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Savings HorizonsJonathan Morduch, Rachel Schneider, Timothy Ogden, Anthony Hannagan, & Julie Siwicki …
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Emergency SavingsJonathan Morduch, Rachel Schneider, Timothy Ogden, Anthony Hannagan, & Julie Siwicki …
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Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a DayPortfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day (Princeton University Press, 2009) tackles the fundamental question of how the poor make ends meet. Over 250 families in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa participated in this unprecedented …
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Interview with Jonathan Morduch: On the Interpretation and Methodology of RCTs in Development EconomicsJonathan Morduch …
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Failure vs. Displacement: Why an Innovative Anti-Poverty Program Showed no Net Impact in South IndiaWe analyze a randomized trial of an innovative anti-poverty program in South India, part of a series of pilot programs that provide “ultra-poor” households with inputs to create new, sustainable livelihoods (often tending livestock). In contrast with …
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Housing for an Aging PopulationWe use the American Housing Survey to examine the distribution and occupancy of homes that have, or could be modified to have, accessibility features that allow seniors to successfully remain in the community as they age. Despite the aging population and …
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Updating the Toxic Substances Control Act to Protect Human HealthIncreasing evidence from laboratory and human studies shows that synthetic chemicals contribute to disease and dysfunction across the life course. Of particular emerging concern is the disruption of the hormonal process that has been found to be …
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Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers in Kenya: The Evolution of Revenue Sharing under New Devolution in a Quasi-Federal SystemJamie Boex, Paul Smoke …
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Promoting Resilience for Food, Energy and Water InterdependenciesR. Zimmerman, Q. Zhu and C. Dimitri …
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Trends in cesarean delivery rates in China, 2008-2018HT Li, S Hellerstein, YB Zhou, JM Liu, J Blustein …
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Civil Society Capacity for Public Action: Lessons for Leadership Development in Social Change Organizations. (Capacidad de la Sociedad Civil para la Acción Pública Local: Lecciones sobre el desarrollo de Liderazgos en Organizaciones para el Cambio Social)S. Ospina Bozzi …
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Voices and Experiences: The Management of Human Talent from the Inside Out in Colombian Public Organizations (Voces y Vivencias: La Gestión del Talento Humano Vista desde Adentro de las Organizaciones Públicas Colombianas)S. Ospina Bozzi and A. Hofmann-Pinilla …
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Race, Poverty, and Federal Rental Housing PolicyThe chapter examines HUD’s complex and, at times, contradictory goals of creating and preserving high-quality affordable rental housing, spurring community development, facilitating access to opportunity, combating racial discrimination, and furthering …
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Financial Management for Public, Health, and Not-for-Profit OrganizationsNow in its Fifth Edition, Financial Management for Public, Health, and Not-for-Profit Organizationsis the leading textbook on financial management in the government, health, and not-for-profit sectors providing a comprehensive yet practical introduction …
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Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting: Concepts and PracticesGranof, Michael H., Saleha B. Khumawala, Thad D. Calabrese, and Daniel L. Smith …
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Extreme events and climate adaptation-mitigation linkages: Understanding low-carbon transitions in the era of global urbanizationWilliam D. Solecki, Nancy Grimm, Peter Marcotullio, Christopher Boone, Jose Lobo, Andres Luque, Patricia Romero-Lankao, Andrea Young, Rae Zimmerman, Rebekah Breitzer, Corrie Griffith, Alexander …
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Green infrastructure financing as an imperative to achieve green goalsRae Zimmerman, Ryan Brenner, Jimena Llopis Abella …
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New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report Chapter 8: Indicators and MonitoringReginald Blake, Klaus Jacob, Gary Yohe, Rae Zimmerman, Danielle Manley, William D. Solecki, Cynthia Rosenzweig …
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Interdependent Infrastructure as Linked Social, Ecological, and Technological Systems (SETSs) to Address Lock-in and Enhance ResilienceSamuel A. Markolf, Mikhail V. Chester, Daniel A. Eisenberg, David M. Iwaniec, Cliff I. Davidson, Rae Zimmerman, Thaddeus Miller, Benjamin L. Ruddell, Heejun …
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COVID-19 and the Future of Microfinance: Evidence and Insights from PakistanThe COVID-19 pandemic threatens lives and livelihoods, and, with that, has created immediate challenges for institutions that serve affected communities. We focus on implications for local microfinance institutions in Pakistan, a country with a mature …
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Nonprofits as “Schools of Democracy”: A Comparative Case Study of Two Environmental OrganizationsThis article presents a comparative case study of two nonprofit organizations that do community organizing in the environmental field and asks how do nonprofits school citizens in democracy? Although the literature suggests the importance of social …
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Understanding leadership in a world of shared problems: Advancing network governance in large landscape conservationConservation of large landscapes requires three interconnected types of leadership: collaborative leadership, in which network members share leadership functions at different points in time; distributive leadership, in which network processes provide …
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A Cascade of Breakdowns: How Government Daydreams Become Nightmares, and How to Wake UpPaul C. Light …