Need for modernizing financial institutions

Modernizing Artisanal Brick Kilns: A Global Need

A Global Need Workers cut firewood to light a brick kiln in Kabul, Afghanistan. The few health studies that have been conducted on kiln workers typically reveal musculoskeletal effects and health effects similar to those seen in other smoky, dusty occupations.

Risk Measurement for Financial Institutions

International Institutions for Reducing Global Financial Instability

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Institutions and Policies for Maintaining Financial Stability

When journalists from other countries would ask me in the 1980s how the United States could suffer such embarrassingly large losses in its savings and loan, and later its banking, industry, I would be somewhat embarrassed myself, as an American citizen, trying to explain how things could go so wrong in such a developed country. A decade later, the tables seemed to have turned. Many countries ha...

need for innovation in medical institutions

Practice of Medicine is rapidly changing the health seeking behavior around the world, however, an important aspect of this field hasn't changed in India. For instance, we have not witnessed credible translation of medical training or knowledge into indigenous solutions for surgical modalities or diagnostics. Can we do something about bringing transformation in order to make larger impact on In...