West Ashley High School - 2010 Jefferson Awards Students In Action PresentationJefferson Awards
Students In Action is a national youth volunteer leadership, recognition and reward program, designed to pass the tradition of service on to the next generation.
Co-developed by Jefferson Awards for Public Service and Deloitte, it is now in over 250 High Schools.
Each spring, Student Leaders from the participating schools compete in regional competitions. They are asked to report on the implementation of the program, and the impact they've had, both in their schools and within their communities.
Aboriginal Post-Secondary Information Program - Jolene John - SASSY 2014TEDx Adventure Catalyst
Presented at the 2014 Student Affairs and Services Symposium at York University.
Learn about the Aboriginal Post-Secondary Information
Program (APSIP) and how it empowers Aboriginal learners,
leaders, educators, institutions, and communities to collaborate to increase access, retention, and inclusion of Indigenous peoples, pedagogies, epistemologies, and methodologies within academia.
Building Resilience for Indigenous Leaders
Lynette Callaghan, Kalaya Children’s Centre
MATSITI School Leaders Forum, 16 October 2014
www.matsiti.edu.au/events/leaders
West Ashley High School - 2010 Jefferson Awards Students In Action PresentationJefferson Awards
Students In Action is a national youth volunteer leadership, recognition and reward program, designed to pass the tradition of service on to the next generation.
Co-developed by Jefferson Awards for Public Service and Deloitte, it is now in over 250 High Schools.
Each spring, Student Leaders from the participating schools compete in regional competitions. They are asked to report on the implementation of the program, and the impact they've had, both in their schools and within their communities.
Aboriginal Post-Secondary Information Program - Jolene John - SASSY 2014TEDx Adventure Catalyst
Presented at the 2014 Student Affairs and Services Symposium at York University.
Learn about the Aboriginal Post-Secondary Information
Program (APSIP) and how it empowers Aboriginal learners,
leaders, educators, institutions, and communities to collaborate to increase access, retention, and inclusion of Indigenous peoples, pedagogies, epistemologies, and methodologies within academia.
Building Resilience for Indigenous Leaders
Lynette Callaghan, Kalaya Children’s Centre
MATSITI School Leaders Forum, 16 October 2014
www.matsiti.edu.au/events/leaders
Hendrina Givah, National Co-ordinator, FAWEMA.
Providing a perspective from Malawian civil society on the challenges and opportunities in promoting education and gender equality in Malawi.
BRAC, an international development organisation based in Bangladesh, is the largest non-governmental development organisation in the world, in terms of number of employees as of June 2015.[3][4][5][6] Established by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed in 1972 after the independence of Bangladesh, BRAC is present in all 64 districts of Bangladesh as well as other countries in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
BRAC employs over 100,000 people, roughly 70 percent of whom are women, reaching more than 126 million people[citation needed]. The organisation is 70-80% self-funded through a number of commercial enterprises that include a dairy and food project and a chain of retail handicraft stores called Aarong. BRAC maintains offices in 14 countries throughout the world, including BRAC USA and BRAC UK
Caravel High School - 2010 Jefferson Awards Students In Action PresentationJefferson Awards
Students In Action is a national youth volunteer leadership, recognition and reward program, designed to pass the tradition of service on to the next generation.
Co-developed by Jefferson Awards for Public Service and Deloitte, it is now in over 250 High Schools.
Each spring, Student Leaders from the participating schools compete in regional competitions. They are asked to report on the implementation of the program, and the impact they've had, both in their schools and within their communities.
Hendrina Givah, National Co-ordinator, FAWEMA.
Providing a perspective from Malawian civil society on the challenges and opportunities in promoting education and gender equality in Malawi.
