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PADM-GP.2109
Legal Literacy: What Public Service Leaders Need to Know About the American Legal SystemPolicymaking in the United States often raises important legal issues. This course is primarily designed to help public service students understand the kinds of legal issues that can be raised in the context of policymaking as well as the key elements of …News
Takin' it to the Streets… Jr. once put it, or as Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg’s global environmental activism currently reflects. Read the …
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NYU Wagner Professor Robertson Work Facilitates UN Task Team Workshop… for the UN Task Team of Habitat III , the UN’s upcoming global conference on sustainable urban development. On April …
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NYU Wagner Student Jibreel Jalloh Selected as Obama Foundation Scholar… “The program provides a unique opportunity to connect with global leaders, deepen our impact, and, of course, meet …
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Fiscal Decentralization and Intergovernmental Relations in Developing Countries: Navigating a Viable Path to ReformThe trend toward greater decentralization of governance activities, now accepted as commonplace in the West, has become a worldwide movement. Today s world demands flexibility, adaptability, and the autonomy to bring those qualities to bear. In this …
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Understanding Segregation in the Year 2000… important to the nations long-term economic vitality and global competitiveness as a whole. Solutions to the …
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Twenty-Something: Down and Out in the Other America?… as the widening gap between rich and poor, downsizing, global competition, and technological change. These factors …
Capstone Projects
ANALYZING THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF AN URBAN REFORESTATION PROJECT… C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group is a global network of 97 mayors representing member cities that …
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OVERCOMING FINANCIAL CHALLENGES TO SUSTAIN STREET DATA INITIATIVESNumina is a startup founded in 2014 with the mission of empowering cities with data to become more responsive and equitable. Numina offers the only computer vision sensor solution purpose-built for streets—quantifying the granular behaviors of …
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Jerrold H. Abrahams… Professor Abrahams is a recipient of the Citigroup Global Customer Solutions Award in 1999 for his work on the …
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The Role of Economic and Social Councils in Participatory Governance… Social Affairs has been an institutional organizer of the Global Forum on Reinventing Government, which in 2007 will …
Capstone Projects
Community Connections Program Evaluation… of the Community Connections program, World Learning, a global nonprofit providing international educational …
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Workforce Health Programs in Africa: Lessons from the Corporate Council on Africa Network… workforces, and consisted of a literature review of global best practices in workforce health for developing …
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Impact evaluation for digital campaigningDigital campaigning organizations represent a new, potentially transformative, arena of political advocacy. Australia-based SumOfUs is a largely, but not exclusively, digital advocacy movement of consumers, workers, and shareholders working globally to …
Capstone Projects
Urban solutions to reducing carbon emissions through solid waste disposal… the current and impending effects of climate change on global cities. As RPA is completing its Fourth Regional Plan …
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The Political Economy of Local Infrastructure Planning in Developing Countries.Paul Smoke, Leonardo Romeo …
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Corruption in the Security and Defense Sector: Case Studies of Colombia and El Salvador… Transparency International (TI) is a global nonprofit organization that monitors and publicizes …
Capstone Projects
Developing a Performance Measurement and Management System… Girl Be Heard (GBH) is a nonprofit theatre company bringing global issues affecting girls to the center stage by …
Capstone Projects
Preparing for Congestion Pricing: Improved Access at Identified Subway Stations… the city’s central business district, using evidence from global examples to encourage modal shifts to mass transit. In …
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Enforcing food quality and safety standards in Brazil: The case of COBRACANAGlobalization of production has been complemented by increasingly stricter product quality and safety regulations. This trend is particularly acute in the food and beverage sectors, which puts enormous strain on producers from developing nations. This …
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CREATING A STRATEGIC PLAN TO INFORM THE CONSERVANCY'S VISION, GOALS, AND IMPLEMENTATIONThe Fort Greene Park Conservancy (Conservancy) partners with the City of New York and the NYC Parks Department to steward, fundraise, and advocate for Fort Greene Park. The flourishing Brooklyn neighborhood of Fort Greene and nearby developments have …
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Institute of Human Development and Social ChangeThe Institute of Human Development and Social Change (IHDSC) is a joint initiative of NYU Wagner; NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; the NYU Faculty of Arts and Science; and the NYU Office of the Provost. With a total …
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Trust in the U.S. Government and Its Health Agencies in the Time of COVID-19… health institutions. Public trust in institutions during a global pandemic is essential in influencing adherence to a …