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Research Archive.
A comprehensive collection of policy briefs, memos, and applied research case studies, along with undergraduate research papers.
The complete list 12 pieces
- Turning the RIPTA Bus Around: A Reliability & Restoration PlanTransitManagement Plan
- The Landscape of Health MisinformationPublic HealthPolicy Framework
- Algorithmic Rent-Setting & Housing EquityHousingBrief
- Systemic Substitution Asymmetry and Infrastructural Lock-InEnvironmentBrief
- Correcting the Legislative Information MarketCongressMemo
- Integrating Dynamic Scoring into Fiscal NotesFiscalBrief
- A Strategy for Engaging Stakeholders on Lead in Drinking WaterPublic HealthBrief
- Journey to Sovereignty: The Road to the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation WarHistoryPaper
- Media Censorship in Bangladesh: A Threat to Democracy and Human RightsPress FreedomPaper
- Collective Bargaining, Government Policy and Gender Equality in Bangladesh and PakistanLabor & GenderPaper
- Enhancing Mental Health Support at UMD: A Proposal for Long-Term Counseling ServicesHigher EducationPaper
- Expanding Tesla’s Market Share in China: Strategic Approaches and ExecutionBusinessPaper
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Fiscal PolicyDynamic Scoring
Integrating Dynamic Scoring into Fiscal Notes
A proposal to Maryland's Department of Legislative Services to adopt a 15-year dynamic scoring model for major fiscal notes, beginning with the Blueprint for Maryland's Future. Argues that the state's current five-year projection window obscures over a billion dollars in long-run costs and benefits.
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Public Health
A Strategy for Engaging Stakeholders on Lead in Drinking Water
A stakeholder engagement strategy addressing Rhode Island's lead service line crisis, where an estimated 75,000 to 120,000 lead pipes remain in the ground. Proposes a coordinated inter-agency approach targeting a 20% annual pipe replacement rate.
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HistoryBangladesh
Journey to Sovereignty: The Road to the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
An undergraduate paper tracing the Language Movement, economic disparity, the Six-Point Movement, the 1970 cyclone and election, and Operation Searchlight. Presented in class and graded A, with the written evaluation included.
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Press FreedomBangladesh
Media Censorship in Bangladesh: A Threat to Democracy and Human Rights
How the ICT Act 2006 and the Digital Security Act 2018 have been used against journalists and activists, and how conglomerate ownership drives self-censorship in Bangladesh’s press.
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Labor PolicyGender Equality
Collective Bargaining, Government Policy and Gender Equality in Bangladesh and Pakistan
A comparison of female labor force participation, unemployment and sector employment in Bangladesh and Pakistan, read through Gendered Political Economy, Social Reproduction Theory and Decent Work frameworks.
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Higher EducationMental Health Policy
Enhancing Mental Health Support at UMD: A Proposal for Long-Term Counseling Services
A proposal to the UMD Counseling Center on the gap left by an eight-session cap, drawing on multi-track, virtual, peer-support and referral models from other universities.
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Business StrategyInternational Business
Expanding Tesla’s Market Share in China: Strategic Approaches and Execution
A PESTEL, Five Forces and SWOT/TOWS analysis of how Tesla can align corporate social responsibility with its business strategy in China.
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- National Martyrs’ Memorial, Savar by Pinu Rahman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and tinted.
- “Freedom of Speech” graffiti, Baily Road, Dhaka by Salim Khandoker, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and tinted.
- Garment factory in Bangladesh by Tareq Salahuddin, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and tinted.
- McKeldin Mall, University of Maryland, College Park by Radhika Kshirsagar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and tinted.
- Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai, aerial view by 中国新闻社 (China News Service), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and tinted.
- Maryland State House from College Ave by Martin Falbisoner, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and tinted.
- Lead service line in Washington, D.C. (DC WASA lead water main) by IntangibleArts, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (originally on Flickr). Cropped and tinted.