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M.Com. (Economics) / The objective of this thesis is to describe the nature of the South African economic system for the period 1970-1985 in macroeconomic terms. As an introduction to the specific analysis of the South African economic system, the author also discusses the socio-economic nature of economic systems per see Based on an identification- and classification framework which was developed as a result of a literature survey in this regard, the author made extensive use of the Quarterly Bulletins of the South African Reserve Bank and the South African Statistical Service's two-yearly publication of collective South African statistics in order to analyse the nature and extent of the most important macroeconomic variables in the South African economy. As a resu 1t of the macroeconomic analysis, the author came to a number of conclusions regarding the South African economic system during the period 1970-1985. The conclusions were, inter alia: The South African economic system could best be described as a mixed economy in which the Government played a substantial and increasingly important role in terms of its contribution to the GDP and other important macroeconomic variables. Although South Africa experienced an average increase in its real GDP of approximately 2,6% per year, the country had an average yearly population growth of 2,8% during the relevant period, with the result that the real per capita GOP in 1985 was lower than the corresponding 1970 figure. It should also be noted that the GOP declined in real terms for the first time in fifty years between 1981 and 1983 and between 1984 and 1985. Other meaningful conclusions concerned the drastic decline in the purchasing power of the Rand, the substantial influence of the foreign sector of the economy, the disparity between the average compensation packages for the White and Nonwhite subgroups of the population, the changing importance of the different sectors of the economy in terms of their contribution to the GOP and other economic variables, an increase in the percentage of women who were active in the economy during this period, the poor performance of the multi input index of productivity, sharp fluctuations in company savings and a greater reliance on passive forms of business income.

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詮釋馬勞龐蒂的身體理論 / 論文(碩士)--香港中文大學,1994. / 參考文獻: leaves 119-121 / 趙子明. / 符號說明 --- p.ii / 全文摘要 --- p.iii / 前言 --- p.iv / 目錄 --- p.viii / 導論: --- p.2 / Chapter §1 --- 感知經驗及以感知為首要的身體理論 --- p.3 / 身體結構的分析: --- p.13 / Chapter §2 --- 感知中的身體──充滿歧義的在世存有 --- p.14 / Chapter §3 --- 身體活動與活動意向 --- p.38 / Chapter §4 --- 說話和會說話的思想者 --- p.68 / 結論: --- p.94 / Chapter §5 --- 身體結構及以感知為首要的哲學理論 --- p.95 / 註釋 --- p.106 / 參考書目 --- p.119

文潔華. / 稿本複印本. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學硏究院哲學學部. / Gao ben fu yin ben. / Includes bibliographical references: leaves 203-204. / Wen Jiehua. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue yan jiu yuan zhe xue xue bu.

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This thesis discusses the intersection of subjectivity and the liminal in contemporary literary and filmic texts. In discussion of eight texts, the thesis weighs the dual meaning of “liminal subjectivities” – the liminal space between subjectivities, and the condition of subjectivity as it negotiates the liminal. It aims to explore how liminality manifests in manners both universal and specific to the literary or filmic form, in the embodiments of characters, and the rhythms and poetics of the text. It considers the liminal a privileged trope of destabilised subjectivity, a space of suspension and potentiality, and explores how the liminal functions as an interface between haecceity and otherness; whether it binds together or holds apart; if it is a space between oppositional states or a continuum of specific sites of intensity. The eight texts discussed are The Rings of Saturn and Vertigo (W. G. Sebald), Sputnik Sweetheart, Kafka on the Shore, and After Dark (Haruki Murakami), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry), My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant). The work of Sebald and Gondry is considered in translation from the original German and Japanese. The thesis considers both literary and filmic texts to contrast the salient modalities of subjectivity that each form constructs. Each chapter considers how liminality manifests at the surface of the text, how a liminal agency operates to interrupt, destabilise, and displace subjectivity in the spaces between languages, genre, form, voice, states of consciousness, word and image, facticity and fictionality, and cinematic and literary tropes and modes. The discussion explores how this is reflected and expanded upon within the text, in liminal embodiments, intensities, and motifs, such as the hypnagogic, rites of passage, the uncanny, home, the vespertine, night, metamorphosis, carnival, as well as issues of space – the non-place, the extraterritorial, and nomadic space.

Este trabalho trata da Política Externa Brasileira durante o período de 1961 a 2010, no tocante às relações com o continente africano. Em primeiro lugar, busca-se uma visão diacrônica dessas relações desde a chamada Política Externa Independente, em 1961, quando se esboça uma mudança da Política Externa Brasileira para a África, até o fim do governo Fernando Henrique, em 2002. Em seguida, empreende-se uma análise mais aprofundada dessa política no governo Lula (2003-2010), com uma minuciosa pesquisa de dados sobre as diversas iniciativas desse governo em relação ao continente africano. Com isso, busca-se concluir a natureza da política externa brasileira para a África. / This study discusses the Brazilian Foreign Policy during the period from 1961 to 2010, in regard to the relations with the African continent. First, it builds a diachronic perspective of such relations beginning with the so-called Independent Foreign Policy (1961), when a shift in such relations is first outlined, until the end of the Fernando Henrique government (2002). Afterwards, it analyses more thoroughly these relations under the Lula government (2003-2010), with a detailed research about the different initiatives of this government towards the African continent. Thereby, it attempts to suggest the true nature of the Brazilian foreign policy towards Africa.