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Mrs Mama, standing on the right-hand side of the photo and raising her hand, chairs the group. She is 36 years old, married and the mother of six children. She sells fresh fish. She has a lot of experience in this activity after having been a fish seller for several years. She will use her loan to increase her working capital, develop her business and buy fresh fish for resale. The profit from her activity will enable her to improve the living standard of her family (healthcare, food, clothing, etc.).
Madame Mama qui est à la droite de la photo levant la main est responsable de groupe. Elle est âgée de 36 ans. Elle est mariée et mère de six enfants.
Elle s'active dans la vente de poissons frais. Elle a une bonne expérience dans ce domaine d'activité, pour l'avoir pratiquer depuis plusieurs années.
Ce prêt lui permettra de renforcer son capital et de mieux développer ses activités de vente de poissons frais.
Les profits générés par son petit commerce de poissons frais lui permettront d'améliorer les conditions de vie de la famille (santé, nourriture, habillement etc.…).
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About CAURIE Micro FinanceThe mission of CAURIE Micro Finance is to contribute sustainably and to offer microfinance services adapted to impoverished micro-entrepreneurs, primarily women, based on the principles of 'credit for the poor' and on microfinance best practices, all while investing in order to become financially independent.
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- Published Apr. 11, 2016
- Updated Apr. 11, 2016 at 5:50 PM EDT
Tayler Wiles joins Orica-AIS
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- Published Nov. 17, 2015
American Tayler Wiles will ride for the Australian Orica-AIS team in 2016; she'll be aiming for a spot on the Rio Olympic team.
Wiles powers to Women's USA Pro Challenge stage 2 win
- By VeloNews.com
- Published Aug. 22, 2015
- Updated Aug. 22, 2015 at 10:24 PM EDT
26-year-old Tayler Wiles takes the stage victory in Fort Collins, Kristin Armstrong holds on to her race lead
Giro Rosa Preview: Difficult second half awaits
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The biggest women's stage race of the season kicks off Friday and should offer ample climbing and an exciting penultimate-stage time trial
Anatomy of a national title: Megan Guarnier's perfect race
- By Dan Wuori
- Published May. 25, 2015
After winning Strade Bianche in March, Guarnier's second national title also brings a spot at Richmond worlds in September
Guarnier's gutsy sprint wins U.S. road nationals
- By Spencer Powlison
- Published May. 25, 2015
Megan Guarnier and Evelyn Stevens deliver an impressive one-two punch to set up Guarnier to win her second national championship title
Kristin Armstrong off U.S. Pan Am roster as USAC revises team selection
- By VeloNews.com
- Published Apr. 18, 2015
Tayler Wiles will take Armstrong's place after confusion over USA Cycling's discretionary team selection criteria
Wiles to replace Small on U.S. women's road worlds team
- By VeloNews.com
- Published Sep. 24, 2014
Carmen Small is forced to withdraw from world road championships due to illness. Tayler Wiles takes her spot for the U.S.
Phinney hunting road, time trial jerseys at U.S. nationals
- By Dan Wuori
- Published May. 23, 2014
- Updated Oct. 31, 2014 at 6:08 PM EDT
Taylor Phinney is seeking history this weekend in the time trial and the road race at the U.S. championships
Joseph Rosskopf, Tayler Wiles win Redlands Bicycle Classic
- By VeloNews.com
- Published Apr. 6, 2014
- Updated Apr. 6, 2014 at 8:36 PM EDT
The Sunset Road Race flips the overall standings in both men's and women's races at the Redlands Bicycle Classic

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Anyway, welcome to PC! :D It's really cool to hear someone who started out with the franchise at such a young age. I got introduced to it at around five years old so I think I can relate! What games have you played so far? I've played all five generations with at least two games each. Beat that. ;D
I'm just kidding of course. You mentioned that you like pretty much all Pokémon though. I'd like to say the same, but my brother makes me pick a handful to use that are outside of his own picks (because his favorites are off-limits, durr), so yeah. I believe you haven't mentioned what your favorites (and least favorites) are though! Mine's Squirtle. As for my least favorite, I never really liked Patrat. :(
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In the absence of economic disaster, political scandal and health scares, the British media spent the summer indulging a fixation with sport. The newspaper, radio and television coverage traditionally given to domestic cricket matches and the Test series or the Wimbledon tennis championships was supplemented - some would say, eclipsed - by the World Cup Finals in France. Athletics, cycling, Grand Prix motor racing, rugby and golf also made a significant showing and, for those blessed with insomnia and satellite television, sporting events from every corner of the globe, including American Major League baseball, Asian soccer, Brazilian beach volleyball and even European tractor-pulling, were available at the touch of a remote control button. Sport, as they say, was everywhere. Broadcast schedules were adjusted to accommodate coverage of everything from the NatWest Trophy to the Tour de France. Newsagents changed the layout of their shelves. Lifestyle and entertainment magazines lost their prominence to an extraordinary array of sports publications - from established specialist newspapers like Angling Times to glossy monthlies like Total Sport. Not surprisingly, very few - if any - of the nation's many sports journalists were able to avoid uttering a phrase which, by early June, had already become a cliche: What a great summer for sport!
That is not to say, of course, that it was a particularly glorious summer for British or, more specifically, English sport in terms of results achieved at international level. Tim Henman became the first English tennis-player to reach the semi-finals of the Wimbledon men's singles competition for decades but was unable to defeat the USA's Pete Sampras. England's football team survived the first round of the World Cup only to return home after an agonisingly protracted match against Argentina which they eventually lost in a penalty shoot-out. The English rugby team's tour of the southern hemisphere was described almost universally as 'a shambles'. In the middle of August came the welcome news that England beat the South Africans in the final Cornhill Test, the first English victory in Test cricket since 1986. Despite individual displays of grit, determination and skill and although several rising stars - most notably, the footballer Michael Owen and the golfing prodigy Justin Rose - promised much for the future, the summer did not produce a great series of English triumphs to complement the media's heightened excitement. In fact, it might be said that the only real victor was the media itself.
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Meggitt inches up turnover for 2001Chris Druce
Meggitt Systems, the electronic sensor, aerospace and defence company, has reported a marginal increase in turnover for its electronics business in the year ending December 31, 2001.
Turnover increased by three per cent in the company's electronics division to £107.4m, compared to £104.6m a year-ago. Operating profit dropped to £9.5m compared to £11.3m a year-ago, due to increased R&D costs and a slowdown in demand for high volume sensors in the automotive, mobile telecom and computing markets.
In December 2001 the company sold its electronic components business to Tyco for £16.2m, which leaves the electronic systems and electronic sensors businesses heading up the electronics division.
Despite this, the company said it remained committed to serving the aerospace, defence and electronic sensors markets.
Group turnover increased by 13 per cent to £425.1m, compared to £386m a year-ago. Operating profit before goodwill amortisation increased by £3.9m to £84.5m, compared to £80.6m a year ago.
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But Gun hadn't understood at the time that they wouldn't revisit the tree again, since he hadn't known about his father's illness. "Gun, listen to me carefully. Right now and from now on, whenever you feel scared, be like Daddy." Dad laughs his trademark laugh, now Gun's. "Laugh like this, okay? If you do, I'll always be with you to protect you."
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EducationFri Dec 12 19:00:16 EST 2014w1es1000.worldbank.orgPolicy Research Working Paper | Education | World BankPolicy Research Working Paper on Education, from the World BankComparable estimates of returns to schooling around the worldRates of return to investments in schooling have been estimated since the late 1950s. In the 60-plus year history of such estimates, there have been several attempts to synthesize the empirical results to ascertain patterns. This paper presents comparable estimates, as well as a database, that use the same specification, estimation procedure, and similar data for 139 economies and 819 harmonized household surveys. This effort to compile comparable estimates holds constant the definition of the dependent variable, the set of control variables, the sample definition, and the estimation method for all surveys in the sample. The results of this study show that (1) the returns to schooling are more concentrated around their respective means than previously thought; (2) the basic Mincerian model used is more stable than may have been expected; (3) the returns to schooling are higher for women than for men; (4) returns to schooling and labor market experience are strongly and positively associated; (5) there is a decreasing pattern over time; and (6) the returns to tertiary education are highest.

