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The determinants of ‘domestic’ original sin in emerging market economies
Get PDFThis paper explains why domestic debt composition in emerging economies is risky. It carries out an analysis of the determinants of ‘domestic’ original sin, which refers to the inability of emerging economies to borrow domestically in local currency, at long maturities and fixed interest rates. The latter is a measure of financial vulnerabilities arising from domestic debt composition, which encompasses maturity mismatches, rollover risk and interest payment contingency. The paper builds on a large dataset compiled by the authors from national sources. It finds that domestic original sin is severe when inflation is lofty, the debt service-to-GDP ratio high, the slope of the yield curve inverted and the investor base narrow. These results suggest that sound macroeconomic policies, attractive long-term yields and policies aimed at widening the investor base are instrumental to reduce domestic debt riskiness and tilt its composition towards safer, long-term, unindexed, local currency instruments. JEL Classification: F34, F41, G15domestic debt, emerging economies, Original sin
Sin Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad
No full textSholeh Wolpé is the author of The Scar Saloon and Rooftops of Tehran. Her poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared in many publications.Intro -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- WHY FORUGH ? -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FORUGH FARROKHZAD (1935-1967) -- SELECTED EARLY POEMS -- Sin -- Grief -- On Loving -- The Ring -- Captive -- Bathing -- The Wall -- Lost -- Later -- The Return -- Rebellious God -- SELECTED POEMS FROM REBORN -- Wind-Up Doll -- Those Days -- The Sun Rises -- The Wind Will Blow Us Away -- Summer's Green Waters -- Forgive Her -- Insight -- Border Walls -- Friday -- In Night's Cold Streets -- In an Eternal Dusk -- Earthly Verses -- The Gift -- A Visitation at Night -- Green Phantasm -- Mates -- Inaugurating the Garden -- My Lover -- Red Rose -- The Bird, Was Just a Bird -- O Bejeweled Realm . . . -- I Will Greet the Sun Again -- Reborn -- LET US BELIEVE IN THE DAWN OF THE COLD SEASON -- Let Us Believe in the Dawn of the Cold Season -- After You -- Window -- I Pity the Garden -- Someone Like No One -- Only Voice Remains -- The Bird Shall One Day Die -- NOTES , VOCABULARY, AND EXPLANATIONS -- Translator's Note -- Dreaming a Poem Translating Itself - An After-Note Confession -- A Brief Overview of Iran's Political Scene 1941 - 1967 -- Notes on "O Bejeweled Realm... -- Vocabulary -- Recommended ReadingSholeh Wolpé is the author of The Scar Saloon and Rooftops of Tehran. Her poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared in many publications.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Sin Arquitectura
Get PDFThe metaphor of weaving reflects the structure and content of the book No Architecture by architect and university professor Francisco de Gracia. It is made up of 12 essays, a number that relates us to time, which function like the vertical threads of a warp, forming a coherent and complex structure of the author\u27s thought.La metáfora del tejido refleja la estructura y el contenido del libro Sin arquitectura del arquitecto y profesor universitario Francisco de Gracia. Está compuesto por 12 ensayos, número que nos relaciona con el tiempo, que funcionan como los hilos verticales de una urdimbre, conformando una estructura coherente y compleja del pensamiento del autor
Pokemon Go : Har applikationen Pokemon Go fått barn att röra på sig mer på sin fritid?
No full textSyfte Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka om spelet Pokemon Go kan få elever att röra på sig mer på sin fritid och på så sätt minska stillasittandet där ofta mobil/tv-spel och tv-tittande ingår. Kan ett mobilspel motivera barnen till en aktivare fritid? Hur kan skolan ta hjälp av den nya tekniken för att motivera elever till mer rörelse i skolan? Hur många steg tar eleverna de dagar de inte letar efter Pokemons? Hur många steg tar eleverna de dagar de letar efter Pokemons? Sitter de mindre framför datorn/tv och spelar nu än innan de började spela Pokemon GO? Metod För att besvara syftet användas främst en kvantitativ metod dels genom enkätundersökning och stegräknare men även kvalitativa intervjuer har genomförts. I enkätundersökningen fick en lågstadieskola i årskurs 2-6 svara på ett antal frågor om Pokemon Go. 108 elever besvarade enkäten. Genom ett strategiskt urval valdes fem elever i årskurs 6 där deras stegräknare avlästes av varje dag under en månad för att få reda på antal steg de tog när de spelade applikationen och hur många steg det tog när de inte spelade. Resultat De eleverna som fick sin stegräknare avläst rörde på sig mer de dagar de spelade applikationen. Eleverna fick sin stegräknare avläst i två månader. Två veckor valdes ut avlästes och i snitt gick de fem elever 12458 steg när de spelade Pokemon Go och 1587 steg de dagar som de inte spelade. Enkätundersöknigen visade att 72 av eleverna spelade och 36 elever spelade inte Pokemon Go. Motivationen var en viktig faktor visades sig under intervjuerna, de som spelande gjorde det för att det var roligt och de som inte spelade gjorde det för att de tyckte att det var tråkigt eller att de inte ägde en mobiltelefon. Slutsats Slutsatsen blev att så länge eleverna tyckte att de är roligt så var de ute och spelade. De spelade för att det var kul inte för att må bättre ur ett hälsoperspektiv. De flesta svarade att de satt mindre framför dator/Ipad sedan de började spela Pokemon Go. Barnen tog mer antal steg de dagar dem spelade Pokemon Go.Fristående kurs Idrott III.</p
