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The Museum Of Experiential Living Art: Strategic Plan, Danielle D. Delia

Museum Studies Projects

How can a museum support the new work of artists? Can a Tri-fold business plan offer a sustainable way to support an artists in residency program? Will the local community welcome a new museum into their town? What will be the benefit to the local economy? This capstone project presenting a strategic plan proposes the development of a new art museum located in Buffalo New York called, the Museum of Experiential Living Art (MoELA). The purpose of MoELA is to support practicing artists through an artist in residency program; by providing dedicated time, space, tools, materials, housing and nourishment while …

Development Finance Institutions As Tools For Foreign Aid Distribution: A Comparative Analysis Of The Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Findev Canada And Deutsche Investitions – Und Entwicklungsgesellschaft, Kamal Mann

Major Papers

An understanding of how foreign aid has changed requires a thorough examination of the efforts taken in aid to address the widening finance gap in development, alongside the often-contested issue of aid effectiveness. This is particularly the case when looking at how aid should be paid for. Yet the question of how to best program and deliver foreign aid remains unanswered.

Aid remains one of the largest aspects of international transfers of resources that occur in the world, as such it is important to study it. The rise of Development Finance Institutions, which are publicly owned, private lending institutions helps …

The Battle Of The Powers: Newly Obtained Benefits From The Revitilised Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, Scott Halsted

Master's Projects and Capstones

The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement would have been the most sizeable free trade agreement in history. The agreement was set up by the Obama administration as an economic benefactor plus geopolitical tool to maintain the balance of power in the Asia Pacific region, rivaling the power of China. However, numerous politicians within the Trump administration, plus multiple political opposers including Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, were major advocates for the U.S. removal after realistically adjusted estimates of the TPP showed economic benefits not equating to original estimates. However, the United States withdrawal raises significant successes that can be …

Revitalizing The Street Of Dreams: A North 24th Street Case Study, Tiffany Hunter

Theses/Capstones/Creative Projects

The purpose of this study is to analyze the North 24^th Street corridor in Omaha, Nebraska, to highlight the benefits of investing in commercial real estate development, propose tools for financing new development or redevelopment projects, and to suggest methods of building a coherent development plan to avoid gentrification. Commercial development provides the following: quality business space, accessible jobs for an underemployed populace, additional tax revenue, and a reduction in community detriments such as crime, empty lots, and low property values. The North 24^th Street corridor has economic potential, as it is less than one mile from downtown …

La Incidencia Del Sector Minero En El Desarrollo De Los Habitantes Del Municipio De San Pablo De Borbur Boyacá, Angie Lorena Carrillo Hernández

Economía

El presente trabajo tiene la finalidad de estudiar el sector minero como la principal fuente de desarrollo para los habitantes del municipio de San Pablo de Borbur, entendiendo el desarrollo por la visión alternativa de Amartya Sen donde depende de las libertades que goza cada individuo y así mismo el enfoque de capacidades expuestas por Martha Nussbaum. Así mismo se utilizan los datos suministrados por el departamento de estadísticas para poder hacer una comparación entre el crecimiento y desarrollo de esta actividad económica y la perspectiva de los habitantes, suministrada por encuestas y entrevistas. Adicional se extraerán diferentes estudios realizados …

La Tecnificación De La Producción Agrícola En Venecia Cundinamarca, Un Estímulo Para El Desarrollo Económico Del Municipio: 2012 - 2019, Wilton Gabriel Salazar Huertas

Economía

Reconocer la importancia de la agricultura en las economías actuales es de gran importancia para los Economistas, esto debido a que las políticas y reformas realizadas por el Gobierno Nacional no ha generado un impacto directo en los procesos productivos agrícolas del país, por el contrario, el país ha visto como dineros del Erario público se han destinado para favorecer a un pequeño grupo de terratenientes, el efecto de conocer la situación de la agricultura nacional brindará una visión amplia de las falencias que este sector está presentando para poder determinar salidas y optimizar los procesos productivos agrícolas del país, …

Retention Strategies To Prepare And Maintain Talent For Future Leadership Roles, Shagranda M. Traveler

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Retaining qualified talent is essential to organizational leaders' ability to maintain a

competitive advantage. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore the

retention strategies that financial managers used to prepare and maintain talent to assume

future leadership roles. The conceptual framework that grounded this study was the

transformational leadership theory. The research participants were financial managers

from 5 financial services businesses located in the southern region of the United States

with a minimum of 5 years of management experience and at least 3 direct reports. Data

were collected from semistructured interviews, observations, and review of annual

reports, …