The Mechanics of Failure and the Secrets of Success

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-153
Author(s):  
Justin Yifu Lin ◽  
Célestin Monga
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Low Income Country ◽  
Extreme Dependence ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
The World

This chapter analyzes the mechanics of failure and the secrets of economic success. Cesar Luis Menotti's strategy's main ingredients could serve as a metaphor for the basic argument in the chapter: any low-income country can achieve sustained and inclusive growth if it properly identifies its endowment structure and uses its most competitive factors to exploit its comparative advantage. The chapter starts with a presentation of the standard model of stabilization and structural adjustment, which has come to dominate development thinking and policy across the world and has survived several decades of critical research. It then explores reasons why the model has endured despite criticism from across the ideological spectrum, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. It also offers an analysis of why traditional policy frameworks derived from the standard model often do not yield results, and it stresses the need to focus growth strategies on coordination and externalities. The chapter ends with a discussion of one of the main side effects of the standard model and its growth prescriptions: the extreme dependence on foreign aid by many low-income economies, especially those in Africa.

The World of Particles and the Standard Model

2012 ◽  
pp. 31-49
Author(s):  
Constantinos G. Vayenas ◽  
Stamatios N.-A. Souentie
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The World

scholarly journals Image of Ukraine in the World: Current Status, Prospects and Challenges

2019 ◽  
pp. 698-703
Author(s):  
Olena Yalova
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
International Community ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Low Income Country ◽  
The World ◽  
International Image ◽  
Red Tape ◽  
The Right

The article focuses on the need to create an international image of Ukraine. The analysis of the world rankings shows that in the eyes of the international community we are a corrupt low-income country with a beseeching glance at the international community and a serious armed conflict with Russia, which results in the negative image of Ukraine. The country’s leadership does not regard the creation of a positive image of Ukraine as an extremely important task, therefore leading to the continued absence of a branding strategy. The author believes that it is necessary to determine the authority that will be responsible for the international image of the country and will help coordinate cooperation between all organizations, whether governmental or non-governmental. In Ukraine, it is necessary to overcome the bureaucratic red tape and narrow-mindedness. There is an urgent need for an elaborate strategy, in which all the mechanisms and tools to create the right image of the state should be involved. According to the author, access to the global information space looks promising. Ukraine should vigorously shape global media landscape and use the potential of its news agencies. Official state diplomacy should actively participate in the process of forming a positive international image of Ukraine. It is also necessary to thoroughly study and adopt foreign experience. Ukraine is the largest country in Europe, with rich cultural heritage, history and traditions. Currently, economic indicators are at a low level, but a prospect of their growth can attract foreign investment. The analysis of the image of Ukraine shows that the country is not consciously managing it. However, even minimal efforts can significantly improve the country’s position in the global perception. We have something to be proud of, we just need to start talking about it and bring it to the wider world audience. Keywords: international image, Ukraine, state diplomacy, information space, world ranking.

scholarly journals The pre-LHC Higgs hunt

2015 ◽  
Vol 373 (2032) ◽  
pp. 20140039 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Dissertori
Keyword(s):  
Higgs Boson ◽  
Large Hadron Collider ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Precise Data ◽  
Electron Positron ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Large Electron Positron

Enormous efforts at accelerators and experiments all around the world have gone into the search for the long-sought Higgs boson, postulated almost five decades ago. This search has culminated in the discovery of a Higgs-like particle by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in 2012. Instead of describing this widely celebrated discovery, in this article I will rather focus on earlier attempts to discover the Higgs boson, or to constrain the range of possible masses by interpreting precise data in the context of the Standard Model of particle physics. In particular, I will focus on the experimental efforts carried out during the last two decades, at the Large Electron Positron collider, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, and the Tevatron collider, Fermilab, near Chicago, IL, USA.

scholarly journals Structural Adjustment, Industrialisation, and Export Promotion

1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (4II) ◽  
pp. 467-480
Author(s):  
Shahrukh Rafi Khan ◽  
Shaheen Rafi Khan
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Export Promotion ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Country Group ◽  
Low Income Country ◽  
Positive Externalities ◽  
The Mean

The main objective of this paper was to explore if trade liberalisation has ushered in the large scale de-industrialisation that is feared by some to follow in its wake and whether it has been successful in enhancing export promotion. We relied on several different kinds of evidence to demonstrate that de-industrialisation has not coincided with the intensive structural adjustment period while export growth has. However, both industrialisation and export promotion in Pakistan have been below potential, below the mean for low income countries and have not even kept pace with progress in this regard in the low income country group. We were not able to establish, possibly due to the paucity of time-series observations, that either industry or exports generated positive externalities for or used resources more productively than the rest of the economy.

scholarly journals Double Beta Decay

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 1860002
Author(s):  
Junpei Shirai
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Beta Decay ◽  
Fundamental Property ◽  
Double Beta Decay ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The World

Double beta decay is a key process to reveal a fundamental property of neutrinos. If neutrinos are Majorana particles, that is they are equivalent to their antiparticles, neutrinoless double beta ([Formula: see text]) decay, [Formula: see text], would occur. The process is beyond the standard model and would lead to a scenario which can explain the extremely small masses of neutrinos and provide a solution to the current matter dominance of the world. In this talk experimental efforts searching for [Formula: see text] decays are presented. Then, major [Formula: see text] experiments together with searches using [Formula: see text]Xe nuclei are described, followed by the current status of the KamLAND-Zen experiment.

