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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
Assessing the Targeting Performance of Social Programs: Cape Verde
No full textBudget constraints faced by governments in developing countries imply that the targeting performance of public subsidies and social programs (whether the subsidies are provided in cash or in kind) is important for reducing poverty. In this paper, we analyze the distributional properties of the main existing social programs in Cape Verde and assess whether various targeting systems (including proxy means testing and geographic targeting) could help to improve targeting performance.Poverty; social programs; targeting; Cape Verde; benefit incidence; geographic targeting; proxy means testing
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
G. Capaldo, Le pubblicità, p. 1-448 con G. Mariconda, N. Atlante, C. Verde
No full textIl lavoro ricostruisce il regime di pubblicità degli atti aventi ad oggetto diritti su beni, riconducibili, in via di prima approssimazione, alla locuzione «ricchezza mobiliare
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
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
Testing the 'Brain Gain' Hypothesis: Micro Evidence from Cape Verde
No full textDoes emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this research question. We analyze the case of Cape Verde, a country with allegedly the highest 'brain drain' in Africa, despite a marked record of income and human capital growth in recent decades. Our micro data enables us to propose the first explicit test of 'brain gain' arguments according to which the prospects of own future migration can positively impact educational attainment. According to our results, a 10pp increase in the probability of own future migration may improve the average probability of completing intermediate secondary schooling by 8pp for individuals who do not migrate before age 16. Strikingly, this same 10pp increase may raise the probability of completing intermediate secondary schooling by 11pp for an individual whose parents were both non migrants when the educational decision was made. Our findings are robust to the choice of instruments and econometric model. Overall, we find that there may be substantial human capital gains from lowering migration barriers.household survey, Cape Verde, brain drain, brain gain, international migration, human capital, effects of emigration in origin countries, sub-Saharan Africa
Regeneration of gasometer industrial heritage in Venice
No full textThe reticular structures, which time has seen to change for uses and destinations, characterize
the area as a sum of grafts and highly compromised architectural stratifications.
The traces present acquire an archaeological value and the stratifications are testimonial elements that return the complexity and the story of the transformation of the sector.
Starting from the intrinsic potential of places, the project does not intend to implement a radical transformation of the place but to start an evolutionary phase, which treasures the collective memory of the place.
The thesis, whose supervisor was A. Massarente and co-supervisor A. Verde, was discussed in School of Architecture University of Ferrara in 2016, then published as shortlisted project in the same year for the “European Architectural Medals for the Best Diploma Projects” Award
PATRONAGE E CLIENTELISMO: UNA RILETTURA
No full textNel lessico colloquiale il termine patronage – tradotto in italiano esclusivamente, e spesso equivocamente, come “padronato” o “padronaggio”, cioè come potere di disposizione fondato sull’asimmetrico “dominio patrimoniale” esercitato da qualcuno su qualcun’altro o sulla possibilità di esercitare la “protezione” di qualcuno da parte di qualcun altro – assume in realtà molti significati, spesso in funzione dell’orientamento valoriale che se ne vuole attribuire. Così, può significare appoggio, protezione o favore; ma anche, nella forma declinatasi nel rinascimento italiano, “mecenatismo”; o, ancora, e in senso dispregiativo, favoritismo, che rinvia ad un sistema di clientelismo basato, ad esempio, sulla “raccomandazione”; o infine, costituendo il potere che è attribuito ad alcuni funzionari di conferire incarichi a persone di loro fiducia – aspetto analizzato, ad esempio, nella letteratura politologica che studia il sistema politico-amministrativo americano e sulle forme di clientelismo da questo conseguenti e presenti anche in altre democrazie [Bearfield 2009; Hollibaugh et alii 2014; Kusche 2014].
In questa sede prendiamo in esame il significato e le modalità in cui si articolava la relazione patrone/cliente in una struttura sociale fortemente gerarchica come quella che si appalesava a due studiosi incuriositi dalle vicende siciliane della fine degli anni Sessanta, Wilhelm Mühlmann e Roberto Llaryora
Sir Gawayn y el caballeru verde
No full textCarlos Ealo y Álvaro Arias (traducts.). Sir Gawayn y el caballeru verde, anónimo. Uviéu: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, Premiu de 1997 a la Traducción de l’Academia de la Llingua Asturiana.
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