In 1971, two United Methodist ministers opposed to the Vietnam War launched the Pax Fund, the first U.S. mutual fund open to the public that used social and environmental criteria in investment decisions. Initially, the fund avoided investing in weapons manufacturers -- it later added tobacco,...
The U.S. did fight a prolonged war in Vietnam, however, in which its military supported South Vietnamese forces fighting the Chinese- and Soviet-supported North Vietnamese army and South Vietnamese communist guerrillas. The U.S. withdrew from the war and Vietnam was united under communist ...
What’s next is difficult to predict. Historically, Jamaica has imposed COVID-19 restrictions when strains on the health care system might become unsustainable. Jamaica has been relatively proactive when it comes to preventive Covid measures, balanced with the need to keep their tourism industry op...
Overall, major contributors to renew- ables include China, India, Brazil, Germany, the UK, and the USA, Australia, Japan, etc., while regions in Asia (Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Bhu- tan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, etc.), Africa (Congo, Liberia, Angola, etc.), and Europe (...
A peace dividend is the hypothetical boost to a country’s economy after it settles a peace following a war. The term was first popularized in the United States in the late 1960s during the Vietnam War. It came back into fashion at the end of the 20th century as Western powers assumed...
MICHAEL SANDEL: You mean during the Vietnam era, when there were all sorts of deferments? PARTICIPANT: I just think that telling someone that they have to— MICHAEL SANDEL: Oh, in principle, even without the deferment. And why is that? Can you say a little bit more about why its ...
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such as the Operations Research in Public Affairs program held at MIT in 1966; and the Science and Technology Task Force of 1967, which initiated the quantitative analysis of criminal justice problems and influenced the set of methods used in the prosecution of the Vietnam war (Johnson, 2012a...
We address this gap by examining implementation of typhoid interventions in Nigeria, Chile, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Thailand. The study used the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) to identify which factors were most strongly associated with perceived implementation...
This interview is one in a series exploring what has and has not changed in education since COVID. Previous interviews and posts have looked at developments in Italy, Poland, Finland, New Zealand, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Vietnam. This interview with Lillemägi was conducted by ...