By Rita Perakis - Last week, the New York Times’ Tina Rosenberg wrote about Social Impact Bonds – a new and promising approach to investing in improved social outcomes. Tina provides some good insights on the closely-watched Peterborough Social Impact Bond (SIB) scheme, which uses private capital to fund programs that are expected to lead to lower rates of [...]
World of anterior ceramic restorations/ Yeojoon Koh.
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This beautifully designed and visually stunning clinical atlas offers myriad clinical situations in which anterior ceramic restorations can be used to correct esthetic problems. Each section presents one case that focuses on a distinct set of esthetic and dental conditions that necessitate restoration, such as fracture, crowding, [...]
By Todd Moss - Mali’s post-coup transition in the South and the separatist rebellion in the North are two distinct but inter-related crises. Neither can be ignored by Mali’s friends. But the current planned interventions seem both muddled and wrong-headed. The South appears destined for a prolonged and ambiguous political transition that will eventually get to new elections and [...]
By Charles Kenny - One of the Rio Summit’s all-to-few accomplishments was language in the outcome declaration about an intergovernmental process to develop Sustainable Development Goals. An “open working group” of 30 nations nominated by the five regional UN groups will come up with a list by September 2013. We’ve now got the SDG open working group and the [...]
By Milan Vaishnav - The development blogosphere and Twitterverse were abuzz yesterday over news from across the pond that the venerable British aid agency, the Department for International Development (DFID), would begin branding all aid from the United Kingdom with the Union Jack. Why the change? According to the official DFID announcement, “The new look will help to drive [...]
By Kimberly Ann Elliott - The Friends of Syria coalition will meet in Paris on July 6 to discuss how they might stem the escalating violence in Syria. Once again there will be much hand wringing on what to do and a search for new ideas. Owen Barder and I, who have been working with our colleagues at CGD and [...]
By Victoria Fan - This is a joint post with Bill Savedoff. A new pay-for-performance approach to spur the 35 states of India to perform better in the health sector was recently announced. For the first time, central government funding to individual states under the country’s ‘flagship’ health program, the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), will depend on the [...]By Kimberly Ann Elliott - Given the harsh tone and general gridlock in the U.S. Congress of late, one might think that signs of bipartisanship and ‘getting things done’ would be welcome, but not always. We caught a glimpse this week of the good, bad and ugly in congressional activities surrounding the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which grants [...]
By Todd Moss - The great new frontier in the global fight against poverty is access to electricity. The UN has launched a campaign to provide energy for all and our friends at the ONE Campaign have issued an Energy Poverty Challenge (see Michael Elliott’s video here). According to ONE, some 70% of Africans don’t have access to modern [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Wednesday , June 20, 2012 WATCH SIMPLE CONTRIBUTIONS FOR EMPLOYEES WITH ANNUAL SALARY Every time I think that I have a good grasp on the tax law I read something that humbles . me Recently I read a article on SIMPLE IRA plans which surprised . me Matches must be based on a participant’s annual salary , according to IRS , even if the employee joins or leaves the plan in . midyear For example if a worker with a salary of 60,000 joins the plan on Oct . 1 and contributes 2,000 for the rest
Fundamentals of periodontal instrumentation & advanced root instrumentation / Jill S. Nield-Gehrig.
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The seventh edition of Peridontal Instrumentationand Advanced Root Instrumentation continues in the tradition of bringing faculty and students everything they need to understand instrumentation and put knowledge into practice. Taking a highly visual, step-by-step approach, this title is an easy-to-use guide [...]
By Vijaya Ramachandran - This is a joint post with Julie Walz. On January 12, 2010, at 16:53 hours, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the city of Port-au-Prince, killing over 200,000 people and leaving several million homeless. Foreign aid poured into Haiti, at the rate of almost a thousand dollars per Haitian. For the past two years, we have [...]By Victoria Fan - Saving kids: Who doesn’t want to do that? Though relatively uncontroversial (say, compared to saving drug addicts and sex workers), the agenda for child survival is not new. In fact, it’s a (relatively) old agenda in global health, arguably dating back to the time of UNICEF’s third Executive Director James Grant (1980-1995) who pushed to [...]By Kimberly Ann Elliott - The G20 leaders at the summit in Los Cabos, Mexico are no doubt focused on the global economic slowdown and ongoing Eurozone crisis, but an ad hoc group of donors took time on Monday to announce the launch of a concrete development deliverable. The governments of Australia, Canada, Italy, the United Kingdom, and United States, [...]
And so the 24-hour Twitterstorm against fossil fuel subsidies is over. And with an amazing rate of 3+ tweets per second, the storm certainly didn’t go unnoticed. The campaign which was launched yesterday by 350.org, Avaaz, Greenpeace, and other environmental … 
By Lawrence MacDonald - IMF managing director Christine Lagarde startled IFI watchers last week by warning at a CGD-hosted speech that the world faces “a triple crisis—an economic crisis, an environmental crisis and, increasing, a social crisis.” Lagarde’s remarks, which I report on at greater length here, would not have been newsworthy coming from the head of an international [...]
A 24-hour “storm” against fossil fuel subsidies was launched today by 350.org, Avaaz, Greenpeace, and other environmental organizations on the popular social network site Twitter. The event is expected to involve hundreds of thousands of people from around the world … 
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: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Friday , June 15, 2012 CORPORATE AUDITS ARE COMING The IRS just announced that they started two rounds of random audits starting in . April About 2,500 small corporations assets of less than 250,000 will be eyed as part of the Service’s national research audit . program Tax returns from 2010 will be . reviewed A set of audits also is on tap for corporations with assets of more than 10 million and up to 100 . million The IRS will check a sampling of their returns for a five-year period ,
By Justin Sandefur - This is a joint post with Milan Vaishnav. One of the biggest experiments in development economics is about to begin on Honduras’s Northern Coast. Honduras has altered its constitution to open the way to ceding a large tract of land to build a new “Special Economic Zone”, modeled on NYU economist Paul Romer’s idea of [...]By John May - At the end of the month, the last senior demographer at the World Bank will leave on retirement, cementing the erosion of the Bank’s technical cutting edge in demography and stirring the question: How will the World Bank understand key development challenges without demographic expertise in-house? And without this knowledge, how will the Bank advise [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Thursday , June 7, 2012 WASHINGTON READY FOR FARM BILL Hoosier Ag Today HoosierAgToday.com reports , The Senate's new version of the Farm Bill will see action the Senate floor this month , perhaps as early as this week . According to the article , Senate Ag Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow D-MI told reporters on Monday that Senate leadership is ready to bring the bill to the floor for quick action . The story notes that Stabenow is expecting two or three weeks to get the bill passedBy Victoria Fan - This is a joint post with Kate McQueston. Afghanistan accounted for 15 percent of all U.S. economic assistance allocated in FY2012, amounting to 2 billion dollars. USAID has contributed at least 15 billion in aid to Afghanistan since 2001, with cumulative investments in the health sector at nearly 1 billion. But the impact of these [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Wednesday , June 6, 2012 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS ATTACK CROP INSURANCE INDUSTRY Politico Politico.com reports that environmentalists are taking aim at the crop insurance industry , seeking to bolster the case for a cap on premium subsidies when the Senate farm bill hits the floor in June . According to the story , environmental activists say Washington is too quick to help large-scale farm production at the expense of investments in conservation and the land itself . The proposed Senate