New York Academy of Sciences Receives Stevens Initiative Funding for Program to Virtually Connect Young People Around the World
Newswise New York, NY, April 7, 2021
–– Today, the Stevens Initiative announced its support of the New York Academy of Science’s Junior Academy program. The New York Academy of Sciences is one of 19 grantees named a 2021 Stevens Initiative grantee.
“People-to-people exchanges are critical to advancing global peace and understanding,” said Matthew Lussenhop, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. “Through early adoption of virtual exchanges, the Stevens Initiative has elevated technology to foster collaboration between students in the United States and counterparts in the Middle East and North Africa.”
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The U.K is the Regional Final host for the U.N. Nobel Prize for Students with a $1m reward to end World Hunger. By Fidelia Amezhinim Job on 2nd April 2020
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Bretton Woods Committee has formed a working group of senior bankers, academics and lawyers to propose ways to resolve a rise in sovereign debt distress in emerging markets as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The influential U.S.-based non-profit organisation said it will examine how to promote greater transparency around sovereign debt and achieve equitable burden sharing among all creditors, namely official, bilateral and private sector.
Poor nations around the world are battling a large build-up in debt resulting from lower economic growth and higher budget deficits as the coronavirus crisis tightened its grip.