Benchmarking life in Abu Dhabi Sandrine Bardot May 2011Sandrine Bardot
This presentation covers an overview of current ways of managing Compensation in the Gulf countries, with a focus on the UAE. I am planning to post soon a video version of this presentation.
Benchmarking life in Abu Dhabi Sandrine Bardot May 2011Sandrine Bardot
This presentation covers an overview of current ways of managing Compensation in the Gulf countries, with a focus on the UAE. I am planning to post soon a video version of this presentation.
Giving Bosnia and Herzegovina 2019 - Report on the State of PhilanthropyCatalyst Balkans
During 2019, Catalyst Balkans tracked media reports on domestic individual, corporate and diaspora philanthropy in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This brochure provides key statistics on the findings of this research.
This innovation case study deck -- a project for the California College of the Arts MBA in Design Strategy's first semester Innovation Studio class (with Raffi Minasian) by Alex Rosandick, Chrissy Charlton, Allison Cooper and Dora Yang -- imagines a future national launch event for a program to address loneliness amongst American elders funded by insurance as a preventative therapy.
Presentation graphic design by Alex Rosandick!
For more information, check out the full case study at allisonmarie.co.
This presentation was kindly shared with the Community Challenge research project by Ken Barnsley, Head of Corporate Research, Blackburn with Darwen Council.
POPULATION STRUCTURE, DISTRIBUTION AND DENSITYYonas Gemeda
This ppt lesson describe population structure with the help of pyramids through comparing developed and developing countries tell about patterns of population distribution and density
For eighty years, the Jewish Agency has convened the Jewish people in an unparalleled partnership with a singular purpose: ensuring the Jewish future with a strong Israel at its heart. Together, we have built the State of Israel, bringing over three million Jews home, transformed deserts into communities, and offered opportunity where there was once devastation.
It is the donors, partners, and philanthropists around the world who join our efforts
through both undesignated and designated funding and enabling us to make a
difference. In Israel and around the world, we are able to be the Jewish world’s
representatives as we implement strategic activities, leverage other funds raised,
operate at capacity, and respond to rapidly changing realities and emerging
situations.
Giving Bosnia and Herzegovina 2019 - Report on the State of PhilanthropyCatalyst Balkans
During 2019, Catalyst Balkans tracked media reports on domestic individual, corporate and diaspora philanthropy in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This brochure provides key statistics on the findings of this research.
This innovation case study deck -- a project for the California College of the Arts MBA in Design Strategy's first semester Innovation Studio class (with Raffi Minasian) by Alex Rosandick, Chrissy Charlton, Allison Cooper and Dora Yang -- imagines a future national launch event for a program to address loneliness amongst American elders funded by insurance as a preventative therapy.
Presentation graphic design by Alex Rosandick!
For more information, check out the full case study at allisonmarie.co.
This presentation was kindly shared with the Community Challenge research project by Ken Barnsley, Head of Corporate Research, Blackburn with Darwen Council.
POPULATION STRUCTURE, DISTRIBUTION AND DENSITYYonas Gemeda
This ppt lesson describe population structure with the help of pyramids through comparing developed and developing countries tell about patterns of population distribution and density
For eighty years, the Jewish Agency has convened the Jewish people in an unparalleled partnership with a singular purpose: ensuring the Jewish future with a strong Israel at its heart. Together, we have built the State of Israel, bringing over three million Jews home, transformed deserts into communities, and offered opportunity where there was once devastation.
It is the donors, partners, and philanthropists around the world who join our efforts
through both undesignated and designated funding and enabling us to make a
difference. In Israel and around the world, we are able to be the Jewish world’s
representatives as we implement strategic activities, leverage other funds raised,
operate at capacity, and respond to rapidly changing realities and emerging
situations.
This paper analyses the role of remittances in poverty reduction in developing world in particular Kenya. Due to globalization there has been great movement of persons from one country to another in search of green pastures. The opening up of the economies leads to increase of immigrants who leave their home countries and stay in the host countries. Kenya has experienced large movement of its residents to developing countries to look for greener pastures. These immigrants have led to the increase of remittances to their home countries. It is on this foundation this paper sought to establish the relationship remittances and poverty reduction in developing economies in particular Kenya. In this paper data from Africa development indicators from World Bank and central bank of Kenya for a period of ten years are considered for graphical analysis to study the trend and annual pattern of behavior which supports the hypothesis of the paper that remittances growth is important in achieving the goals. It is expected that this study will benefit the government and the parties concern to ensure that the millennium goals are achieved and more so the improving of living standards of Kenyans and academicians in filling the knowledge gap and lay foundation for further research. The study provides insights into the role of diaspora remittances in poverty reduction in Kenya. It provides evidence that attracting diaspora remittances for emerging economies could as well help in mobilizing the much-needed loanable funds for private investment.
