Sentences with phrase «global development finds»

A recent report by the Center for Global Development finds that 60 million more Africans would gain electricity if the same $ 10 billion were invested in natural gas and not just renewables like solar.

A new paper from the Center for Global Development finds that from the early 1990s to 2010, the H - 1B visa program resulted in net gains for the United States and India.

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Confident, articulate and extremely well - connected, Kennedy - Glans has experience in industry (she was Nexen Inc.'s first female executive vice-president), philanthropy (she founded Bridges Social Development), and corporate social responsibility (she's advised global energy operators on the non-technical risks of their projects).

Here in our Outlook 2011 special report you'll find insight into what some say is a forming dot - com bubble, what austerity means for global economic development, some RRSP advice, an investigation into the fuss over gold and more.

She is an Australia Day Ambassador for Western Australia, sits on the Board of Directors of the Museum of Freedom and Tolerance Western Australia, and is the Founding Director of the Whande Group, a premier diversity consultancy and program development organisation specialising in global diversity.

Mark Lloyd, Professor of Communication, University of Southern California — Annenberg School Luther Lowe, VP of Public Policy, Yelp Nancy Lublin, Founder / CEO, Crisis Text Line Kanyi Maqubela, Partner, Collaborative Fund Jonathan Matus, Founder / CEO, Zendrive Josh McFarland, Vice President of Product, Twitter Andrew McLaughlin, Head of New Business, Medium; Venture Partner, betaworks Shishir Mehrotra, Entrepreneur & former VP of Product & Engineering, YouTube Apoorva Mehta, Founder / CEO, Instacart Doug Merritt, CEO, Splunk Dinesh Moorjani, Founder / CEO, Hatch Labs; Co-Founder, Tinder Brit Morin, Founder / CEO, Brit + Co Dave Morin, Entrepreneur; Partner, Slow Ventures Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Asana; Co-Founder, Facebook Amanda Moskowitz, Founder / CEO, Stacklist Alex Nogales, President / CEO, National Hispanic Media Coalition Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder, Reddit Mike Olson, Founder / Chairman / CSO, Cloudera Pierre Omidyar, Founder, eBay Felix W. Ortiz III, Founder / Chairman / CEO, Viridis; Board Member of The NYC Technology Development Corporation Jen Pahlka, Founder / Executive Director, Code for America Barney Pell, Founder Powerset, MoonExpress, Locomobi; Founding Trustee, Singularity University Mark Pincus, Executive Chairman and Founder, Zynga Shervin Pishevar, Co - Founder / Managing Director, Sherpa Capital and Co - Founder / Executive Chairman of Hyperloop One Brandon Pollack, Director of Global Affairs, 1776 Amy Rao, Founder / CEO, Integrated Archive Systems, Inc..

Founding members and guest columnist provide timely insights on the state of the economy; commercial, residential, and retail development; evolving demographics; wealth management considerations; government policies; lifestyle trends and international interests that are reshaping our skyline into a global city on the rise.

Since founding the firm, she has spoken on blockchain technology at many global conferences, including the Milken Global Institute, Dutch Development Bank / FMO annual meeting, and The Economist Buttonwood Gathglobal conferences, including the Milken Global Institute, Dutch Development Bank / FMO annual meeting, and The Economist Buttonwood GathGlobal Institute, Dutch Development Bank / FMO annual meeting, and The Economist Buttonwood Gathering.

Entrepreneurs, specially the young ones, are found to be obsessed with their business idea and stay focused more on product development instead of evaluating global opportunity and sizing up the market.

A new Angus Reid Institute study finds that, while Canadians say they would like to do more for global development, just over one - quarter of them (28 %) believe their country should spend more than it currently does.

Using these and other claim suggestions, Innova Market Insights found that new product development — emphasizing a specific weight management platform — experienced significant growth in 2015 from 2014, with a +33 % increase in global product launch activity.

