Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply (MACROECONOMICS)

2019

Chapter 1-Introduction "The problem of the Scripture's truth and validity cannot be solved...In the end, we can never measure this Biblical reality with reality itself, whether we attempt this measurement in the field of value or in the field of fact." 1 One would think this is a phrase coming from a skeptical agnostic. Surprisingly, this statement actually comes from George Wright, a colleague of the famous biblical archaeologist William Fox Albright who argued for the historicity of Scripture. Wright was a believer in Christ, not a skeptic. Wright further stated, "God has not committed his truth to respond adequately to our tests." 2 The relationship between Biblical archaeology and Christian apologetics has been a notable one. Some have used the findings of archaeology to support the Bible as a trustworthy source of history. Others have stated that archaeology can help shed light on the historical background of Scripture, but it cannot be used as an apologetic argument for faith. There are also those who would attempt to argue that the findings of archaeology do not confirm the Bible as accurate, and that the lack of archaeological support for the Bible is actually an argument against Christian belief. The following work will attempt to show that Biblical archaeology can be used to defend the historicity of the Biblical accounts. Christian scholars have been cautious with how much emphasis they put on archaeology's ability to defend Christian belief. For example, John Walton and Andrew Hill have argued that archaeology has "limited" apologetic value, noting that Ancient Near Eastern archaeology cannot prove God's sovereignty over history: "Archaeology can authenticate history, but it cannot authenticate theology, and from the biblical perspective, history devoid of

This research paper presents a review of inflation targeting structures and the conditions a central bank should consider before adopting the regime. Inflation targeting has been broadly adopted in developed and developing market economies. The frameworks of inflation targeting are, in most cases, very identical across countries and a wide consensus has been promoted which supports flexible inflation targeting.

Southern Africa has been involved in a number of civil wars that attracted the international world. The international world’s involvement came in the form of peacekeeping missions meant to monitor the progress of a transitional phase from conflict to post conflict era. International peacekeeping has gained a high profile in international relations. The profound increase in the occurrence of civil wars globally and the consequent high demand for the UN to intervene has compelled the world body to delegate its peacekeeping powers to regional organisations. In the Southern African region countries like Mozambique, Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo cannot be left out in any of the debates that involve the duty of the peacekeeping missions in the region. In this write up, however, focus is going to be on the lessons that can be learnt from the peacekeeping missions in Mozambique and Angola.

Recent Spanish statutes on abortion and euthanasia foresee the creation of a register of health professionals objecting to abortion, and pose several burdens on conscientious objectors to such practices. The Spanish Constitutional Court has confirmed such burdens, on the basis of a very problematic definition of conscience rights. It is highly problematic to consider, as the High Court did, the refusal to have an abortion as an exemption from a legal duty. Such a treatment derives from an inadequate analogy with military conscientious objection. However, to categorize the refusal to comply with a constitutional duty and the refusal to comply with a legal mandate in the same way is to take for granted the legitimacy of the legal mandate. Something that, as the author explains, cannot be accepted in a constitutional state.

Modern Management Review

The Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have been known to play significant roles in promoting economic growth, employment generation and foreign exchange earnings among others, of both developed and developing economies. Monetary policy, on the other hand, actions and strategies employed by a central bank or monetary authority to control and regulate the money supply, interest rates, and credit conditions in an economy. This study therefore, examines how monetary policy affects the performance of SMEs in Nigeria based on the data covering the period from 1981–2020 using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model (ARDL). ARDL captures both long-run equilibrium relationships and short-term dynamics, allowing researchers to examine the interplay between variables over time. The study found that monetary policy has not been a potent tool for promoting the performance SMEs in Nigeria

One input and two output stream classifiers are commercially employed for the classification of particles. A mass balance equation for a classifier suggests that the feed size distribution can be evaluated from measured product size distributions if and only if the flow split of the feed particles to one of the product streams is also known. Moreover, the mass balance equation used to reconcile measured size distributions indicates that flow split of solid particles is in turn a function of all the three size distributions and is then redundantly expressed over the mass fraction of particles retained in various discrete size classes. Therefore for an operating classifier under steady state, the so far recognized approaches fail to address the profile of feed size distribution from the knowledge of measured fine and coarse product size distributions alone. In the forward approach of estimation of product size distributions, the feed distribution is integrated with efficiency curve of the classifier. Thus as an inverse problem, the feed distribution and efficiency curve need to be identified from the measured product size distributions. This paper attempts to address this inverse problem when flow split of feed particles to product streams is not known. However the method considers additional information regarding the functional forms of the classifier distributions due to inadequacy of product distributions alone to address the inverse problem.

2013

Apollo Magazine, October 2016