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La metáfora bélica durante la crisis sanitaria de la gripe A
2011
This article aims to illustrate how became a fundamental communicative resource for the mass media when reporting on the H1N1 virus during the swine flu health crisis. This analogy heightened public fear so much so that many individuals demanded that the government acquire certain drugs and vaccines to protect themselves from the virus. This research is based on the information which appeared in three national dailies –El Pais, El Mundo and ABC– over a six-month period, as well as academic publications, documents and articles available in the media and Internet.
Women, translation and censorship in the Franco Regime
2011
This article presents a descriptive study of the incidence of censorship in the translation into Spanish of Larry McMurtry’s opera prima Horseman, Pass By. The novel was translated during Fraga Iribarne’s term of office at the Ministry of Information and Tourism (1962-1969), a period when the incidence of censorship for the Western genre was at its lowest for the dictatorship. Framed within the temporal borders of the Franco’s dictatorship, the study investigates the translation techniques used by Ana M.ª de la Fuente when translating violence against women in the discourse of this contemporary Western. The use of violence was one of the censorship criteria followed by the government’s offi…
Language, (em)power(ment) and affective capitalism : the case of an entrepreneurship workshop for refugees in Germany
2022
Abstract This paper seeks to advance research on the nexus of language, work-related training and affective capitalism by focusing on an entrepreneurship workshop organized for newly arrived refugees in Germany. Despite the occupational orientation, the primary objective of the workshop was not establishing a business but “empowering” the participants by guiding them to adopt “an entrepreneurial mindset”. To delve deeper into this ‘will to empower’, the study brings together the perspectives of governmentality studies, ethnography, discourse studies and affect studies. To investigate in more detail the evocation of the ‘entrepreneurial mindset’, the study draws on ethnographic data collecte…
Gli interventi per lo sviluppo locale all'interno delle Regioni ad autonomia speciale
2022
Il tema dello sviluppo locale interessa in modo particolare le aree marginali. Se queste sono dal punto di vista giuridico autonomie speciali si pongono all’analisi dinamiche e sviluppi che meritano una particolare attenzione. È questo il caso delle tre realtà regionali che saranno prese in esame: Valle d’Aosta, Sardegna e Sicilia. Interventions for local development within special self-governing regions. The issue of local development is of particular interest to marginal areas. If these are from a legal point of view, special autonomies arise from the analysis of dynamics and developments that deserve particular attention. This is the case of the three regional realities that will be exam…
Aksjologiczne podstawy samorządu terytorialnego
2021
Samorząd terytorialny jako zdecentralizowana forma wykonywania zadań stojących przed administracją publiczną jest zakotwiczony w postanowieniach Konstytucji RP. Instytucja ta funkcjonuje w ramach społeczności lokalnych i pozostaje w relacjach z innymi uczestnikami życia społecznego. Pozycja i zakres zadań realizowanych przez jednostki samorządu terytorialnego zależy od wartości prezentowanych przez podmiot podejmujący w tym zakresie decyzje, którym jest prawodawca. Wartości przyjmowane przez prawodawcę determinują sposób funkcjonowania i zakres zadań samorządu terytorialnego. Ich zmienność skutkuje tym, że samorząd terytorialny nie ma na trwale wyznaczonego zakresu działania. Zakres ten moż…
Determinantes de la divulgación de información sobre sostenibilidad en los gobiernos locales de Latinoamérica
2022
This paper analyses the socioeconomic factors that influence the disclosure of sustainability information on 99 local government websites in 2018 in countries that make up the Pacific Alliance (PA) in Latin America, associated with internal and external demands that public entities have for accountability in social and environmental issues. We use as methodology a content analysis of the sustainability information disclosed by local entities on their websites and a regression of Ordinary Least Squares (OLS). This article shows empirical evidence that the size, budget capacity and the economic level of the municipality are factors associated with the sustainability disclosure on websites due…
The Consequences of Banking Crises for Public Debt
2010
The aim of this paper is to assess the consequences of banking crises for public debt. Using an unbalanced panel of 154 countries from 1980 to 2006, the paper shows that banking crises are associated with a significant and longlasting increase in government debt. The effect is a function of the severity of the crisis. In particular, for severe crises, comparable to the most recent one in terms of output losses, banking crises are followed by a medium-term increase of about 37 percentage points in the government gross debt-to-GDP ratio. In addition, the debt ratio increased more in countries with higher initial gross debt-to-GDP ratio, with a higher share of foreign debt, and with a lower qu…
National fiscal consolidations and regional inequality in Europe
2016
Using annual data for 13 European countries over the period 1980-2008, we assess the impact of national fiscal consolidations on the income inequality of European regions. Regional dispersion increases in the outcome of consolidation episodes, particularly, when packages are more severe and implemented through spending cuts rather than tax rises. From a policy perspective, these findings suggest that fiscal consolidations driven by reductions in government spending can exacerbate regional disparities and may ultimately counteract the European policy efforts to promote territorial cohesion. Our results are robust to alternative inequality measures, the occurrence of crisis episodes and the e…
Long-Run Growth and Volatility: Which Source Really Matters
2010
The aim of the article is to analyse the relationship between long-run growth and business cycle volatility. In particular, the main purpose of this article is to identify which source of volatility is most detrimental to growth. Using cross-country data from 1970 to 2000, and several indicators of volatility (such as inflation, exchange rate, government expenditure, output and investment volatility) this article shows that although, all these measures of volatility are remarkably harmful for growth, business cycle investment volatility is the main source that hampers long-run growth. This relation is robust to different measures of business cycle, and to different sub-samples of countries.
Fiscal sustainability in EMU countries: A continued fiscal commitment?
2017
Abstract The aim of this paper is to study the sustainability of public finances in the Eurozone particularly after the 2007 financial crisis. This paper goes beyond the standard analysis of the univariate properties of the fiscal variables through the estimation of a time-varying fiscal reaction function on a 11-country panel for a period spanning from 1970 to 2014. Even if panel unit root or stationary tests may provide a rough first insight on the sustainability of the public finances, they fail to highlight the adjustment mechanisms to debt overhang in recent years. The main advantage of our empirical approach is that it clearly captures the government’s dynamic response to debt accumul…