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Enhancing child and family well-being using Family Resource Centers

Christensen Institute

In our latest report, “ From child welfare to well-being: A blueprint for CBOs and government agencies ,” we unveil the business models that enable prevention-oriented CBOs and prevention-enabling government agencies to enhance child and family well-being. The FRCs are funded by government agencies and local foundations.

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Global Prosperity in 2023: Our plan for impact

Christensen Institute

On January 15, 2019, I published The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty with the late Harvard Business School professor, Clayton Christensen and former Harvard Business Review editor, Karen Dillon. The role of governments in supporting and regulating market-creation.

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How Ajay Banga can “write a new playbook” and become the World Bank’s most consequential President

Christensen Institute

Jim Yong Kim left the bank abruptly in 2019 (a move that necessitated Kristalina Georgieva to serve as acting President for two months); David Malpass didn’t finish his first five-year tenure and left in June, 2023; and now, Ajay Banga, the former CEO of Mastercard Inc., Banga’s task ahead will not be easy.

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Sustaining a Healthy World Through Growing Crop Health

Business and Tech

Extreme weather events, climate change, economic shifts, and some government policies have impacted crop health and yields across the globe, and with it, some of the tools that deliver that production most efficiently. ­­. Yet with other urgent global crises, a $100 trillion financing gap has grown since 2019. A thriving U.S.

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Bournemouth University launches SPEED, part of a European funded project (Interreg 2 Seas) that aims to transform port logistics

Wazoku

It involves a broad cross-section of industry stakeholders, including logistics companies, ferry operators, ship liners, government agencies, marine companies and leisure boat operators, as well as fellow universities, working together to come up with the ideas to transform port logistics.

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The most important question in development

Christensen Institute

American officials estimated that by 2019, the AAF would be able to maintain these aircraft themselves, without help from other governments, contractors, or consultants. government plan to bring them back to life,’ he said.” But the projects never last. Sadat added that when the U.S.

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Aussies Tackle Antibiotic Resistance

IdeaSpies

As the Ad hoc Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance stated in their report to the Secretary-General of the United Nations in April 2019, “there is no time to wait. The buy-in from governments such as Australia’s, magnifies the impact that such software could have on a global scale. 2 World Health Organization.