2014-09-04T04:00:00.000Z2014-09-04T04:00:00.000ZEducation|Finance and Financial Sector DevelopmentPrimary Education|Education For All|Teaching and Learning|Debt Markets|Education Reform and ManagementThe World RegionMontenegro, Claudio E.|Patrinos, Harry AnthonyComparable estimates of returns to schooling around the worldEnglishWorldEducation|Finance and Financial Sector DevelopmentPrimary Education|Education For All|Teaching and Learning|Debt Markets|Education Reform and ManagementWPS7020WorldEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperThe World RegionInequality of opportunity among Egyptian childrenThis paper analyzes the level and trends in inequality of opportunity among Egyptian children during the 2000s. The analysis uses severall tools, including comparison of the distributions of early risks and outcomes across circumstance groups; estimation of the human opportunity index; measurement of the relative contributions of circumstances to inequality of opportunity; and decomposition of changes in inequality of opportunity and factors driving them over time. Egypt has made significant progress in the availability of and access to basic services for children and mothers, in some cases with an overall pro-poor effect. In particular, appreciable improvements have been made in healthcare utilization before and during pregnancy and immunizations. As a result, there has been a decline in inequality of opportunity over the past decade, largely attributable to increased coverage by basic services rather than through redistributive effects. However, there are areas of persistent and emerging concerns, including postnatal care utilization, nutrition, and schooling. Nutrition indicators have deteriorated during the 2000s, affecting a quarter of children regardless of their circumstances. Wide disparities in school enrollment persist, notably at the higher levels. Large regional disparities in access to basic infrastructure exist, with Upper Egypt and the Frontier Governorates lagging the rest of the country. Family background, especially parents' education and wealth, and geographic factors are key factors affecting child development outcomes in Egypt. While interventions targeted at the less advantaged circumstance groups may offer significant potential for enhancing overall equity in postnatal care utilization and schooling, a more inclusive approach would be needed to improve child nutrition outcomes.

2014-09-09T04:00:00.000Z2014-09-09T04:00:00.000ZHealth, Nutrition and Population|EducationHealth Monitoring & Evaluation|Population Policies|Primary Education|Early Child and Children's Health|Adolescent HealthMiddle East and North AfricaErsado, Lire|Aran, MeltemInequality of opportunity among Egyptian childrenEnglishEgypt, Arab Republic ofHealth, Nutrition and Population|EducationHealth Monitoring & Evaluation|Population Policies|Primary Education|Early Child and Children's Health|Adolescent HealthWPS7026Egypt, Arab Republic ofEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperMiddle East and North AfricaCost-effectiveness measurement in development : accounting for local costs and noisy impactsAs evidence from rigorous impact evaluations grows in development, there have been more calls to complement impact evaluation analysis with cost analysis, so that policy makers can make investment decisions based on costs as well as impacts. This paper discusses important considerations for implementing cost-effectiveness analysis in the policy making process. The analysis is applied in the context of education interventions, although the findings generalize to other areas. First, the paper demonstrates a systematic method for characterizing the sensitivity of impact estimates. Second, the concept of context-specificity is applied to cost measurement: program costs vary greatly across contexts -- both within and across countries -- and with program complexity. The paper shows how adapting a single cost ingredient across settings dramatically shifts cost-effectiveness measures. Third, the paper provides evidence that interventions with fewer beneficiaries tend to have higher per-beneficiary costs, resulting in potential cost overestimates when extrapolating to large-scale applications. At the same time, recall bias may result in cost underestimates. The paper also discusses other challenges in measuring and extrapolating cost-effectiveness measures. For cost-effectiveness analysis to be useful, policy makers will require detailed, comparable, and timely cost reporting, as well as significant effort to ensure costs are relevant to the local environment.

