Conditions of sociability : mobility, mutability and medaglie in early modern networks and possible publics
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Reflections on Tintoretto as a Portraitist
Exhibitions today seem to be conjured up for a wide variety of reasons, most of them irrelevant to the materials assembled with significant risk to the vulnerability of the works themselves. It was, therefore, an unexpected pleasure to find that what might have promised but slight utility as a project should, in its realization, prove not only moving and enlightening but also stimulating in affording useful comparisons and provoking reflection on a theme still only partly confronted in the literature. In the case of Jacopo Tintoretto's portraits we are now in a position to settle some of these questions due to the splendid recent exhibition held in Venice to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the artist's death.
Did the metamorphosis from Export Processing Zones to Special Economic Zones improve the efficiency of trade enclaves in India?
In this paper, the efficiency of seven conventional Special Economic Zones in India is analyzed, by adopting a stochastic production frontier technique, for the period between 1986–1987 and 2007–2008.Results indicate that although the efficiency scores of these enclaves have improved over the years, specifically with the introduction of the SEZ policy (2000–2001), it is far below the threshold level as identified in the literature. Besides, one can also observe a discrepancy emerging between better export earning zones and efficient zones. On the determinants side, policy intervention and large geographical area, accompanied by clustering of units, are found to have impacted the efficiency scores of these enclaves positively.