1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464006503321

Autore

Moriyama Kenji

Titolo

Forecasting inflation in Sudan [[electronic resource] /] / Kenji Moriyama and Abdul Naseer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.], : International Monetary Fund, 2009

ISBN

1-4623-4063-6

1-4527-3897-1

1-4518-7279-8

9786612843464

1-282-84346-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (27 p.)

Collana

IMF working paper ; ; WP/09/132

Soggetti

Inflation (Finance) - Sudan

Economic forecasting - Sudan

Electronic books.

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

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Recent Developments; Figures; 1. Average and Standard Deviation of Inflation, 2000-08; 2. Monthly Inflation (12-Month) in Sudan, January 2000-October 2008; III. Methodology; A. Which Inflation Should Be Forecasted?; 3. Overall Inflation, 2000-08; B. Autoregressive Moving Average (ARMA) Model; 4. Cumulative Spectral Distribution of Inflation, 2000-08; C. Leading Indicators; 5. Currency Holding and Islamic Dummies, 2005-08; 6. Candidates of Leading Indicators; IV. Results; A. ARMA Model; 7. Actual and Projected Inflation Based on the Estimated ARMA Models

B. Granger Causality Tests for Leading IndicatorsV. Implications-What Can be said from the Estimated Model and the Tests?; A. Can the Estimated Model Explain the Surge of Inflation in 2007 and 2008?; 8. Forecasted Inflation, July 2007-December 2008; 9. Forecast Errors of the Model and Bread Contribution to Inflation, July 2007-October 2008; B. Forecasting Inflation for 2009 and 2010; 10. Forecasted Inflation; 11. Inflation Forecast Based on ARMA (4,5), July 2008-December 2010; C. Leading Indicators (Private Sector Credit Growth and Wheat Price



Inflation)

12. Oil Price Projections, World Economic Outlook, 2000-1013. Wheat Price Projections, World Economic Outlook, 2000-10; VI. Conclusions; Tables; 1. Estimated ARMA Model of Inflation; 2. Main Statistics of Various ARMA Models, 2000-08; 3. Granger Causality Tests Between Inflation and Leading Indicators, 2000-08; Appendices; I. The Schwartz Information Criterion; II. Estimated ARMA Model for main Monetary Aggregates; Appendix Tables; A1. Estimated ARMA Model of Broad money, 2000-08; References

Sommario/riassunto

This paper forecasts inflation in Sudan following two methodologies: the Autoregressive Moving Average (ARMA) model and by looking at the leading indicators of inflation. The estimated ARMA model remarkably tracks the actual inflation during the sample period. The Granger causality test suggests that private sector credit and world wheat prices are the leading indicators explaining inflation in Sudan. Inflation forecasts based on both approaches suggest that inflationary pressures for 2009 and 2010 will be modest and that inflation will remain in single-digits, assuming that prudent macroecono

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797442803321

Autore

Verveckken Katrien Dora <1984->

Titolo

Binominal quantifiers in Spanish : conceptually-driven analogy in diachrony and synchrony / / Katrien Dora Verveckken

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-040673-X

3-11-040683-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (532 p.)

Collana

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, , 0084-5396 ; ; Band 391

Disciplina

465/.5

Soggetti

Spanish language - Nominals

Spanish language - Qualifiers

Spanish language - Topic and comment

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

Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Framework, state of the art and methodology -- 3. Binominal quantifiers as a locus of grammaticalization -- Part 2. Diachronic case-studies - towards a constructional network model -- 4. The development of montón de, a typical locus of grammaticalization -- 5. The role of conceptual persistence and analogy in the development of BQs -- 6. Theoretical reflection: a constructional network model of the development of BQs -- Part 3. Synchronic case-studies - towards a constructional network model -- 7. QN-related schematization and N2-profiling -- 8. The motivated nature of the QN-related co-selection patterns -- 9. Theoretical reflection: the notion of CIP revisited -- Part 4. Conclusions -- 10. Conclusion -- References

Sommario/riassunto

Quantification is central to human experience (cf. Aristotle's Organon): the most basic aspects of human life and reasoning involve quantity assessment. This study sheds lights on a highly frequent way to express quantification in Spanish, viz. the binominal quantifier (e.g. un aluviónN1 de llamadasN2 'a flood of calls') which assesses the quantity of N2 in terms of N1. This volume offers a corpus-based, cognitive-functional analysis of binominal quantifiers (BQ) in Spanish. The first part is dedicated to the development of BQs and starts from the assumption that BQs are cross-linguistically involved in grammaticalization. This monograph frames the history of BQs in Spanish in terms of constructional levels of change and highlights the complex interplay between analogical thinking and conceptual persistence. The second part motivates both the ample variation in the paradigm of quantifying nouns and their combinatorial pattern by the very same mechanism of conceptually-driven analogy. The study thus yields an innovative functional model of BQs in Spanish, in synchrony and in diachrony, with major implications for reference grammars and theory building.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910639978303321

Autore

Burggraeve Roger

Titolo

Vulnerable responsibility : Small vices for caregivers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloemfontein, : UJ Press, 2018

ISBN

9781928424178

1928424171

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (154 p.)

Soggetti

Medical ethics & professional conduct

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The authors have developed the ethical imagination inviting a sense of “otherness” towards the vulnerable self, rebounding care for the other as a way to understand our everyday neurotic (normal) tendency of small vices as the propensity and possibility for responsibility towards the other. The authors, inviting the reader into troublesome feelings such as laziness and anger, bring a Levinasian horizon into focus, so that even in the midst of laziness, there remains the small goodness to set the self free to care for the other, meeting the demands, challenges, hesitation, shuddering, tension and shocks of such alterity, of living “otherwise”.