Indeed this was foreshadowed. It is an assessment conducted by the oecd in 24 countries so we are being compared to the countrys you see in yellow. Russias data will come in next year and will be added in and there will be another round of countries that will be added to this database, looking at this every ten years. This first report is a baseline to see how we are doing. It has a lot of sample in it. You can see how many hundreds of thousands are in the database. It is looking at skills in three domains, literacy, numerous sea and problemsolving in a Technology Rich environment, it also has some of what we call employability skills, cooperation, teamwork, persistence kind of skills listed in the assessment as well. In the u. S. The first wave of samples was 5,000. It is nationally representative but not large enough to drill down into some of the smaller subgroups you may be interested in but we have another way of being collected by the department of education so we see they are ad
For an International Event of this magnitude, which russians clip quote russians had to deal with. Of course, that is after having invaded afghanistan, which, of course, led to the essentially the creation of the muhajir dean of the mujahedin and much of the problems we have today. So the answer is no. One can juan can speak to this more effectively. We never know the number of successes in preventing terrorist attacks. We only know about the failures by simply the fact that we saw significant failures in volgograd three times at the end of last year, one in october and two december. Two in december. The daily bombings and problems that there are in the north caucuses, its not the frequency that we are seeing in iraq right now. We listening were listening to the radio and there are 25 car bombings a day, approximately. So magnitude, for sure, is a no. The capacity of the fsb is very, very hard to say. To get back to juans point earlier, you know, the fact that the russians have been re
Bob will speak on innovative publicprivate partnerships. Thank you very much. I will try to be brief. I think of it as a bit of an onlution in the way we Work Community development are increasingly heading. For years, housing has been a cornerstone of the work that many banks have done in Community Development. Iti, it has been an anchor. In terms of the work that many institutions have has been supported by the Community Reinvestment act. As important as it is, sometimes it traps funds in geographies where it is needed, but we cannot go beyond that. Institutions go where and do that sort of investing more it is greatest need, not where there is just a regulatory incentive to do it. Housing has been a cornerstone of our work and secretary him. An, we worked with building innovation. One of the things about Community Development has been that it has been very cylert. Sikloed. Often, it was directly with Community Organizations not necessarily in consultation or alignment with the Mayors
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