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Can Openness Mitigate the Effects of Weather Fluctuations? Evidence from India’s Famine Era
No full textA weakening dependence on rain-fed agriculture
has been a hallmark of the economic
transformation of countries throughout history.
Rural citizens in developing countries today,
however, remain highly exposed to fluctuations
in the weather. This exposure affects the
incomes these citizens earn and the prices of the
foods they eat. Recent work has documented
the significant mortality stress that rural households
face in times of adverse weather (Robin
Burgess, Olivier Deschenes, Dave Donaldson,
and Michael Greenstone 2009; Masayuki
Kudamatsu, Torsten Persson, and David
Stromberg 2009). Famines—times of acutely
low nominal agricultural income and acutely
high food prices—are an extreme manifestation
of this mapping from weather to death. Lilian
C. A. Knowles (1924) describes these events as
“agricultural lockouts” where both food supplies
and agricultural employment, on which the
bulk of the rural population depends, plummet.
The result is catastrophic, with widespread hunger
and loss of life.Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain)Great Britain. Dept. for International Development (Improving Institutions for Growth Reserach Programme Consortium
Happy Hour with Robin Sacks
No full textRobin Sacks is the author of Get Off My Bus!: How to Get Clarity, Get in the Driver\u27s Seat, and Get Moving in Your Life! Introduction by Kristen Kuhlman, LSW, LHNA, MBA/HCM DHA Candidate
Public management : Reinventing Government: a symposium. by Robin Butler
No full texttag=1 data=Public management : Reinventing Government: a symposium. by Robin Butler
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tag=10 data=The author indicates how the major themes of the book [Reinventing Government] can be seen to correspond with many of the recent management initiatives in UK government.
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tag=13 data=CABThe author indicates how the major themes of the book [Reinventing Government] can be seen to correspond with many of the recent management initiatives in UK government
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“Normality is threatened by the Monster”: Robin Wood, Romero and zombies
No full textA tribute to Robin Wood, focusing on his influence on horror criticism, and more specifically, on his appraisal of George A. Romero as ‘a great and audacious filmmaker’ through detailed consideration of his zombie movies. The article considers the key elements of his extraordinary influence on horror criticism, and a detailed examination of the monster which most directly responds to horror’s potential ambivalence: the zombie. In order to consider the ambivalence in the relationship between normality and the monster – that central and most important component of Wood’s horror criticism – created by Romero’s zombies, analysis focuses on the materiality of the films through close attention to the bodies on-screen
Robin Becker, 16th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textRobin Becker is the author of Giacometti’s Dog, published in 1990 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her previous books are Backtalk and Personal Effects, both published by Alice James Books She has received fellowships in poetry from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poems appear in many journals including Agni, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares. She has published book reviews in Belles Lettres, The Boston Globe, The Boston Review, Prairie Schooner and The Women’s Review of Books She teaches in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This year she is Visiting Poet at Pennsylvania State University. Robin Becker serves as Poetry Editor for The Women’s Review of Books and as a member of the board of directors of Associated Writing Programs
Author Robin Silbergleid reads from her memoir "Texas girl," and her soon to be published book of poetry, "The baby book" at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textAuthor Robin Silbergleid reads from her memoir "Texas girl," and her soon to be published book of poetry, "The Baby Book." Introductory remarks are provided by MSU Professor Telaina Eriksen and MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held at the MSU Main Library and sponsored by the MSU Department of English and the Center for Gender in Global Context
Writer Robin Lippincott reads from novel In the Meantime
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "Listen to writer Robin Lippincott read from his new novel In the Meantime, which tracks the intertwined lives of three friends for six decades. Lippincott is also the author of Mr. Dalloway. The reading was part of the Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Program at Vanderbilt University. It was recorded on Oct. 31, 2007.
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