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Thursday, March 4, 2021 1.  New FTC officials announced. On Jan. 21, 2021, President Joseph Biden designated Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter as acting chair of the FTC. Slaughter, a Democrat, has served as an FTC commissioner since May 2018. On Jan. 25, 2021, FTC Chairwoman Slaughter announced a number of FTC staff leadership changes, including replacement appointments of the acting general counsel, acting directors of the FTC’s three operating bureaus (the Bureau of Consumer ...

Introduction Local governments are often the first to collapse when factions fight for territorial control. In post-conflict settings, the state is often unable to effectively reach parts of its territory for years. Given these challenges, it is no surprise that decentralization and local governance provisions are increasingly prominent in peace agreements and national post-conflict peacebuilding agendas. This online course explores how decentralization contributes to peacebuilding and identifi...

Santhom residents pine for roof over their heads Updated: Updated: They continue to live in crumbling dwellings with housing projects failing to take off Share Article AAA Long wait: The housing project for residents of Santhom colony at Mundamveli, launched in 2014, has not yet materialised.   | Photo Credit: THE HINDU They continue to live in crumbling dwellings with housing projects failing to take off Housing projects, even those that were inaugurated, have yet to come to the rescue of re...