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Milton Friedman and U.S. monetary history: 1961-2006
No full textThis paper, using extensive archival material from several countries, brings together scattered information about Milton Friedman's views and predictions regarding U.S. monetary policy developments after 1960 (i.e., the period beyond that covered by his and Anna Schwartz's Monetary History of the United States). The author evaluates these interpretations and predictions in light of subsequent events.Friedman, Milton ; Federal Reserve System - History ; Economic history
Safeguarding the right to adequate food in disaster preparedness and emergency response: Policy, legislation and institutions in Uganda
No full textMaster i samfunnsernæringThe rising frequency of natural disasters has impacts for the nutrition situation in Uganda. As State Party to the international Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Government of Uganda is obliged to progressively realize the human right to adequate food (RtF) for all Ugandan citizens.
This study is an analysis of the recognition of the RtF in Uganda’s policy-, legislative- and institutional frameworks for disaster preparedness and emergency response (DPER). The study design was cross-sectional and descriptive; the approach qualitative, and data was collected through document analysis, literature reviews and semi-structured interviews with purposively selected duty bearers. Data analysis included the use of indicators, real-time- and content analysis, coding, patterning and statistical analysis for descriptive purposes.
The failure to construct, adopt and implement vital plans and laws that would contribute to the realization of the RtF in the context of DPER is linked to the complexity of the DPER- system, as well as the weak recognition of international human rights obligations among key duty bearers. Safeguarding the RtF in disaster planning and management is a prerequisite for fighting malnutrition in Uganda, and needs to be made a national priorit
Safeguarding the right to adequate food in disaster preparedness and emergency response: Policy, legislation and institutions in Uganda
No full textThe rising frequency of natural disasters has impacts for the nutrition situation in Uganda. As State Party to the international Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Government of Uganda is obliged to progressively realize the human right to adequate food (RtF) for all Ugandan citizens.
This study is an analysis of the recognition of the RtF in Uganda’s policy-, legislative- and institutional frameworks for disaster preparedness and emergency response (DPER). The study design was cross-sectional and descriptive; the approach qualitative, and data was collected through document analysis, literature reviews and semi-structured interviews with purposively selected duty bearers. Data analysis included the use of indicators, real-time- and content analysis, coding, patterning and statistical analysis for descriptive purposes.
The failure to construct, adopt and implement vital plans and laws that would contribute to the realization of the RtF in the context of DPER is linked to the complexity of the DPER- system, as well as the weak recognition of international human rights obligations among key duty bearers. Safeguarding the RtF in disaster planning and management is a prerequisite for fighting malnutrition in Uganda, and needs to be made a national priorit
A conversation with Thomas Sowell
No full textIn this episode, host Peter Krogh sits down with Thomas Sowell, the prominent black economist and social commentator. Born in North Carolina, Sowell grew up in Harlem. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard, a master's degree from Columbia and a PhD from the University of Chicago. In 1980, he became the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. A prolific author, Sowell frequently provoked controversy with his commentary on race and ethnic conflict. In this interview, Dr. Sowell discusses his latest book, The Economics and Politics of Race: An International Perspective, which examines how different races and ethnicities fare in different societies.Host Peter Krogh sits down with economist and social commentator Thomas Sowell to discuss Sowell's latest book The Economics and Politics of Race
Austin also must be remembered. The Augustinian legacy in Milton's work
No full textWhen I started working on this project, with a limited knowledge of Augustine, but determined to spot his presence in Miltonâs poetry, I was little aware of the intricacy of the relationship between the two authors. At this stage of my research, I do subscribe to Savoyeâs opinion, that this relationship is pervasive. However, one could safely add, it is as pervasive as it is hidden, primarily because of changed cultural paradigms, so that Miltonâs references are no longer familiar to the reader.
As I have pointed out in my presentation of the state of the art, these articulations are hardly made explicit in Miltonâs Oeuvre and also in critical literature they are hardly brought to the surface. My objective has been to make them a little more visible.
I have started my own process of discovery from the works where Milton more openly (but not completely) acknowledges his Augustinian sources, although arguably mediated. As concerns Samson Agonistes, I have presented a reading through Augustinian lenses. I am by no means claiming that mine is the best of all possible readings, but through those lenses I have been able to see a coherence, in Miltonâs dramatic poem, that is not generally recognized.
