Solutions for Financial Inclusion: Serving Rural Women

This document presents a CaseStudy for solutions for financial inclusion. Using Uganda as a CaseStudy, Women's World Banking set out to better understand the needs of rural women and to use the research and lessons learned there to make recommendations on the design and delivery of microfinance products within Uganda and throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The research highlights the specific gender-based social, cultural and legal barriers that rural women face in accessing and using financial services and examines operational challenges to effectively serving this market

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MANAGING TRANSACTION EXPOSURE

In the period of crisis the volatility of foreign exchange is one of most importantelements to be consider in the risk management strategy at corporate level .The paper will focus onthe main types of foreign exchange exposure, the role of hedging in managing the currency risk andthe measurement of transaction exposure. The risk management in practice is illustrated by a casestudy designed to capture and contrast the effects of different types of options for hedging thetransaction exposure.foreign exchange exposure, currency risk, hedging.

Local strategic networks and policies in European ICT clusters - the cases of Amsterdam, Bari, Dublin and Oulu

Regional interfirm networks are believed to be a vehicle for innovation and regional economic growth. From this perspective, local and regional governments are increasingly trying to promote these types of networks. This article discusses the relation between strategic networks and local development. It focuses on the role of local institutions that support strategic networking in ICT clusters in a number of European cities. It also discusses and analyses the way local and national governments try to influence local strategic networks in this sector. Our case studies are Amsterdam, Bari, Dublin, and Oulu.strategic networks policies ICT cluster casestudy Amsterdam Bari Dublin Oulu

A framework model for a contextualized and integrated warfarin therapy case in a master of pharmacy program

© Copyright 2019 American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education.Objective. To develop and integrate a case study on warfarin into a clinical pharmacy workshop. Methods. A framework model was designed and used to create a case study on warfarin therapy. The case study was implemented in a third-year Master of Pharmacy course. Student feedback was obtained using an online questionnaire and two focus groups. Results. All students agreed that the case study successfully integrated the science of warfarin and concepts of pharmacy practice. The majority of students (94%) agreed that this approach helped them to understand the science of warfarin more than a traditional lecture would have. Students felt the time allocated to the workshop was too short. Conclusion. An integrated case study provides a learning environment that emphasizes the contextualization of chemistry and pharmacology into a clinical pharmacy setting.Peer reviewedFinal Published versio

Clone Detection and Elimination for Haskell

Duplicated code is a well known problem in software maintenance and refactoring. Code clones tend to increase program size and several studies have shown that duplicated code makes maintenance and code understanding more complex and time consuming. This paper presents a new technique for the detection and removal of duplicated Haskell code. The system is implemented within the refactoring framework of the Haskell Refactorer (HaRe), and uses an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) based approach. Detection of duplicate code is automatic, while elimination is semi-automatic, with the user managing the clone removal. After presenting the system, an example is given to show how it works in practice

Landscape Urban Structure Design - S. Romão Sportive Park, Leiria Polis, Portugal

It is due to the modern movement the loss of both landscape and open spaces multifunctionality. Consequently, it merges the term of “green spaces” amorphous and residual, often void and without any appropriation, so characteristic of the contemporary city. This study is a reflexion about and a practice result of the return to these spaces multifunctionality through a landscape structure on the urban space. We want this structure to be continuous, structuring and assuring biologic processes and fluxes that occur in the landscape systems. We present the casestudy of S. Romão Sportive Park included in Polis Program of Leiria City, in Portugal. It is a system of open spaces that constitutes itself as a landscape structure, continuous and multifunctional

Analyzing the performance of third party implementation arrangements a casestudy of private business counters asone-stop-shops: a casestudy of private business counters as one-stop-shops

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the performance of third party implementation arrangements as a specific new mode of governance (Schuppert, 2011). Third party governance is the extension of the state or jurisdiction by contracts or grants to third parties (Frederickson, 2004). To assess the performance of these arrangements, we will make use of the conceptual framework for assessing the performance of policy networks (Voets, Van Dooren & De Rynck, 2008; Voets, De Rynck & Van Dooren, 2010). The framework is composed of three dimensions: product performance, process performance and regime performance. Each dimension consists of multiple components or criteria and cost factors. Empirical data were gathered by means of a single case study. The case concerns the cooperation between private “business counters” that function as one-stop-shops for starting businesses and the Belgian federal government that contracted out a number of public processes towards these “business counters” (see Vander Elst & De Rynck, 2011). Application of the framework leads to the following research questions: •Product performance: does the policy network (or the arrangement being studied) meets its objectives in terms of an increasing service delivery effectiveness? What is the cost per unit of outcome? •Process performance: has the arrangement obtained formal and informal legitimacy? Does the policy network gives accountability to its members, the community and its parent organizations? Is the policy network being held accountable for the network activities? Is there accordance in terms of issues offered for consent, mechanisms to give consent and status of consent? What is the time or money invested to ensure certain levels of legitimacy, accountability and/or accordance? •Regime performance: how does the number of members affect the performance of the policy network? To which degree has the network achieved in acquiring an institutional position? What is the quality of the relationships between the actors involved in the policy network? What are the costs linked to ensuring regime performance? The second objective of our paper is to consider the value of the theoretical model by determining its surplus to empirical analyze third party implementation arrangements and the correctness of its use of underlying assumptions and building blocks: a multidimensional performance concept, a multi-level performance concept and multiple levels of assessment. Assessing the performance of third party implementation arrangements is both useful from an academic point of view as from a practical perspective because the increase in government contracting over the past several decades presents additional challenges to accountable, representative government (Cohen & Eimicke, 2011) and because the amount of evaluative research about the performance of specific governance arrangements remains limited (Klijn, 2008)

Stakeholder integratie: Werken aan wederzijds versterkende relaties

Dit onderzoek gaat in op de centrale stelling van de instrumentele stakeholdertheorie. Deze houdt in dat bedrijven die een hechte band ontwikkelen met hun belangengroepen, een concurrentievoordeel hebben ten opzichte van bedrijven die een dergelijke band niet hebben ontwikkeld. Een casestudy van d