Kitchen Fund was founded in partnership with Fransmart, the leading global franchise development firm behind the explosive growth of brands like Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Qdoba, and The Halal Guys, and responsible for opening more than 5,000 restaurants worldwide.

This finding underscoring the need for a comprehensive approach is supportive of the approach called for by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund in the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding, and by the United States Agency for International Development in its breastfeeding policy.

This is why foreign observers should find the recent developments within the Italian PD of great interest and with potential global significance.

«Our agencies in charge of educational development must find a way of encouraging our youth to aspire learning in the country's institutions but as well attract foreign students and researchers so that our global ranking of universities can soar,» Buhari said.

#GivingTuesday is an initiative founded by the United Nations in 2012 as a global way of engendering and celebrating philanthropy and is observed worldwide, supported by business, political and social leaders who jointly champion fund - raising for community development.

«Our findings will inform the development of global population - level interventions to reduce stroke, and how such programs may be tailored to individual regions,» said Yusuf, a professor of medicine of McMaster's Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine and director of the PHRI.

Next time you call an Uber, you probably won't find Rik Williams, 2015 - 16 Executive Branch Fellow in the Global Development Lab of the U.S. Agency for International Development, at the wheel.

The Joep Lange Institute was formally announced on Wednesday, along with a new, rotating chair and fellowship program at the Academic Medical Center, where Lange was a professor and founded the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development.

Despite the African Union's priorities of poverty alleviation, inclusive growth and sustainable development, especially in the context of global climate change, the report finds that the continent is greatly undervaluing its natural resources.

«The discovery of an alternative binding site and the AAPs represents a significant step towards the identification of a novel RNAP inhibitor that would behave like rifampin but be devoid of any pre-existing resistance,» said Nader Fotouhi, Chief Scientific Officer at the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, a not - for - profit organization dedicated to finding faster - acting and affordable drug regimens to fight drug sensitive and resistant tuberculosis.

«Our research found that illegal cigarettes are regularly available over the counter in New York City,» said study author Diana Silver, associate professor of public health at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and College of Global Public Health.

Assuming that for the period 2015 - 2030 the goals will serve as a turbo boost for development, it finds that achieving the SDGs would lead to global population peaking by 2060, and declining to between 8.2 and 8.7 billion by 2100.

By connecting plant science organizations, we are bringing together all those involved in plant and crop research, education and training, to harness the wealth of knowledge and expertise found within our membership base to strengthen and facilitate the development of plant science for global challenges.

In June 2017, Drucza presented the findings of her meta - analysis of evaluations of gender in Ethiopian agricultural development at a senior staff meeting of the Ethiopia office of CARE, the global humanitarian organization.

Prior to founding Pappas Capital, Art held senior level leadership positions at several multinational pharmaceutical companies for which he was responsible for the development, licensing and launch of a number of global products.

Centre for Jatropha Promotion & Biodiesel (CJP) is the Global authority for scientific commercialization of Jatropha & other non-food biofuel crops and designs and implements the growing of non-food biofuel crops worldwide in a structured Agri - Supply chain, Value additions and research activities thereon & provides technology and services from «Soil to Oil» for the breeding, development, planting and harvesting of next - generation commercial biofuel crops CJP has been engaged in promoting sustainable farming for biodiesel production since last one decade and its research findings and on - hand field experiences in respect of various technical, agronomical / silvicultural aspects of plantations of Jatropha have resulted in significant improvements in knowledge and technical background related to Productivity, profitability and sustainability of commercial production of Jatropha oil crop.

He is the founding director of the International Education Policy Master's Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a program focused on the development of innovative leaders committed to expanding global educational opportunity.

With recent figures from The Prince's Trust showing that 31 % of teachers consider the development of soft skills more important than achieving good grades, teaching specialists TeachingAbroadDirect.co.uk analysed findings from global education technology company Promethean World, who surveyed over 1,600 educators from across the UK to see if teachers believe technology has hindered the ability for students to learn and acquire soft skills.