BRAC, an international development organisation based in Bangladesh, is the largest non-governmental development organisation in the world, in terms of number of employees as of June 2015.[3][4][5][6] Established by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed in 1972 after the independence of Bangladesh, BRAC is present in all 64 districts of Bangladesh as well as other countries in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
BRAC employs over 100,000 people, roughly 70 percent of whom are women, reaching more than 126 million people[citation needed]. The organisation is 70-80% self-funded through a number of commercial enterprises that include a dairy and food project and a chain of retail handicraft stores called Aarong. BRAC maintains offices in 14 countries throughout the world, including BRAC USA and BRAC UK
Caravel High School - 2010 Jefferson Awards Students In Action PresentationJefferson Awards
Students In Action is a national youth volunteer leadership, recognition and reward program, designed to pass the tradition of service on to the next generation.
Co-developed by Jefferson Awards for Public Service and Deloitte, it is now in over 250 High Schools.
Each spring, Student Leaders from the participating schools compete in regional competitions. They are asked to report on the implementation of the program, and the impact they've had, both in their schools and within their communities.
The literature on external default has stressed the existence of the so-called debt-intolerance puzzle: developing nations tend to default at debt-to-GDP ratios well bellow those of developed countries. The underestimation or plain omission of domestic debt may account for a fraction of that puzzle. We calculate fiscal revenues coming from financial repression using different methodologies for the case of Venezuela, and look at their correspondence with comprehensive measures of capital flight. In particular, we add to the standard measure of capital flight the over-invoicing of imports, rife in periods of exchange controls. We find that financial repression accounts for public revenues similar to those of OECD economies, in spite of the latter having much higher domestic debt-to-GDP ratios. We also find that financial repression and capital flight is significantly higher in years of exchange controls and interest rate caps. We interpret this as significant evidence suggesting a link between domestic disequilibrium and a weakening of the net foreign asset position via capital flight.
Much of the achievements in poverty and inequality reduction do not respond to Hugo Chavez social programs, but rather to higher public expenditure, fueling an import consumption boom. OIl was not enough, foreign debt increased fourfold. This presentation evaluates current state of Venezuelan economy under Maduro and draft some guidelines to achieving equitable growth
Un diagnóstico de la grave situación económica de Venezuela y algunos lineamientos de política para el diseño de un programa de reconstrucción nacional
The Development of Regional and Community Driven Plan(s) to Better Respond to the Needs of Families with Young Children in Northwest Saskatchewan. Learn how communities in the Northwest region are working together at an interagency and community level to better the health and life outcomes of children.
How to manage the transition into the workplace. Readiness best practices. How many programs produce an abundance of enrolees, with few if any graduates. What can you do to turn this equation around.
Slideshow international development night 2017Rosalind Warner
On April 5th, 2017 Okanagan College's Political Science department members will team up with local groups to host International Development night. This event celebrates the role of Okanagan individuals and organizations in creating a better world, one step at a time, through international humanitarian actions, aid and development efforts worldwide.
The Growth Lab at Harvard CID prepared this presentation to be shared with Namibia's High Panel for Economic Growth, established by President Hage Geingob.
In the decade 1999-2009, Jordan experienced an impressive growth acceleration, tripling its exports and increasing income per capita by 38%. Since then, a number of external shocks that include the Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009), the Arab Spring (2011), the Syrian Civil War (2011), and the emergence of the Islamic State (2014) have affected Jordan in significant ways and thrown its economy out of balance. Jordan’s debt-to-GDP ratio has ballooned from 55% (2009) to 94% (2018). The economy has continued to grow amidst massive fiscal adjustment and balance of payments constraints, but the large increase in population – by 50% between 2008 and 2017 – driven by massive waves of refugees has resulted in a 12% cumulative loss in income per capita (2010-2017). Moving forward, debt sustainability will require not only continued fiscal consolidation but also faster growth and international support to keep interest payments on the debt contained. We have developed an innovative framework to align Jordan’s growth strategy with its changing factor endowments. The framework incorporates service industries into an Economic Complexity analysis, utilizing the Dun and Bradstreet database, together with an evaluation of the evolution of Jordan’s comparative advantages over time. Combining several tools to identify critical constraints faced by sectors with the greatest potential, we have produced a roadmap with key elements of a strategy for Jordan to return to faster, more sustainable and more inclusive growth that is consistent with its emerging comparative advantages.
