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Crop Insurance in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Weather Index Insurance in Bangladesh

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By Jialu Li Edited by Courtney Schneider ______________________________________________________________________________ Agriculture is a main source of income for rural communities in many developing countries, where more than 2 billion people depend on smallholder farms for their livelihood.[1] However, the agricultural sector is also particularly risk-prone. All actors, from individual farmers to big food corporations, face uncertainties caused… Read more »

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The Executive Records Recovered from Mar-a-Lago and the C.I.A.’s Missing Informants

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Graphic by: Sarah Lu Written by: Domenic Boresta, Politics & Public & Nonprofit Management Edited by: Grant Ewing, Politics & Public & Nonprofit Management _____________________________________________________________________________   I. Sanctity of National Security Information In November 2020, then-President Donald J. Trump lost re-election to Joseph R. Biden. After leaving the Oval Office in January 2021, Mr. Trump… Read more »

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Psychiatric Boarding: Understanding Incentives between Payers, Providers, and Patients

Posted by Alicia Duran

The mental health system in the United States has historically lacked appropriate care for patients experiencing severe mental illness. During the 1960s, mental healthcare shifted from institutional settings to community-based services [1]. Although this shift gave patients with severe mental illness more autonomy over their care, it led to market forces driving a reduction in psychiatric beds without a parallel increase in support for community services [2]. As such, patients seeking preventative care for severe mental illness face long waitlists for community-based services; instead, these patients divert to ill-equipped emergency departments (EDs) for treatment of acute episodes but likewise wait long periods in hallways or other emergency room areas for an inpatient bed, also known as “boarding.”