Impact International

Author : Robert McLean,John Gargani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429886386

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Scaling Impact by Robert McLean,John Gargani Pdf

Scaling Impact introduces a new and practical approach to scaling the positive impacts of research and innovation. Inspired by leading scientific and entrepreneurial innovators from across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East, this book presents a synthesis of unrivalled diversity and grounded ingenuity. The result is a different perspective on how to achieve impact that matters, and an important challenge to the predominant more-is-better paradigm of scaling. For organisations and individuals working to change the world for the better, scaling impact is a common goal and a well-founded aim. The world is changing rapidly, and seemingly intractable problems like environmental degradation or accelerating inequality press us to do better for each other and our environment as a global community. Challenges like these appear to demand a significant scale of action, and here the authors argue that a more creative and critical approach to scaling is both possible and essential. To encourage uptake and co-development, the authors present actionable principles that can help organisations and innovators design, manage, and evaluate scaling strategies. Scaling Impact is essential reading for development and innovation practitioners and professionals, but also for researchers, students, evaluators, and policymakers with a desire to spark meaningful change.

Author : Adam Richards,Jeremy Nicholls
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789739312

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Generation Impact by Adam Richards,Jeremy Nicholls Pdf

Generation Impact fills a significant gap in the impact accounting literature about how ambitions, pressures, and misgivings can be addressed, dealt with, and harnessed into forward-looking programmes for the creation, measurement, and management in social accounting.

Author : Shaheeza Lalani,Steven G. Shapiro
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004514836

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The Impact of Covid on International Disputes by Shaheeza Lalani,Steven G. Shapiro Pdf

The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. With little warning, COVID-19 quickly escalated into a generational crisis, creating sustained havoc seen perhaps only in past cases of war, attack, and natural disasters. In the bedlam of the early months, health, science, political, and economic communities were hit with sudden force, required to quickly shift and rearrange the normal order of work. In arbitration, leaders took imperfect information to make dramatic decisions. In process and procedure, arbitral institutions, arbitrators, legal counsel, and clients were swept into this turmoil. In some cases, bold initiatives, still in design and testing, were quickly put into service, upsetting norms and traditions and the very notions of traditional process. The Impact of COVID on International Disputes includes contributions from legal practitioners and academics, takes a fresh look at issues addressed in international arbitration during the COVID-19 pandemic, gathering best practices, additional perspective and predictions based on current practices that will help parties, legal counsel and arbitrators in the future.

Author : James Gow,Henry Redwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000170955

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Impact in International Affairs by James Gow,Henry Redwood Pdf

This book examines how and to what extent academic research in politics and international studies has had 'impact' — in doing so, it also considers what might characterise ‘world-leading’ research impact. International Relations was always meant to have impact – it was intended to make a difference in the world, when the subject was formally founded to understand and prevent war in 1919. This volume addresses the concept of ‘impact’ and offers a typology of the term — instrumental, conceptual, capacity building and procedural. The authors examine 111 impact case studies in the UK Research Excellence Framework (2014) that were classified as having achieved the highest level of evaluation, and they identify eight characteristics that mark ‘world-leading’ impact. The book concludes that process and public and media engagement are previously underestimated aspects of impact in official approaches. It further demonstrates that achieving the top levels of impact in international relations is possible, but that factors such as the nature of the subject, the approach of researchers and mean-spiritedness in the peer review process inhibited this. This book will be of much interest to students of politics and international studies, as well as educational research and policy makers, and anyone interested in, or working on, research impact.

Author : Lira Sagynbekova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319269917

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The Impact of International Migration by Lira Sagynbekova Pdf

This book comprises the historical overview of migration processes in Kyrgyzstan, contemporary migration trends in international migration and various social, economic and political impacts of migration. It presents the findings of longstanding, in-depth, comprehensive and empirical research. Insights are maximized by applying the multi-sited strategy of analyzing both the migrant's place of origin and that of destination. The primary goal of the book is to contribute to a better understanding of the meanings and the impacts of contemporary international migration processes in Kyrgyzstan and their relevance for local livelihoods.

Author : H. A. Becker,Frank Vanclay
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1843768615

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The International Handbook of Social Impact Assessment by H. A. Becker,Frank Vanclay Pdf

'This book provides a valuable addition to the Social Impact Assessment (SIA) literature. While the volume addresses several good examples of "how to" case studies it also firmly addresses the importance of the need for firm conceptual and theoretical guidelines for SIA practice. . . the volume is an excellent contribution to the SIA literature and I highly recommend it to both practitioner and researcher alike.' – Geoff Syme, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management 'An innovative collection which takes social impact assessment to the frontiers of environmental and social policy and citizen awareness. Unusually, this collection includes both sophisticated quantitative tools and equally important chapters on participation, stakeholder involvement and environmental mediation. A most valuable source book.' – Michael Redclift, King's College, London, UK Social Impact Assessment (SIA) is the process of analysing and managing the intended and unintended consequences on the human environment of planned interventions (policies, programmes, plans, projects) so as to bring about a more sustainable and equitable biophysical and human environment. This important Handbook presents an indispensable overview of the range of new methods and of the conceptual advances in SIA. Recent increased attention to social considerations has led to substantial development in the techniques useful to, and the thinking in, SIA. A distinguished group of contributors provides an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the cutting-edge in SIA development. This Handbook outlines a new understanding and definition of SIA and, as such, will be an invaluable reference tool for both practitioners and scholars at different levels working in the fields of SIA and environmental studies (including both impact assessment and management).

