1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780745803321

Autore

Robinson David

Titolo

The Caribbean : : From Vulnerability to Sustained Growth / / David Robinson, Paul Cashin, Ratna Sahay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4552-4588-7

1-4527-8568-6

1-283-53793-1

9786613850386

1-4519-6246-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Collana

Books

Altri autori (Persone)

CashinPaul

SahayRatna

Soggetti

Fiscal policy - Caribbean Area

Business cycles - Caribbean Area

Natural disasters - Economic aspects - Caribbean Area

Tourism - Caribbean Area

Brain drain - Caribbean Area

Exports and Imports

Foreign Exchange

Macroeconomics

Public Finance

Natural Disasters

Climate

Natural Disasters and Their Management

Global Warming

Fiscal Policy

Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General

International Migration

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Natural disasters

Public finance & taxation

Currency

Foreign exchange

Migration, immigration & emigration



International economics

Tax incentives

Migration

Fiscal stance

Public debt

Environment

Population and demographics

Fiscal policy

Exchange rate arrangements

Emigration and immigration

Debts, Public

Caribbean Area Economic conditions

Antigua and Barbuda

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

; Overview / Ratna Sahay, David O. Robinson, and Paul Cashin -- Stabilization, debt, and fiscal policy in the Caribbean / Ratna Sahay -- Fiscal policy: is the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union a free-riding paradise? / Rupa Duttagupta and Guillermo Tolosa -- Key features of Caribbean business cycles / Paul Cashin -- Islands of stability? Determinants of macroeconomic volatility in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union / Tobias Rasmussen and Guillermo Tolosa -- Eastern Caribbean Currency Union banking system in a time of fiscal challenge / Jingqing Chai -- Natural disasters and their macroeconomic implications / Tobias Rasmussen -- Government responses to natural disasters in the Caribbean / Paul Cashin and Pawel Dyczewski -- Emigration and brain drain from the Caribbean / Prachi Mishra -- Tax concessions and foreign direct investment in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union / Jingqing Chai and Rishi Goyal -- Eastern Caribbean tourism: developments and outlook / Ruby Randall -- Integration and growth in the Eastern Caribbean / Montfort Mlachila, Wendell Samuel, and Patrick Njoroge.

Sommario/riassunto

This book sets out the economic challenges facing the island nations of the Caribbean and presents policy options to ameliorate external shocks and embark firmly on a sustained growth path. While the countries of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union that are the focus of the book have enjoyed a sustained period of price and exchange rate stability, they have been buffeted in recent years by adverse shocks, including the erosion of trade preferences, declines in official foreign assistance, and frequent natural disasters. Strengthening their growth performance will require design of a multifaceted strategy that integrates the Caribbean with the global economy, facilitates an economic transformation from agriculture to tourism, fosters greater regional cooperation, and preserves macroeconomic stability. This volume examines the critical issues that are part of that process, including fiscal and financial sector policy, management of external flows, trade integration and tourism, macroeconomic cycles and volatility, and the economic implications of natural disasters.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910156186203321

Titolo

Women's Writing, 1660-1830 : Feminisms and Futures / / edited by Jennie Batchelor, Gillian Dow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781137543820

1137543825

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIV, 257 p. 4 illus.)

Disciplina

305.4201

Soggetti

Feminism

Feminist theory

Feminism and Feminist Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Feminisms, Fictions, Futures: Women’s Writing 1660–1830; Jennie Batchelor and Gillian Dow -- 1. Passing Judgement: The Place of the Aesthetic in Feminist Literary History; Ros Ballaster -- 2. Free Market Feminism? The Political Economy of Women’s Writing; E.J. Clery -- 3. Feminist Literary History: How Do We Know We’ve Won?; Katherine Binhammer -- 4. Anon, Pseud and ‘By a Lady’: The Spectre of Anonymity in Women’s Literary History; Jennie Batchelor -- 5. Authorial Performances: Actress, Author, Critic; Elaine McGirr -- 6. Pay, Professionalization and Probable Dominance? Women Writers and the Children’s Book Trade; M.O. Grenby -- 7. ‘There Are Numbers of Very Choice Books’: Book Ownership and the Circulation of Women’s Texts, 1680–98; Marie-Louise Coolahan and Mark Empey -- 8. Gender and the Material Turn; Chloe Wigston Smith -- 9. Archipelagic Literary History: Eighteenth-Century Poetryfrom Ireland, Scotland and Wales; Sarah Prescott -- 10. The ‘Biographical Impulse’ and Pan-European Women’s Writing; Gillian Dow -- Postscript; Cora Kaplan -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.-.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is about mapping the future of eighteenth-century women’s writing and feminist literary history, in an academic culture that is not shy of declaring their obsolescence. It asks: what can or should unite us



as scholars devoted to the recovery and study of women’s literary history in an era of big data, on the one hand, and ever more narrowly defined specialization, on the other? Leading scholars from the UK and US answer this question in thought-provoking, cross-disciplinary and often polemical essays. Contributors attend to the achievements of eighteenth-century women writers and the scholars who have devoted their lives to them, and map new directions for the advancement of research in the area. They collectively argue that eighteenth-century women’s literary history has a future, and that feminism was, and always should be, at its heart.