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The 2024 Award In Economics

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to three researchers for their studies on how institutions are formed and their impact on social welfare. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson…

Local Community Development Meetings

As part of the series of Local Community Development meetings, EDF hosted Dr. Christabell P J, an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Kerala, India, on September 7, 2022. Her presentation focused on Kudumbashree, a…

EDF in September

Local Community Development: From Khorramshahr to Zahedan Through the efforts of local NGO Bahar -e- Khorramshahr, EDF, and trained local facilitators, a group of women in Sarhanieh, peripheral settlements of Khoramshahr city, managed to initiate a collective business. These hardworking…

EDF in August

Local Community Development: facilitation and institutionalization Training Local Facilitators – a new project Training Local Facilitators is a newly defined project that targets South Khorasan, Sistan and Baluchistan, and South Khouzestan provinces of Iran. This online program is a collective…

EDF’s Response to Coronavirus

As the world faces the COVID-19 pandemic, societies have to endure overwhelming social and economic challenges in addition to dealing with the worse public health crisis of the century. The coronavirus crisis in multiple and overlapping dimensions and levels affects…

EDF in July

Our monthly activity report, July 2020 Local Community Development: local NGOs, collective support, and continuing the path of empowerment Another branch of Hoda House established this time in Negor city, Sistan and Balouchestan province of Iran. This local nonprofit is…

The Entrepreneurship Lab in Schools

The Entrepreneurship Room in Schools activities has been continued by holding nationwide workshops. These workshops include: "Methods of Promoting Entrepreneurship in Schools, Basic Concepts of Business & Entrepreneurship, Market analysis & Value proposition, Issue resolution & Creative solutions ". 60…