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Are Massive Open Online Courses Massive Opportunity or Massive Hype?

Join us for an in-depth analysis of these questions and the overall educational impact of Massive Open Online Courses on the developing world during the MOOC Educational Technology Debate. Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and many more top name universities are launching Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to hundreds, and hundred of thousands of students. Often prompted by entrepreneurial professors and private companies, the race is on to open up higher education to the online masses more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 23, 2013

Did the Kenyan Elections Really Need 3 Maps, 7 Phone Numbers, and Several Web Forms?

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We all knew it. We saw this coming in Haiti and talked about it in Egypt, when 5 Ushahidi maps popped out the day before the elections. But the Kenyan elections are somehow different, and the reason why they are, is that the possible outcome is indeed a civil unrest that could bring the country years back to 2007.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 23, 2013

Government Services 2013: Indigenous Compendium

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This report was released on 19 April 2013. It was produced by the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision (SCRGSP). It contains all Indigenous data reported in the Report on Government Services 2013

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Moushumi Biswas on April 23, 2013

Improving outcomes and supporting transparency

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The new Public Health Outcomes Framework is in three parts. Part 1 – this document – introduces the overarching vision for public health, the outcomes we want to achieve and the indicators that will help us understand how well we are improving and protecting health. Part 2 specifies all the technical details we can currently supply for each public health indicator and indicates where we will conduct further work to fully specify all indicators. Part 3 consists of the impact assessment and more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 23, 2013

Government Defence Anti- Corruption Index 2013

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This Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index is the first ever review of corruption risk and corruption vulnerability in Defence Ministries and Armed Forces. It offers governments, armed forces, civil society organizations, and citizens detailed knowledge and understanding of the corruption risks in their national defence and security establishments.

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Sonia Hossain on April 23, 2013

Government Transparency: 20th Africa Partnership Forum Meeting 2013

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Transparency in government matters in all countries at all levels of development. It affects the decisions taken by governments, the degree to which they can be held accountable for these, and economic, social and environmental outcomes. Recent international initiatives have sought to increase transparency in government in areas such as budgetary processes, public service delivery, access to information, oversight activities and institutions and citizen participation. Alongside their own broad more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 23, 2013

Remittances, Banking Sector Development and Economic Growth in Fiji

This study examines the role of remittances and economic growth in banking sector development in Fiji using annual data from 1980-2010. This study finds evidence of long run relationship between banking sector development, remittances and economic growth using bounds testing procedure developed by Pesaran et al. (2001). In addition, our causality analysis based on vector error correction model (VECM) and Toda Yamamoto Granger Non Causality test (1995) suggest that there is causality from more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 23, 2013

The Stabilizing Role of Remittances, Foreign Aid and FDI to Pakistan

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Remittances inflows to Pakistan are being increasingly viewed as a relatively attractive source of external finance, one that can help to foster development and manage economic shocks. Remittances have become a major source of revenue, surpassing the volume of FDI and official development assistance to the country. The study focuses primarily on the stability,cyclicality and stabilization impacts of migrant remittances to Pakistan.The authors find evidence that foreign inflows exhibit more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 23, 2013

Philippine Agriculture Depertment Boosta Transparency With Open Data Protal

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As support to President Aquino’s call for transparency, the Department of Agriculturelaunched its open data portal called DAAN (Department of Agriculture Accountability Network) website which aims to promote public awareness of its community-focused projects and activities nationwide.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 23, 2013

Linkages between Income Inequality, International Remittances and Economic Growth in Pakistan

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This paper explores the dynamic linkages between income inequality, international remittances and economic growth using time series data over the period of 1976-2006 in case of Pakistan. The cointegration analysis based on the bounds test confirms the existence of a long-run relationship between income inequality, international remittances and economic growth.The results reveal that income inequality and international remittances enhance economic growth. The causality analysis based on more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 23, 2013

Entrepreneurship Education in the Arab States

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UNESCO in conjunction with StartReal Foundation published the regional synthesis report on Component II of the regional project on entrepreneurship education in the Arab States. StartReal is an NGO which signed a partnership agreement with UNESCO on 12 December 2008, to cooperate in the field of Entrepreneurship Education in the Arab States Region. According to UNESCO “The regional synthesis report on Component II of the initiative highlights the results and more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 23, 2013

The Dynamic Effect of Social and Political Instability on Output: The Role of Reforms

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Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Arakan State

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The 153-page report, “‘All You Can Do is Pray’: Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Arakan State,” describes the role of the Burmese government and local authorities in the forcible displacement of more than 125,000 Rohingya and other Muslims and the ongoing humanitarian crisis. Burmese officials, community leaders, and Buddhist monks organized and encouraged ethnic Arakanese backed by state security forces to conduct coordinated attacks on Muslim more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 22, 2013

Children on the Move

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This publication targets policymakers and practitioners in the field of migration and child protection, along with academics and activists, and sheds light on the situation of migrant children. The publication is the result of a collective effort by a number of specialists from different organizations, was edited by Mike Dottridge (an independent child rights specialist) and includes a foreword by Professor François Crépeau (United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants).

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Moushumi Biswas on April 22, 2013

Iraq 10 years on: The humanitarian legacy

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Paul Wolfowitz, who served as the US Deputy Secretary of Defence between 2001 and 2005, wrote the same day in Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that given the hardships under Hussein, "it is remarkable that Iraq has done as well as it has thus far." Others are more circumspect in evaluating these gains, looking to the 1980s - under Hussein's rule - as a time when Iraqi society was much further ahead. "By all measures and standards, there has been a deterioration in the quality of life of Iraqis as more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 22, 2013

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