13 research outputs found
Leveraging immigrant remittances for development
Some observers have suggested that one way to draw immigrants into the financial system is for banks to tap the large global remittance market. The authors of this article propose a model that would leverage remittances to both draw immigrants into the banking system as well promote economic development in immigrant communities in the United States and immigrants’ home countries.Emigrant remittances
Net Gains: A Handbook for Network Builders Seeking Social Change
This handbook provides the growing number of people who are developing networks for social change with practical advice based on the experiences of network builders, case studies of networks small and large, local and international, and emerging scientific knowledge about "connectivity." It is intended to join, complement, and spur other efforts to capture and make widely available what is being learned in the business, government, and civil sectors about why and how to use networks, rather than solitary organizations, to generate large-scale impact
More urgency, not less: The COVID-19 pandemic’s lessons for local climate leadership
This report is the first of three that will provide community leaders, inside and outside of local government, with guidance about navigating their climate action priorities through the gauntlet of challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic crisis. Each document, based on a synthesis of expertise and analysis of local climate action options and current research, will address a different topic: 1. Why local climate action needs more urgency, not less; 2. How the pandemic response creates opportunities and risks for local climate action, and how socially vulnerable populations can benefit from purposeful responses to the pandemic and climate change; and, 3. Which local climate actions should be a priority for federal funding
Climate of crisis: how cities can use climate action to close the equity gap, drive economic recovery, and improve public health
This report is the second of three that provides community leaders, inside and outside
of local government, with guidance about navigating their climate-action priorities
through the gauntlet of challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing
economic crisis. Each report, based on a synthesis of peer-reviewed research, expert
interviews, and the analysis of local climate action, address a different topic:
1. More Urgency, Not Less: The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Lessons for Local Climate
Leadership (Published June 2020)
2. Climate of Crisis: How Cities Can Use Climate Action to Close the Equity Gap,
Drive Economic Recovery, and Improve Public Health (Published September
2020)
3. A Survey of U.S. City Climate Leaders: The Prospects for Climate Action in the
COVID-19 Era (October 2020)
This work is supported by The Summit Foundation and The Grantham Foundation for
the Protection of the Environment
Memangkas birokrasi : lima strategi menuju pemerintahan wirausaha
ix, 328 p. : il.; 23 cm
Memangkas Birokrasi : Lima Strategi Menuju Pemerintahan Wirausaha
328 hlm. : - ; 24 cm