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Só me resta dizer que se estivesse diante de meu pai, dir-lhe-ia que o grande mérito de Agostinho Neto não foi o de produzir poesia de qualidade, já que os seus textos não ultrapassam o nível sofrível, mas o facto de ele ter dado à sua mensagem uma estrutura poética a fim de fazer vingar o seu projecto político-ideológico, que culminou com a independência do país aos 11 de Novembro de 1975 e é nesta perspectiva que Neto terá de ser recordado, ou seja, como o Fundador da Nação Angolana, porque os seus poemas estão muito aquém do que se poderia considerar uma verdadeira obra de arte.
Au moment où l’Afrique en général, et le Ghana, en particulier, s’apprêtent à célébrer le centenaire de la naissance d’un des grands hommes politiques de l’Afrique contemporaine, je voudrais, en réponse à mon fils, examiner ces questions : quelle réception peut-on faire aujourd’hui du panafricanisme ? Que sont devenus les grands idéologues de ce mouvement ? L’Afrique a-t-elle encore une chance de rayonner un jour ? Chacun peut continuer la liste des questions. Comme chacun sait, du moins, je suppose, Kwame Nkrumah est né le 21 septembre 1909 et est incontestablement une des figures centrales du panafricanisme. Pendant que j’étais en train de parcourir un journal, mon fils me demande après avoir lu le mot « panafricanisme » : « Qu’est-ce que le panafricanisme ? » Ce terme échappe à toute définition évidente, je veux dire claire, nette et précise. Lors du 7ème congrès de ce mouvement panafricain réuni à Kampala, en Ouganda en 1994, les congressistes n’ont pu livrer une définition univoque. « Deux tendances [se sont affrontées] : celle inspirée de Kwame Nkrumah et des luttes de libération anti-impérialistes, l’autre, plus modérée, prônant une relation ‘’amicale’’ avec l’Occident ». Pour ma part, ne laissant place à aucune ambiguïté je choisirai naturellement la première, non sans relativiser l’importance accordée à l’anti- impérialisme. L’Afrique ne souffre plus du colonialisme mais de ses propres fils. (...) Le panafricanisme de Nkrumah et ses amis est « mort » et notre Afrique contemporaine continue de le tuer. Pour mieux te faire comprendre ce que je veux te dire, je voudrais que tu suives avec moi 3 idées fortes qui vont peut-être te convaincre ou te dégoûter, peu importe. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CRELAF (Cercle de Reflexion des Etudiants en Littératures Africaines), Département de Littératures Africaines, Université Omar Bongo, Gabon
This paper addresses the question whether close borrower-lender relationships, so called hausbank-relationships, facilitate the funding and beneficial development of SME. To this end, we derive a model which relates a firm's growth rate to its need for external funds and subsequently compute the firms that exceed their predicted growth rate. We then use this measure to identify specific characteristics that are associated with long- and short-term financing of firm growth, in particular the influence of relationship lending. We find that close ties with savings banks predict firms' access to external finance to fund growth. Moreover, the long-term liabilities of firms with hausbank-relationships almost double those with multiple relationships while the overall leverage is about the same. In turn, we find an strong empirical relationship between the provision of long-term funds and firm growth. Keywords: small business lending, credit access, public banks JEL Classifications: G21, D21
Local interactions between particles of a collection causes all particles to reorganize in new positions. The purpose of this paper is to construct an energy-based model of self-organizing subgroups, which describes the behavior of singular local moves of a particle. The present paper extends the Hegselmann-Krause model on consensus dynamics, where agents simultaneously move to the barycenter of all agents in an epsilon neighborhood. The Energy-based model presented here is analyzed and simulated on finite metric space. AMS Subject Classifications:81T80; 93A30; 37M05; 68U20
When at the end of Hans Sachs' tragedy of Tristrant, dated February 7th, 1553, the herold takes the floor, he calls to the audience to recognize that this is a tragedy, Auß der wird offentlich erkendt, Wie solche unorndliche lieb Hat so ein starck mechtigen trieb, Wo sie einnimbt ein junges hertz Mit bitter angst, senenden schmertz, Darinn sie also heftig wüt, Verkert hertz, sin, vernunft und gmüt, Wird leichtfertig, verwegen gantz, Schlecht seel, lieb, ehr, gut in die schantz, Acht fürbas weder sitten noch tugent, (184,32-185,3) (1) ....
Over the last four decades the literature on bond rating changes and its effects on security prices increased significantly with almost all studies not controlling for the respective reason for those. We therefore investigate the impact of rating events on the stock and the credit default swap (CDS) market incorporating rating reviews and rating changes together with the reason mentioned by the rating agency. Our results for the general effects are in line with prior findings but conditioning on the respective reason shows that the markets’ anticipation of rating actions is largely driven by events due to changes in firms’ operating performance. Furthermore, we provide empirical evidence for the hypothesis in prior literature that a surprise downgrade does not necessarily have to be bad news for stockholders when wealth is transferred from bondholders, but negative rating actions are always bad news for bondholders. The results additionally reveal increasing rating announcement effects by declining credit quality of firms for both rating reviews and changes. JEL Classification: D82, G14, G20. Keywords: Credit Default Swaps, Credit Ratings, Credit Rating Reasons, Event Study.
Goethe und das Judentum
(2009)
A Unita, na pessoa do seu presidente, JMS, demonstrou com uma estrutura de poder, marcada por nuances tradicionais e por querelas palacianas, pôde colocar a mulher nas situações mais extremas e caricatas. Para a questão em análise, não se trata de um conflito entre a instituição da família tradicional, assente na poligamia, e a moderna, que postula pela família monogâmica com os valores a si adstritos. Trata-se do uso, do abuso e da coisificação da mulher, em consequência de um poder autocrático que por vezes, e não foram poucas, mostrou ter perdido o controlo da situação. As mulheres de Jonas Savimbi dividem-se em aquelas que mais amou - e assumiu como “primeira-dama”, mas que também, por razões que se desconhecem mais odiou -, as amantes, que teve filhos com algumas delas, e outras, fruto de relações fortuitas, cujo segredos elas guardam a sete chaves.