On the other hand, I thoroughly agree that âone cannot simply take any English poet and turn the post-structuralist critical machine loose on him or her in good faithâ. In particular, I am aware that I have read Miltonâs works against the current critical grain which, with a powerful turn impressed by Empsonâs Miltonâs God, is continually surfacing Miltonâs idiosyncrasies in order to cancel the received picture of a Christian author. Rather, I agree with Cirillo that Miltonâs perspective is that of âa professed Christian poet whose Christian consciousness, no matter how heterodox, colored virtually everything he wrote.â.We may ask, echoing Febvre on Rabelais, âMais de quel christianisme? In accordance with very traditional, even traditionalist Milton Criticism, I think it can safely be stated that Milton is a post-Reformation religious author, and one whose endeavour to âjustify the ways of God to menâ had to come to terms with the difficult task to find signs of providential history in the aftermath of a civil war and in the adverse context of the Restoration. His last published poems deal with this problem in different terms. As readers, we can come to different conclusions as to the texts. Behind them there is the man, âest abyssus humanae conscientiae,â in front of which, after Augustine, I can only say: "nescio"
Milton, the Liberator
No full textThis paper explores the political aspects of regicide as seen through Milton and Salmasius's long debate. In the summer of 1642, a civil war broke out in England. It was the war between the Parliamentary Party and the Royalist Faction. After having severe battles for seven years, it ended in the Parliamentary Party's victory over the Royalist Faction. Their triumph was followed by the establishment of a Revolutionary Government under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell. Their goal was to found the Nation of the Commonwealth. In order to achieve the Nation of the Commonwealth, what they attempted to do was to abolish the reign of King Charles I. For that reason, the Revolutionary Government immediately arrested King Charles. They tried him on a charge of dictatorship and sentenced him to death. They executed the king on January 30th 1649. Needless to say, immediately after the execution of King Charles I, the Royalist Faction strongly opposed the regicide. In the same year of the execution of King Charles I, the Royalist Faction hired Salmasius, the famous scholar of Greek and Latin at Leyden University in Holland, and asked him to write the refutation against the king's execution. At their request, Salmasius revealed a treatise called Defensio Regia pro Carob I. While the Revolutionary Government ordered Milton, the Latin Secretary, to write their apology, justifying the execution of the king. It was a piece entitled Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio, published in 1651. Thus the crucial argument between Milton and Salmasius started. A year later, in 1652, the argument of both sides was escalated by Peter Du Moulin's treatise called The Cry of the King's Blood. It took the side of King Charles. Consequently, Milton was forced to write against it. Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio Secunda is the most famous and one of the most outstanding prose works of Milton, written in 1654. As has previously been stated, Milton's Defensio Secunda was written in reply to Du Moulin's The Cry of the King's Blood. However , Milton mistook the author of King's Blood not as Du Moulin but as Alexander More, whom he sharply criticized. Defensio Secunda was written mainly for the purpose of freeing "the state from grievous tyranny and the church from unworthy servitude." However, his pen placed more weight on his high pride than defending his own country. Milton's high pride was the pride of his honorable family and that of his blindness, both of which I discuss later in this paper.8KJ00005432646departmental bulletin pape
Food security and income through sweet potato production in Teso, Uganda
No full text146 - 155 p.Two relevant studies on food security are referred to in the article. Food insecurity from time to time threatens in Teso sub region which houses a viable Teso agricultural system. One study was done during 2001-2003 in Teso on sweet potato production with 650 persons participating and the second one was done in one disaster affected area of Bududa District nearby during 2012-2016 when 1,142 persons participated. Kiryandongo District where Bududa landslide survivors were resettled in Uganda was included in that study. Participatory methods such as focus group discussions, farm observations, in-depth interviews, and questionnaires were used. Both studies used qualitative and quantitative methods for data analysis. The sweet potato stands second after cassava as the crop for famine and disaster periods in Teso to meet the human right to adequate food to complement the well dried cereals & grain legumes that stored longer. Livestock especially was also one of the prime determinants of food security and income in Teso. Free from cyanides with a good content of affordable Vitamin A from orange fleshed varieties, sweet potatoes in Teso contributed about 61% to the yearly food per capita of the population thus a recommendable crop for sustainable food security and some income in Teso and beyond
Food Security and Income through Sweet Potato Production in Teso, Uganda
No full textTwo relevant studies on food security are referred to in the article. Food insecurity from time to time threatens in Teso sub region which houses a viable Teso agricultural system. One study was done during 2001-2003 in Teso on sweet potato production with 650 persons participating and the second one was done in one disaster affected area of Bududa District nearby during 2012-2016 when 1,142 persons participated. Kiryandongo District where Bududa landslide survivors were resettled in Uganda was included in that study. Participatory methods such as focus group discussions, farm observations, in-depth interviews, and questionnaires were used. Both studies used qualitative and quantitative methods for data analysis. The sweet potato stands second after cassava as the crop for famine and disaster periods in Teso to meet the human right to adequate food to complement the well dried cereals & grain legumes that stored longer. Livestock especially was also one of the prime determinants of food security and income in Teso. Free from cyanides with a good content of affordable Vitamin A from orange fleshed varieties, sweet potatoes in Teso contributed about 61% to the yearly food per capita of the population thus a recommendable crop for sustainable food security and some income in Teso and beyond
Food Security and Income through Sweet Potato Production in Teso, Uganda
No full textTwo relevant studies on food security are referred to in the article. Food insecurity from time to time threatens in Teso sub region which houses a viable Teso agricultural system. One study was done during 2001-2003 in Teso on sweet potato production with 650 persons participating and the second one was done in one disaster affected area of Bududa District nearby during 2012-2016 when 1,142 persons participated. Kiryandongo District where Bududa landslide survivors were resettled in Uganda was included in that study. Participatory methods such as focus group discussions, farm observations, in-depth interviews, and questionnaires were used. Both studies used qualitative and quantitative methods for data analysis. The sweet potato stands second after cassava as the crop for famine and disaster periods in Teso to meet the human right to adequate food to complement the well dried cereals & grain legumes that stored longer. Livestock especially was also one of the prime determinants of food security and income in Teso. Free from cyanides with a good content of affordable Vitamin A from orange fleshed varieties, sweet potatoes in Teso contributed about 61% to the yearly food per capita of the population thus a recommendable crop for sustainable food security and some income in Teso and beyond. </jats:p
Book Review: Southern African Landscapes and Environmental Change
No full textBook Title: Southern African Landscapes and Environmental ChangeBook Author: Peter J. Holmes & John Boardman (Eds.)2018, Routledge, 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN, UK; and 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA. 327 pages, hardcover and eBook. ISNB: 978-1-138-68895-7 (hardcover), 978-1-315-53797-0 (eBook). Price £115 (hardcover), from £20 (eBook
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