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How President Lula da Silva should help the poor in Brazil this time?

Christensen Institute

When he served as Brazil’s 35th president from 2003 to 2010, the country was experiencing an economic boom. GDP almost quadrupled from $558 billion in 2003 to $2.2 Today, Brazil–and as a consequence its citizens–is poorer and the government has fewer resources to provide social services to the people. trillion in 2010.

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What The Economist gets wrong about democracy and development in Latin America

Christensen Institute

Take for example, the 2003 attempted institutional reform in Afghanistan. Over the years billions of dollars were poured into the country to change the prevailing institutions in government, which many hoped would lead to positive change in the country.

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How Jobs Theory can help address the loneliness epidemic

Christensen Institute

His advisory reports that not only do approximately half of American adults feel lonely, but also that the number of close friendships people have and time spent with others declined from 2003 to 2023. Specifically, it could help governments and organizations figure out how to reduce loneliness and social isolation to enhance public health.

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The History of Coronavirus in Patent Literature

Anaqua

Looking at the levels of activity in this area since 1971, we see a peak of 1,207 patent families mentioning Coronavirus in 2003, the year after the SARS outbreak. Coronavirus has been researched by entities from the commercial, government and academic sectors.

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How college presidents can last in the job to create lasting change

Christensen Institute

If you use the wrong set of tools in the wrong circumstance in institutions that manage themselves through shared governance, your tenure as a college president is likely to be markedly shorter, even if your vision for innovation and change is the right one. The curse is that most of these tools don’t work in most circumstances.

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How Mark Cuban’s pharmacy can change how payers handle prescription coverage

Christensen Institute

Medicare implemented their pharmaceutical coverage program back in 2003. Individual beneficiaries pay a premium to their selected insurance provider for their drug coverage; these private insurers are then reimbursed by the federal government. Researchers from Harvard Medical School found that Medicare could have saved upwards of $3.6

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Sustainable futures based on Shakespeare

Norbert Bol

Van Cattenburg & Duijn (2019) relate in their article a specific case of the renovation of the Hogesluis Bridge in Amsterdam during 2003 – 2012 to Shakespeare’s The Tempest (a play written in 1611 that is full of symbolic meaning). Shakespeare is well known for using allegories. .