2014-09-11T04:00:00.000Z2014-09-11T04:00:00.000ZTransport|Public Sector Development|EducationTertiary Education|Education For All|Teaching and Learning|Public Sector Expenditure Policy|Transport Economics Policy & PlanningThe World RegionEvans, David K.|Popova, AnnaCost-effectiveness measurement in development : accounting for local costs and noisy impactsEnglishWorldTransport|Public Sector Development|EducationTertiary Education|Education For All|Teaching and Learning|Public Sector Expenditure Policy|Transport Economics Policy & PlanningWPS7027WorldEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperThe World RegionGLS estimation and empirical bayes prediction for linear mixed models with Heteroskedasticity and sampling weights : a background study for the POVMAP projectThis note adapts results by Huang and Hidiroglou (2003) on Generalized Least Squares estimation and Empirical Bayes prediction for linear mixed models with sampling weights. The objective is to incorporate these results into the poverty mapping approach put forward by Elbers et al. (2003). The estimators presented here have been implemented in version 2.5 of POVMAP, the custom-made poverty mapping software developed by the World Bank.

2014-09-11T04:00:00.000Z2014-09-11T04:00:00.000ZScience and Technology Development|Poverty Reduction|Agriculture|EducationStatistical & Mathematical Sciences|Crops and Crop Management Systems|Poverty Monitoring & Analysis|Science Education|Scientific Research & Science ParksThe World Regionvan der Weide, RoyGLS estimation and empirical bayes prediction for linear mixed models with Heteroskedasticity and sampling weights : a background study for the POVMAP projectEnglishWorldScience and Technology Development|Poverty Reduction|Agriculture|EducationStatistical & Mathematical Sciences|Crops and Crop Management Systems|Poverty Monitoring & Analysis|Science Education|Scientific Research & Science ParksWPS7028WorldEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperThe World RegionFemale labor participation in the Arab world : some evidence from panel data in MoroccoFemale labor participation in the Arab world is low compared with the level of economic development of Arab countries. Beyond anecdotal evidence and cross-country studies, there is little evidence on what could explain this phenomenon. This paper uses the richest set of panel data available for any Arab country to date to model female labor participation in Morocco. The paper finds marriage, household inactivity rates, secondary education, and gross domestic product per capita to lower female labor participation rates. It also finds that the category urban educated women with secondary education explains better than others the low level of female labor participation. These surprising findings are robust to different estimators, endogeneity tests, different specifications of the female labor participation equations, and different sources of data. The findings are also consistent with previous studies on the Middle East and North Africa region and on Morocco. The explanation seems to reside in the nature of economic growth and gender norms. Economic growth has not been labor intensive, has generated few jobs, and has not been in female-friendly sectors, resulting in weak demand for women, especially urban educated women with secondary education. And when men and women compete for scarce jobs, men may have priority access because of employers' and households' preferences.

2014-09-15T04:00:00.000Z2014-09-15T04:00:00.000ZSocial Protections and Labor|Health, Nutrition and Population|Communities and Human Settlements|EducationPopulation Policies|Primary Education|Housing & Human Habitats|Labor Markets|Teaching and LearningMiddle East and North AfricaVerme, Paolo|Barry, Abdoul Gadiry|Guennouni, JamalFemale labor participation in the Arab world : some evidence from panel data in MoroccoEnglishMoroccoSocial Protections and Labor|Health, Nutrition and Population|Communities and Human Settlements|EducationPopulation Policies|Primary Education|Housing & Human Habitats|Labor Markets|Teaching and LearningWPS7031MoroccoEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperMiddle East and North AfricaTesting the importance of search frictions, matching, and reservation prestige through randomized experiments in JordanUnemployment rates for tertiary-educated youth in Jordan are high, as is the duration of unemployment. Two randomized experiments in Jordan were used to test different theories that may explain this phenomenon. The first experiment tested the role of search and matching frictions by providing firms and job candidates with an intensive screening and matching service based on educational backgrounds and psychometric assessments. Although more than 1,000 matches were made, youth rejected the opportunity to even have an interview in 28 percent of cases, and when a job offer was received, they rejected this offer or quickly quit the job 83 percent of the time. A second experiment built on the first by examining the willingness of educated, unemployed youth to apply for jobs of varying levels of prestige. Youth applied to only a small proportion of the job openings they were told about, with application rates higher for higher prestige jobs than lower prestige jobs. Youth failed to show up for the majority of interviews scheduled for low prestige jobs. The results suggest that reservation prestige is an important factor underlying the unemployment of educated Jordanian youth.

2014-09-15T04:00:00.000Z2014-09-15T04:00:00.000ZSocial Protections and Labor|EducationLabor Markets|Tertiary Education|Disability|Labor Policies|Labor Management and RelationsMiddle East and North AfricaGroh, Matthew|McKenzie, David|Shammout, Nour|Vishwanath, TaraTesting the importance of search frictions, matching, and reservation prestige through randomized experiments in JordanEnglishJordanSocial Protections and Labor|EducationLabor Markets|Tertiary Education|Disability|Labor Policies|Labor Management and RelationsWPS7030JordanEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperMiddle East and North AfricaNash equilibria of games when players' preferences are quasi-transitiveMuch of game theory is founded on the assumption that individual players are endowed with preferences that can be represented by a real-valued utility function. However, in reality human preferences are often not transitive. This is especially true for the indifference relation, which can lead an individual to make a series of choices which in their totality would be viewed as erroneous by the same individual. There is a substantial literature that raises intricate questions about individual liberty and the role of government intervention in such contexts. The aim of this paper is not to go into these ethical matters but to provide a formal structure for such analysis by characterizing games where individual preferences are quasi-transitive. The paper identifies a set of axioms which are sufficient for the existence of Nash equilibria in such 'games.'