The World in My Parish: Rethinking the Standard Missiological Model

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Rynkiewich
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Flows ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The World ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Different Cultures

Missiologists, borrowing from anthropology as practiced from the 1950s through the 1980s, have trained a generation of missionaries by using the “standard anthropological model.” Culture is portrayed as causative, but has no cause itself. Communication is portrayed as a transmission within a dyad, involving no one else except God. Thus, the missionary problem is the communication of the gospel between two people from two different cultures. In fact, this is not the situation, if it ever was. Regional and global flows of ideas, goods, people, and beliefs have always breached the “boundaries” of seemingly self-contained cultures. People have never been slaves to the past. Instead, they selectively bring certain interpretations of the past to bear on everyday life. There have always been competing narratives about the nature of reality and the necessity of particular beliefs and actions. Contrary to the standard model, culture is contingent, culture is constructed, and culture is contested. The missionary situation is not as simple as it has seemed.

7. Fundamental particles

2019 ◽  
pp. 97-116
Author(s):  
Geoff Cottrell
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Higgs Field ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Elementary Particles ◽  
Quantum Fields ◽  
Fundamental Particles ◽  
Normal Matter ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The World

‘Fundamental particles’ introduces the ultimate building blocks of matter, which include antimatter, and describes how the world can be understood in terms of around twenty different quantum fields. Most of the mass of normal matter can be explained by the energy in these quantum fields. Only a handful of elementary particles make up the world: quarks, leptons, and the force particles, which appear in the Standard Model of Particle Physics. The elementary particles get their masses by interacting with the all-pervasive Higgs field, but the dominant source of the mass of ordinary matter comes from the energy of the quark and gluon fields inside nucleons. The Standard Model is a towering achievement of science, but it is not complete.

scholarly journals RECENT TRENDS IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN ETHIOPIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (9) ◽  
pp. 6281-6287
Author(s):  
Chala Wata Dereso
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Education System ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Least Developed Countries ◽  
Low Income Country ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The Government

Ethiopia is the second-largest country in African content with a population of 905 million whereas Nigeria occupied first place with a population of 105 million. As per the Human Development Index, Ethiopia ranked as 173rd position out of 189 countries. It is one of the least developed countries (LDCs) in the world. Presently, Ethiopia has been facing various challenges an efficient education system and the rapid expansion of the population in Ethiopia. As per the African standards, by 2050 the population of Ethiopia will be raised to 191 million and less than 15 years of age people more than 40%. Ethiopia is one of the faster-growing economies during the last decade about the fivefold raised i.e., from USD136 to USD 768. As per the World Bank, Ethiopia is one of the disadvantaged countries during the 20th century due to a lack of efficiency and shortage of teachers. This paper focuses on the recent trends in low-income country of Ethiopia primary, secondary, higher education, to investigate the expenditure incurred by the government influencing the growth of the economy and to give appropriate suggestions for the improvement of the education system in Ethiopia.  

scholarly journals COVID 19 and Myriad of Psychological Problems in Indian Context

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ganapathy Sankar Umaiorubagam ◽  
Monisha Ravikumar ◽  
Santhana Rajam Sankara Eswaran
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Low Income Country ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Real Challenge

Corona Virus 2019 (COVID 19) is impacting every family financially as well as emotionally. There is a panic situation existed throughout the world. Due to the presence of Novel Corona Virus, there are innumerous defects and changes existed in everybody’s routine activities of daily living and other recreational tasks. As the pandemic outbreak in India was on-going, the Government of India took stringent measures to limit the cases by far in that stage only, by initiating a major lockdown pan-India and also by shifting the immigrants to the special quarantine facilities prepared by the Indian Military directly from the airports and seaports for a minimum of 14 days. The lives of people were drastically affected with lock-down and fear related to the disease’s potential effects and transmission. The fear due to the contraction of COVID -19 is on the rise because of the death tolls and global spread. For low income country like India, financial crisis had troubled the lives of everybody. For older adults, there is a fear of death as well as fear of saving the lives of their loved one. Adapting to this new normal life is a real challenge for older adults in middle and low economic zone like India. Indian people are going through a myriad of psychological problems in adjusting to the current lifestyles and fear of the disease.

scholarly journals Beyond Superstrings. The Origin of Electric Charge and Magnetic Spin.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wim Vegt
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Electric Charge ◽  
Building Material ◽  
Elementary Particles ◽  
Planck Length ◽  
Superstring Theory ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Magnetic Spin ◽  
Mathematical Equations

The world beyond Superstrings describes a world with dimensions smaller than Planck length (1.616229 x 10-35 [m] ). Since 1971 Superstrings within the dimensions of the Planck length have been considered the building elements for elementary particles . The question rises: What are Superstrings made of? What is the building material for Superstrings. What are the 10 dimensions? This book offers an attempt to find new answers beyond unknown borders.To find the new unknown boundaries we have to go back in time. Because when we start with the same mathematical equations, the same knowledge, the same procedures, we will always find the same outcome, the same answers. And soon we will believe that there is only one outcome. The only outcome within the Standard Model where we will find the same elementary particles grounded on the same Superstring Theory.

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