)
PART II RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS AND TFP
5. Product market efficiencies and TFP: A comparative study of Japanese and Korean firms (Keiko Ito and YoungGak Kim)
6. Misallocation in the manufacturing sector of Korea: A micro data analysis (Jiyoon Oh)
PART III ROLES OF FINANCIAL MARKETS
7. Financial market efficiency: A comparative perspective (Mitsuhiro Fukao)
8. How to deal with the rise of zombie firms in Korea (Daehee Jeong)
PART IV MONETARY POLICY AND HOUSE PRICES
9. Deflation and monetary policy (Barry Eichengreen)
10. Is Korea’s monetary policy following in the footsteps of Japan?(Dongchul Cho)
11. Aging and housing prices: The cases of Korea and Japan (Inho Song)
PART V JAPANIZATION AND FISCAL POLICY
12. Avoiding another “lost decade”: What role for fiscal policy? (Jerry Schiff and Ikuo Saito)
13. Lessons for Korea from Japan’s fiscal policy (SeongTae Kim)
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