2014-09-16T04:00:00.000Z2014-09-16T04:00:00.000ZInformation and Communication Technologies|Health, Nutrition and Population|Macroeconomics and Economic Growth|Environment|EducationDisease Control & Prevention|Economic Theory & Research|Teaching and Learning|Information Security & Privacy|BiodiversityThe World RegionBasu, Kaushik|Pattanaik, Prasanta K.Nash equilibria of games when players' preferences are quasi-transitiveEnglishWorldInformation and Communication Technologies|Health, Nutrition and Population|Macroeconomics and Economic Growth|Environment|EducationDisease Control & Prevention|Economic Theory & Research|Teaching and Learning|Information Security & Privacy|BiodiversityWPS7037WorldEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperThe World RegionGovernors and governing institutions: a comparative study of state-business relations in Russia's regionsThe paper uses the latest 2011 round of the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey for the Russian Federation, which for the first time was designed to be representative of Russian regions. The paper takes a closer look at regional-level factors influencing the business environment in Russia and, more specifically, conditions that favor the emergence of symbiotic relations between regional authorities and regional businesses. Considering the argued significance of informal rules, norms, and agreements for the regional-level business environment in Russia, the paper uses proxy variables such as tenure and origin of regional governors to identify how these rules are being institutionalized. The findings reveal that, at least in case of Russia, juxtaposing the state and business actors as separate and opposed to each other may overstate the distinction between these two groups of actors and understate the fact that many localities in Russia have witnessed the emergence of mutually beneficial state-business arrangements. Defining whether these arrangements are beneficial or harmful to regional development is beyond the scope of this exploratory paper.

2014-09-18T04:00:00.000Z2014-09-18T04:00:00.000ZGovernance|Macroeconomics and Economic Growth|Rural Development|Environment|EducationEnvironmental Economics & Policies|Regional Economic Development|Common Property Resource Development|Teaching and Learning|Parliamentary GovernmentEurope and Central AsiaSharafutdinova, Gulnaz|Kisunko, GregoryGovernors and governing institutions: a comparative study of state-business relations in Russia's regionsEnglishRussian FederationGovernance|Macroeconomics and Economic Growth|Rural Development|Environment|EducationEnvironmental Economics & Policies|Regional Economic Development|Common Property Resource Development|Teaching and Learning|Parliamentary GovernmentWPS7038Russian FederationEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperEurope and Central AsiaTesting weak exogeneity in cointegrated panelsFor reason of empirical tractability, analysis of cointegrated economic time series is often developed in a partial setting, in which a subset of variables is explicitly modeled conditional on the rest. This approach yields valid inference only if the conditioning variables are weakly exogenous for the parameters of interest. This paper proposes a new test of weak exogeneity in panel cointegration models. The test has a limiting Gumbel distribution that is obtained by first letting the time dimension of the panel go to infinity and then letting its cross-sectional dimension go to infinity. The paper evaluates the accuracy of the asymptotic approximation in finite samples via simulation experiments. Finally, as an empirical illustration, the paper reports tests of weak exogeneity of disposable income and wealth in an aggregate consumption equation.

2014-09-23T04:00:00.000Z2014-09-23T04:00:00.000ZScience and Technology Development|Macroeconomics and Economic Growth|EducationScientific Research & Science Parks|Science Education|Economic Theory & Research|Statistical & Mathematical Sciences|EconometricsThe World RegionMoral-Benito, Enrique|Serven, LuisTesting weak exogeneity in cointegrated panelsEnglishWorldScience and Technology Development|Macroeconomics and Economic Growth|EducationScientific Research & Science Parks|Science Education|Economic Theory & Research|Statistical & Mathematical Sciences|EconometricsWPS7045WorldEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperThe World RegionExploiting externalities to estimate the long-term effects of early childhood dewormingThis paper investigates whether a large-scale deworming intervention aimed at primary school pupils in western Kenya had long-term effects on young children in the region. The paper exploits positive externalities from the program to estimate the impact on younger children who did not receive treatment directly. Ten years after the intervention, large cognitive effects are found -- comparable to between 0.5 and 0.8 years of schooling -- for children who were less than one year old when their communities received mass deworming treatment. Because mass deworming was administered through schools, effects are estimated among children who were likely to have older siblings in schools receiving the treatment directly; in this subpopulation, effects are nearly twice as large.

2014-10-01T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-01T04:00:00.000ZGovernance|Health, Nutrition and Population|EducationDisease Control & Prevention|Health Monitoring & Evaluation|Educational Sciences|Youth and Governance|School HealthThe World RegionOzier, OwenExploiting externalities to estimate the long-term effects of early childhood dewormingEnglishWorldGovernance|Health, Nutrition and Population|EducationDisease Control & Prevention|Health Monitoring & Evaluation|Educational Sciences|Youth and Governance|School HealthWPS7052WorldEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperThe World RegionMeasuring agricultural knowledge and adoptionUnderstanding the trade-offs in improving the precision of agricultural measures through survey design is crucial. Yet, standard indicators used to determine program effectiveness may be flawed and at a differential rate for men and women. The authors use a household survey from Mozambique to estimate the measurement error from male and female self-reports of their adoption and knowledge of three practices: intercropping, mulching, and strip tillage. Despite clear differences in human and physical capital, there are no obvious differences in the knowledge, adoption, and error in self-reporting between men and women. Having received training unanimously lowers knowledge misreports and increases adoption misreports. Other determinants of reporting error differ by gender. Misreporting is positively associated with a greater number of plots for men. Recall decay on measures of knowledge appears prominent among men but not women. Findings from regression and cost-effectiveness analyses always favor the collection of objective measures of knowledge. Given the lowest rate of accuracy for adoption was around 80 percent, costlier objective adoption measures are recommended for a subsample in regions with heterogeneous farm sizes.

2014-10-08T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-08T04:00:00.000ZAgriculture|Health, Nutrition and Population|Rural Development|EducationAgricultural Knowledge and Information Systems|Population Policies|Rural Development Knowledge & Information Systems|Crops and Crop Management Systems|Primary EducationThe World RegionKondylis, Florence|Mueller, Valerie|Zhu, Siyao JessicaMeasuring agricultural knowledge and adoptionEnglishWorldAgriculture|Health, Nutrition and Population|Rural Development|EducationAgricultural Knowledge and Information Systems|Population Policies|Rural Development Knowledge & Information Systems|Crops and Crop Management Systems|Primary EducationWPS7058WorldEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperThe World RegionWhich firms create the most jobs in developing countries ? evidence from TunisiaThis paper examines private sector job creation in Tunisia over the period 1996-2010 using a unique database containing information on all registered private enterprises, including self-employment. In spite of stable growth of gross domestic product, overall net job creation was disappointing and firm dynamics were sluggish. The firm size distribution has remained skewed toward small firms, because of stagnation of incumbents and entrants starting small, typically as one-person firms (self-employment). Churning is limited, especially among large firms, and few firms manage to grow. Post-entry, small firms are the worst performers for job creation, even if they survive. Moreover, the association between productivity, profitability, and job creation is feeble, pointing towards weaknesses in the re-allocative process. Weak net job creation thus appears to be due to insufficient firm dynamism rather than excessive job destruction.

