In tight fiscal times, the North Carolina General Assembly and the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) would like to increase the efficiency of their expenditures. With the increased availability of teacher-level education ...
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POLICY QUESTION
How can Ecuador effectively control their terrestrial borders in accordance with the human rights framework defined by their 2008 Constitution?
RECOMMENDATION (Pg. 8)
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In this paper I look at the effect of gender quotas on women’s political engagement. In particular I ask whether the enactment of a gender quota encourages women to become more involved in politics by sending the signal ...
North Carolina has a long history of offering state bonds meant to address the capital needs of its public school system. The last major State effort taken to help counties in funding capital needs took place in 1996 with ...
The Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) is a Durham-based organization that works to promote homeownership and economic opportunity for low and moderate income communities and communities of color, which traditionally ...
Executive Summary
Policy Question
How does perceived drinking water quality affect household willingness to pay (WTP) for clean water in rural Cambodia?
Background
Inadequate access to improved water and ...
Understanding the impact of job loss on student achievement has grown increasingly important given the widespread job loss that occurred during the Great Recession. I evaluate the impact of county-level job loss within ...
Low current and forecasted natural gas prices are spurring investment in new gas-fired electric generation in the eastern United States. In both regulated territories and organized electricity markets, natural gas power ...
Despite widespread efforts to end the practice of female genital cutting (FGC), the practice persists across much of the world, including The Gambia. In The Gambia, approximately 78 percent of women are circumcised. In ...
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Overview
In the months following 9/11, considerable evidence suggests that anti-Islamic sentiment rose in the US and resulted in an increase in hate crimes. Anti-Islamic sentiment also likely extended ...
USAID Forward has spurred development assistance implementers to consider how USAID’s new priorities will impact international non-governmental organizations (INGOs)’ monitoring and evaluation (M&E) practices. The purpose ...
Poor water and sanitation facilities and unhygienic practices contribute to millions of child deaths every year. India is perhaps the worst affected country. Annually, over half a million children die of diarrhea in India. ...
Truth and reconciliation commissions (TRC’s) are increasingly being used as a form of restorative justice at the national level. Arising out of post-conflict societies, TRCs saw a particularly significant increase from ...
Policy Question
Did the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) successfully signal to states that the driving factor for model selection for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program ...
How has the amount, distribution and structure of executive compensation changed over the past 20 years? What effect, if any, do these factors have on the financial returns of corporations? Finally, are there any clear ...
9/11 marked a notable rise in Islamophobia within American society that has since remained a prevailing reality. For the purposes of this paper, I define Islamophobia as a negative bias against Islam and/or Muslims expressed ...
Food deserts, or “areas that lack access to affordable fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat milk, and other foods that make up the full range of a healthy diet” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2010), ...
POLICY QUESTION:
Which pre-compliance conservation strategies have the greatest potential to conserve multiple unprotected species in North Carolina?
BACKGROUND:
Pre-compliance conservation involves landowners working ...
Executive Summary
Policy Problem: Special education services for children in North Carolina schools are highly dependent upon the development of individualized education programs, or IEPs. In fact, without an IEP in ...
This paper examines how developed countries allocate foreign aid to less developed countries. In
giving aid, countries act on a variety of motives that have received much attention in academic
literature. I focus on three ...