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Financing Innovation as the Key to Urban Development in China

27 October 2016
The rate of urbanization in the People's Republic of China (PRC) has been constantly growing. This presentation shares case studies on urban development financing in PRC and shares some practices that other urbanized countries can learn from.

Orissa, India: Public Enterprise Reform

25 October 2016
Financial and public enterprise challenges in Orissa, one of India’s poorer states, posed great concern at the start of the new millennium. A chaotic political machine is inherited by the newly-installed state official. Yet the new chief minister, together with some civil servants, championed…

Wenling City, China: Infrastructure Reform

25 October 2016
Like many other municipalities in the People’s Republic of China, heart to heart discussion meetings as a form of local consultation in Wenling City’s Zeguo township are, oftentimes, exclusively dominated. Local officials consider deliberative polling as a transparent, balanced, and representative…

Low Carbon City Initiatives in the People’s Republic of China

29 September 2016
This presentation shares the global context for low-carbon emission. It examines the low carbon development in selected pilot cities in the People’s Republic in China, an initiative resulting from the government’s commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in 2009.

Application of Web-based Data Mining in Road Networking Evaluation in the People's Republic of China

23 September 2016
Zilong Wang, East Asia Department intern from Rutgers University, shares insights on the use of web-based data mining in road network evaluation in China. He presents overview of the provincial road network in China and shares the effect of local road network in intercity transport.

Digital ID in Driving Social Protection - Learning from India

21 September 2016
To effectively deliver social protection schemes, organizations have to deal with policy and technology challenges, as well as difficulties in program implementation and personnel capacity. In India, the use of a digital ID system facilitated social protection services. The country's ID system,…

University-Industry Linkages in China

20 September 2016
In the People’s Republic of China, different types of higher education Institutions serve different roles in university-industry linkages (UIL). As the nature and outcomes of UIL are shaped by local institutional contexts, it is essential to create strategies that are context specific. The key is…

Skills Development for Priority Sectors: An Indian Perspective

20 September 2016
Skills development for priority sectors in India is a shared responsibility of the government, industry, training provider, and the trainee as stakeholders comprising the value chain. This presentation discusses how the social entrepreneurial initiative Gram Tarang through the Centurion University…

Tata STRIVE: An Innovative Skills Development Program

20 September 2016
Tata STRIVE, an initiative of Tata Community Initiatives Trust and the first Group CSR program of the Tata Group, addresses the pressing need of skilling India's youth for employment, entrepreneurship, and community enterprise. It reaches out to communities and develops skills of people from…

Mindtree’s Experience in Global Learning Centre

20 September 2016
Mindtree Ltd. is a publicly-traded information technology services and solutions organization serving global customers. Changing learning models to adjust to client needs based on demographics, fine-tuning approaches on a continuous basis, and removing the fear of assessments while learning are…