Author : Michael G. Elasmar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135635053

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The Impact of International Television by Michael G. Elasmar Pdf

For several decades, cultural imperialism has been the dominant paradigm for conceptualizing, labeling, predicting, and explaining the effects of international television. It has been used as an unchallenged premise for numerous essays on the topic of imported television influence, despite the fact that the assumption of strong cultural influence is not necessarily reflected in the body of research that exists within this field of study. In The Impact of International Television: A Paradigm Shift, editor Michael G. Elasmar and his contributors challenge the dominant paradigm of cultural imperialism, and offer an alternative paradigm with which to evaluate international or crossborder message influence. In this volume, Elasmar has collected original research from leading scholars working in the area of crossborder media influence, and contributes his own meta-analysis to examine what research findings actually show on the influences of crossborder messages. The contributions included here illustrate points, such as: the contentions of cultural imperialism and the context in which its assumptions emerged and developed; the complexities of the relationship between exposure to foreign television and its subsequent effects on local audience members; the applicability of quantitative methods to a topic commonly tackled using argumentation, critical theory, and other qualitative approaches; and the difficulty of achieving strong and homogenous effects. In bringing together the work of independent researchers, The Impact of International Television: A Paradigm Shift bridges over 40 years of research efforts focused on imported television influence, the results of which, as a whole, challenge the de facto strong and homogenous effects assumed by those who support the paradigm of cultural imperialism. The volume sets a theory-driven agenda of research and offers an alternative paradigm for the new generation of researchers interested in international media effects. As such, the volume is intended for scholars, researchers, and students in international and intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication, mass communication, media effects, media and society, and related areas. It will also be of great interest to academics in international relations, cross-cultural and social psychology, intergroup and international relations, international public opinion, and peace studies.

Author : Hewitt, Joanna
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Impact evaluation of research by the International Food Policy Research Institute on agricultural trade liberalization, developing countries, and WTO's Doha negotiations by Hewitt, Joanna Pdf

"This report assesses the impact of IFPRI's work on the agriculture negotiations in the WTO's Doha Round. It is set against the context of IFPRI's mission which emphasizes food security and the interests of poor people in low-income countries and underlines the importance of active engagement in policy communications to link research work to policy action. The report also traces briefly the evolution of IFPRI's work on international agricultural trade more generally, noting its broad disposition to market-oriented policy prescriptions while illuminating the very different impacts of agricultural trade liberalization on individual developing countries through detailed research at the national and household level." -- from Author's Abstract

Author : Behrman, Jere R.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Policy-Oriented Research Impact Assessment (PORIA) case study on the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Mexican PROGRESA anti-poverty and human resource investment conditional cash transfer program by Behrman, Jere R. Pdf

"The objective of this study is to attempt to characterize the influence and impact of IFPRI in relation to the Mexican PROGRESA/Oportunidades anti-poverty and human resource program with its conditional cash transfers (CCT)—conditional on specific investments in education, health, and nutrition. The paper first describes PROGRESA/Oportunidades and estimates of the impact and benefits-to-costs of this program; then discusses the challenges in assessing the influence and impact of IPRRI on and through PROGRESA/Oportunidades; and then presents the information sources used in this study to attempt to identify the influence and impact of IFPRI on PROGRESA/Oportunidades including interviews with 39 key informants as well as various published and unpublished studies and memos, publications in the popular media and on the internet and press releases and other documents. With this foundation it next explores the apparent influence and impact of IFPRI on PROGRESA/Oportunidades by considering four questions: Was the PROGRESA program design influenced by prior IFPRI research? Why was IFPRI chosen to undertake the initial impact evaluation of PROGRESA? How did the IFPRI evaluation of PROGRESA contribute to the program? Were there spillovers of the IFPRI evaluation of PROGRESA?

Author : Marieke Wierda
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009152747

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The Local Impact of the International Criminal Court by Marieke Wierda Pdf

An analysis of the local impact of the International Criminal Court in four countries: Afghanistan, Colombia, Libya and Uganda.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Competition
ISBN : PSU:000058943281

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Hearing on the Impact of International Tax Reform on U.S. Competitiveness by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Finance
ISBN : MINN:31951D038067429

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The Growth of Financial Regulation and Its Impact on International Competitiveness by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Pdf

Author : Debnath, Deepayan,Babu, Suresh Chandra,Ghosh, Parijat,Helmer, Michael
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Impact of India’s National Food Security Act on domestic and international rice markets by Debnath, Deepayan,Babu, Suresh Chandra,Ghosh, Parijat,Helmer, Michael Pdf

Policy making in food security is at a crossroads in India, particularly for the rice crop. Whereas India has emerged has a leading rice exporter over the last two years, the government has also introduced a large food subsidy program called the National Food Security Act. The program requires that 33.6 million metric tons of rice per year be distributed to the marginalized rural and urban populations of the country. In this study, we analyze the long-term impact of India’s Food Security Act on its domestic rice market and the international market for rice. We specify and apply a structural demand-and-supply model to India’s rice market and link it with the world rice market, as part of a broad partial equilibrium modeling system of international agriculture commodity markets. We specifically focus on three different scenarios—subsidy as a price effect, subsidy as an inelastic income effect, and subsidy as an elastic income effect—under the broader framework of the National Food Security Act. We find that at the end of the projection period (the 2024/2025 crop year), as a result of the rice subsidy program, the consumption of rice increases significantly by 6,831 thousand metric ton (MT) in the case of the price effect while the inelastic income effect has little on production, consumption which increase by 265 thousand MT and 269 thousand MT, respectively and no impact on rice export of India.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000044852818

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Impact of U.S. Tax Rules on International Competitiveness by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Drug control
ISBN : UCR:31210017814516

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Annual Review of International Narcotics Control Programs and the Impact of Gramm-Rudman on Overseas Narcotics Control Efforts by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs Pdf