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...sustained by money the country's expatriate workforce - one of the world's most disparate and omnipresent - sends home. Some 10% of Bangladesh's total GDP, and 16% of Nepal's, comes from the remittances of pools of unskilled laborers working in Malaysia and the Gulf states. The economic impact of remittances is even higher in Central Asia, where entire villages send their able-bodied men to Russia. Tajikistan, for example, draws more than a third of its GDP from remittances, and the country's economy will suffer badly as jobs in Russia...
Since she arrived in Cambridge, Shaw has certainly made clear the impact that she can have on the Crimson squad by winning a starting position early on in her rookie season...
...answer to the budgetary concerns, despite the increasing gap between tax revenues and spending. The Massachusetts Division of Unemployment Assistance recently released reports that unemployment has reached 7.8 percent, which is still below the national average, but represents a 4 percent increase from January. Both speakers focused on the impact of budgetary shortfalls on Massachusetts’ education system and health care system. The budget for fiscal year 2010 will almost certainly include significant cuts in health care spending, while maintaining funding for Massachusetts schools, they said. Massachusetts currently devotes 31 percent of its budget to MassHealth, the Massachusetts Medicaid...
...real impact on the country has been limited. NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has urged Europeans to "share the heavy lifting" with the U.S., but some E.U. members, like Austria, Belgium and Portugal, do not even have an accredited resident ambassador in Kabul, undercutting their governments' proclamations of support for non-military policies. Afghanistan is also expected on the agenda when Obama meets fellow NATO leaders at their summit in Strasbourg-Kehl on April...
...separate niche. “Social enterprise and these ideas really should be a part of every boardroom, whether at the biggest companies in the world or the smallest non-profits in the world,” she said. “The idea is having a great social impact.” —Staff writer William N. White can be reached at wwhite@fas.harvard.edu...