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South African Economy

Macroeconomic Prospects for the Medium Term

By: Peter Brixen,Finn Tarp

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South African Economy

Macroeconomic Prospects for the Medium Term

By: Peter Brixen,Finn Tarp

1. Introduction -- 2. General country background -- 3. Accounting framework and base year data -- 4. Modelling frameworks -- 5. Model experiments -- 6. Base run -- 7. Alternative scenarios -- 8. Conclusion.

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Routledge

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1134765428

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9781134765423

Stabilization and Structural Adjustment

Macroeconomic Frameworks for Analysing the Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Finn Tarp

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Stabilization and Structural Adjustment

Macroeconomic Frameworks for Analysing the Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Finn Tarp

This book reveals and examines the relevance of the macroeconomic theory and models behind recommendations for stabilization and structual adjustment. Alternaive analytical approaches are discusses. This is done on the basis of an up-to-date review of developments in sub-saharan Africa during the 1980's and within a common analytical framework.

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Routledge

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1134891989

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9781134891986

From Monobank to Commercial Banking

Financial Sector Reforms in Vietnam

By: Jens Kovsted,John Rand,Finn Tarp

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From Monobank to Commercial Banking

Financial Sector Reforms in Vietnam

By: Jens Kovsted,John Rand,Finn Tarp

This study analyses the difficulties and problems encountered in transforming the Vietnamese financial sector from one that is subordinate to government objectives and goals to an autonomous sector guided by market forces and competitive pressures. Here, the history of financial sector liberalization is traced and close attention paid to the activities and autonomy of the State Bank of Vietnam, the institution responsible for the supervision and regulation of the financial sector in Vietnam. Overall, the authors argue that ensuring a timely, fair and transparent supervision and regulation of the financial sector is of central importance to financial sector development and stability. Liberalizing financial markets is not solely a question of limiting and/or restricting government influence but may in fact involve the opposite, the influence and power of supervisory and regulatory institutions in many cases needing to be strengthened.

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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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9812302905

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9789812302908

Made in Africa

Learning to Compete in Industry

By: Carol Newman,John Page,John Rand,Abebe Shimeles,Måns Söderbom,Finn Tarp

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Made in Africa

Learning to Compete in Industry

By: Carol Newman,John Page,John Rand,Abebe Shimeles,Måns Söderbom,Finn Tarp

Why is there so little industry in Africa? Over the past forty years, industry has moved from the developed to the developing world, yet Africa’s share of global manufacturing has fallen from about 3 percent in 1970 to less than 2 percent in 2014. Industry is important to low-income countries. It is good for economic growth, job creation, and poverty reduction. Made in Africa: Learning to Compete in Industry outlines a new strategy to help African industry compete in global markets. This book draws on case studies and econometric and qualitative research from Africa and emerging Asia to understand what drives firm-level competitiveness in low-income countries. The results show that while traditional concerns such as infrastructure, skills, and the regulatory environment are important, they alone will not be sufficient for Africa to industrialize. The book also addresses how industrialization strategies will need to adapt to the region’s growing resource abundance.

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815728174

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9780815728177

Shame

By: Melanie Finn

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Shame

By: Melanie Finn

A Tatler Sizzling Summer Read Spectator Best Books of 2015 Shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize 'Intense, impressive... Told with force and bracing directness... It's a book that smashes into you' Guardian 'Both disturbing and ultimately uplifting . . . the images she conjures up are so subversively creepy they haunt you for days' Spectator 'Deserves major attention' New York Times Pilgrim Jones doesn't belong here. She belongs in the cities of Europe, by her handsome husband's side. But here she is, in a village on the edge of Africa. No one knows why she is here and what she is hiding from. And she is not going to tell them - about her husband's betrayal, or the children she killed in a crash. But two men from Pilgrim's past are coming to find her - two men with very different motives.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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0297608460

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9780297608462

Take Back the Magic

Conversations with the Unseen World

By: Perdita Finn

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Take Back the Magic

Conversations with the Unseen World

By: Perdita Finn

Renowned spiritual teacher and co-founder of The Way of the Rose Perdita Finn teaches the art and healing power of connecting with the dead, as she guides readers through the magical process of conversing with the unseen world. "Finn weaves a spellbinding meditation . . . an affecting ode to the power of the unseen." —Publisher's Weekly What if you could live in a world where the guidance of those who were gone was available, right at your very fingertips? It's possible, if we are open to it. Anyone can reclaim the forgotten guidance of the dead, and anyone can return to the realm of magic and miracles. In Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World, author, spiritual teacher, and co-founder of The Way of the Rose Perdita Finn reveals that life is beginningless, love is endless, and those who have passed don’t truly go anywhere when they die. Weaving together memoir, history, and a non-denominational spirituality based in ecology, Finn invites readers to live the experience that the stories of our lives are much older, bigger, and more merciful than we have been led to believe. Take Back the Magic takes the reader on a journey of healing, possibility, and love, as the story of how Finn healed her relationship with her bitter, patriarchal father long after his death unfolds over the course of thirteen moving chapters. Along the way, readers will learn how they, too, can reconnect with the generous guidance of the soul’s long story through deep time, recovering their lost relationships with their ancestors and the Earth itself. Throughout, Finn shares guidance, tips, and practical advice that will aid readers in forging their own relationships with those who have passed, as she invites every reader to reconnect with their own inner knowing and to call forth magic from the most ancient parts of humanity. An inspiring invitation to healing in this life, and to experience that we are never alone, Take Back the Magic shows that the whole world is simply souls reaching out to and finding each other—and no one is ever truly lost to us, if we allow ourselves to begin our own conversations with the unseen world.

