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Book Goldwork and Shamanism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
  • Publisher : Villegas Asociados
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9588156610
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Goldwork and Shamanism written by Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff and published by Villegas Asociados. This book was released on 2005 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic study with photos of gold artifacts. Book by Pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia scholar Reichel-Dolmatoff with studies of the mysterious rituals of what was undoubtedly the most important aspect of the life of the ancient ethnic communities of El Dorado: the decisive role of the Shamans and their hallucinatory world of magic and religion. The book analyses the spiritual dimensions of these cultures and the natural wisdom of century-old secrets along lavish full-page color images of the enigmatic and beautiful gold objects still known today as "gold of the ancients" that skillful craftsmen wrought for ritual use.

Book Hearings

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1480 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Condensed statement of the condition of the Banco de la republica

Download or read book Condensed statement of the condition of the Banco de la republica written by Banco de la República (Colombia) and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Future of Central Banking

Download or read book The Future of Central Banking written by Forrest Capie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains two major papers prepared for the Bank of England's Tercentenary Symposium in June 1994. The first, by Forrest Capie, Charles Goodhart and Norbert Schnadt, provides an authoritative account of the evolution of central banking. It traces the development of both the monetary and financial stability concerns of central banks, and includes individual sections on the evolution and constitutional positions of 31 central banks from around the world. The second paper, by Stanley Fischer, explores the major policy dilemmas now facing central bankers: the extent to which there is a short-term trade-off between inflation and growth; the choice of inflation targets; and the choice of operating procedures. Important contributions by leading central bankers from around the world, and the related Per Jacobsen lecture by Alexander Lamfalussy, are also included in the volume.

Book The Measurement of Saving  Investment  and Wealth

Download or read book The Measurement of Saving Investment and Wealth written by Robert E. Lipsey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is probably no concept other than saving for which U.S. official agencies issue annual estimates that differ by more than a third, as they have done for net household saving, or for which reputable scholars claim that the correct measure is close to ten times the officially published one. Yet despite agreement among economists and policymakers on the importance of this measure, huge inconsistencies persist. Contributors to this volume investigate ways to improve aggregate and sectoral saving and investment estimates and analyze microdata from recent household wealth surveys. They provide analyses of National Income and Product Account (NIPA) and Flow-of-Funds measures and of saving and survey-based wealth estimates. Conceptual and methodological questions are discussed regarding long-term trends in the U.S. wealth inequality, age-wealth profiles, pensions and wealth distribution, and biases in inferences about life-cycle changes in saving and wealth. Some new assessments are offered for investment in human and nonhuman capital, the government contribution to national wealth, NIPA personal and corporate saving, and banking imputation.

Book Colombia

    Book Details:
  • Author : International Monetary Fund
  • Publisher : International Monetary Fund
  • Release : 1999-03-01
  • ISBN : 1451808739
  • Pages : 133 pages

Download or read book Colombia written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix analyzes economic developments in Colombia during 1996–99. Output growth slowed sharply in 1996 and early 1997, but subsequently rebounded owing to stronger exports, a temporary boom in world coffee prices, and an easing of credit policy. Despite efforts at addressing the fiscal imbalances, the nonfinancial public sector deficit widened further to more than 4 percent of GDP in 1997. Monetary policy during 1996 and most of 1997 was geared toward stimulating domestic demand.

Book The Colombian Economy and Its Regional Structural Challenges

Download or read book The Colombian Economy and Its Regional Structural Challenges written by Eduardo A. Haddad and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines regional structural challenges on Colombia’s path to sustainable social cohesion and regionally inclusive growth. These challenges can be divided into three main groups: (i) those that focus on competitiveness and the supply side, (ii) those that arise from critical business cycle issues on the demand side, and (iii) those concerning environmental sustainability, employment and social inclusion. The contributions, written by experts on Latin American economics and regional science, apply quantitative simulations based on a unified general equilibrium framework and address a wide range of topics, including: Colombia’s competitive integration in global markets, human capital profiles, regional economic disparities and public and private mechanisms of interregional income transfer. The challenges entailed by such high-profile and long-term issues as productivity growth and climate change are also analyzed. In addition, the book positions Colombia’s experiences in an international comparative context. It argues that many other Latin American countries face similar challenges and provide evidence to substantiate this claim. By doing so, it offers valuable policy lessons for Latin American countries with similar difficulties.

Book Secrets of El Dorado

    Book Details:
  • Author : Germán Arciniegas
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 0252019148
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Secrets of El Dorado written by Germán Arciniegas and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rebirth of the Paraguayan Republic

Download or read book Rebirth of the Paraguayan Republic written by Harris Gaylord Warren and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly study of Paraguay in the decades dominated by the Colorados, immediately following the Allied occupation of the country after the disastrous War of the Triple Alliance, when half of Paraguay's population died. This period of rebirth saw the formal organization of Paraguay's major political parties, the Colorados and the Liberals, and the dominance of the Colorados until the Liberal revolution of 1904.

Book Memoranda  Reports  Etc  Relating to the Conference

Download or read book Memoranda Reports Etc Relating to the Conference written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the First Pan American Financial Conference

Download or read book Proceedings of the First Pan American Financial Conference written by United States. Department of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the First Pan American Financial Conference

Download or read book Proceedings of the First Pan American Financial Conference written by Pan American financial conference (Washington, D.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foreign Relations of the United States

Download or read book Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Dept. of State and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 2316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Golden Kingdoms

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joanne Pillsbury
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2017-09-26
  • ISBN : 1606065483
  • Pages : 331 pages

Download or read book Golden Kingdoms written by Joanne Pillsbury and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, this exhibition focuses on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation—where artistic exchange, rivalry, and creativity led to the production of some of the greatest works of art known from the ancient Americas. The book and exhibition explore not only artistic practices but also the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions in which luxury arts were produced and circulated, alongside their religious meanings and ritual functions. Golden Kingdoms creates new understandings of ancient American art through a thematic exploration of indigenous ideas of value and luxury. Central to the book is the idea of the exchange of materials and ideas across regions and across time: works of great value would often be transported over long distances, or passed down over generations, in both cases attracting new audiences and inspiring new artists. The idea of exchange is at the intellectual heart of this volume, researched and written by twenty scholars based in the United States and Latin America.

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : International Bureau of the American Republics
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1897
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1172 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by International Bureau of the American Republics and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foreign Exchange Intervention in Inflation Targeters in Latin America

Download or read book Foreign Exchange Intervention in Inflation Targeters in Latin America written by Mr.Marcos d Chamon and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign exchange intervention is widely used as a policy tool, particularly in emerging markets, but many facets of this tool remain limited, especially in the context of flexible exchange rate regimes. The Latin American experience can be informative because some of its largest countries adopted floating exchange rate regimes and inflation targeting while continuing to intervene in foreign exchange markets. This edited volume reviews detailed accounts from several Latin American countries’ central banks, and it provides insight into how and with what aim many interventions were decided and implemented. This book documents the effectiveness of intervention and pays special attention to the role of foreign exchange intervention policy within inflation-targeting monetary frameworks. The main lesson from Latin America’s foreign exchange interventions, in the context of inflation targeting, is that the region has had a considerable degree of success. Transparency and a clear communication policy have been key. For economies that are not highly dollarized, rules-based intervention helped contain financial instability and build international reserves while preserving inflation targets. The Latin American experience can help other countries in the design and implementation of their policies.