2014-10-16T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-16T04:00:00.000ZIndustry|Social Protections and Labor|Education|Finance and Financial Sector DevelopmentLabor Markets|Microfinance|Small Scale Enterprise|Labor Policies|Science EducationMiddle East and North AfricaRijkers, Bob|Arouri, Hassen|Freund, Caroline|Nucifora, AntonioWhich firms create the most jobs in developing countries ? evidence from TunisiaEnglishTunisiaIndustry|Social Protections and Labor|Education|Finance and Financial Sector DevelopmentLabor Markets|Microfinance|Small Scale Enterprise|Labor Policies|Science EducationWPS7068TunisiaEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperMiddle East and North AfricaCan conditional cash transfers improve education and nutrition outcomes for poor children in Bangladesh ? evidence from a pilot projectThere is an increasing recognition that investment in human development at an earlier age can have a significant impact on the lifetime earnings capacity of an individual. This notion is the basis for the popularity of conditional cash transfer programs to help boost child health and education outcomes. The evidence on the impact of conditional cash transfers on health and education outcomes, however, is mixed. This paper uses panel data from a pilot project and evaluates the impact of conditional cash transfers on consumption, education, and nutrition outcomes among poor rural families in Bangladesh. Given implementation challenges the intervention was not able to improve school attendance. However the analysis shows that the pilot had a significant impact on the incidence of wasting among children who were 10-22 months old when the program started, reducing the share of children with weight-for-height below two standard deviations from the World Health Organization benchmark by 40 percent. The pilot was also able to improve nutrition knowledge: there was a significant increase in the proportion of beneficiary mothers who knew about the importance of exclusively breastfeeding infants until the age of six months. The results also suggest a significant positive impact on food consumption, especially consumption of food with high protein content.

2014-10-29T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-29T04:00:00.000ZPoverty Reduction|Health, Nutrition and Population|Communities and Human Settlements|EducationHealth Monitoring & Evaluation|Housing & Human Habitats|Rural Poverty Reduction|Primary EducationSouth AsiaFerre, Celine|Sharif, IffathCan conditional cash transfers improve education and nutrition outcomes for poor children in Bangladesh ? evidence from a pilot projectEnglishBangladeshPoverty Reduction|Health, Nutrition and Population|Communities and Human Settlements|EducationHealth Monitoring & Evaluation|Housing & Human Habitats|Rural Poverty Reduction|Primary EducationWPS7077BangladeshEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperSouth AsiaDropout in upper secondary education in Mexico : patterns, consequences and possible causesThis study examines the causes and effects of low enrollment and high dropout rates at the upper secondary level in Mexico, where upper secondary completion rates are well below those of other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries and the regional average. Through a disaggregated analysis of coverage, absorption, and dropout data in secondary education at the state level, the study categorizes states according to the stage in the educational cycle at which dropout primarily occurs. The study further examines the academic, social, and economic consequences of dropout through an analysis of employment and youth survey data. The analysis of factors associated with dropout uses self-reported factors as well as estimated probit models that use household data from national surveys and the national standardized test. The central conclusion reached is that in addition to the patterns of dropout found, multiple elements intersect with the patterns to form a complex panorama. Key findings include: i) personal, family, and household economic factors and the prevalence of social risks have a closer association with dropout earlier in the education cycle; ii) the association between dropout and the quality of education has greater intensity in states where dropout occurs primarily during upper secondary education and in those with the lowest upper secondary dropout rates; and iii) as the returns to education grow, dropout is lower; in the case of returns to higher education, the association with dropout is stronger for states that have the highest dropout during upper secondary education. This complexity merits differentiated responses, which are explored through a brief look at relevant international approaches.

2014-11-03T05:00:00.000Z2014-11-03T05:00:00.000ZHealth, Nutrition and Population|EducationPopulation Policies|Education For All|Primary Education|Tertiary Education|Access & Equity in Basic EducationLatin America & CaribbeanBentaouet Kattan, Raja|Szekely, MiguelDropout in upper secondary education in Mexico : patterns, consequences and possible causesEnglishMexicoHealth, Nutrition and Population|EducationPopulation Policies|Education For All|Primary Education|Tertiary Education|Access & Equity in Basic EducationWPS7083MexicoEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperLatin America & CaribbeanPromoting women's economic empowerment : what works ?A review of rigorous evaluations of interventions that seek to empower women economically shows that the same class of interventions has significantly different outcomes depending on the client. Capital alone, as a small cash loan or grant, is not sufficient to grow women-owned subsistence-level firms. However, it can work if it is delivered in-kind to more successful women microentrepreneurs, and it should boost the performance of women's larger-sized SMEs. Very poor women need a more intensive package of services than do less poor women to break out of subsistence production and grow their businesses. What works for young women does not necessarily work for adult women. Skills training, job search assistance, internships, and wage subsidies increase the employment levels of adult women but do not raise wages. However, similar interventions increase young women's employability and earnings if social restrictions are not binding. Women who run subsistence-level firms face additional social constraints when compared to similar men, thus explaining the differences in the outcomes of some loans, grants, and training interventions that favor men. Social constraints may also play a role in explaining women's outcome gains that are short-lasting or emerge with a delay. The good news is that many of the additional constraints that women face can be overcome by simple, inexpensive adjustments in program design that lessen family and social pressures. These include providing capital in-kind or transacted through the privacy of a mobile phone and providing secure savings accounts to nudge women to keep the money in the business rather than to divert it to non-business uses.

