Openness, Globalization and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Cote d´Ivoire, 1969-2002

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between openness, globalization on economic growth in Côte d’Ivoire which adopted the openness of its economy as the basic way for development at the beginning of its economic history in 1960. Using a three-variable vector autoregressive (VAR) model, we find that the three variables are tied together in the long-run. Although a positive effect of openness on growth is observed in the short-run, both increasing openness and globalisation do not have positively contributed to the long-run economic growth of this country, a finding that is in the opposite of the prediction of the new growth theory about the potential long-run effects of trade on growth.Openness, Globalization, Growth, Cointegration, Causality, Impulse response

GENDER, LAND ACCESS AND RURAL POVERTY IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE

The aim of this paper is to examine the link between land access (property rights) and gender (female and male) poverty in rural areas in Côte d’Ivoire, which economy is mainly based on agriculture products. The study particularly distinguishes households which head of family is a woman from those headed by a man. Several studies have shown that women headed households are the most exposed to poverty, specifically in rural areas. In effect, while this group of households can have a lucrative activity in urban areas, their activity is subject to land access in rural areas. The issue of property rights on rural lands is then essential in programs for gender poverty alleviation in rural areas.Gender, Land access, Property rights, Poverty

Interview: Hip Hop and Activism in Kenya

Buddha Blaze is a Kenyan-based Hip Hop activist who participated and presented at the Hiphop Symposium in Nairobi on April 17th, 2013. He is a well-respected writer, organizer and promoter of Hip Hop in Kenya and beyond and is the co-founder of WAPI, one of the biggest platforms for underground Hip Hop artists in Kenya. The following piece is an interview that a member of the Afrikan Hiphop Caravan organising team and guest editor of this anthology, Katja Kellerer, held with Buddha Blaze via email in September 2013. The set of questions addresses a wide range of issues. In addition to outlining his personal involvement in Hip Hop activism and specific projects, including the Afrikan Hiphop Caravan, the interview offers insights into Blaze’s views and perceptions of local Hip Hop scenes as well as global Hip Hop culture

BUSINESS CYCLE AND SECTORAL FLUCTUATIONS: A NONLINEAR MODEL FOR CÔTE D’IVOIRE

Although the share of service sector in Côte d’Ivoire’s real GDP is higher than other sectors, it is widely recognized that the Ivorian economy is mainly based on agricultural sector and thus the fluctuations in this ‘motor’ sector could have a huge impact on the growth process of the country. We examine the issue of existence, identification and interaction of business cycle in Côte d’Ivoire’s GDP and compare its fluctuations with the disaggregated main economic sectors (agriculture, industry and service), by using a univariate Markov regime switching model and its multivariate version over the period 1970-2001. We found similarities and simultaneity of business cycle between the sectors of the economy. While the real GDP’s business cycle can be characterized, according to its mean duration (around 10 years) as a Juglar type cycle, the sectors’ cycles mean duration is shorter from 4 to 5 years.Business cycles, Economic Growth, Markov switching, Structural breaks, Time series analysis

Simultaneous supersingular reductions of CM elliptic curves

We study the simultaneous reductions at several supersingular primes of elliptic curves with complex multiplication. We show -- under additional congruence assumptions on the CM order -- that the reductions are surjective (and even become equidistributed) on the product of supersingular loci when the discriminant of the order becomes large. This variant of the equidistribution theorems of Duke and Cornut-Vatsal is an(other) application of the recent work of Einsiedler and Lindenstrauss on the classification of joinings of higher-rank diagonalizable actions.Comment: 46 pages. Revised according to the referee's comment

Peri Hermeneias. Ausdruck der Gedanken?

Bei der Beschäftigung mit dem Segment sind folgende allgemeine Fragen aufgetaucht:\ud \ud • Was ist die traditionelle Interpretation dieser Zeilen? Gibt es mehrere Interpretationen? Was ist die gebräuchlichste und wirkmächtigste Blickrichtung, die diesen\ud Auslegungen tendenziell zugrunde liegt?\ud \ud • Was setzt Heidegger und mit ihm Fédier dieser Interpretation entgegen/hinzu? Ist das plausibel?\ud • Wie werden zentrale Termini klassisch, durch Heidegger und in Anschluss an Heidegger übersetzt?\ud \ud • Welches Sprachverständnis ergibt sich jeweils aus diesen Übersetzungen und Interpretationen?\ud Während der Lektüre wird versucht, auf diese teils zusammenhängenden Fragen zu achten, wobei in diesem als kurze Arbeit konzeptionierten Werk, keine umfassende Beantwortung erfolgen kann

