Leaders need to realize that science can offer a route out of poverty

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health: A Response to Gagnon and Colleagues

Ways out of Poverty

Fundamentally, poverty reduction is about bringing growth processes to poor areas. Because poor areas can benefit from technical and organizational innovations made elsewhere in the world, it is possible today to create productive jobs faster and in greater quantity than ever before. The puzzle is what helps spread such “best practices.” Saving, investment, education, resources, and new technol...

Jeffrey Sachs: No Need to Oversimplify Poverty

The idea that geography affects economic performance is an old one. Easterly and some other economists have taken a particular position about the relationship between geography and development. They too have recognized the high correlation of a country’s poverty with being in a malaria-transmission region, or being landlocked, or being in an ecological zone leading to low food productivity. Tho...

Words of wisdom: OR leaders offer tips for new managers.

Efficient throughput—difficult to achieve, yet essential to long-term financial success— is a Holy Grail for OR nurse leaders, who spend much time and energy seeking it. Given all the demands of their role, how can leaders best use their time to gain the most benefit from throughput initiatives? One method is to focus on communication—the underlying component of any successful throughput effort...