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...financial sector is another region where Obama’s failure to advertise has cost him popularity points and political cache. Though the financial meltdown dominated global conversation for months, it has recently faded into the background of political discourse. Through the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’75’s aggressive policies, and the Obama administration’s bold moves, the financial system has been resuscitated to a quasi-functional state, all to the negligence of the media and resultant ignorance of the general public...
...lecture also addressed human rights and human freedoms in Arab states, focusing on women’s rights in the region...
...learning all those things that I might miss in my Harvard education that I might not have missed if I had gone to school in the region,” she said. “After I get my degree I want to go back...
...Ekjut and the Institute of Child Health teamed up to stage a regional intervention that would show moms how they could themselves reduce this risk. Their plan was to mobilize a few thousand women from a clutch of villages in one Orissa and two Jharkhand districts as part of a three-year trial (2005 to 2008). A similar project in the mountainous Makwanpur region of Nepal, where health facilities can easily be a six-hour walk away, required the Institute to organize local women into groups. In east India, it rallied an existing structure of "self-help groups," a national...
...Nepal, where neonatal mortality in participating groups dropped by 30%, the benefits of the trial have endured. Recent estimates indicate that the neonatal mortality rate has now dipped under 30 per 1,000 live births, thanks also to the work of other NGOs and governmental organizations in the region. Two years ago, the Institute of Child Health withdrew funds and left, but the women kept on going. When Costello returned to visit recently, 75% of the groups were still active. "It's really impressive that our groups are still running," he recalls telling a cluster of women. "They...