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Money makes the world go round. For some countries that are in the development stages or going through instability like major natural disasters and armed conflict, money becomes tight. Funds can come in from many sources with certain stipulations like predatory lending. Enter the IMF and the World Bank set up by member nations to help provide economic assistance. The two organizations seem to act and function similarly at times causing confusion.
The IMF's function helps to support and keep the international monetary system in check as one of its primary roles. This means the analysis of world currencies to ensure they remain balanced to ensure countries and their population can continue business (IMF). As exchange rates fluctuate and constantly change, countries need to understand the true value of their currency. The weight a countries currency holds to the dollar can either be overvalued or undervalued. Overvaluing currency will cause an increase in imports and may cause a decrease in exports sending more money out then bringing it in causing sectors relying on exports to dry up (Driscoll). Along with supporting the international exchange the IMF also provides support through lending and practical support
The World Bank provides the funds to developing countries battling poverty and rising costs. Working much like a regular bank the World Bank institutions provide low interest loans, credit, and special grants to help facilitate a countries public and private sectors encouraging growth (World Bank). The World Bank provides analysis and expert advice and assistance to countries banking systems to eliminate shortfalls and expand earnings to support the local populace. Following the Korean War, Republic of Korea was given grants and loans to help rebuild and bolster the national infrastructure to become one of the top economies in present day. Along with Korea and Japan other countries have taken advantage of funding to go from needing assistance to providing assistance.
1. "About the IMF." IMF. Accessed September 3, 2015. http://www.imf.org/external/about.htm.
2. Driscoll, David D. The IMF and the World Bank: How Do They Differ?Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 1988.
3. "About." About. Accessed September 3, 2015. http://www.worldbank.org/en/about.
POST TWO
Even though IMF and World Bank perceived to be the similar organizations their missions are quite different. IMF is the central institution of the international monetary system. International monetary system is the backbone for the international payments and national currencies, which allows countries to conduct economic transactions with each other. The International Monetary Fund provides loans to the membe ...
Get an update on this quarter’s new funding streams. Our team will share donor trends, upcoming new funding streams, and programs from USAID, the EU, GIZ, Nordic donors, and the United Nations.
This senior capstone is a hypothetical proposal, written from the viewpoint of an NGO, for creating communal programs aimed at creating and promoting long-term transformation in attitudes, interactions and policies, specifically as they relate to Syrian refugees.
The global financial crisis in colombia and the international conference on p...UN Global Pulse
Executive summary of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) research: “The Global Financial Crisis in Colombia and the International Conference on Populations and Development (ICPD) Agenda,” conducted as part of UN Global Pulse’s Rapid Impact and Vulnerability Assessment Fund (RIVAF). For more information: http://www.unglobalpulse.org/projects/rapid-impact-and-vulnerability-analysis-fund-rivaf
31052024_First India Newspaper Jaipur.pdfFIRST INDIA
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An astonishing, first-of-its-kind, report by the NYT assessing damage in Ukraine. Even if the war ends tomorrow, in many places there will be nothing to go back to.
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‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
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In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
1. MOUNTING IMPACT OF ECONOMIC CRISIS ON
BENEFICIARIES OF THE JEWISH AGENCY
Every year, some 2 million people around the world depend on the services of the
Jewish Agency. Youth and communities at risk in Israel—at risk from neglect,
disadvantage or kassams—depend on our help. Vulnerable new immigrants look to us
as they struggle to build new lives. So do young immigrant soldiers and students alone in
Israel who count on us as family. Throughout the former Soviet Union, young people and
communities at risk of being severed from their Jewish identity reach out trusting we’ll be
there for them. That is why we are constantly looking for greater efficiencies,
considering carefully and responsibly every single dollar spent on any activity not
directly helping our beneficiaries.
Since the summer of 2007, the confluence of the decrease in the U.S. dollar against
most world currencies and rampant inflation throughout Europe and the former Soviet
Union has resulted in soaring costs to provide the same level of services and
intervention for our beneficiaries. Initially, we were able to resist cutbacks on services
through increased efficiencies and continued reduction of overhead expenses.
But with needs already far outstripping resources, the continuing devaluation of the
dollar, rising inflation in countries where we are operational, and the world economic
crisis, we are facing very real and critical financial challenges. We have made more than
$75 million in reductions and cutbacks. More than the dollars, we see the people that
have been impacted as we are being forced to make major slashes to essential
programs in order to be able to responsibly manage the current financial realities.
As the global economic situation deteriorates, the severity of the repercussions and the
needs will become even more acute. While spending during these most difficult times is
now focused more than ever on helping our service recipients, the reality is that unless
we can raise significantly more funds from every available resource, far too many
of those who count on us will fall through the cracks.
2. PROGRAMS IN PERIL AROUND THE WORLD
The Jewish Agency is sensitive to the difficulties federations are facing in both reduced
campaigns and increased local needs as the global economic downturn intensifies. We
are your partners in facing this storm as we carefully weigh every dollar spent to ensure
maximum benefit to the people supported by campaign dollars. Now, as always, our
beneficiaries are our most important priority.
