Economic Failure and Change in Sudan

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Issam A.W. Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Economic Failure

The departure of the Greeks from Egypt, 1961: the perspective of Greek diplomacy

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Evanthis Hatzivassiliou
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Many ◽  
Economic Failure

The departure of the greater part of the Greek community from Egypt is one of the many sad stories of the post-war Mediterranean. This article focuses upon the reports of the Greek Consul-General in Alexandria, Byron Theodoropoulos, regarding the Egyptian ‘Socialist Laws’ of summer 1961, which gave the coup de grâce to the Greek community. It argues that the expulsion of the Greeks was part of a wider redistribution of power in the region. This episode, together with similar experiences in other parts of the Mediterranean, evidently cemented the determination of a younger generation of political leaders and diplomats to seek Greece's future in the cosmopolitan, post-nationalist West, rather than in a ‘Near East’ rife with nationalism and economic failure.

German Agricultural Employment, Production and Labour Productivity: A New Benchmark for 1936 and a Note on Hoffmann’s Tales

2010 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Fremdling
Keyword(s):  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Value Added ◽  
National Accounts ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Agricultural Employment ◽  
Agricultural Performance ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
Economic Failure ◽  
Net Value Added

AbstractThis paper focuses on agricultural performance in 1936 as part of a comprehensive project to (re)construct a new and reliable benchmark for revising German historical national accounts. The new estimates presented here confirm the poor agricultural performance of Germany compared with other developed economies. The new figures are even significantly lower than Hoffmann’s estimates: In particular, this is shown for key variables like gross and net value added and labour productivity. The benchmark year of 1936 is considered to be representative of the inter-war years. Consequently, once again my statement is confirmed that one should keep away from Hoffmann′s figures when discussing any aspect of economic failure of the Weimar Republic or economic recovery after Hitler came to power.

scholarly journals India's Economic Reforms: Dismantling the Machine for Going Backwards

1998 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jagdish Bhagwati
Keyword(s):  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Economic Strategy ◽  
Classic Case ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economic Failure

This paper by Jagdish Bhagwati presents a critical appraisal of India's economic strategy over the last five decades. According to Bhagwati, while India's democratic success has been outstanding, her economics has been a big disappointment leaving the economy in a state of economic backwardness. By 80s⁄ India's economic failure became a classic case study to lean what not to do. Recent reforms, which signal the final discrediting of the failed ideas⁄ have started dismantling the past policies that crippled India's performance. However⁄ Bhagwati feels that the prospects for a complete transition still remain problematic partly on account of the politics of coalitions at the centre and partly because the dissent from the supporters of India's earlier policies may create confusion and delays.

State entrepreneurship in New South Wales’ trawl fishery, 1914-1923

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 636-655
Author(s):  
Lif Lund Jacobsen
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Consumer Market ◽  
Fish Stocks ◽  
Trawl Fishery ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Fisheries Policy ◽  
Economic Failure ◽  
New Consumer

In 1914, the New South Wales (NSW) Government decided to alter its fisheries policy, with the development of an offshore trawling industry supplanting support for inshore fishing as its key development objective. Accordingly, between 1915 and 1923 the NSW Government operated a commercial trawling industry designed to fish previously unexploited fish stocks on the state’s continental shelf. The State Trawling Industry (STI) was designed to meet a mix of social and economic policy goals, with the NSW Government controlling all parts of the production line from catching to selling produce. This article examines the business structure of the enterprise to reveal the reasons for its economic failure. It argues that government entrepreneurship created a new consumer market and unintentionally paved the way for the rise of a modern private trawling industry.

IL METEOROGRAFO DI PADRE ANGELO SECCHI

Nuncius ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAOLO BRENNI
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Recording Apparatus ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Failure ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Technological Achievement ◽  
Meteorological Instruments

Abstract<title> SUMMARY </title>During the 19th Century the systematic collecting of meteorological data became a general practice. Several scientists and instrument makers invented new meteorological instruments and improved the existing ones. Probably the most impressive and sophisticated recording apparatus was the meteorograph devised between 1855 and 1865 by the Italian astronomer Padre Angelo Secchi (1818-1878). This huge and complicated machine was presented to the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition where it was considered the technological masterpiece. The instrument worked in Rome for several years and then, partially dismanteled, was finally stored in the Osservatorio Astronomico di Monte Porzio (Rome). Recently carried to Florence, the meteorograph is now beeing restored in the laboratories of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure under the supervision of the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza. My paper will trace the history of this ingeniuos instrument which represented a technological achievement but an economic failure.

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