The investment climate in Brazil, India, and South Africa [[electronic resource] ] : a comparison of approaches for sustaining economic growth in emerging economies / / by Qimiao Fan ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451561003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2008
• ISBN: 1-281-19131-0; 9786611191313; 0-8213-7364-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (139 p.)
• Collana: WBI learning resources series
• Altri autori (Persone): FanQimiao
• Disciplina: 330.9172/4
• Soggetti: Investments - Government policy; Electronic books.; Brazil Economic policy; India Economic policy 1991-; South Africa Economic policy
• 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 (p. 113-117).
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Assessing the investment climate of Brazil, India, and South Africa -- Macroeconomic and trade policy -- Macroeconomic performance -- Taxation -- Foreign trade and exchange -- The benefits of exporting : the case of Brazil -- Microeconomic framework -- Regulation -- Enforcement -- Enabling environment for growth -- Investment climate and firm location -- Access to finance -- Physical infrastructure -- Cost and availability of skilled labor -- Crime -- Potential reforms and their estimated effects -- Investment climate reform and productivity -- Examining options for microeconomic reform : access to credit -- Lessons from country experience -- A flat tax for micro and small firms : the SIMPLES reform in Brazil -- The emergence of India's software sector -- Building a respected corporate tax system in South Africa -- South Africa's accelerated and shared growth initiative -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Concept of the investment climate --Appendix B: Data sources.
• Sommario/riassunto: A strong investment climate is a platform for economic success. By ; creating opportunities and setting incentives for firms to invest and productively employ inputs, the investment climate is critical to economic growth and prosperity. Analyzing and comparing the investment climate of Brazil, India, and South Africa, three of today's largest emerging economies, this book presents policy makers with the scope of investment climate reforms in these countries. Inter- and intra-country benchmarking can be a starting point for dialogue between the government and private sector on reform priorities a

The altar at home : sentimental literature and nineteenth-century American religion / / Claudia Stokes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465376603321
• Autore: Stokes Claudia <1970->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-8122-9014-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/3823
• Soggetti: Religion and literature - United States - History - 19th century; Sentimentalism in literature; Christianity in literature; American literature - Women authors - History and criticism; American literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Revivals of Sentiment: Sentimentalism and the Second Great Awakening -- Chapter 2. My Kingdom: Sentimentalism and the Refinement of Hymnody -- Chapter 3. The Christian Plot: Stowe, Millennialism, and Narrative Form -- Chapter 4. Derelict Daughters and Polygamous Wives: Mormonism and the Uses of Sentiment -- Chapter 5. The Mother Church: Mary Baker Eddy and the Practice of Sentimentalism -- Notes -- Bibliography ; -- Index -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Displays of devout religious faith are very much in evidence in nineteenth-century sentimental novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and Little Women, but the precise theological nature of this piety has been little examined. In the first dedicated study of the religious contents of sentimental literature, Claudia Stokes counters the long-standing characterization of sentimental piety as blandly nondescript and demonstrates that these works were in fact groundbreaking, assertive, and highly specific in their theological recommendations and endorsements. The Altar at Home explores the many religious contexts and contents of sentimental literature of the American nineteenth century, from the growth of Methodism in the Second Great Awakening and popular millennialism to the developing theologies of Mormonism and Christian Science. Through analysis of numerous contemporary religious debates, Stokes demonstrates how sentimental writers, rather than offering simple depictions of domesticity, instead manipulated these scenes to advocate for divergent new beliefs and bolster their own religious authority. On the one hand, the comforting rhetoric of domesticity provided a subtle cover for sentimental writers to advance controversial new beliefs, practices, and causes such as Methodism, revivalism, feminist theology, and even the legitimacy of female clergy. On the other hand, sentimentality enabled women writers to bolster and affirm their own suitability for positions of public religious leadership, thereby violating the same domestic enclosure lauded by the texts. The Altar at Home offers a fascinating new historical perspective on the dynamic role sentimental literature played in the development of innumerable new religious movements and practices, many of which remain popular today.