2014-11-04T05:00:00.000Z2014-11-04T05:00:00.000ZSocial Protections and Labor|Education|Finance and Financial Sector Development|GenderFinancial Literacy|Primary Education|Gender and Development|Banks & Banking Reform|Labor PoliciesThe World RegionBuvinic, Mayra|Furst-Nichols, RebeccaPromoting women's economic empowerment : what works ?EnglishWorldSocial Protections and Labor|Education|Finance and Financial Sector Development|GenderFinancial Literacy|Primary Education|Gender and Development|Banks & Banking Reform|Labor PoliciesWPS7087WorldEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperThe World RegionPublic sectors in the pacific islands : are they 'too big' and do they 'crowd out' the private sector ?Public sectors in the Pacific Islands are frequently described as being 'too big' and as 'crowding out' private sector economic activity. Reducing their size, it follows, would provide much-needed space for private sector expansion and result in higher levels of economic growth. This paper addresses these issues, arguing that there is not a good case for supposing that public sectors in the Pacific Islands are excessively large, when the challenges of public administration and public service delivery in such small, remote, dispersed, and divided states are taken into account. Rather than being preoccupied with their size, it would be more useful to focus on whether the resources available to their public sectors are being used efficiently and effectively to provide an adequate range and quality of administrative functions and public services. The paper also argues that, at a general level, the case for crowding out in the Pacific Islands is not particularly compelling, and that it would be more useful to focus on the trade-offs for the private sector of public sector engagement in any given administrative function or area of service delivery. In light of the arguments put forward, the paper sets out the key elements of a refocused agenda on public sector reform in the Pacific Islands.

2014-11-12T05:00:00.000Z2014-11-12T05:00:00.000ZPublic Sector Development|Macroeconomics and Economic Growth|EducationPublic Sector Management and Reform|Public Sector Economics|Public Sector Expenditure Policy|Education for the Knowledge Economy|Economic Theory & ResearchEast Asia and PacificHorscroft, VirginiaPublic sectors in the pacific islands : are they 'too big' and do they 'crowd out' the private sector ?EnglishPacific IslandsPublic Sector Development|Macroeconomics and Economic Growth|EducationPublic Sector Management and Reform|Public Sector Economics|Public Sector Expenditure Policy|Education for the Knowledge Economy|Economic Theory & ResearchWPS7102Pacific IslandsEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperEast Asia and PacificThe creative wealth of nations : how the performing arts can advance development and human progressCultural activities are increasingly noted as drivers of meaningful development. But they have yet to gain a prominent place in the architecture of development strategy. The performing arts, discussed here, exhibit direct effects on social progress and economic growth through trade in music, movies, and temporary work permits for artists, for example. Indirect contributions may also include environmental stewardship, tourism, nation branding, social inclusion, cultural democracy, and shifting cultural behaviors. These direct and indirect contributions are not well documented. As such, how is the creative or cultural sector a crucial part of the wealth of nations, and how could the World Bank Group better leverage the performing arts in its development strategy? This discussion provides a broad snapshot, from arts education, to social inclusion, to international trade in services. Key constraints include: the paucity of data and the difficulty of measuring cultural activities, the challenge of intellectual property, and the unclear benefits of cultural tourism. Part I sets the stage. Part II then provides policy options to foster the performing arts as a promising engine for development. Suggestions include: 1. expanding direct involvement in artistic projects, 2. increasing the use of performing arts to address social issues, 3. collecting data, 4. promoting intellectual property training programs, 5. supporting digital platforms in the developing world that advance indigenous music, and 6. funding studies on such areas as cultural tourism. Progress still needs to be made in the discussion of the diverse ways that the performing arts can contribute to meaningful development.

2014-11-19T05:00:00.000Z2014-11-19T05:00:00.000ZCulture and Development|Macroeconomics and Economic Growth|EducationCultural Policy|Cultural Heritage & Preservation|Arts & Music|Economic Theory & Research|Curriculum & InstructionThe World RegionKabanda, PatrickThe creative wealth of nations : how the performing arts can advance development and human progressEnglishWorldCulture and Development|Macroeconomics and Economic Growth|EducationCultural Policy|Cultural Heritage & Preservation|Arts & Music|Economic Theory & Research|Curriculum & InstructionWPS7118WorldEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperThe World RegionDeveloping social-emotional skills for the labor market : the PRACTICE modelAlthough there is a general agreement in the literature of the importance of social-emotional skills for labor market success, there is little consensus on the specific skills that should be acquired or how and when to teach them. The psychology, economics, policy research, and program implementation literatures all touch on these issues, but they are not sufficiently integrated to provide policy direction. The objective of this paper is to provide a coherent framework and related policies and programs that bridge the psychology, economics, and education literature, specifically that related to skills employers value, non-cognitive skills that predict positive labor market outcomes, and skills targeted by psycho-educational prevention and intervention programs. The paper uses as its base a list of social-emotional skills that employers value, classifies these into eight subgroups (summarized by PRACTICE), then uses the psychology literature -- drawing from the concepts of psycho-social and neuro-biological readiness and age-appropriate contexts -- to map the age and context in which each skill subset is developed. The paper uses examples of successful interventions to illustrate the pedagogical process. The paper concludes that the social-emotional skills employers value can be effectively taught when aligned with the optimal stage for each skill development, middle childhood is the optimal stage for development of PRACTICE skills, and a broad international evidence base on effective program interventions at the right stage can guide policy makers to incorporate social-emotional learning into their school curriculum.

2014-11-25T05:00:00.000Z2014-11-25T05:00:00.000ZEducationEducational Sciences|Primary Education|Education For All|Knowledge for Development|Teaching and LearningThe World RegionGuerra, Nancy|Modecki, Kathryn|Cunningham, WendyDeveloping social-emotional skills for the labor market : the PRACTICE modelEnglishWorldEducationEducational Sciences|Primary Education|Education For All|Knowledge for Development|Teaching and LearningWPS7123WorldEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperThe World RegionEducation attainment in the Middle East and North Africa : success at a costThis paper reviews the experience of the Middle East and North Africa region in education attainment over the past four decades (1970-2010). It documents the following main findings: (a) all countries in the region experienced significant improvements in educational attainment over this period; (b) most countries in the region did better in this regard than comparators that had roughly the same education stocks in 1970; (c) collectively, the region achieved a greater percentage increase in education than other regions; (d) the region's better performance was in part because of higher rates of public spending on education, better food sufficiency status, and a lower initial stock of education in 1970 in comparison with most other developing country regions; and (e) the region had among the lowest payoffs to public spending in terms of increments in education stock; the impressive advance in education was achieved at high cost.

