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La ricerca indaga come si orienta la produzione culturale, in specifico teatrale, in territori osservati durante la condizione di stato d'eccezione. La ricerca vuole analizzare il rapporto tra teatro e stato d'eccezione non nella dimensione della posterità ma della contemporaneità: la relazione che intercorre cioè tra gli avvenimenti storici, politici, sociali, il territorio che ne è testimone e i suoi abitanti, che rispondono di queste condizioni spendendo una competenza artistica. Obiettivo della ricerca è infatti dimostrare che la produzione teatrale nata durante la condizione di stato d'eccezione è caratterizzata dalle due categorie di testimonianza ed evasione. La necessità della testimonianza e della memoria da parte dell'artista, dello scrittore, dell'intellettuale che usualmente viene elaborata in opere prodotte a posteriori, nella condizione della contemporaneità invece si associa con la categoria dell'evasione, cui solitamente risulta antinomica. Il caso studio privilegiato per quest'analisi è la produzione performativa tunisina contemporanea, osservata durante il periodo della transizione democratica. ; The project aims to investigate how cultural production, in particular theatrical, is oriented in those territories which are observed throughout the course of a state of exception. The research strives to analyze the relationship between culture and state of exception not in the dimension of posterity but, rather, of contemporaneity: namely the relationship that exists between historical, political and social events, the territory which witnesses them and its inhabitants, who respond to these conditions by spending an artistic competence. The aim of the research is in fact to demonstrate that the cultural production born during the condition of state of exception is characterized by the two categories of testimony and escape. The need that artists, writers and intellectuals have to witness and remember is usually processed into works produced in retrospect; in the contemporary condition, instead, it is associated with the category of escape, to which it is usually antinomic. The main case study is the contemporary tunisian theatre production,related to the actual political situation: the democratic transition.

Mestrado em Actuarial Science ; Nos últimos anos, as regras de adesão aos planos de pensões no Reino Unido tornaram-se mais flexíveis e a maioria dos membros passou a ter a possibilidade de mudar de um plano para outro, de acordo com as suas necessidades pessoais e financeiras. Isto significa que um dado membro, se assim o desejar, pode transferir o valor acumulado das contribuições feitas em seu favor para um outro fundo. A opção de transferir é justificada sobretudo pelo facto de os planos CD serem mais flexíveis na forma como os benefícios são recebidos e, às vezes, permitirem um maior controlo do membro sobre a forma como o dinheiro é investido - As transferências são um procedimento complexo do ponto de vista atuarial: os administradores precisam de calcular o montante que deve ser entregue ao membro que sai, uma tarefa realizada com a assistência do atuário do plano, que tem que definir os pressupostos económicos e demográficos necessários para o cálculo. Este trabalho resulta de um estágio no Lisbon Service Centre da Willis Tower Watson, onde estive envolvido no processo de avaliação de fundos de pensões do Reino Unido, com o objetivo de projetar as responsabilidades futuras dos planos. A legislação impõe que as empresas do Reino Unido realizem avaliações, pelo menos, a cada três anos, dada a importância, tanto para os membros como para as empresas, de conhecer o respetivo nível de financiamento e a situação financeira, em geral. ; In the last years the regulations for pension plans membership became more flexible and most members have now the possibility to move from a scheme to another, according to their personal and financial needs. This means members are able to move their accumulated pots through a transfer, and this usually happens from a Defined Benefit (DB) to a Defined Contribution (DC) scheme. The option to transfer is justified because DC schemes are characterized by more freedom regarding the way benefits are collected and sometimes more control on the way the money is invested - although the member will take on the investment risk, the longevity risk and the income management risk. Transfers are a complex procedure from the actuarial point of view: trustees need to calculate the lump sum to be provided to the member leaving the scheme, a task performed with the assistance of actuaries, who are asked to set the economic and demographic assumptions required for the calculation. This work is a result of an internship at the Lisbon Service Center of Willis Tower Watson, where I have been involved in the UK pension fund valuation process, with the objective of projecting the future liability of schemes. Legislation imposes that UK firms must perform valuations of the schemes at least every three years, given the importance, both for members and clients, of knowing their funding position and financial situation. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

This paper proposes a definition of equality of educational opportunities. Then, it develops a comprehensive model that allows to test for the existence of equality of opportunity in a given distribution and to rank distributions according to equality of opportunity. Finally, it provides an empirical analysis of equality of opportunity for higher education in Italy. -- Equality of opportunity ; higher education ; stochastic dominance

AbstractThis article studies the distribution of well‐being and, specifically, the degree of poverty and deprivation in Albania, in the years 2002 and 2005, using Living Standard Measurement Surveys (LSMS). The distribution analysis is performed by applying both one‐dimensional and multidimensional approaches, in particular to better examine the link between economic growth, inequality and poverty in Albania. Furthermore, by estimating a non‐monetary indicator, as proposed by Bossert et al. (), and a nonlinear principal component model together with a probit model, the paper focuses on the multidimensional measures of poverty to address the relationship between poverty and socio‐economic factors. Our evidence shows that absolute poverty decreased from 2002 to 2005 while national relative poverty increased; economic growth reduced poverty in Albania over the observed period; and living in rural and mountain areas, being female, poorly educated and with a large family increased the probability of suffering from deprivation.