713 research outputs found
Trigonometrical survey of part of the country between Melbourne and The River Glenelg [cartographic material] /
No full textIn top right hand margin: Report of New South Wales.; Map of southern Victoria with relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Track of Tyers and Townsend shown with description of topography and variations of the compass.; Tooley, 121.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-t121
An Italian flanged dish from Gloucester
No full textRecent re-examination of the pottery in the Gloucester Roman pottery type series has identified an unusual large flanged dish in a micaceous fabric from the tilery site at St Oswald's Priory, originally published in Britannia. Petrological analysis indicates that it is of Italian origin. There are currently only a handful of examples of this type known from outside Italy, and this is the first example securely identified from Britain
Port Essington, Australia [cartographic material] /
No full textHydrographic chart with relief shown by soundings, hachures and spot heights.; In lower right margin: J. & C. Walker sculpt.; Originally published: [London] : Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty, 1840.; "Corrected to 1844".; Includes engraved vignette of The settlement of Victoria from the Anchorage and View from the Orontes Reef.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm3414
Borrowed silence: A history of the practice of retreat in the Church of England
No full textThis thesis, which is the first attempt to write about the growth of retreats, deals with a rather sidelined but important development in the history of spirituality. It states when, how and why the practice of retreat was adopted and adapted in the Church of England after having been a devotion in the Church of Rome since the time of the Catholic Reformation and how it has developed since. It is divided chronologically into three major sections. The first tells the story of its adoption in 1858 by a group of Anglo Catholics in the form of the preached retreat and its subsequent spread to a small number of adherents, despite meeting opposition from Evangelical Christians. The second tells of the influence of a Jesuit brother, Charles Plater, and how after the First World War a number of Diocesan retreat houses were opened, the use of which continued to rise until after the Second World War. The third takes the story up to our present day with its adaptation to the needs of the present search for faith, its decline accompanying the present loss in membership in the churches whilst at the same time its adoption in various forms by non-Anglican groups. In particular it contains a history of the Society of Retreat Conductors. All the time comparison is made with what was happening in the Church of Rome. There are resonances with the history of the Victorian church, the attitude of the established church to the working classes, evangelism, the changing fortunes of Anglo Catholicism, the ecumenical movement and New Age Christianity. It is of interest to all who are concerned about spread of religious faith today.University of Chester ; Society of Retreat Conductor
Port Essington, Australia
No full textRelief shown by soundings, hachures and spot heights.
Modified reproduction of former British Admiralty chart 1333, originally published 21st September 1840.
Includes engraved vignette of The settlement of Victoria from the Anchorage and View from the Orontes Reef.
surveyed by Mr. Charles J. Tyers of H.M.S. Alligator 1839.Map 28-11- Drawer 73 and Rare Map 56Scale [ca. 1:74,127]
Portrait of C.J. Tyers, Commissioner for Gippsland, ca. 1852 [picture]
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on inscription.; Part of the collection: C.S. Daley photograph collection.; Inscriptions: "C. J. Tyers, Commissioner Gippsland"--In ink on verso.; Condition: Scratches on photo, repaired tear bottom centre, crease across centre.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4665351
Trigonometrical survey of part of the country between Melbourne and the River Glenelg
No full textMap of southern Victoria with relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Track of Tyers and Townsend shown with description of topography and variations of the compass
Appreciating The Renminbi
No full textInternational pressure to revalue China’s currency stems in part from the expectation that rapid economic growth should be associated with an underlying real exchange rate appreciation. This hinges on the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis, which sees growth as stemming from improvements in traded sector productivity and associated rises in wages and non-traded prices. Yet, despite extraordinary growth after the mid-1990s China’s real exchange rate showed no tendency to appreciate until after 2004. We use a dynamic general equilibrium model to simulate the economy and show that, during this period, trade reforms and a rising national saving rate were offsetting forces in the presence of elastic labour supply. We then examine the possible determinants of the striking transition to real appreciation thereafter, noting mounting evidence that an improved rural terms of trade has tightened China’s labour market. We show that, should the Chinese government bow to international pressure by appreciating the renminbi either via an extraordinary monetary contraction or via export disincentives the consequences would be harmful for both Chinese and global interests.
Demographic Dividends, Dependencies and Economic Growth in China and India
No full textThe world's two population giants have undergone significant, and significantly different, demographic transitions since the 1950s. The demographic dividends associated with these transitions during the first three decades of this century are examined using a global economic model that incorporates full demographic behavior and measures of dependency that reflect the actual number of workers to non-workers, rather than the number of working aged to non-working aged. While much of China's demographic dividend now lies in the past, alternative assumptions about future trends in fertility and labor force participation rates are used to demonstrate that China will not necessarily enter a period of “demographic taxation” for at least another decade, if not longer. In contrast with China, much of India's potential demographic dividend lies in waiting for the decades ahead, with the extent and duration depending critically on a range of policy choices.
Demographic Change and Policy Responses: Implications for the Global Economy
No full textThe fertility declines associated with the final phase of the global demographic transition have led to slower population growth and accelerated ageing in developed countries and in several advanced developing countries. A global demographic and economic is used to assess the implications of these changes for population sizes, age-gender distributions, labour force growth and their implications for economic performance. A base line projection that incorporates declining fertility is compared with a hypothetical constant population growth scenario. The results show that slower population growth and ageing reduces average saving rates in industrial regions, yet global investment demand is also slowed and saving rates rise in developing regions, so there is no net tightening of financial markets. Increased aged labour force participation, considered one solution to the resulting rise in aged dependency in advanced regions, is found to redistribute investment in favour of the industrialised regions and hence to accelerate their per capita income growth, while conferring on the other regions compensatory terms of trade improvements. The alternative of replacement migration is found to require inconceivably large population movements. It also impairs real per capita growth in destination regions but by least in Western Europe, where the terms of trade is improved by the immigration.
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