Word: capping
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...trend is part of a larger movement toward voluntourism, i.e., trips with a heavy focus on volunteering. But unlike programs like Habitat for Humanity that pair weeklong projects with unglamorous accommodations, hotel-organized excursions generally take up no more than a day, and participants can cap off the experience back at the ranch with $15 cocktails and a night on high-thread-count sheets...
...play a bigger role in the economy. The average Chinese, he says, doesn't have as much cash to spend as many people think. Actual household income per capita is only about half of GDP per capita, compared to 80% or more in other major economies, placing "a cap," Huang says, on consumer spending. The problem is that income growth among rural dwellers and migrant workers badly trails that of residents of the major urban centers creating a mass of 900 million people who still tend to be very heavy savers. Huang suggests that China needs to act aggressively...
...course, called “Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice,” is part of a four-course series under the Child Advocacy Program (CAP) at the law school...
...CAP founder and Harvard Law School lecturer Jessica S. Budnitz said that the program exposes students to a variety of viewpoints...
...both Budnitz and Elizabeth Bartholet ’62, the faculty director of CAP, agreed that what they do is still not enough...