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Cape Verde: The Case for Euroization
No full textAfter 10 years of a fixed exchange rate against the euro and a deepening integration with the European Union (EU), the authorities of Cape Verde maintain a strong commitment to nominal stability and are now considering the official euroization of the country. Compared to the current pegging, euroization could be costly if the economic conditions of Cape Verde were to require control over the interest rates and the exchange rate. Given the strong economic and financial integration between Cape Verde and Europe, and the fact that Cape Verde records inflation rates at levels that are similar to those of the European Monetary Union (EMU), the relevant issue is whether the European Central Bank (ECB) monetary policy fits the needs of Cape Verde. In order to answer this question, we empirically assess the synchronization between the business cycle of Cape Verde and the business cycle of the EMU. For that purpose, we compute output gaps and then use conventional correlation measures as well as other indicators recently suggested in the literature. Replicating the methodology for each of the current 27 EU members, our results show that Cape Verde ranks better than several EU countries and even better than some EMU countries. We thus argue that there is a strong case for the euroization of Cape Verde. Euroization would secure the benefits already attained with the pegging to the euro and would warrant additional benefits, most likely with no relevant costs stemming from inappropriate ECB monetary policies.Africa, Cape Verde, European Monetary Union, Euroization, Business Cycles
L’era del verde artificiale
No full textAppoggiandosi al “Progetto di albero artificiale n. 0, 1986”, il breve saggio punta a dimostrare l’utilità, e l’opportunità, di perseguire oggi la politica del “verde artificiale” e/o del “verde alternativo”, intesa come strategia capace forse di recuperare un più equilibrato rapporto con l’edificato, divenuto quanto mai invadente e prevaricatore.How can one substitute centuries-old trees which die, more and more often, because of pollution and of diseases? How can one fill the void caused by their deaths? The author of this article, with a trace of provocation, proposes to invent an item which could be a symbol and a remembrance of the pre-existing tree. This item should be a kind of architectonical element proposing the tree's tasks, imposing ness and meaning in the cities
Everywhere regularity of functionals with -growth.
No full textDiening L, Stroffolini B, Verde A. Everywhere regularity of functionals with φ-growth. Manuscripta Mathematica. 2009;129(4):449-481
Lipschitz regularity for some asymptotically convex problems
No full textDiening L, Stroffolini B, Verde A. Lipschitz regularity for some asymptotically convex problems. ESAIM. Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations. 2011;17(1):178-189
Privatizações em cabo verde: uma analise exploratória
No full textTCC (graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro Sócio-Econômico. Economia.Este trabalho tem como objetivo descrever e analisar o processo de privatizações em Cabo verde. Observa-se, então, que o processo de privatizações em Cabo Verde se deu de forma lenta e os impactos macroeconômicos e fiscais ocorreram gradualmente ao longo das duas fases do programa. A privatização possibilitou ainda, a melhoria do perfil da divida e a reestruturação de passivos no setor público. A reforma do setor empresarial do Estado impos-se como política económica necessária à modernização e ao aumento da competitividade e da eficiência da economia caboverdiana. As privatizações constituíram, assim, uma das vias mais importantes e eficazes da condução dessa reforma
Filosofia e religione civile: Un problema storico
No full textFascicolo di Archivio di Filosofia (91.1/2023) dedicato al problema della religione civile nella storia della filosofia, dall'antichità a Gramsci.
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Anna Lisa Schino, Francesco Verde, Premessa; Bruno Centrone, Non cambiare nulla perché tutto cambi. Il ruolo della religione civica nelle Leggi di Platone; Stefano Mecci, I cinici e la ridefinizione dei valori. Il sapiente come modello ‘politico’ e ‘religioso’; Flavia Palmieri, Tra religione e politica nell’Accademia antica. Il possibile ruolo dell’anima; Selene I. S. Brumana, Aspetti della religione civile stoica; Stefano Maso, Religio e officium: il cuore dell’etica civile secondo Cicerone; Chiara Rover, Sfuggire agli dei, sfuggire agli uomini. Religio e giustizia in Lucrezio; Mariapaola Bergomi, Qualiter fulmen aetheris. Tre voci critiche su profezia politica, apoteosi e divinizzazione del princeps; Francesco Verde, La polemica contro il cristianesimo come religione incivile in Minucio Felice e Celso; Marco Zambon, Culto cittadino e filosofia negli scritti di Porfirio di Tiro; Angela Ulacco, Sacrifici non cruenti, giustizia inter-specie e comunità. Osservazioni su alcuni passaggi della Vita Pitagorica di Giamblico; Maria Carmen De Vita, Per la rifondazione di una religione civile: Giuliano, ovvero il nuovo Quirino; Giovanni Catapano, Agostino e la religione nelle crisi di civiltà; Paola Müller, Autonomia e armonia nella trattazione politica di Dante; Massimiliano Lenzi, Dominio, santificazione della politica e glorificazione del mondo in John Wyclif; Emanuele Cutinelli-Rendina, Religione civile e cristianesimo in Machiavelli; Pietro Secchi, La religione civile nel pensiero di Giordano Bruno; Riccarda Suitner, Tolleranza, antitrinitarismo e religione civile nella prima età moderna; Anna Lisa Schino, Unità politica e libertà individuale nella religione civile di Hobbes; Benedetta Catoni, Il problema della religione civile nel Trattato teologico-politico di Spinoza; Giovanni Licata, Racconti storici o favole? Sul valore dell’historia sacra nel Trattato teologico-politico di Spinoza; Fiormichele Benigni, Con o contro Hobbes? Religione, natura e società in alcuni dibattiti sullo spinozismo fra Sei e Settecento; Filippo Marchetti, Il rapporto tra religione naturale e religione civile nel pensiero di John Toland; Marco Menin, Come in cielo così in terra. Religione civile e fondamento della morale nel pensiero di Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Pierluigi Valenza, Il problema di una religione civile nella modernità in Hegel; Federico Lijoi, Nietzsche e Freud sulla religione civile; Edoardo Massimilla, Il rifiuto del mondo dell’ascesi e della mistica e la loro differente tensione con gli ordinamenti politici nella Zwischenbetrachtung di Max Weber; Rosella Faraone, Le religioni dello spirito. Libertà, etica e politica in Benedetto Croce e Giovanni Gentile; Marcello Mustè, «Un’eresia della religione della libertà». Gramsci e la religione moderna dell’immanenza