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248

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Running Press Adult

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0762482524

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9780762482528

Rocky Mountain High: A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West

By: Finn Murphy

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Rocky Mountain High: A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West

By: Finn Murphy

“Brim[s] with wit, pluck, and hard-won wisdom.” —Jessica Bruder, best-selling author of Nomadland The best-selling author of The Long Haul returns with the story of ditching his truck to seek his fortune…in hemp. After decades as a long-haul trucker, Finn Murphy left the road and settled in Boulder County, Colorado. Before long he noticed that many of his neighbors were captivated by the prospect of vast riches in “the Hemp Space.” When hemp was legalized, after eighty years in federal exile, Colorado became the center of a hemp growing and processing boom. Figuring he’d harvest some of that easy money, Murphy bought a thirty-six-acre farm. What could go wrong? Well, pretty much everything… Rocky Mountain High is the comic chronicle of a wild year as Murphy follows his Great American Dream, gradually losing his shirt but not his spirit. Pivoting away from growing hemp himself, he decides to make himself a middleman. He builds drying sheds the size of football fields. He battles with freezing temperatures and even colder bankers. And he assembles an eclectic crew of workers, including the wry and vastly talented Manuel, the business savvy Pierce, and a scruffy army of “trimmigrants”—specialized farm laborers who roam the country pursuing (or not) their own American Dreams. Pretty soon, Murphy is pitting his dwindling cash against the mercurial buyers who inhabit the Wild West of the hemp market. Told with Murphy’s trademark wit, keen eye for character, and sharp insights into the hardscrabble society around him, Rocky Mountain High is an inside look at the alluring world of the hemp boom and a masterful tale of one entrepreneur’s misadventures.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324006110

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9781324006114

The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

By: Finn Murphy

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The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

By: Finn Murphy

“There’s nothing semi about Finn Murphy’s trucking tales of The Long Haul.”—Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair More than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a long-haul trucker. Since then he’s covered more than a million miles as a mover, packing, loading, hauling people’s belongings all over America. In The Long Haul, Murphy recounts with wit, candor, and charm the America he has seen change over the decades and the poignant, funny, and often haunting stories of the people he encounters on the job.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393608727

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9780393608724

Dirty Colors

Our adventure journal and my declaration of love to You, the PCT and Life

By: Larissa Stawicki,Finn Bastian

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Dirty Colors

Our adventure journal and my declaration of love to You, the PCT and Life

By: Larissa Stawicki,Finn Bastian

Who knows where the journey will lead before the first step is dared? With the attempt to break out of everyday life and throw ourselves into a world that is unknown to us, we started to America. We took our first steps on the Pacific Crest Trail and were drawn into a world that surpassed any idea of adventure. We discovered a world and with it ourselves. Stepped out of the comfort zone and into the unknown. Put aside expectations to face adventure head on. Walked, discovered the world around us and lost ourselves in it. Have found us, each other and life. Were allowed to experience what survival means and how far life can take you until we go further. Let yourself be taken on a journey into an enchanting world that changes everything.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3756896048

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9783756896042

If Wishing Made it So

By: Lucy Finn

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If Wishing Made it So

By: Lucy Finn

FINN/IF WISHING MADE IT SO

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Penguin

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0451224590

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9780451224590

The Way of the Rose

The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary

By: Clark Strand,Perdita Finn

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The Way of the Rose

The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary

By: Clark Strand,Perdita Finn

What happens when a former Zen Buddhist monk and his feminist wife experience an apparition of the Virgin Mary? “This book could not have come at a more auspicious time, and the message is mystical perfection, not to mention a courageous one. I adore this book.”—Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit Before a vision of a mysterious “Lady” invited Clark Strand and Perdita Finn to pray the rosary, they were not only uninterested in becoming Catholic but finished with institutional religion altogether. Their main spiritual concerns were the fate of the planet and the future of their children and grandchildren in an age of ecological collapse. But this Lady barely even referred to the Church and its proscriptions. Instead, she spoke of the miraculous power of the rosary to transform lives and heal the planet, and revealed the secrets she had hidden within the rosary’s prayers and mysteries—secrets of a past age when forests were the only cathedrals and people wove rose garlands for a Mother whose loving presence was as close as the ground beneath their feet. She told Strand and Finn: The rosary is My body, and My body is the body of the world. Your body is one with that body. What cause could there be for fear? Weaving together their own remarkable story of how they came to the rosary, their discoveries about the eco-feminist wisdom at the heart of this ancient devotion, and the life-changing revelations of the Lady herself, the authors reveal an ancestral path—available to everyone, religious or not—that returns us to the powerful healing rhythms of the natural world.

