منابع مشابه
Managing Currency Pegs
When confronted with the current crisis in peripheral Europe, many specialists in emerging-market macroeconomics feel that it is déjà vu all over again. An implication of this feeling is that in order to understand the current situation in southern Europe, one should dust off the theories of exchange-rate crises that were motivated by the economic experience under fixed exchange rates in Latin ...
متن کاملPegs and Alecs
A major problem in semantics is the question how identity statements can be informative. To answer this question we have to determine what the status is of the objects that language users talk about when they exchange information. It is argued that the assumption of discourse representation theory, that these objects are variables in some representation, leads to problems. To cope with these pr...
متن کاملComputer Assisted Pronunciation Teaching (CAPT) and Pedagogy: Improving EFL learners’ Pronunciation Using Clear Pronunciation 2 Software
This study examined the impact of Clear Pronunciation 2 software on teaching English suprasegmental features, focusing on stress, rhythm and intonation. In particular, the software covers five topics in relation to suprasegmental features including consonant cluster, word stress, connected speech, sentence stress and intonation. Seven Iranian EFL learners participated in this study. The study l...
متن کاملUncertainty shocks and currency pegs∗
Uncertainty shocks cause economic activity to contract and more so, if monetary policy is constrained by an effective lower bound on interest rates. In this paper, we investigate whether countries with a currency peg or countries within currency unions are also particularly prone to suffer from the adverse effects of heightened uncertainty because they lack monetary independence. First, we esti...
متن کاملSquare Pegs and Round Holes
This article explores the relationship between the social construction of risk, uncertainty and evaluation in the field of development cooperation. It explores the assumption that risk and uncertainty are unusually high in development cooperation. Perceptions of risk and uncertainty are cultural constructs. Several authors have identified perceptions of uncertainty as one of the most important ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: TESL Canada Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1925-8917,0826-435X
DOI: 10.18806/tesl.v27i2.1051