The literature on income gaps between Chiapas and the rest of Mexico revolves around individual factors, such as education and ethnicity. Yet, twenty years after the Zapatista rebellion, the schooling gap between Chiapas and the other Mexican entities has shrunk while the income gap has widened, and we find no evidence indicating that Chiapas indigenes are worse-off than their likes elsewhere in Mexico. We explore a different hypothesis. Based on census data, we calculate the economic complexity index, a measure of the knowledge agglomeration embedded in the economic activities at a municipal level in Mexico. Economic complexity explains a larger fraction of the income gap than any individual factor. Our results suggest that chiapanecos are not the problem, the problem is Chiapas. These results hold when we extend our analysis to Mexico’s thirty-one federal entities, suggesting that place-specific determinants that have been overlooked in both the literature and policy, have a key role in the determination of income gaps.
For three years Harvard CID has been working on a plan to rescue Venezuela and get the country on a path of sustainable, inclusive growth, and development. We have teamed with Venezuelan experts at home and abroad, worked with international institutions, and have started the process of building consensus around the plan among the opposition parties that control the Venezuelan National Assembly. The Venezuelan Caucus at the Kennedy School will be hosting a series of talks on Venezuela: The morning after, by different members of our team and on different topics. You can follow on their Facebook webpage. More coming soon, stay tuned!
El colapso económico de Venezuela no tiene precedentes en la historia económica posterior a la segunda guerra mundial. La caída paralela de la producción (49%) e importación per cápita (84%), conjuntamente con la hiper-inflación más alta registrada en doce meses consecutivos (200.005% en los doce meses previos a Agosto 2018), conforman un cuadro único de la catástrofe que le ha caído al país tras veinte años de socialismo.
Esta es una presentación compartida con el Frente Amplio de Venezuela en Julio de 2018, resultado del trabajo de un conjunto de investigadores del Centro para el Desarrollo de la Universidad de Harvard.
¿Cómo ha llegado Venezuela a la situación actual, y qué tan grave es el colapso que ha sufrido en función de otras catástrofes económicas registradas en el mundo?
On March 5th I had the privilege to host Lant Pritchett in my econometrics class at @Kennedy_School, sharing his work: "The RCT debate is over. We won. They lost." Nothing substitutes for listening to Lant, but here is a link to his compelling presentation".
Panama has been one of the fastest growing economies in the world over the previous decade. In that short but vibrant time span, the country managed to double its income per capita. Growth has been spearheaded by the development of a modern service sector on the activities surrounding the Canal, and non-residential construction. Large public infrastructure projects and the private provision for infrastructure demanded by the service sector, have fueled growth and expanded job opportunities for non-skilled workers.
Two warning signals hover over Panama’s stellar performance. The construction sector has been growing at a rate equivalent to doubling its stock of structures every four years. The demand for non-residential construction cannot grow indefinitely at a higher rate than the rest of the economy. Once the stock of infrastructure required by the service sector is set and large infrastructure projects are completed, the rate of growth will recede and other sectors shall take the leading role. The deceleration of construction, characterized by a lower demand of non-skilled labor, will feed into the second warning signal: Income inequality. In spite of the minor improvements registered over the accelerated-growth spell, Panama remains amongst the world's top five most unequal countries. Both warning signals point to the need of further diversifying the Panamanian economy, and promoting economic activity in the provinces so as to deconcentrate growth and make it more inclusive.
¿Cuánto tiempo le tomará a Venezuela recuperarse la catástrofe económica sufrida? Tomando en cuenta la propia experiencia de Venezuela y la del resto del mundo, establecemos la probabilidad de recuperación para diferentes escenarios y plazos.
