Finance and Development, September 2013

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910970456303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2013
• ISBN: 9781475561647; 1475561644; 9781484365014; 1484365011; 9781484368466; 1484368460
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
• Collana: Finance & Development
• Soggetti: Economic assistance; Finance - Developing countries; International finance; Exports and Imports; Macroeconomics; Public Finance; Production and Operations Management; Natural Resources; Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics: General; Macroeconomics: Production; National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock; Remittances; Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages; Energy: General; Environmental management; Public finance & taxation; International economics; Investment & securities; Natural resources; Output gap; Public investment spending; Banking; Environment; Production; Expenditure; Balance of payments; Potential output; Economic theory; Public investments; Industrial productivity; United States
• 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: Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Departments; Also in this Issue; Earth's Precious Resources; Letters to the Editor; In Brief; People in Economics: A Class Act; Too Much of a Good Thing?: For natural resource riches to drive growth and reduce poverty, countries must balance spending now with investing in the future; A Drop in the Bucket: Successful management of water must balance development needs and economic considerations; On the Edge: How oil markets will adjust to high prices is unclear; Extracting Resource Revenue: For countries with abundant oil, gas, and mineral deposits, formulating tax and spending policies can be trickyThe Elusive Revival: The expected boost in growth from natural resource booms is not yet happening; Capital Flight Risk: Natural-resource-rich countries risk capital flight as multinational corporations seek to avoid taxes; Eurasia's Next Frontier: For the Caucasus and Central Asia, natural resource wealth holds the key to achieving emerging market status; Picture This: Minerals of the Future: A secure, green, and innovation-filled future awaits us, but only with the help of rocks buried deep in the groundA Bumpy Road Ahead: Latin America needs large and sustained productivity gains to maintain its recent strong growth; Back to Basics: What Is the Output Gap?; Closer to Home: Despite all the talk of globalization, business cycles seem to be becoming more regional; A Big Question on Small States: Can they overcome their size-related vulnerabilities and grow faster and more consistently?; Beyond the Household: Remittances that migrants send home to their families also have a major impact on the overall economyStrength in Lending: Strong balance sheets help banks sustain credit to the economy during crises; Book Reviews
• Sommario/riassunto: For the latest thinking about the international financial system, monetary policy, economic development, poverty reduction, and other critical issues, subscribe to Finance & Development (F&D). This lively quarterly magazine brings you in-depth analyses of these and other subjects by the IMF’s own staff as well as by prominent international experts. Articles are written for lay readers who want to enrich their understanding of the workings of the global economy and the policies and activities of the IMF.

Female Authority and Holiness in Early and Medieval Christianity / / ed. by Maria Dell’Isola

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911024020803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2025]; 2025
• ISBN: 3-11-078121-2; 3-11-078112-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (VII, 163 p.)
• Soggetti: RELIGION / Christianity / History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Authors -- Introduction -- Section 1 Female Authority, Gender Roles, and Religious Experience and Practices in Early Christianity -- A Portrayal of “Gendered” Authority: Mary of Cassobola Across Time and Space in Two Ps.Ignatian Epistles -- A Male Colonization of a Female Visionary Body: The “Montanist” Prophetess in Tertullian’s On the Soul 9,4 -- Women Facing Martyrdom: The Interplay Between Temporality and Social and Gender Roles in Early Christianity -- Section 2 Re-writing Women’s Authority: Tradition, Transmission, and Reception of Female Sainthood Across Time and Space -- Emulating Thecla: Mygdonia, Xanthippe, and Polyxena -- Husband as a “Religious Other”: Family Discord from Early Christian Apology to Medieval Hagiography -- The Metaphrastic Female Saint: Time and Temporality in Rewritten Lives of Women Saints -- Section 3 Women, Saints, and Time: The Construction of Gendered Temporality in the Lives of Holy Women -- Unlike Their Mothers: The Struggle Against Time of the Two Melanias -- Mothers’ Time: The Temporality of Motherhood in the Life of Martha and the Life of Symeon Stylite the Younger -- Girls, Interrupted: Synchronicity and Genealogy in Tzetzes’ Hypomnema for Saint Lucy -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This collective volume investigates the connection between women’s holiness and the notion of time from a diachronic perspective. By ; looking at temporality as intertwined with the construction of social and gendered roles, the volume analyses narratives related to the varying articulation of female authority, considered against the wider background of Christian ideals of holiness between early Christianity and Byzantium.