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The UNDP, Regional Bureau for Arab States (RBAS) launched POGAR in early 2000. POGAR was developed at the request of Arab governments, and therefore specifically addresses national needs and concerns. POGAR is dedicated to the promotion and development of good governance practices and related reforms in the Arab states; it works in partnership with key governance institutions including legislatures, judiciaries, and civil society organizations to identify needs and solutions. POGAR's activities, which include providing policy advice, engaging in institutional capacity building, and testing policy options through pilot projects, revolve around three main concepts: 1. Participation 2. Rule of Law 3. Transparency and Accountability. The website's objective is to provide resources and information on governance reform in the Arab states, including general and country-specific essays on the themes pertaining to each concept and regularly updated.
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On October 2, 2008, Dean Glenn Hubbard, Senior Vice Dean Chris Mayer, and Professors Bruce Greenwald and Pierre Collin-Dufresne discussed the banking crisis and responded to questions from MBA students at Columbia Business School. The panelists addressed the turmoil among financial institutions, the government's efforts to agree upon a bailout strategy and the potential effects of the crisis on the U.S. and global economies.
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The bear is back. That's what all too many Russia-watchers have been saying since Russian troops steamrolled Georgia in August, warning that the country's strongman, Vladimir Putin, was clawing his way back toward superpower status. The new Russia's resurgence has been fueled — quite literally — by windfall profits from gas and oil, a big jump in defense spending and the cocky attitude on such display during the mauling of Georgia, its U.S.-backed neighbor to the south. Many now believe that the powerful Russian bear of the Cold War years is coming out of hibernation. Not so fast. Predictions that Russia will again become powerful, rich and influential ignore some simply devastating problems at home that block any march to power. Sure, Russia's army could take tiny Georgia.
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Alex Blumberg and NPR's Adam Davidson—the two guys who reported our Giant Pool of Money episode—are back, in collaboration with the Planet Money podcast. They'll explain what happened this week, including what regulators could've done to prevent this financial crisis from happening in the first place. You can learn more about the daily ins and outs and join the discussion on the Planet Money blog.
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A special program about the housing crisis produced in a special collaboration with NPR News. We explain it all to you. What does the housing crisis have to do with the turmoil on Wall Street? Why did banks make half-million dollar loans to people without jobs or income? And why is everyone talking so much about the 1930s? It all comes back to the Giant Pool of Money.
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Producers of the long-running Chicago Public Radio program This American Life announced Monday that they have completed their comprehensive 12-year survey of life as a modern upper-middle-class American. Ira Glass compares completing the series to finding out he is a relative of composer Philip Glass. In what cultural anthropologists are calling a "colossal achievement" in the study of white-collar professionals, the popular radio show has successfully isolated all 7,442 known characteristics of college graduates who earn between $62,500 and $125,000 per year and feel strongly that something should be done about global warming. "We've done it," said senior producer Julie Snyder, who was personally interviewed for a 2003 This American Life episode, "Going Eclectic," in which she described what it's like to be a bilingual member of the ACLU trained in kite-making by a Japanese stepfather. "There is not a single existential crisis…
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Our screener allows you to rank 500 major American public companies according to five criteria. Link to it, cite it, play with it, suggest new criteria—and tell us what you think. What some people call "socially responsible investing" is one of the most fascinating—and explosive—investment phenomena of our era. It has quickly gone from a fringe concern to a mainstream movement, from $12 billion of assets in SRI mutual funds in 1995 to more than $200 billion today. And ethical corporate behavior is not merely an investor's concern; today’s consumers and job hunters also crave detailed information about how companies do business. At The Big Money, we don’t advocate any particular investment strategy, but we do believe in informing our readers. Our SRI stock screener allows readers to rank 500 major American public companies according to five criteria, separately or in any combination, as well as to get the ratings for each company. (Just scroll over the company name.)
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Welcome to LitSite Alaska, a Web community and story archive promoting literacy, cultural diversity and well-being throughout Alaska. LitSite Alaska is a gathering place for families , teachers and community members to share their stories and to inspire readers and writers everywhere. The narratives on LitSite Alaska illustrate many aspects of life in Alaska. The Digital Archives Partnership is a collaboration between LitSite Alaska and the Alaska's Digital Archives. Alaska's Digital Archives present a wealth of historical photographs, albums, oral histories, moving images, maps, documents, physical objects, and other materials from libraries, museums and archives throughout our state.
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America's Congress is not used to being second-guessed. But as lawmakers wrestled in the Capitol, world stockmarkets have been giving real-time odds on the Bush administration’s $700 billion bail-out becoming law. After the plan’s thrashing by the House of Representatives on September 29th, spurred on by voters’ loathing of “casino capitalism”, investors panicked. Yet as The Economist went to press, they were optimistic that, after winning the Senate’s approval on October 1st, the plan would pass. Even if it does, that should not be a cause for optimism. Look beyond the stockmarkets, especially at the seized-up money markets, and there is little to see except bank failures, emergency rescues and high anxiety in the credit markets. These forces are drawing the financial system closer to disaster and the rich world to the edge of a nasty recession (see article). The bail-out package should mitigate the problems, but it will not avert them.
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Colorado is lovely in the fall. But by all rights, it shouldn't be on a Democratic presidential candidate's travel schedule once October rolls around. In the past 40 years, only one Democrat has claimed the state's electoral votes. Democrats trail both Republicans and independents in party registration. Outside of Birkenstock-and-muesli enclaves like Boulder, Colorado is still culturally a frontier state. Yet with Election Day about a month away, the battle for Colorado is fiercer than the annual Buffaloes vs. Rams college-football showdown. Barack Obama recently passed through on his ninth visit, while John McCain has made 10 stops of his own. Sarah Palin swung through twice in just her first two weeks on the GOP ticket. And Coloradans can't turn on Dancing with the Stars without seeing the campaigns' dueling ads on energy and the economy.
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AAPLAC promotes study abroad in Latin America and the Caribbean by providing a forum for discussion and information sharing among study abroad advisors, program directors and faculty committed to helping students make the most of their study abroad experiences.
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Global economic trends, an increasingly competitive environment, and mounting social challenges and opportunities are spawning interest in social enterprise as a strategy for addressing some of our most pressing problems. Social enterprise describes any non-profit, for-profit or hybrid corporate form that utilizes market-based strategies to advance a social mission.