Elimination of onchocerciasis in Africa by 2025: an ambitious target requires ambitious interventions

2 Ambitious Two - Dimensionalism

Mercosur: Ambitious Policies, Poor Practices

Mercosur has achieved important advances like the removal of intrabloc tariff and non-tariff barriers and the establishment of a common external tariff for most products. However, its ambitious plans to deepen the integration process comprising harmonisation of policies in areas like competition policy, government procurement, technical barriers and phytosanitary measures have not been implemen...

Successful Completion of an Ambitious Project – A Midwinter Night’s Dream

September 3, the test camera at the Cassegrain focus was opened for 30 seconds, and the fourth VLT U n i t Telescope, Yepun, saw First Light. A historic event in the life of ESO; this first light marks the successful conclusion of the important period which started with the approval of the VLT project by the ESO Council in December 1987. Exceptionally for such a complex and expensive project, t...

Successfully Executing Ambitious Strategies in Government: an Empirical Analysis

How are senior government executives who attempt to execute an ambitious vision requiring significant strategic change in their organizations able to succeed? How do they go about formulating a strategy in the first place? What managerial and leadership techniques do they use to execute their strategy? In this paper, these questions are examined by comparing (so as to avoid the pitfalls of “bes...

A Critical Need, An Ambitious Mission, A New Magazine