The web publication on global development communicates this empirical knowledge through interactive data visualisations (charts and maps) and by presenting the research findings on development that explain what drives the changes that we observe and what the consequences of these changes are.

She has since led the organization through extensive growth and expansion — reaching more than 250,000 students and 2,000 educators from three offices nationwide since founding — and expanded programs to include global project based learning, arts and media integration, professional development and international exchange and service learning.

Organizations such as Room to Read, a global non profit founded in 1999 by John Wood and currently operating in ten countries in Asia and Africa which has impacted millions of children by providing school libraries and professional development to teachers.

Marc Niemes is Director of Market Development for PulseLearning Australasia along with founding president of eLearning Industry Association and global eLearning research organization ThinQdigital.org.

In 2013, Research Schools International (RSI) led by individual faculty from Harvard University's Graduate School of Education (HGSE) invited St. Andrew's to become the eighth school in the world to join its global network of schools in the United States, Europe, Australia and South America that conducts cutting - edge research, leads professional development and disseminates research findings to the global educational community.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is the global leader in developing and delivering innovative programs, products, and services that empower educators to support the success of each learner.

Founded in 2002, CeLEA is proud to have played a role in the growth and development of Canada's national elearning industry organization over the past decade, and we salute the many commercial companies and elearning organizations across Canada who have established a global reputation for innovative elearning solutions and products.

I generally find issues of poverty, opportunity, and global development to be over-theorized and under - reported.

The curriculum concentrates on: best practices in business and management; understanding and utilizing the latest advances in technology; implementing innovative strategies for discoverability, audience development, and brand extension; ways to increase revenue in a global economy in which print and digital publishing co-exist profitably; managing organizational change and finding new sources of revenue.

In addition, attendees meet to discuss business deals, learn about global trends and developments in publishing, find service providers, discovery the latest in publishing technology, and grow their professional networks.

The research, by Employment and Social Development Canada, found that since the 2008 - 2009 global financial crisis, any average differences in the two countries» absolute wage levels have largely disappeared.

To find out the answers, we recently had the special opportunity to interview Gary Morsches, managing director of global energy at the CME Group, Nicholas Kennedy, head of business development of commodity derivatives at NYSE Liffe and Mike Davis, director of market development for ICE Futures Europe.

Founded in February of 2000, NuWave Investment Management, LLC specializes in the development of quantitative trading strategies and their systematic application to global financial and commodity markets.

«We continue to find attractive values in the global health care sector where demographics, accelerating emerging market health care spending, refocused research and development efforts, and cost cutting opportunities support long - term earnings against well - known pressures, which is not reflected in depressed valuations.

Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, with offices in Orlando, Florida, the North American Veterinary Community (NAVC) is a non-profit organization providing world - class professional development to the global veterinary healthcare community.

About the NAVC Founded in 1982, the North American Veterinary Community (NAVC) is a non-profit organization providing world - class professional development to the global veterinary healthcare community.

Founded in 1982, the North American Veterinary Community (NAVC) is a non-profit organization providing world - class professional development to the global veterinary healthcare community.

The Travel Corporation Canada has secured a prestigious World Travel Market Global Award in recognition of the work undertaken by The Conservation Foundation which it founded to support both existing conservation organisations and encourage the sustainable development of tourism.

I joined in September 2016 to help organize business development, seek new business opportunities and to find a global publisher, interested in supporting Serial Cleaner.

Her Majesty's SPIFFING ($ 18.49) In the wake of political developments during the summer of 2016 and the events that followed, Britain found itself increasingly isolated from global society.

The previous generation was a rough one for Japanese third party publishers; faced with the triple onslaught of an en masse migration of Japanese audiences mobile devices, the struggles of HD development, and the rise of western development for consoles, Japanese developers found themselves hopelessly outmatched as they tried to keep up, ultimately mostly disappointing long time fans due to misguided games and entries in long running series that were made with some attempt to appeal to a larger, global audience.