Diamonds are Not Forever: Botswana Medium-Term Fiscal Sustainability

Diamonds are forever , files are not

This work was motivated by the observation that not all objects are equally important. In many scenarios, the importance also wanes with time. We leveraged this importance notions to reduce the management overhead for less important objects. In our system, all objects were explicitly annotated by the content creators using a temporal importance metric. The storage system used these hints to man...

Diamonds are forever: the cortisone legacy.

The year 1946 was not only the year that the Society for Endocrinology was founded, but also the year that Edward Kendall's compound E (cortisone) was first synthesised by Louis Sarett. By 1948, sufficient quantities of compound E were available for the rheumatologist Philip Hench to test it successfully for the first time in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis. It was immediately hailed as a '...

Diamonds Are Forever, Wars Are Not. Is Conßict Bad for Private Firms? *

This paper studies the relationship between civil war and private investment in a poor, resource abundant country using microeconomic data for Angola. We focus on diamond mining Þrms and conduct an event study on the sudden end of the conßict, marked by the death of the rebel movement leader in 2002. We Þnd that the stock market perceived this event as “bad news” rather than “good news” for com...

New paradigms in hepatitis B management: only diamonds are forever.

INTRODUCTION The hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes chronic hepatitis B (CHB) in ∼350 million people worldwide who have an increased risk of end-stage liver disease and/or hepatocellular carcinoma. SOURCES OF DATA Several peer-reviewed papers featuring new approaches to anti-HBV management. Additionally, we also reviewed recent abstract presentations at international congresses. AREAS OF AGREEM...

Long-Term Fiscal Sustainability in Major Economies