Cesário Verde e Jorge Luis Borges: perspectivas literárias de cidade
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, Florianópolis, 2014.A partir da noção de cidade, considerando a relação que há entre o sujeito e a sua polis, propomos uma travessia pelos poemas de Cesário Verde, poeta português, e pelas três primeiras obras poéticas de Jorge Luis Borges, poeta argentino, com o intuito de apontar as convergências e as divergências que podem ser percebidas nos poemas. O modo como a simbolização das transformações em direção ao moderno perpassam os poemas dos autores, mostra-nos que as cidades em questão, Lisboa e Buenos Aires, estão longe de serem cidades perfeitas. A presença de dois olhares distintos em relação ao mesmo foco, a cidade, nos levou a pensar sobre o sentimento do sujeito em relação à sua cidade e ao seu sentimento de pertença a um espaço sempre mutável.Abstract : From the concept of city, taking into account the relation between the subjects and their polis, this paper proposes a journey through the poems of Cesário Verde, a Portuguese poet, and the three first poems of Jorge Luis Borges, an Argentinian poet, with the purpose to show the convergences and divergences that can be noticed through such poems. The way how the symbolization of transformations towards modernity permeates these authors? poems shows us that the cities under consideration (Lisbon and Buenos Aires) are far away from being perfect cities. The presence of two distinct views about the same focus, the city, took us to think over the subjects? feelings in relation to the city and their feeling of belonging to a constantly changing space
The properties of the dark matter halo distribution in non-Gaussian scenarios
No full textThe description of halo abundance and clustering for non-Gaussian initial conditions has recently received renewed interest, motivated by the forthcoming large galaxy and cluster surveys, which can potentially detect primordial non-Gaussianity of the local form with a non-Gaussianity parameter |f| of order unity. This is particularly exciting because, while the simplest single-field slow-roll models of inflation predict a primordial |f|≪1, this signal sources extra contributions to the effective f of large-scale structures that are expected to be above the predicted detection threshold [C. Carbone, L. Verde, and S. Matarrese, ApJL 684 (2008) L1]. We present tests on N-body simulations of analytical formulae describing the halo abundance and clustering for non-Gaussian initial conditions. In particular, when we calibrate the analytic non-Gaussian mass function of [S. Matarrese, L. Verde, L. and R. Jimenez, ApJL 541 (2000) 10] and [M. LoVerde, A. Miller, S. Shandera and L. Verde, JCAP 04 (2008) 014] and the analytic description of halo clustering for non-Gaussian initial conditions on N-body simulations, we find excellent agreement between the simulations and the analytic predictions if we make the substitutions δ→δ×q and δ→δ×q where q≃0.75, in the density threshold for gravitational collapse and in the non-Gaussian fractional correction to the halo bias, respectively. We discuss the implications of these corrections on present and forecasted primordial non-Gaussianity constraints. We confirm that the non-Gaussian halo bias offers a robust and highly competitive test of primordial non-Gaussianity
Crustal structure of the Cape Verde Swell: Insights into the flexural response of the lithosphere to loading
No full textThroughout the ocean basins many broad regions of anomalously shallow topography exist that do not fit the widely accepted model of conductive plate cooling and subsidence as a function of lithospheric age. These ‘swells’ often coincide with positive geoid, Free-air gravity and heat flow anomalies as well as groups of ocean islands and seamounts. Various mechanisms have been proposed to explain how this anomalous topography is isostatically supported at depth, including increased crustal buoyancy and dynamic asthenospheric support.
The Cape Verde Swell is the largest oceanic mid-plate swell on Earth at ~1800 km in diameter, with a crest ~2.2 km high, and positive geoid, gravity and heat flow anomalies of 8 m, 30 mGal and 10-15 mW m-2, respectively. These characteristics and its location on the slow-to-stationary African Plate, which concentrates the volcanism and associated geophysical anomalies within a relatively small areal extent, makes the Cape Verde Swell an ideal location to test the various proposed mechanisms for swell support.
Wide-angle seismic refraction data along an ~474 km profile, extending from the Cape Verde Swell crest, is analysed and modelled to produce a 2-D velocity-depth model of the crustal structure. The resulting model reveals no widespread thickening of the lower oceanic basement, despite evidence for localised thickening beneath the islands from other studies. Subsequent 3-D ‘whole plate’ lithospheric flexure modelling reveals that, on a regional scale, the plate is stronger than expected based on its age, with some evidence for localised weakening around the islands.
Overall, the results of this study suggest that the anomalously shallow topography of the Cape Verde Swell is primarily maintained by a dynamic upwelling of hot, low density material impinging on the base of the lithosphere. Over time, conduction from this hot column has thermally rejuvenated the lithosphere on a local scale, leading to additional uplift, melting and volcanism associated with the islands
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