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Way to go, girls !
No full textSandrine , Moruni , Way. Way to go, girls !. In: Marie Pas Claire, n°12, 1997. Spécial musique. pp. 22-23
A way out of pay-as-you-go without a double burden
Get PDFIt has repeatedly been proposed to reduce conventional pay-as-you-go-systems to a base level, leaving advanced retirement provision for private funded systems. However, pay-asyou-go systems are, in a sense, one way roads, with no available Pareto efficient way out. The paper discusses a combined public debt and taxing strategy which distributes the transition burden equally between future generations, leaving them with only moderate losses in terms of present value. It is shown within both a two generations model and a multiple-generations model of OLG type, that, with this strategy, there results only a temporary increase in public debt ratio, which even turns into a public surplus in the long run. The paper argues that such a transformation towards a base pension system would be both economically advisable and politically feasible. --
A Long Way to Go: The Ebola response in West Africa at the sixty day mark
Get PDFThe international response to the Ebola epidemic is on the right path, but there is a long way to go. Case numbers are stabilizing in Liberia and Guinea, but remain out of control in Sierra Leone and the targets for cases treated have not been met. The issues raised by the Ebola crisis go beyond transmission rates, but other issues are not yet being properly addressed. The absence of non-Ebola healthcare capacity is keeping people away from health services and risks prolonging the epidemic; women are dying in childbirth and not accessing prenatal care; preventable illnesses like malaria and diarrhoea are rampant, causing needless deaths. There are around 4,000 new orphans and more new female-headed households. Household incomes are dropping due to the loss of harvests, restrictions on movement and on markets and rising unemployment, which is likely to lead to hunger by March 2015. The macro-economic impacts could cost West Africa $3–4bn.
This Oxfam briefing outlines the key operational challenges and recommends that stepped up action should be taken urgently in multiple areas to contain the spread of the disease and to support those most affected. It is one of a series of Oxfam briefings on the Ebola crisis and response.
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Before I Let Go
No full textFront Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Day One -- Midnight Flight -- A Land of Gold and Loneliness -- Stars and Stories -- Unpredictable -- Strangers, Traitors, Ghosts -- Framed Moments -- Loss -- Saints and Sourdough -- Doorways -- The Lonely Lake -- Memories of Infinity -- In the Company of Others -- Foreseen and Foretold -- Whispers in the Night -- Day Two -- Astronomical Twilight -- We Can Be Heroes -- Conversations -- The Choices We Make -- A New Lost -- Happily Sometimes -- Now Here's to You -- Planting Seeds -- To Those We Have Loved and Lost -- Pathways -- Abandon Hope -- Gifts -- Day Three -- Wholesome Lives and Hot Springs -- Birds with Broken Wings -- A Shrine of Blossoms -- Keeper of the Spa -- Writing on the Wall -- Nightmares -- The Way the World Changes -- Do You Understand Now? -- Fear Her -- Of the Dead, Nothing but Good -- No Need to Say Goodbye -- Scorn and Celebration -- Service, Interrupted -- Darkness Falls -- A Backback Full of Home -- The Smell of Smoke -- The Taste of Ashes -- Day Four -- Where Do We Go From Here? -- Polar Twilight -- Night Swimming -- Testimony -- A Cure for All Ills -- Fear about Town -- Empty Rooms, Lost Words -- Dear Diary -- History -- Allies -- Unexpected Friendship -- Northern Lights -- Day Five -- The Smell of Changing Weather -- Understanding Dawns -- Top of the Morning -- The Art of Living -- Stealing In -- The Art of Dying -- The Mist, the Woods, the Darkness -- Kyra vs. the Rest of the World -- Belonging -- Brushstrokes -- Let Me Tell You a Story -- Stolen Time -- The Way the World Ends -- Endless Night -- Endless Day -- Come to Steal Your Soul Away -- Saving the World -- Day Six -- Hero Days -- Homeward Bound -- All the Lives We Shared -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- A Conversation with the Author -- About the Author -- Back CoverDescription 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
Explaining the instrumental principle
No full textThe Wide-Scope view of instrumental reason holds that you should not intend an end without also intending what you believe to be the necessary means. This, the Wide-Scoper claims, provides the best account of why failing to intend the believed means to your end is a rational failing. But Wide-Scopers have struggled to meet a simple Explanatory Challenge: why shouldn't you intend an end without intending the necessary means? What reason is there not to do so? In the first half of this paper, I argue that the Wide-Scope view struggles to meet this challenge because it takes the principles of instrumental reason to have unlimited application—to apply to all agents, in all circumstances. I then go on to offer a new account of these principles. The new account is very much in the spirit of the Wide-Scope view, and shares its central advantages, but lacks its unlimited application. This view should, therefore, find the Explanatory Challenge more tractable. In the second half of the paper, I argue that this prediction is confirmed. If the requirements of instrumental reason apply only when a means is, or is believed to be, necessary for your end, then plausible independent claims, about reasons, rationality, and intentions, explain why failing to intend the necessary means to your ends is a rational failing
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Talking torture: asylum seekers and the public commodification of personal trauma
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to analyse the discourses created and shaped by pro- immigration asylum-seeker advocates who were working in the Greater Southampton Area between 2006 and 2009. Through this analysis, I assess the factors shaping these discourses and seek to understand who benefits from these discourses and, ultimately, whom they harm. Adopting the approaches of both critical discourse analysis and linguistic ethnography to situate these discourses within the wider historical contexts of immigration to Southampton, I examine the socio-economic and political conditions in Britain as a country of destination, paying particular attention to British policies of immigration and refugee settlement and integration. I then concentrate on three themes that are dominant throughout these discourses and demonstrate how these themes - and the identities that they describe and go some way to shape - are created and shaped by the language in these discourses. These three themes are liminality, helplessness and mistrust. I engage in this analysis by conducting linguistic ethnography: living and working alongside the individuals I describe herein and conducting interviews with them in order to fully understand their discursive practice. I use a triangulation method that contrasts data emerging from ethnographic interviews with the critical discourse analysis of texts produced by these discourse communities. I argue that the discourses created and shaped by these discourse communities have fostered a condition in which asylum-seekers are portrayed as being helpless, preternaturally encumbered and, at the end of the day, as being a burden on the State.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
GO Barometer: meer wantrouwen en onvoldoende capaciteit binnen het vakgebied
No full textDe tweede editie van de GO Barometer is uit! De Stichting Kennis Gebiedsontwikkeling (SKG) brengt ook dit jaar de stand van zaken binnen het vakgebied van gebiedsontwikkeling in kaart. Gebiedsontwikkeling is een zaak van lange adem, dus er zijn veel overeenkomsten met 2022 – maar toch ook enkele opvallende verschillen. Vooral het stijgende onderlinge wantrouwen tussen partijen is opvallend. Daarnaast zet onvoldoende personele capaciteit de uitvoering van uitdagende ruimtelijke projecten verder onder druk.Urban Development ManagementPractice Chair Urban Area Developmen
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