Touring responsibility: The trouble with ‘going local’ in community-based tourism in Thailand
No full textThis paper discusses the question of responsibility with reference to community-based tourism. Local communities are often presented by the tourist industry as an inherent value to recognize and protect. Tourists visiting distant places are thus frequently exhorted to ‘go local’ through having a ‘real’ experience with local people and communities; they are also invited to behave responsibly and to appreciate the value of responsible management. In this article, we reflect on the consequences of the ‘contact zone’ produced by these trends and, more in general, on the rapid changes that the label ‘responsible tourism’ is generating in the ways that many travelers approach the experience of local communities and their lifestyles. We do so, by analyzing an Elephant Camp in Thailand, where tourists spend periods being involved in life of the camp and the management of the elephants. The tourists at the Elephant camp indeed show how this approach to travel often becomes an imbroglio of detachment and involvement, of paternalistic protection and mutual exploitation, of generosity and hospitality, but also of corruption and self-interest. All in all, we present the Elephant Camp as a laboratory for reflecting on how questions of responsibility towards distant people and places, especially when actually enacted in place – which is what tourism does – often become a complicated affair, which is at the origin of new opportunities but also new tensions, of learning and but also misunderstandings, of neo-colonial practices but also of actual support to the local economy
Only a more active ECB can solve the euro crisis. CEPS Policy Brief No. 250, August 2011
Get PDFThis paper asserts that the contagion currently afflicting sovereign bond markets in the eurozone can only be stopped if there is a central bank willing to be lender of last resort, i.e. willing to guarantee that the cash will always be available to pay out the bondholders. Until recently, the European Central Bank performed this role either directly by buying government bonds, or indirectly by accepting government bonds as collateral in its liquidity provision to the banking system, but it has made it clear that it is now unwilling to continue to do so. The author argues that this reluctance of the ECB to take up its responsibility as a lender of last resort is the single most important factor explaining why the forces of contagion in the eurozone’s sovereign bond markets have not been stopped
Sin Arquitectura
Get PDFThe metaphor of weaving reflects the structure and content of the book No Architecture by architect and university professor Francisco de Gracia. It is made up of 12 essays, a number that relates us to time, which function like the vertical threads of a warp, forming a coherent and complex structure of the author\u27s thought.La metáfora del tejido refleja la estructura y el contenido del libro Sin arquitectura del arquitecto y profesor universitario Francisco de Gracia. Está compuesto por 12 ensayos, número que nos relaciona con el tiempo, que funcionan como los hilos verticales de una urdimbre, conformando una estructura coherente y compleja del pensamiento del autor
Enhanced FWM in SiN waveguides with GO films Advanced Optical Materials
No full textLayered 2D graphene oxide (GO) films are integrated with silicon nitride (SiN) waveguides to experimentally demonstrate an enhanced Kerr nonlinearity via four-wave mixing (FWM). Owing to the strong light–matter interaction between the SiN waveguides and the highly nonlinear GO films, the FWM performance of the hybrid waveguides is significantly improved. SiN waveguides with both uniformly coated and patterned GO films are fabricated based on a transfer-free, layer-by-layer GO coating method together with standard photolithography and lift-off processes, yielding precise control of the film thickness, placement and coating length. Detailed FWM measurements are carried out for the fabricated devices with different numbers of GO layers and at different pump powers. By optimizing the trade-off between the nonlinearity and loss, we obtain a significant improvement in the FWM conversion efficiency of ≈7.3 dB for a uniformly coated device with 1 layer of GO and ≈9.1 dB for a patterned device with 5 layers of GO. We also obtain a significant increase in FWM bandwidth for the patterned devices. A detailed analysis of the influence of pattern length and position on the FWM performance is performed. Based on the FWM measurements, the dependence of GO’s third-order nonlinearity on layer number and pump power is also extracted, revealing interesting physical insights about the 2D layered GO films. Finally, we obtain an enhancement in the effective nonlinear parameter of the hybrid waveguides by over a factor of 100. These results verify the enhanced nonlinear optical performance of SiN waveguides achievable by incorporating 2D layered GO films
Characteristics of Self-Citation in Journal of Natural Rubber Research 1988-1997: a Ten-Year Bibliometric Study
Get PDFAnalyses the extent of journal self-citation and author self-citation in the research articles and short communications published in Journal of Natural Rubber Research during 1988 to 1997. Results show that 53% of articles contained journal self-citations; the rate of journal self-citations per article ranges between 1 to 12; a high percentage of authors (61.4%) contributing articles to the journal cited themselves; a tendency is noticed for authors affiliated to the institution publishing the journal to cite the journal; the highest self-citing author is A. D. Roberts
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