2014-12-01T05:00:00.000Z2014-12-01T05:00:00.000ZSocial Protections and Labor|EducationAccess & Equity in Basic Education|Education For All|Primary Education|Teaching and Learning|DisabilityMiddle East and North AfricaIqbal, Farrukh|Kiendrebeogo, YoussoufEducation attainment in the Middle East and North Africa : success at a costEnglishMiddle East and North AfricaSocial Protections and Labor|EducationAccess & Equity in Basic Education|Education For All|Primary Education|Teaching and Learning|DisabilityWPS7127Middle East and North AfricaEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperMiddle East and North AfricaMotivations, monitoring technologies, and pay for performanceMonitoring technologies and pay for performance contracts are becoming popular solutions to improve public services delivery. Their track record is however mixed. To show why this may be the case, this paper develops a principal agent model where agents' motivations vary and so does the effectiveness of monitoring technologies. In such a set-up the model shows that: (i) monitoring technologies should be introduced only if agents' motivations are poor; (ii) optimal pay for performance contracts are nonlinear/non-monotonic in agents' motivations and monitoring effectiveness; (iii) investments aimed at improving agents' motivations and monitoring quality are substitutes when agents are motivated, complements otherwise; and (iv) if the agents' "type" is private information, the more and less motivated agents could be separated through a menu of pay for performance/non pay for performance contracts, such that only the less motivated choose the pay for performance ones.

2014-12-01T05:00:00.000Z2014-12-01T05:00:00.000ZIndustry|Information and Communication Technologies|Social Protections and Labor|Education|Private Sector DevelopmentE-Business|Technology Industry|Labor Policies|Education for the Knowledge Economy|ICT Policy and StrategiesThe World RegionCordella, Antonio|Cordella, TitoMotivations, monitoring technologies, and pay for performanceEnglishWorldIndustry|Information and Communication Technologies|Social Protections and Labor|Education|Private Sector DevelopmentE-Business|Technology Industry|Labor Policies|Education for the Knowledge Economy|ICT Policy and StrategiesWPS7128WorldEnglishPolicy Research Working PaperThe World Region


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to any person trying to find an easier way to lock pick. i found if you simply move the left stick to the right and then back to the left and repeat that process quickly you can save lock picks because you can hear when they are braking before they do... i don't know if other people caught on to this just, offering some advice.
The way i've been doing my lock picking is just watching the bar that crosses the screen and if it slows down I know the lock pick is about to break, so I change the position of it. I find on Hard locks by the time I hear the sound of it breaking its already to late.
with hard locks i have been using the method i stated above and not been breaking any locks. i knew there had to be a way to do it without letting it go all the way back to the start...so i fiddled with it until i figured it out
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Did Pope Francis Say Lutherans Can Take Communion at Catholic Mass?
Pope Francis has a knack for setting traditionalist teeth on edge with unscripted musings on sacred topics. He recently did it again when he seemed to suggest that a Lutheran could receive Communion in the Catholic Church after consulting her conscience.
The exchange came up during a prayer service Nov. 15 at a Lutheran church in Rome that had invited the pontiff. And he used the occasion to engage in a question-and-answer session with some of the congregants.
One woman, Anke de Bernardinis, told Francis that she was married to a Catholic and that she and her husband share many "joys and sorrows" in life, but not Communion at church.
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Natural Gas Leaders Displace Oil Barons in New Developments
Myerson, Allen R., THE JOURNAL RECORD
HOUSTON _ In the energy world, the geeks are pushing out the sheiks. OPEC ministers, old-line oil executives and Texas wildcatters are no match for the balding economists, scientists and engineers, dripping with graduate degrees, who run the natural gas companies.
While Saudi Arabia wallows in debt, companies nobody has ever heard of are building multibillion-dollar pipelines across mountain ranges, deserts and seas, and multibillion-dollar liquefaction plants to ship gas where even the pipelines can't go.
As a result, owlish executives like Kenneth L. Lay, (Ph.D., economics), the chairman of Enron, are global diplomats. Pipelines across the Andes are tying together Latin American countries that had been chilly neighbors.
Japan is balancing its exports to Southeast Asia with imports of liquefied natural gas. By next summer, a pipeline under the Straits of Gibraltar will feed Spain and Portugal natural gas from Algeria by way of Morocco.
And where are many Middle Eastern nations turning for help in developing and marketing their own natural gas? To Israel. Jordan and Egypt have agreed to build natural gas pipelines to Israel, and Qatar is trying to negotiate a shipping deal.
As Amos Ron, director general of Israel's Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, put it in an interview, "Such projects like natural gas pipelines are important stakes for the tent of peace, to hold it on the ground."
Lay's ambition is to match the global scope of the corporate oil titans, perhaps casting himself as the next Rockefeller. "Our vision is to provide the same kind of technical, marketing and financial skills to the natural gas business worldwide that the oil majors provided in the early part of this century," he said above the static from his jet's telephone.
For the natural gas geeks, the competition has a long head start.
Oil can be sent anywhere on anything. Natural gas fields must be tied to urban markets by costly pipelines and processing plants. Shipping natural gas requires liquefaction in plants as expensive as emirate palaces, although costs are falling.
Back in the 1970s, the United States lumped oil and natural gas together as petroleum products that electric utilities should shun. Having discovered since then that major natural gas producers like Kansas and Oklahoma don't even belong to OPEC, policy-makers changed their minds.
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A result of the PureEdge Solutions acquisition, Workplace Forms has just come out and is now available on Passport Advantage. I got to know some of the folks at PureEdge this past summer and they are an extremely capable company. They've been working in the e-forms market for over 10 years, so the product is mature, full-featured, and performs well. If you have a business problem that includes being able to treat a form and it's instance data together as one document, for security and legal compliance reasons (think, signed contract), or to present a paper form with pixel-level precision (govt or insurance forms), then you should check it out. You can also include attachments in the mix. For simple forms, the tool is easy to use and you don't run out of steam like some other products from our competitors.
Even though this is under the IBM Workplace banner, a Workplace server is not required. Workplace Forms can be integrated with anything out there - I mean anything! This presents an opportunity for enterprising developers to build whole solutions for their customers. IBM will or does provide some out of the box integration kits for Content Manager, WebSphere Portal, Lotus Notes/Domino, and Workplace Collaboration Services, but those are due next year.
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This dip is wonderful! With the addition of some dill weed it tastes exactly like the stuff I drive to the other side of town to buy at a specialty deli! And for half the price! The key to this is to really mince the veggies and very finely chop the crab. I beat it all together with the hand mixer as well. Perfection. Thanks for sharing Heather.
I have to write this review based mostly on what my family thought of the taste as I have a cold and can't taste much of anything, but they thought it was quite good. We put it on split rolls for our dinner along with a bunch of different cut-up veggies. I did double the crab because I thought it looked to "saucy". I also added a whole lemon worth of juice and used green onion. Thanks for a very quick dinner!
Very good! I used cut up zucchini, peppers, cucumbers, and plum tomatoes as well as crackers to serve with this.
Awesome dip!! Made the night before - to use at christmas dinner with appetizers :)I dont care for crab so divided the cheese mix into 2, and made 1 part with half each of the stated: surimi,onion,lemon juice,celery (which got 5 stars from my family) I made the 2nd part using the last half part of onion with about 15 thin strips of bacon (grilled&crumbed)15 strips (for half the dip mix) is plenty! So all round 5 stars! Next time Ill try using tuna or salmon. Thank you for an awesome recipe!
I loved this recipe and so did all my guests. I'm going to try using dill weed but this is not far off from the crab dip a friend makes that is possibly the best food on earth.
I made this for some friends the other night and I didn't last long. This was the first item gone on my buffet table. It was very creamy and flavorful, and who can go wrong with crab??? Thank you for a great dip recipe for those get togethers with friends
I usualy add cocktail sauce to top. If i have shimp i'll add when i fold in crab. Thanks for a favorit.
I didn't put the onions in, just a personal preference. It was very good.
Very simple to make, but it is very bland. Had to add salt, pepper, hot sauce and cajun seasoning so it would taste good. I was disappointed that it needed to be doctored up so much.
Great recipe. Do not omit the lemon juice; it is a must. It was for sure missing something and the dill was most definitely it. Genius, missing ingredient. If you add dill, I would not add black pepper; it seems to compete with it.


