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UNINA9910459731003321 |
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Autore |
Page P. K. (Patricia Kathleen), 1916-2010 (Patricia Kathleen), <1916-2010., > |
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The filled pen : selected non-fiction |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2007 |
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©2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (152 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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Essays |
Essays - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Foreword -- Editor's Introduction -- A Writer's Life -- Safe at Home -- Falling in Love with Poetry -- Had I Not Been a Writer, What Would I Have Been? -- Questions and Images -- Traveller, Conjuror, Journeyman -- Afterword to A Flask of Sea Water -- Fairy Tales, Folk Tales: The Language of the Imagination -- Foreword to Hologram -- The Sense of Angels: Reflections on A.M. Klein -- Notes on Re-reading George Johnston -- Afterword to The Innocent Traveller -- Afterword to Emily's Quest -- Afterword to Nights below Station Street -- Darkinbad the Brightdayler: The Work of Pat Martin Bates -- The World of Maxwell Bates -- Max and My Mother -- Review of The Company of Strangers -- Textual Notes -- Index |
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P.K. Page is best known as one of Canada's finest poets, but over the course of her career she has also written a number of essays - meditations - on her life and work, on the nature of art and the imagination, and on Canadian works of literature, painting, and film that have had special significance for her. As lovers of her poetry would hope and expect, these essays are beautiful, intelligent, moving, and delightfully quirky. The Filled Pen brings together the most important of these essays, including two previously unpublished: A Writer's Life |
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and Fairy Tales, Folk Tales: The Language of the Imagination.. Zailig Pollock, Page scholar and professor of English at Trent University, has edited and annotated this collection for admirers of Page's work, general readers, and academics alike.The essays, which cover a period of approximately forty years, reflect Page's enduring concerns as a verbal and visual artist with the power of art and the imagination to transcend the barriers that limit our perceptions of the world and our sympathies with our fellow human beings. Page is more interested in posing questions than imposing answers; and fascinated as she is by a wide range of ideas, from ancient mysticism to modern neurophysiology, it is images, endlessly evocative and suggestive, that matter to her most. Her comments on A.M. Klein from "A Sense of Angels", one of the most moving and perceptive tributes by one poet to another, apply very much to the P.K. Page we see in The Filled Pen: "For all his interest in the immediate world ... for all his acceptance of ideological and psychological theory, he seemed to reach beyond both to a larger reality." |
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UNINA9910973989403321 |
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Autore |
Yackovlev Irene |
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Cyclical Patterns of Government Expenditures in Sub-Saharan Africa : : Facts and Factors / / Irene Yackovlev, Victor Lledo, Lucie Gadenne |
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Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009 |
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9786612844614 |
9781462336586 |
1462336582 |
9781282844612 |
128284461X |
9781451874198 |
1451874197 |
9781452769226 |
1452769222 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (53 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Fiscal policy - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
Finance, Public - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
Debt Management |
Debt |
Debts, Public |
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Expenditure |
Expenditures, Public |
Finance |
Finance: General |
Financial risk management |
Fiscal Policy |
Fiscal policy |
Fiscal space |
General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation |
Macroeconomics |
National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General |
Procyclicality |
Public debt |
Public finance & taxation |
Public Finance |
Sovereign Debt |
Africa, Sub-Saharan Economic policy |
South Africa |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; I. Introduction; 1. Evolution of the fiscal balance in sub-Saharan Africa, current and past cycles; 1. Number of sub-Saharan African countries satisfying various macroeconomic performance and institutional quality criterial by decade; II. Literature Review; III. Empirical Strategy; A. Empirical Model and Identification; B. Data, Measurement, and Specification; IV. Results; A. Key Facts; 2. Cyclical properties of government spending, 1970-2008; 3. Robustness checks, system-GMM estimates and additional controls |
4. Cyclical properties of government spending by decade B. Factors; 5. Political factors, impact on procyclicality, 1970-2008; 6. Financing constraints, impact on procyclicality, 1970-2008; 7. Macroeconomic stability and fiscal space, impact on procyclicality, 1970-2008; 8. How can we explain the evolution of procyclicality over time in sub-Saharan Africa?; V. Conclusions and Policy Implications; Appendix; References; Footnotes |
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This paper documents cyclical patterns of government expenditures in sub-Saharan Africa since 1970 and explains variation between countries and over time. Controlling for endogeneity, it finds government expenditures to be slightly more procyclical in sub-Saharan Africa than in other developing countries and some evidence that procyclicality in Africa has declined in recent years after a period of sharp increase through the 1990s. Greater fiscal space, proxied by lower external debt, and better access to concessional financing, proxied by larger aid flows, seem to be important factors in diminishing procyclicality in the region. The role of institutions is less clear cut: changes in political institutions have no impact on |
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