Bajo el patrocinio del Banco Inter-Americano de Desarrollo y en el marco del programa de Ciudades Emergentes y Sostenibles, un equipo de Centro para el Desarrollo de la Universidad de Harvard pasó la segunda parte del 2017 trabajando en Hermosillo, Sonora. Nuestra meta es analizar el desempeño económico reciente del lugar y su potencial económico, e identificar las restricciones más importantes al crecimiento.
Venezuela ha sufrido entre 2013-2017 el colapso más grande que haya registrado cualquier economía de América Latina en su historia, en época de paz o guerra. La caída de los precios y la producción petrolero, en combinación con el endeudamiento salvaje de la República en los tiempos de bonanza, ha dejado a la República exangüe y forzado una caída en las importaciones que ha llevado al país al borde de una crisis humanitaria. Aquí se simulan los impactos de algunos reformas económicas en el evento de una transición, desde el punto de vista de la balanza de pagos. En conclusión, aún haciendo supuestos muy optimistas, se hace imposible sacar al país adelante sin una combinación de ayuda internacional (asistencia extraordinaria del Fondo Monetario Internacional) Y una reestructuración de deuda muy agresiva.
We know diversification, extending production into more complex and higher value added goods and services, is they key to the process and development. And yet diversification implies doing things you currently don´t know how to do. Countries need to add new capabilities, which they cannot possibly have. We also know that it is easier to “move brains” to new locations, than to move knowhow into brains, i.e. moving experienced workers into a new location is faster than building experienced workers. Is this easier or even feasible to do? We find this is highly contingent on the “Sense of Us” as it regards policy areas like immigration and business travel. The "Sense of Us" is the collective illusion defining a place sense of who they are. Here we present three examples of three different policy engagements in Panama, Saudi Arabia and Chiapas (México), to show how did we stumble into the sense of us enthuse places, and how understanding it and be able to shape in a more inclusive way is cornerstone in the efforts to develop and grow out of poverty.
Un recorrido por los 50 casos de desastres económicos que se han registrado desde 1960: ¿En cuánto tiempo se recuperaron? ¿Buscaron asistencia internacional? ¿Los petroleros salieron más rápido? Algunas notas sobre los retos adaptativos que nos plantea la recuperación de la economía venezolana.
Una recorrido por la economía venezolana durante la revolución bolivariana: La fase de expansión basada en el boom petrolero y el acelerado endeudamiento externo, y el colapso. Una hoja de ruta para salir adelante entres fases: Emergencia, estabilización, y reforma estructural.
Venezuela is undergoing one of the worst economic losses ever registered by any country in a three-year period, either by Latin American or world standards. Poverty rates have skyrocketed and stand today beyond 80%. We define two landmarks for recovery, and revise how much would Venezuela need to grow - oil and non-oil sectors - and how likely are those rates from the Venezuela and the world´s experience. We end up by outlining some of the adaptive challenges Venezuela would need to tackle to engine a sustainable recovery.
Un grupo de profesores e investigadores de Harvard, con el auspicio del Banco Inter-Americano de Desarrollo, ha pasado 8 meses analizando el extraordinario período de crecimiento acelerado de Panamá, sus principales motores, los principales desequilibrios que se han ido creando y las potenciales restricciones al crecimiento sostenido de Panamá.
Devaluations may have an impact on multinational stock prices depending on the size of the particular country and whether they are anticipated or not. In an efficient market, predictable devaluations on small countries should not impact stock prices of large multinational companies. We analyze cummulative abnormal returns (CAR) to five devaluations in Venezuela within the context of stiff exchange controls. Our event study covers a period of five years and uses daily stock prices for up to 122 multinationals with Venezuelan subsidiaries. We find evidence of significant negative impacts on stock prices on various devaluations, reaching up to -1.75% over the event window. We interpret these results as evidence of market myopia, as they are driven by retained earnings on financial statements being converted into dollars at highly overvalued official rates, in spite of subsidiaries not having access to dollars at these prices for years prior to the devaluations.
