93 research outputs found
[Review of] Swami Nitya-Swarup-Ananda, Education for Human Unity and World Civilization
No full textThis work is of interest to any in ethnic studies for it outlines the need and process of establishing a new order of education which would serve the needs of cultural integrity and world unity. This latest version of Swami Nitya-Swarup-Ananda\u27s description of such an education, published in 1986, is the culmination of decades of thought and observation by the author, who founded the Ramakrishna Institute of Culture in Calcutta. The Swami has also worked closely with UNESCO in furthering the aims of worldwide cultural education which would promote planetary diversity at the same time that it promotes world harmony
Back to the drawing board: The economic crisis and its implications for pension provision in the United Kingdom
No full textThis paper focuses on an issue, which so far has received relatively little attention by policy makers and the media, namely that the economic crisis has highlighted inherent weaknesses in existing pension systems in many countries. Using the example of the UK, the paper argues that the economic crisis will usher in further changes to the future provision of pensions, with the role of the private and public sectors likely to evolve in the years ahead. To support this argument, the paper first presents the pension landscape in the UK prior to the crisis, which was dominated by the closure of defined benefit pension schemes in the private sector and the government’s reform efforts. The paper then describes the impact of the economic crisis from both a macroeconomic and financial perspective on all aspects of the pension system, from the government’s deteriorating public finances to the collapsing funding position of occupational defined-benefit and defined-contribution schemes. The paper concludes by suggesting that the crisis has left the British pension system in a weakened state and that it is unlikely that it will return to its “pre-crisis” status once the economy recovers from the crisis. --Economic crisis,Pension finances,Pension systems,Defined benefit pensions,Pension liabilities,Government policy,Financial markets
Longevity: Trends, uncertainty and the implications for pension systems
No full textThis paper presents historical trends in life expectancy in the United Kingdom and other countries and discusses how these trends might evolve over the coming decades. The paper argues that the expected increases in longevity are likely to have significant implications for the structure of pension systems in the future. Individuals, businesses and governments have already responded to these expected increases – for example by working longer, closing defined-benefit pension schemes or introducing parametric reforms to the state pension system – and are likely to change their behaviours further in the future. The issue is complicated by the fact that future longevity trends are uncertain. This makes it more difficult to allocate longevity risk efficiently and fairly across the different economic agents, while making it also more difficult to guarantee the sustainability of the system overall. The paper shows though that innovative solutions to this challenge are being developed, from businesses moving towards hybrid defined-benefit/defined-contribution pension schemes, to governments introducing mechanisms which automatically split the financial burden arising from future increases in life expectancy between state and individual, to businesses taking advantage of new products being developed to transfer any risk to the capital markets. --Pensions,Uncertainty,Financial markets,Longevity,Pension liabilities
The Poverty in Q and A by Vikas Swarup: The Portrait of Exploitation of Indian underclass
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Poverty is the one of the most crucial problems in the world history till today; it reveals in any forms of human’s deprivation suck lack of food, house, dress etc. It has made poor people in the suffered condition. Furthermore, the poor people in India live in the structural poverty that they will never change the better life because any community that can determine someone can be rich or poor. Thus phenomenon is reflected in the novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup as Indian. It tells the worst condition happened the poor condition in India where the poor get poorer and poorer on the contrary the rich is richer and richer
Thus, this study is aimed to know how the structural poverty that is described in the novel, what the causes and effects of it and the last is how the Q and A reflect the real condition in India. Then, to achieve the problem of the study, the researcher uses sociological literary criticism as one method of this research. Moreover, the data of this research are collected from Q and A by Vikas Swarup. The researcher herself becomes the research instrument in the process of data collection and data analysis.
Based on the problem of the study, the result finding and analysis of this research is divided into three main parts generally. The first is describing structural poverty which appeared as social problem in India. Then, then second is the causes and effects of structural poverty, the researcher found that most of the reasons of appearance of the poverty. The data tells that the reasons of the structural poverty is caused by the passiveness of the government in seeing the poor and the unfair market that is always dominated by the rich because they have much capital. Here, many portraits of unfair treatments in the real condition of the poor in India appears in the novel; the poor in India go to worst which it can be seen that many slums house in middle of the city with no facilities to support their life. The trafficking does not only happen to the poor children but also the poor girl in India. The unfair treatment of the rich is they are ordered to work but the money must be paid to the employer, the rich only use the poor as money engine that only give profit to the rich. Many poor children can not get school because of poverty.
Finally, The story of the structural poverty in India is portrait from independent of India until now, the rich dominate in many sectors and the government does not pay attention to the poor. That phenomenon was percieved by the author. It indicates how the background of the author affects the work itself. It means that the story of structural poverty in India was told based on the real social condition
Para além do exótico ou bélico: cinemas e histórias do país de Tagore e Jamal Malik
No full textThe author proposes reflections on the motion picture Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, by Danny Boyle and screenplay by Simon Beaufoy, adapted from the novel by Vikas Swarup, Q & A. The objective is to recover aspects from the Hindu history and culture using the history of its cinemas.a autora propõe para esta edição da revista reflexões a partir do filme Quem quer ser um milionário?, de Danny Boyle, com roteiro de Simon Beaufoy, adaptado da novela de Vikas Swarup, Q & A. O objetivo é recuperar aspectos da história e da cultura indiana a partir dos seus cinemas
Wedge-Shaped GaN Nanowalls: A Potential Candidate for Two-Dimensional Electronics and Spintronics
No full text Schrödingerand Poisson equations are solved self-consistently in order to obtain the potential and charge density distribution in [Formula: see text]-type GaN nanowalls tapered along [Formula: see text]-axis by different angles. The study shows two-dimensional (2D) quantum confinement of electrons in the central vertical plane of the wall for the entire range of tapering. Calculation of room temperature electron mobility in the 2D channel shows a steady decrease with the increase of the inclination angle of the side facets with respect to the base. However, it is interesting to note that the mobility remains to be much larger than that of bulk GaN even for the inclination angle of 65[Formula: see text]. The properties of high mobility and the vertical orientation of the 2DEG plane in this system can be exploited in fabricating highly conducting transparent interconnects and field effect transistors, which can lead to large scale integration of 2D devices in future. </jats:p
Effect of polypyrrole embedment on non-isothermal crystallization kinetics of poly (vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene)
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