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Economic Collapse (economic + collapse)

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Selected Abstracts

Managing cash if hyperinflation hits

JOURNAL OF CORPORATE ACCOUNTING & FINANCE, Issue 1 2009
Fran Wolf
In an effort to prevent further widespread economic collapse, the U.S. government began an ultra-aggressive fiscal and monetary stimulus. Officials have pumped trillions of dollars into the financial sector, creating a skyrocketing national debt. Many fear the result will be runaway inflation, with the cost of goods and services soaring out of control If this happens, how can companies manage cash to compensate? © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]

The Politics of Caring for the Poor: Anglican Responses in 1890s Tasmania

JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, Issue 3 2007
ROBERT S. M. WITHYCOMBE
Relieving poverty amongst skilled but unemployed workers during the Tasmanian economic collapse in the 1890s challenged both a conservative government's policy of avoiding public debt by initiating minimal relief and the limited financial and human resources of voluntary philanthropic agencies, the Anglican Church amongst them, whom the Tasmanian governments expected to carry the burden of delivering relief to those deemed to deserve it. With labour organisations too weak to lead, and amidst the silence of church leaders, it fell to individuals like the Reverend Archibald Turnbull to articulate a Christian socialist critique of government policies and values and to advocate the desperate plight of the poor. In this context, this study examines how contemporary government and Anglican Church leaders responded to Turnbull's political and pastoral initiatives in Hobart in 1893,96. [source]

Diabetes mellitus in Sudan: the size of the problem and the possibilities of efficient care

PRACTICAL DIABETES INTERNATIONAL (INCORPORATING CARDIABETES), Issue 9 2001
Awad Mohamed Ahmed MBBS MD Consultant Physician Assistant Professor of Medicine
Abstract Sudan has, for a long time, suffered economic collapse, drought and civil war. Diabetes mellitus is currently emerging as an important health problem, especially in urban areas. The actual prevalence of diabetes is unknown although one small study showed a prevalence of 3.4%. Diabetes is the commonest cause of hospital admission and morbidity due to a non-communicable disease (7 and 10% respectively). The problems of diabetes care in Sudan include the lack of efficient diabetes care centres, lack of specially trained personnel, the high cost of anti-diabetic treatments, poor compliance with therapy or diet, ignorance and wrong beliefs, food and dietary factors and gender-related problems. The goal of efficient diabetes care can be achieved through implementing a national diabetes programme. This programme should be responsible for personnel training, establishing model care centres, patients' education, availability and affordability of insulin, scientific and clinical research and primary prevention. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

One or Several Betrayals? or, When is Betrayal Treason?

BULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH, Issue 4 2003
Genet, the Argentine Liberal Project
Betrayal is one of the key narrative tropes in the fiction of the Argentine writer Roberto Arlt. The psychological and existential implications of the betrayals found in novels such as El juguete rabioso (1926) and El amor brujo (1933) have attracted much critical comment, as have the links between the betrayals found in Arlt's fiction and the work of Jean Genet. Arlt's oeuvre has been read in relation to the turbulent political context of 1920s and 30s Argentina, in particular the failure of the Liberal Project of economic development through immigration that was introduced after the fall of the dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas in 1852, the economic collapse of 1929 and the ensuing military coup of 1930. Critics have suggested that betrayal in Arlt represents an attack on bourgeois hypocrisy, a middle-class attempt at transcending one's environment, or a reversal of dominant social values. This paper however intends to deepen the understanding of betrayal in Arlt's fiction by examining it as a political gesture, a quality overlooked by many studies. A reading of the political nature of betrayal in Genet's work and an engagement with Bersani's queer reading of Funeral Rites alongside Said's analysis of Genet as an anti-identarian revolutionary, allows the reader of Arlt to reassess the political gesture contained in betrayal, and to move towards a reading of the development in Arlt's fiction either side of the military takeover of 1930, moving from his critique of the rising petit-bourgeois classes in El juguete rabioso (1926) to a clear realisation and encouragement of class consciousness in the short stories of El criador de gorilas (1936). [source]