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Assessing the Influence of Transportation on the Tourism Industry in Nigeriagsochially
This research dissertation investigates the complex interplay between transportation and the tourism industry in Nigeria, aiming to unravel critical insights that contribute to the enhancement of the overall tourist experience. The study employs a multi-faceted approach, literature review establishes a robust theoretical framework, incorporating The Service Quality and Satisfaction Theory to guide the research questions and hypotheses.
The methodology involves the distribution of a structured questionnaire, ensuring a representative sample and facilitating a comprehensive analysis of the gathered data.
Key findings include the nuanced perceptions of transportation infrastructure adequacy, safety and security concerns, financial influences on travel decisions, and the cultural and ecological impacts of transportation choices. These findings culminate in a comprehensive set of recommendations for policymakers and practitioners in the Nigerian tourism industry. The findings contribute to the existing literature by providing actionable insights for policymakers, stakeholders, and researchers in the Nigerian tourism sector.
The recommendations encompass gender-sensitive planning, infrastructure enhancements, safety measures, and strategic interventions to address financial constraints, ensuring a holistic and sustainable development of the tourism industry in Nigeria.
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We are a TRUSTED LEADER in the field of international volunteering With 10 years of experience, more than 250 staff worldwide. We’ve sent 10,000 volunteers from 24 different countries on short term volunteer programs around the world CCS was recognized as an expert in its field by the UN and granted Special Consultative Status by the United Nations Economic and Social Council in 2003. In this capacity we consult on economic and social issues for the UN as needed. CARE, one of the world’s largest humanitarian organizations (operating in 60 countries), chose CCS as its partner in 2001 to operate its CARECorps program, which allows volunteers the opportunity to travel to the field and learn about the work of CARE. Media Outlets: (CNN, The New York Times, The Today Show, National Geographic, and Chicago Tribune)
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Cross-Cultural Solutions is a leader in overseas volunteering programs that you can trust. With over 10 years of experience, CCS has brought over 10,000 participants to countries around the world. CCS operates in 10 countries with a staff of over 250 people. CCS was recognized as an expert in its field by the UN and granted Special Consultative Status by the United Nations Economic and Social Council in 2003. In this capacity we consult on economic and social issues for the UN as needed. CARE, one of the world’s largest humanitarian organizations (operating in 60 countries), chose CCS as its partner in 2001 to operate its CARECorps program, which allows volunteers the opportunity to travel to the field and learn about the work of CARE.
Pre-Departure: Program Manager Skills and Interest Survey Expectations Talks In-Country: Staff available Special Needs: We have accommodated deaf, blind and other handicapped volunteers.
Staff all local to the area. Well-known and respected. Maintaining a toll-free, 24-hour hotline in the U.S., for friends and family to reach Cross-Cultural Solutions staff to handle any urgent matters. Providing volunteers with Cross-Cultural Solutions staff support, through the constant presence of staff members to facilitate emergencies (like illness or family emergencies). Providing the following services to volunteers while they are in-country: Clean, safe food and water. In-country transportation by a local Cross-Cultural Solutions staff member, who is a licensed driver. Transportation also includes in-country airport transfers. Local staff that is attuned to local happenings and monitor all news and information. On-premise security, based on the cultural norms of the country. Daily monitoring of breaking U.S. State Department Travel Warnings, U.K. Foreign Office Travel Advice, Consular Information Sheets and Public Announcements. Should one of the countries or part of one of the countries in which we operate be placed on the U.S. Travel Warnings list or the U.K. Travel Advice list, we will follow U.S. government instructions for evacuation, check with the Embassies for whichever country the volunteers are from and suspend programs in that country until it has been removed from the list. Mention “Friends and Family Document” Mention that each Participant Handbook contains an information sheet with contact information that the participant can give to family.
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Staff all local to the area. Well-known and respected.