Already, in response to the continuing decline of core allocations to the Jewish Agency in
recent years, overhead expenses have been cut by $21 million between 2004 and 2008
to ensure service delivery. In the 2009 budget, approximately $10 million in additional
cuts came from further organizational restructuring and management costs. At this point,
the remainder will have to come from program and services provided.
On-the-ground impact for those who depend on Jewish Agency services:
ISRAEL
In Israel, our major focus is twofold: strengthening Israel through aliyah and the
integration of all new Israelis and closing growing socio-economic gaps for communities,
families and youth. In the last decade, the socio-economic gap has grown in Israel to the
point where there are two parallel Israeli realities. The goal of our services and
partnerships in Israel are to close this divide. There is no time out—not only are lives at
stake but the very future of Israel’s character. Every year that the gap grows wider, it
becomes more difficult to bridge.
Over the past two years, the U.S. dollar exchange rate against the Israeli shekel was
reduced by 23%. Because 75% of all donations to the Jewish Agency are in U.S. dollars
while 55% of total expenditures are in shekels, the net result was a shortfall of revenues
against existing expenses. In other words, the total dollar budget of the programs has
remained intact but the shekel budget to implement has decreased dramatically due
to the lower exchange rate.
Additionally, the total rate of inflation during 2007 was 3.4% and the rate of inflation for
2008 was 3.8%. And while the rate actually went down in 2009, the cumulative affect on
the shekel budget was about 30%, forcing the Jewish Agency to cut projects and
dramatically reduce activities for our beneficiaries.
3. Some impacted programs and services in 2009:
• Six absorption centers were closed to date; suitable accomodations have been made
for all immigrants with a majority of them transitioning to permanent housing
• In 2008, the annual NIS budget for Youth Aliyah Villages for teens at-risk was
decreased by 30%. The situation has not improved in 2009 and the net result is less
individualized attention for the students, more crowded classrooms, and a reduction
in the extra-curricular enrichment services provided. The threat to the Ben Yakir
Youth Aliyah Village remains; the Village is not sure of its financial viability for the
coming academic year.
• In 2009, the plans to expand the Youth Futures program to additional communities
was not implemented due to budgetary constraints. Additionally, the number of
enrichment classes available per child has been reduced—an element that is critical
to the rate at which these kids can hope to turn the corner on disadvantage.
FORMER SOVIET UNION (FSU)
Our major focus in the FSU is bringing the critical services and Jewish identity programs
to the frontlines of the assimilation battle. This is not hyperbole—the Jewish people are
in a race against time to connect far-flung remote communities and their young people in
a meaningful way to their Jewish identity and our people. The Jewish Agency is
providing on-the-ground services and programs in all regions of the FSU, especially in
Russia and the Ukraine in the areas of Aliyah and Education. Ten percent of our overall
budget is carried out in this region.
During the two-year period concluding December 31, 2007, the U.S. dollar exchange
rate against Russia’s ruble was reduced by about 10% and there was an additional 3%
reduction between January and June 2008. At the same time, as of December 2007
inflation increased by 16%, with an additional increase of about 13% from January to
June 2008. In Ukraine, inflation increased by 17% as of December 2007 with an
additional increase of about 20% is forecast for the period January to June 2008. This
has forced the Jewish Agency to cut projects and dramatically reduce the numbers of
beneficiaries in each program.
4. Some impacted programs and services in 2009:
• Funding shortfalls required a further reduction in the number of participants that
could be accomodated in our Hebrew ulpan program in the FSU; the program
participants are now required to participate in tuition costs.
• The number of educational emissaries in the FSU has been reduced from 11 to 5.
• Jewish Identity Seminars in FSU for adults are now only implemented with funding
made available by the Claim’s Conference allocation to the Jewish Agency.
• The per child in our FSU summer camp has increased by 62% (from $68 per day
in 2007 to $110 in 2008 to $132 in 2009—not including the costs of counselors'
training). This combined with decreased buying power of the ruble, a result of the
rising cost of living index, has affected the cost of rent (we rent campsites), food
expenses, and all supplies. Only 5,000 campers were able to enjoy this
experience this year as opposed to 10,000 two years ago.
EASTERN EUROPE
Jewish Agency activities in Europe amount to some 5% of its total budget. Over the past
two years, the U.S. dollar exchange rate against the Euro was reduced by about 20%,
while the inflation increased by 7%. The net result is that all aspects of our activities in
the Europe Region have been reduced in both the numbers of participants and the
scope to activities.
NORTH AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES
The Jewish Agency and its worldwide team of Israel educators and emissaries are
bringing Israel into lives and communities as a powerful force to engage and connect our
Jewish world’s next generations. Overall cuts in our 2009 budget have put our activities
in North America in a perilous situation, with fewer emissaries, growing interest in our
programs, and increased local needs, we are making our existing resources go further.