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World Literature: Atsumori
are reconciled. Contexts Play based on traditional narratives about the war between the Genji/Minamoto and Heike/Taira clans (1180-1185). Buddhism, religion based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha), a sage who was active in India sometime between th...
World Literature: Zeami Motokiyo
are reconciled. Contexts Play based on traditional narratives about the war between the Genji/Minamoto and Heike/Taira clans (1180-1185). Buddhism, religion based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha), a sage who was active in India sometime between th...
 For full Report: South Africa
be taken as conservative estimates. Furthermore, improvements in the Survey of Employment and Earnings (SEE) after 2001 introduced a structural break in the series. Therefore, we do not use enterprise-based estimates beyond 2001 in this report. Estimation of Employ...
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be taken as conservative estimates. Furthermore, improvements in the Survey of Employment and Earnings (SEE) after 2001 introduced a structural break in the series. Therefore, we do not use enterprise-based estimates beyond 2001 in this report. Estimation of Employment Elasticity 1. Data As noted above, time series data on employment for South Africa are problematic. These estimates use the SEE time series data from 1967 to 2001 (Statistics South Africa) for total non-agricultural employment. These figures
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be taken as conservative estimates. Furthermore, improvements <span class="highlight">in</span> the Survey of Employment and Earnings (SEE) after 2001 introduced a structural break <span class="highlight">in</span> the series. Therefore, we do not use enterprise-<span class="highlight">based</span> estimates beyond 2001 <span class="highlight">in</span> this report. <span class="highlight">Estimation</span> of Employment Elasticity 1. Data As noted above, time series data <span class="highlight">on</span> employment for South Africa are problematic. These estimates use the SEE time series data from 1967 to 2001 (Statistics South Africa) for total non-agricultural employment. These figures
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impact of monetary policy <span class="highlight">on</span> investment as well as the effects of fiscal policy <span class="highlight">on</span> investment through public investment, taxation, and government domestic borrowing. The ob- jective is to shed <span class="highlight">light</span> <span class="highlight">on</span> strategies for increasing private investment. 2. The empirical model, the data, and <span class="highlight">estimation</span> methodology The analysis is <span class="highlight">based</span> <span class="highlight">on</span> an empirical investment model designed to allow us to estimate the effects of macroeconomic policy variables, controlling for other determinants of investment demand. The policy
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rate: -0.04 (contemporaneous), -0.28 (overall) Cumulative inflation effects <span class="highlight">on</span> consumption: contemporaneous period: -0.0039 one-period lag: -0.0065 two-period lag: -0.0007 (not significantly different from zero). Notes 1. Nominal debt payments would be calculated as the stock of debt times the nominal interest rate. <span class="highlight">Real</span> debt payments are therefore the <span class="highlight">real</span> stock of debt (the stock of debt divided by the current price level) multiplied by the nominal interest rate. 2. <span class="highlight">Augmented</span> Dickey-Fuller tests suggest that
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U.S. Treasury Bill rate. <span class="highlight">Source</span>: IFS. Private Credit: The four-quarter rate of growth of private credit created by all monetary institutions; monthly data transformed to quarterly data. <span class="highlight">Source</span>: South African Reserve Bank (http://www.reservebank.co.za/). Terms of Trade: Four-quarter change <span class="highlight">in</span> the terms of trade. <span class="highlight">Source</span>: South African Reserve Bank (http://www.reservebank.co.za/). Stationarity Tests <span class="highlight">on</span> Variables All of the variables were tested for stationarity using the <span class="highlight">Augmented</span> Dickey-Fuller tests. Table
Poem for a Birthday' to 'Three Women': Development in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath
way into the poem--this is further reflected in the reading response to Sylvia Plath which frequently begins at the level of autobiographical fact and then deepens into an awareness of the intellectual and tonal complexities of the poem. The real Sylvia Plath is far from present in...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Suhrawardi
occurrence of such intuitive and mystical aptitudes to access true reality. The ‘Plotinian’ (cf. Enneads V 3.6) Aristotle figure of Suhrawardi's famous dream-vision found in his Intimations (cf. Walbridge 2000: 225–9) provides us with an illustrious example of what co...
Writing about Film
rewrites, the drama of getting the project financed, the casting challenges, and so on. However, when your film professors ask you to write about film, it's precisely those "invisible" aspects that they want you to see. Pay attention to the way the camera moves. Note the compositi...
More on the Augmented Matrix
was based on these forms of the augmented matrix. Let’s work with the two equation case. Since, is an augmented matrix we can always convert back to equations. Each row represents and equation and the first column is the coefficient of x in the equation w...
Monetary Policy and Financial Sector Reform for Employment Creation and Poverty Reduction ...
48 Country Study nº 2 A negative coefficient on the public sector credit variable does make sense in the G hanaian context. During the period examined here, the majority of domestic credit financed public expenditures, not private investment. Banks held, and continue to hold, ex...
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48 Country Study nº 2 A negative coefficient on the public sector credit variable does make sense in the G hanaian context. During the period examined here, the majority of domestic credit financed public expenditures, not private investment. Banks held, and continue to hold, excess reserves of short-term government securities. This limits the role that the banking sector has played in financing real fixed investment. More credit to the public sector at a given level of government spending w ill
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(see Chirinko, 1993, for an overview ). W e used this kind of generic investment function as a starting place to investigate the determinants of investment <span class="highlight">in</span> the G hanaian economy: ),,,( XgarfI = <span class="highlight">in</span> w hich I represents gross investment, r represents the cost of capital, a the accelerator effect, g government spending, and X a matrix of other exogenous variables. Studies of investment <span class="highlight">in</span> G hana and sub-Saharan Africa suggest a number of additional explanatory variables: for example, the <span class="highlight">real</span> exchange
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48 Country Study nº 2 A negative coefficient <span class="highlight">on</span> the public sector credit variable does make sense <span class="highlight">in</span> the G hanaian context. During the period examined here, the majority of domestic credit financed public expenditures, not private investment. Banks held, and continue to hold, excess reserves of short-term government securities. This limits the role that the banking sector has played <span class="highlight">in</span> financing <span class="highlight">real</span> fixed investment. More credit to the public sector at a given level of government spending w ill
Matrix Definitions
Matrices / Matrix Size (page 1 of 3) Sections: Augmented & coefficient matrices / Matrix size, Matrix notation & types, Matrix equality Augmented matrices Matrices are incredibly useful things that crop up in many different applied areas. For now, you'll probably on...
Nobody Knows My Name & The Fire Next Time - Teacher's Guide
the landscape in which he had grown up" (p. 166). What does he mean by this? Based on what he reveals about his own family background, childhood, and adolescence in the two books, is the landscape of Baldwin's mind the landscape in which he grew up? "I a...
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