BEBEK PATLAMASI, X VE Y KUŞAĞI YÖNETİCİLERİN ÖRGÜTSEL BAĞLILIK DÜZEYLERİNİN KAMU VE ÖZEL SEKTÖR FARKLILIKLARINA GÖRE İNCELENMESİ: BİR ARAŞTIRMA

Kuşaklararası farklılıkları kavramı, yaklaşık yirmi beş, otuz yıllık zaman aralıklarında doğmuş, büyümüş ve aynı dönemin sosyal, politik, tarihi ve ekonomik şartlarını birlikte yaşamış, benzer bakış açılarına sahip olmuş insan grupları arasında yaşanan farklı bakış açılarını ifade etmektedir. Günümüz dünyasında birbirlerinden farklı özelliklere sahip beş kuşağın varlığı kabul edilmekte ve bu kuşaklardan üç tanesi aktif olarak iş yaşamında görev yapmaktadır. Bu araştırmanın amacı, Bebek Patlaması, X ve Y kuşak yöneticilerinin örgütsel bağlılık düzeylerinde, kamu ve özel sektör farklılığının etkili olup olmadığının belirlenmesi ve kuşak yaklaşımının varlığına yönelik bilimsel bir bakış açısı kazandırmaktır. Bu bağlamda; Kasım 2016 ve Şubat 2017 ayları arasında, İzmir ilinde kamu ve özel sektörde faaliyet gösteren farklı büyüklük ve yapıdaki 35 kuruluşta çalışan 357 yöneticiye bir anket formu uygulanmıştır. Anket formu, söz konusu örneklem grubun demografik özellikleri ile kuşak farklılıklarına yönelik algılarını ölçmek amacıyla hazırlanan soruların yanında Allen ve Meyer (1990) tarafından geliştirilen üç boyutlu örgütsel bağlılık ölçeğinden yararlanılarak hazırlanmıştır. Elde edilen bulgular istatistiksel olarak değerlendirilmiş, kamu ve özel sektör kuruluşlarında çalışan yöneticilerin kuşak farklılıklarına bakış açıları ve örgütsel bağlılık düzeylerine yönelik güçlü ve anlamlı düzeyde bulgular elde edilmiştir

Gödels ontologischer Gottesbeweis

Kurt Gödel war ein bedeutender (Meta-)Mathematiker und Logiker des 20. Jahrhunderts.Seine bekanntesten Errungenschaften drehen sich wohl um die Unvollständigkeitssätze. Weniger bekannt ist die Tatsache, dass sich Gödel über lange Zeitspannen hinweg mit der Philosophie von Leibniz und mit Gottesbeweisen beschäftigt hat. Überlegungen dazu hat er zwar nie publiziert, aber in seinem Nachlass fanden sich mindestens zwei in Prädikatenlogik formulierte Gottesbeweise. Ergänzt werden sie durch einige Bemerkungen in seinen Notizbüchern.\ud \ud In der vorliegenden Arbeit soll diesen Überlegungen nachgegangen werden. Zentral wird das Nachvollziehen des axiomatischen Systems sein, dass Gödel formuliert, um darin schlussendlich zu zeigen, dass es notwendigerweise genau ein göttliches Wesen gibt. Der Term notwendigerweise deutet an, dass auch modallogische Axiome, Schlussregeln und Operatoren verwendet werden.\ud \ud Da die Notizen von Gödel eher spärlich sind, wurden zahlreiche Ergänzungen und Reformulierungen von anderen Autoren geschrieben, die teilweise andere (teilweise schwächere) Axiome verwenden, oder aber den Axiomen treu bleiben, jedoch Erläuterungen hinzufügen. Zum ersten Mal\ud publiziert wurde eine Version der Gödelschen Gottesbeweise erst posthum, 1987 von Curt Christian in einem Sitzungsbericht der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Bei der Erörterung des axiomatischen Systems werde ich mich jedoch auf Fuhrmann\ud (2005) beziehen. Die Originalbeweise mit zusätzlichen Kommentaren sind im Anhang A zu ?nden