Improving Global Financial Stability - Executive Summary

Executive summary of "Improving Global Financial Stability" report. Includes findings and recommendations in brief

Reducing Global Poverty: Encouraging Private Investment in Infrastructure - Executive Summary

Executive summary of "Reducing Global Encouraging Private Investment in Infrastructure" report. Includes findings and recommendations in brief

Building on Reform: A Business Proposal to Strengthen Campaign Finance - Executive Summary

Executive summary of "Building on Reform: A Business Proposal to Strengthen Campaign Finance" report. Includes findings and recommendations in brief

A New Tax Framework: A Blueprint for Averting a Fiscal Crisis - Executive Summary

Executive summary of "A New Tax Framework: A Blueprint for Averting a Fiscal Crisis" report. Includes findings and recommendations in brief

Private Enterprise, Public Trust: The State of Corporate America After Sarbanes-Oxley - Executive Summary

Executive summary of "Private Enterprise, Public Trust: The State of Corporate America After Sarbanes-Oxley" report. Includes findings and recommendations in brief

The Economic Benefits of High-Quality Early Childhood Programs: What Makes the Difference? - Executive Summary

Executive summary of "The Economic Benefits of High-Quality Early Childhood Programs: What Makes the Difference?" report. Includes findings and recommendations in brief

Education for Global Leadership: The Importance of International Studies and Foreign Language Education for U.S. Economic and National Security - Executive Summary

Executive summary of "Education for Global Leadership: The Importance of International Studies and Foreign Language Education for U.S. Economic and National Security" report. Includes findings and recommendations in brief

International Consensus Statement on Allergy and Rhinology: Rhinosinusitis

BACKGROUND: The body of knowledge regarding rhinosinusitis (RS) continues to expand, with rapid growth in number of publications yet substantial variability in the quality of those presentations. In an effort to both consolidate and critically appraise this information, rhinologic experts from around the world have produced the International Consensus Statement on Allergy and Rhinology: Rhinosinusitis (ICAR:RS). This executive summary consolidates the findings of the ICAR:RS document. METHODS: ICAR:RS presents over 140 topics in the forms of evidence-based reviews with recommendations (EBRRs) and evidence-based reviews (EBR). The structured recommendations of the EBRR sections are summarized in this executive summary. RESULTS: This summary compiles the EBRRs regarding medical and surgical management of acute RS (ARS) and chronic RS with and without nasal polyps (CRSwNP and CRSsNP). CONCLUSION: This ICAR:RS Executive Summary provides a compilation of the evidence-based recommendations for medical and surgical treatment of the most common forms of RS

Plan's CCCD approach - Country study PLAN-Kenya

The field study for Kenya, a part of the strategic formative evaluation on CCCD, was carried out August 16-23, 2009. This country study aimed at studying CCCD as an approach for development and how it was applied by Plan Kenya. The executive summary covers the main findings and recommendations of the field study in Kenya. Detailed findings and recommendations concerning Plan Kenya are described in this report. Findings and recommendations when relevant are incorporated in the synthesis report: Strategic Evaluation Study on CCCD for Plan NLNO. After the introduction the report starts with an overview on the country context and Plan Kenya. The third chapter presents how Plan staff and partners view CCCD, fourth chapter is on how CCCD works in practice, chapter 5 looks in more detail on partnerships. The report ends with a summary of the findings and recommendations. CCCD was introduced in Kenya in 2004. Programmes undertaken by Plan Kenya do take child centredness and community development as their main point of departure

A critical review of the life sciences project management at Ames Research Center for the Spacelab Mission development test 3

A management study was initiated by ARC (Ames Research Center) to specify Spacelab Mission Development Test 3 activities and problems. This report documents the problems encountered and provides conclusions and recommendations to project management for current and future ARC life sciences projects. An executive summary of the conclusions and recommendations is provided. The report also addresses broader issues relevant to the conduct of future scientific missions under the constraints imposed by the space environment