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Trade and transport facilitation assessment : a practical toolkit for country implementation
The Trade and Transport Facilitation audit toolkit provides a simple and cost-effective instrument to analyze bottlenecks in international supply chains and to prepare corrective measures. Its key insight is that considerable knowledge can be easily obtained by interviewing key participants in the commercial or procedural transactions that combine to form international supply chains. These participants include private service providers such as freight forwarders, exporters, transporters and bankers as well as public agencies such as customs, port authorities, and transport regulators. The first chapters introduce the conceptual framework and some of the reasons for conducting an audit. The third describes the implementation of the audit including planning and scheduling, resource requirements and organization of the analysis and preparation of the reports. The annexes provide additional information on the concept, the methodology and content of the audit. The Interview Guides provides the scope for the meetings and checklists for all categories of interviewees and field visits.
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Leading and Managing Today's Independent School: A Qualitative Analysis of the Skills and Practices of Experienced Heads of Independent Schools in the New York Metropolitan Area
This article presents the findings of a qualitative study conducted in 2014 with 16 experienced heads of school in the New York metropolitan area. The study was designed to better understand the skills and practices that they view as critical to leading and managing independent schools. The data collected speak to each head's ability to manage the school's leadership team and board of trustees, communicate effectively and empathically with all constituencies, and build meaningful relationships based on trust. Due to the study's limited geographical scope, further qualitative research is needed to build a more complete understanding of independent school headship. The findings, however, provide a framework for leadership skills and models of tried management practices that may enhance the capacity of school heads, present and future.
Journal Article
Trade and Transport Facilitation Assessment
Trade facilitation and logistics have become an important policy area in development. Supply chain constraints are now recognized as a major impediment to export led growth. The Trade and Transport Facilitation Assessment (TTFA) is a practical tool to identify the obstacles to the fluidity of trade supply chains. Taking the perspective of service delivery to traders, the TTFA assessment is founded on facts and data collected through a series of meetings and interviews with the main public and private participants to these international supply chains. They include customs and other border agencies, transport regulators, freight forwarders, transport operators, ports, and others. The toolkit helps design plans of action to improve logistics performance among its three main dimensions: infrastructure, services, and procedures and processes. This new edition of the toolkit provides an opportunity not only to reflect the changes in the trade environment and the need for additional features in the toolkit, but also to benefit from the experiences of the assessments already undertaken based on the original edition. In 2001, the Bank issued a first TTFA toolkit based on an original concept developed by John Raven. This initial concept was extensively revised to give the new toolkit an increased operational focus. The semantic change from audit to assessment also reflects the expansion in scope and the emphasis on development of implementable actions beyond the initial diagnosis.
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Trade and transport facilitation assessment
The Trade and Transport Facilitation audit toolkit provides a simple and cost-effective instrument to analyze bottlenecks in international supply chains and to prepare corrective measures. Its key insight is that considerable knowledge can be easily obtained by interviewing key participants in the commercial or procedural transactions that combine to form international supply chains. These participants include private service providers such as freight forwarders, exporters, transporters and bankers as well as public agencies such as customs, port authorities, and transport regulators. The first chapters introduce the conceptual framework and some of the reasons for conducting an audit. The third describes the implementation of the audit including planning and scheduling, resource requirements and organization of the analysis and preparation of the reports. The annexes provide additional information on the concept, the methodology and content of the audit. The Interview Guides provides the scope for the meetings and checklists for all categories of interviewees and field visits
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Leading and managing today's independent school: A qualitative analysis of the skills and practices of experienced heads of independent schools in the New York Metropolitan Area
The purpose of this qualitative study was to engage with 16 experienced heads of school in the New York metropolitan area in order to understand the skills and practices that they view as critical to leading and managing today’s independent school. This study was predicated on the commonly accepted proposition that over the years, the role of the head of school underwent a radical transformation due to demographic, societal, technological, and economic factors, most notably the recession of 2008, and that consequently the fundamental leadership skills and management practices required for the job had changed. However, while the context in which independent schools operate may in fact be different, the skills and practices used by heads of school may not have changed as much as might be generally believed. The findings from the interviews with the study participants were consistent across heads and schools, regardless of the impact of the 2008 recession. The data collected speak to the head’s ability to manage the school’s leadership team and board of trustees, communicate effectively and empathically with all constituents, and build meaningful relationships based on trust. All the participants underlined their initial lack of preparation for a job that they had to learn at the “school of hard knocks”. Both preparation for headship and leadership development are critical, in particular as NAIS reports that current heads are anticipated to retire in large numbers in the near future and that few traditional candidates are expressing interest in joining the ranks of heads of school. The principal application of the findings of this study is to inform leadership development programs regarding the skills that should be at the core of the learning of aspiring and current heads of school. Such programs should focus on team management skills, relational skills, board management skills, and communication skills. Due to the study’s limited geographical scope, further qualitative research is needed to build a more complete understanding of independent school headship. The findings, however, provide a framework for leadership skills and models of tried management practices that may enhance the capacity of school heads, present and future.
Dissertation
Reply: Letter: Tackling road deaths
The World Bank agrees that traffic deaths and injuries in poor countries are far too high (Road death toll soars in poorest countries, 13 September).
Newspaper Article
Differential effect of dietary antioxidant classes (carotenoids, polyphenols, vitamins C and E) on lutein absorption
Lutein is assumed to protect the human retina from blue light and oxidative stress and diminish the incidence of age-related macular degeneration. This antioxidant is commonly ingested with other dietary antioxidants. The aim of the present study was to assess whether the main dietary antioxidants, i.e. carotenoids, polyphenols and vitamins C and E, affect lutein absorption. We measured the effect of adding a mixture of antioxidants (500 mg vitamin C, 67 mg (100 IU) vitamin E and 1 g polyphenols) to a lutein-containing meal (18 mg) on the postprandial lutein response in the chylomicron-rich fraction in eight healthy men. Lutein response was weakest ( − 23 %; P = 0·07) after ingestion of the meal containing antioxidants (21·9 (sem 4·6) v. 28·4 (sem 7·2) nmol × h/l). To assess the effect of each class of antioxidants and potential interactions, we subsequently evaluated the effect of various combinations of antioxidants on lutein uptake by human intestinal Caco-2 TC-7 cells. A full factorial design showed that both a mixture of polyphenols (gallic acid, caffeic acid, (+)-catechin and naringenin) and a mixture of carotenoids (lycopene plus β-carotene) significantly (P < 0·05) impaired lutein uptake by ( − 10 to − 30 %), while vitamins C and E had no significant effect. Subsequent experiments showed that the aglycone flavanone naringenin was the only polyphenol responsible for the effect of the polyphenol mixture, and that the carotenoid effect was not carotenoid species-dependent. Taken together, the present results suggest that lutein absorption is not markedly affected by physiological concentrations of vitamins C and E but can be impaired by carotenoids and naringenin.
Journal Article