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Many couples and pals are joining couple yoga classes, and the trending is catching hearth this summer, with even couple yoga public level performances happing around Seoul. Couples love couples yoga because no longermost effective is it relaxing to do with a partner, yet ITpermits couples can interact in skinship and sensual poses. In this video, a feminine yoga trainer is coaching her male spouse some advantageous couple yoga techniques, and a few of them have some excessive skinship. Check it out below!


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Sra. Pascuala said that she joined Pro Mujer 1½ years ago after receiving an invitation from her neighbors. She currently has a business selling fruits and rice that she has managed for 10 years. Pascuala learned this trade from one of her cousins.
The loan she is receiving now will be used to increase her inventory of fruits and rice. These products are harvested by the hectare in Los Yungas and then sold at her vending post. Working in this manner has enabled her to generate income to support her family as much as possible. Pascuala is married and has five children.
When asked what she likes about Pro Mujer, Pascuala said that she enjoys sharing with the group and participating in the health seminars.
La señora Pascuala indica que hace un año y medio que integra Pro Mujer por invitación de sus vecinas. En la actualidad ella tiene un negocio de venta de frutas y de arroz que trabaja hace diez años, aprendiendo el mismo de una de sus primas.
El crédito que ahora sacará es para aumentar su mercadería (compra de fruta y arroz), que cosechará de su ectaria en los Yungas y posteriormente lo comercializa en el puesto de venta. Esta forma de trabajo le permite generar recursos para apoyar en lo posible a su familia, pues ella es casada y tiene y tiene cinco hijos.
Cuando se le consulta qué le gusta de Pro Mujer, ella responde que le gusta compartir con el grupo y la capacitación de salud.
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A lot of you have been wondering "who" Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly will be this Halloween. The answer is in, and he revealed his outfit at a gala photo shoot this morning.
The lovely "Edna Turnblad" is visting Southwest Headquarters as part of "her" tour promoting the movie "Hairspray."
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Florida Highway Patrol reports a traffic fatality near Chipley. Officials say a white Ford flipped over several times before resting on a steep embankment off Highway 77 in Washington County.
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Officers say the accident happened around 1:00 p.m. Friday afternoon.
FHP says they have not released the name of the driver and the accident remains under investigation.


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TALLAHASSEE, FL – June 24, 2011 -
During the United States Conference of Mayors' 79th Annual Meeting, Tallahassee Mayor John Marks was elected to serve as a Trustee for the organization. The conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland during the dates of June 17th through June 21st, 2011. Marks' position as a Trustee will be effective immediately.
"We welcome Mayor Marks as a new Trustee for the USCM. Mayor Marks brings unique experience to the organization and we look forward to his leadership as mayors around the country lead the charge to create jobs and respond to the needs of struggling families in America's cities," said USCM CEO and Executive Director Tom Cochran.
The Board of Trustees is composed of 13 mayors from across the United States who serve as leaders within the organization. Additionally, Trustees retain membership on the USCM's Executive Committee.
The Trustee position further enhances Mayor Marks' already prominent leadership role within the national organization. Marks currently serves as Vice Chair of the Transportation and Communications Committee, and prior to his election as a Trustee was a member of the USCM Advisory Board.
"I'm honored and excited to be elected by mayors throughout the nation as a Trustee of the United States Conference of Mayors", said Marks. "With this position, I will be able to continue voicing the thoughts and concerns of the citizens of Tallahassee at the national level, and to work with the leaders of other communities as we find solutions for the challenges facing all of our nation's cities."
The U.S. Conference of Mayors is the official nonpartisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are 1,210 such cities in the country today, and each city is represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the mayor. For more information, please visit www.usmayors.org.