Love stories Manning, Paul
Love stories,
2015, 20150515, 2015, 2015-05-15
eBook
Love Stories offers an ethnography of language and desire
that doubles as an introduction to key linguistic genres and to the
interplay of language and culture.
We present description of a new class for the high-altitude screes of the Caucasus (the Lamio tomentosi-Chaerophylletea humilis) and two alliances such as the Scrophulario minimae-Symphyolomion ...graveolentis (Chaerophylletalia humilis, Lamio tomentosi-Chaerophylletea humilis) and the Scrophulario variegatae-Epilobion dodonaei (Epilobietalia fleischeri, Thlaspietea rotundifolii).
V članku predstavljamo opis novega razreda na visoko ležečih meliščih na Kavkazu (Lamio tomentosi-Lamietea tomentosi) in dveh zvez − Scrophulario minimae-Symphyolomion graveolentis (Chaerophylletalia humilis, Lamio tomentosi- -Chaerophylletea humilis) in Scrophulario variegatae-Epilobion dodonaei (Epilobietalia fleischeri, Thlaspietea rotundifolii).
Job creation and productivity growth are at the forefront of today's global development agenda. The 2013 world development report on jobs identified entrepreneurship as an important tool in ...addressing these dual goals. This study uses the entrepreneurship model put forth in the organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)-Eurostat Entrepreneurship Indicator Program (2009), with minor modifications. The model comprises various determinants that policy can affect and that in turn influence entrepreneurial performance, or the amount and type of entrepreneurship that take place. The model then refers to the impact of entrepreneurship on higher- level goals such as economic growth, job creation, and poverty reduction. This study focuses on determining the level of entrepreneurship in Georgia and analyzes the role of each determinant in both fostering and constraining entrepreneurial activity. Entrepreneurs view opportunities in the economy by measuring their profit-making potential; that is their first motivation. Entrepreneurs will not pursue a societal need unless they can successfully make a profit. Entrepreneurship also depends on various social and individual characteristics of gender and culture. It involves taking risks, and potential entrepreneurs cannot be risk-averse. A fundamental question stemming from analyzing these determinants of entrepreneurship is how to design effective public policy that promotes innovative firm creation and enables existing firms to catch up, improve productivity, and grow. Experiences from Asian countries and developed economies have shown that innovative Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and knowledge-based firm creation have played a major role in the development of new national economic advantages. In this context public policy is pivotal in creating an enabling environment that helps alleviate the market failures that inhibit firm growth. Emerging markets have other environmental conditions that are not present (or are less prevalent) in developed markets, and investors considering investing in emerging markets will face added risk as a result.
This book chronicles the anticorruption reforms that have transformed public service in Georgia since the Rose Revolution in late 2003. The focus is on the 'how' behind successful reforms of selected ...public services. This book tries to answer some of these questions. It is based largely on data and informed by interviews with past and current high-ranking government officials who provide insights from within government on the challenges and solutions, the decisions, and the trade-offs considered. This book does not assess Georgia's overall reforms since the rose revolution. It does not address efforts toward democratization, which were a key part of the rose revolution. The book focuses on how the state was able to root out corruption and eliminate red tape in selected public services. It does not analyze areas in which government efforts are still continuing or may have fallen short. Nor does it suggest any causality between anticorruption reforms and growth or social outcomes. From the case studies on each of these efforts, the book identifies a set of common factors that led to the success of the reforms.
Raspad Sovjetskog Saveza uzrokovao je nezapamćenu geopolitičku katastrofu u modernoj povijesti, ostavljajući nestabilne međuetničke prostore sudbini vlastitih nacionalizama. Sovjetski etno-kartografi ...su kompromisnim rješenjima ustrojili dinamičan prostor novog euroazijskog carstva ignorirajući i odgađajući srž međuetničkih problema. Sovjetskom politikom stvoreni su uvjeti za kontrolu Južnog Kavkaza koristeći međusobne odnose naroda za održavanje moći centralne vlasti pritom potpaljujući međuetničke sukobe. Iako su sovjetske politike težile rješavanju problema, njihov cilj je bio kontrola prostora Južnog Kavkaza pomoću čvrste državne moći čijim su nestankom i započeli odgođeni sukobi koji traju i dandanas.
U ovom radu predstavljeni su rezultati istraživanja uzroka isključujućih (exclusionary) nacionalističkih mitova. Tijekom istraživanja analizirana su dva slučaja – Gruzija i Srbija u vrijeme raspada ...SSSR-a, odnosno SFRJ-a. U tijeku raspada starih sustava stari su identiteti oslabili, a nove su se države suočile s problemom stvaranja novih identiteta. Oni su raspirili nacionalistički diskurs – kako u Gruziji, tako i u Srbiji – začevši brojne isključujuće mitove o manjinskim narodima. Međutim, gruzijski je nacionalizam iznjedrio neprijateljske mitove o Abhazijcima i Osetima, ali ne i o Adžarima. Isto tako, srpski je nacionalizam stvorio isključujuće mitove o albanskoj manjini na Kosovu, dok je spram mađarske manjine u Vojvodini bio prilično popustljiv. U svome radu tvrdim da su razlike u putanjama razvoja nacionalističkih diskursa određene ‘oznakama nacionalnog identiteta’ (porijeklo, jezik, kultura, vjera i državljanstvo) na temelju kojih se formira većina. Konkretno, ako je sadržaj dominantne oznake nacionalnog identiteta većine u sukobu sa sadržajem određene oznake identiteta manjine, većina ne percipira manjinu kao ‘nas’, dio istog naroda, već kao ‘njih’, ‘druge’. To se odražava u nacionalističkom političkom diskursu.