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Random House

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0812988957

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9780812988956

Wicked Portland

The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town

By: Finn J. D. John

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Wicked Portland

The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town

By: Finn J. D. John

Tucked away in the northwestern frontier, Portland offered all the best vices: opium dreams, gambling, cheap prostitutes, and drunken brawling. In its early days, Portland was a "combination rough-and-ready logging camp and gritty, hard-punching deep-water port town," and as a young city (established in the late 1840s) it developed an international reputation for lawlessness and violence. In the early 1900s, the British and French governments filed formal complaints about Portland to the US state department, and Congressional testimony from the time cites Portland as the worst place in the world for crimping. Today, tours of the alleged Shanghai Tunnels offer Portland visitors a taste of that seedy past.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614235473

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9781614235477

The Underneath

By: Melanie Finn

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The Underneath

By: Melanie Finn

With the assurance and grace of her acclaimed novel The Gloaming—which earned her comparisons to Patricia Highsmith—Melanie Finn returns with a precisely layered and tense new literary thriller. The Underneath follows Kay Ward, a former journalist struggling with the constraints of motherhood. Along with her husband and two children, she rents a quaint Vermont farmhouse for the summer. The idea is to disconnect from their work-based lifestyle—that had her doggedly pursuing a genocidal leader of child soldiers known as General Christmas, even through Kay's pregnancy and the birth of their second child—in an effort to repair their shaky marriage. It isn't long before Kay's husband is called away and she discovers a mysterious crawlspace in the rental with unsettling writing etched into the wall. Alongside some of the house's other curiosities and local sleuthing, Kay is led to believe that something terrible may have happened to the home's owners. Kay's investigation leads her to a local logger, Ben Comeau, a man beset with his own complicated and violent past. A product of the foster system and life-long resident of the Northeast Kingdom, Ben struggles to overcome his situation, and to help an abused child whose addict mother is too incapacitated to care about the boy's plight. The Underneath is an intelligent and considerate exploration of violence—both personal and social—and whether violence may ever be justified. The Adroit Journal: "How I Wrote The Underneath" (Oct. 29, 2018) Read Melanie Finn's essay about how the novel The Underneath came to be written.

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Two Dollar Radio

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1937512703

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9781937512705

Temporary Sanity

A Look Through a Teacher’S Eyes

By: Fran Finn

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Temporary Sanity

A Look Through a Teacher’S Eyes

By: Fran Finn

Growing up in a Roman Catholic household and working at a Protestant school can be incongruous. Youre working for the enemy, insisted author Fran Finns father. In this memoir, Finn recalls not only this dissonance, but provides the captivating story of many of his intriguing adventures. From his upbringing in Torrington, Connecticut, to his first position as a house parent at a rural Pennsylvania private school at the age of twenty-three, to his worldwide travels, Temporary Sanity gives insight into this somewhat unconventional man. With an eye for detail, Temporary Sanity entertains with descriptions of student and teacher forays and his far-reaching treks to locales such as Alaska, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Iceland, Peru, Panama, and the Dominican Republic. Poignant and humorous, this collection of personal stories touches on all the facets of Finns lifefrom family, to religion, teaching, and traveling. Through it all, Temporary Sanity teaches life lessons about acceptance, pain, friendship, culture, loneliness, and the search for ones place in the world.

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iUniverse

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1440161615

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9781440161612

Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam

A Rising Dragon on the Move

By: Finn Tarp

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Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam

A Rising Dragon on the Move

By: Finn Tarp

This work provides in-depth evaluation of the development of rural life in Viet Nam over the past decade, combining a unique primary source of time-series panel data with the best micro-econometric analytical tools available

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0191838616

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9780191838613

Stabilization and Structural Adjustment

By: Finn Tarp

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Stabilization and Structural Adjustment

By: Finn Tarp

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Book's by Finn Tarp

South African Economy

South African Economy

Stabilization and Structural Adjustment

Stabilization and Structural Adjustment

From Monobank to Commercial Banking

From Monobank to Commercial Banking

Made in Africa

Made in Africa

Shame

Shame

Take Back the Magic

Take Back the Magic

Rocky Mountain High: A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West

Rocky Mountain High: A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West

The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

Dirty Colors

Dirty Colors

If Wishing Made it So

If Wishing Made it So

The Way of the Rose

The Way of the Rose

Wicked Portland

Wicked Portland

The Underneath

The Underneath

Temporary Sanity

Temporary Sanity

Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam

Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam

Stabilization and Structural Adjustment

Stabilization and Structural Adjustment

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