获奖名单:2021 SDcamps秋季赛|美国藤校演讲与辩论赛中国选拔赛获奖名单

2021 SDcamps秋季赛|美国藤校演讲与辩论赛中国选拔赛的各组别奖项已全部决出,12月11-12日辩论赛/12月18-19日演讲比赛的获奖名单附后。 每一位参加12月11-12日辩论赛/12月18-19日演讲比赛的选手都展现出了各自的闪光点。SDcamps的舞台没有失败者,是否获奖远没有参赛体验和历练重要,每一个参赛选手都是精英。每个人都有属于自己的想法,都有不可替代的价值。 我们相信,登上我们舞台的选手经过不断的成长...

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正在报名:2022年哈佛/斯坦福等多项藤校赛事介绍及报名

2021-22美国藤校系列演讲与辩论赛 普林斯顿精英赛: 2021年12.3-5 哥伦比亚大学邀请赛: 2022年1月28-30 宾夕法尼亚大学精英赛: 2022年2月11-13 斯坦福大学邀请赛: 2022年2月12-14 哈佛大学锦标赛: 2022年2月18-21 PF Topics: 2021 November/December – Blockchain Resolved: Increased United States federal regulation of cryptocurrency transactions and/or assets will produce more benefits than har...

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赛事简报|乔治城秋季赛:2支中国队首次打入该项赛事的淘汰赛,1支打入16强!

10月8日-10日举行的乔治城秋季赛(Georgetown Fall 2021),2支中国队首次打入该项赛事的淘汰赛,其中1队打入16强,另一队在32强中排名第18: 余紫涵(深圳外国语学校)/徐涧宽(中关村一小):16强 Puzhao(Dulwich)/柴子轩(世青国际学校):32强(排名第18) 乔治城大学始建于1789年,有着特殊的“江湖”地位:这家大学是政治家和外交官的摇篮,其王牌专业国际关系、国际政治、外交,是绝对的全球的No.1,...

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赛事简报|杜克邀请赛:中国辩手首次打入个人积分榜前5!

 10月1日-3日举行的杜克邀请赛(DUKE INVITATIONAL 2021),我们选派的中国辩手袁佳颖首次在该项赛事中打入个人积分榜前5: 杜克邀请赛NPF辩手积分榜 杜克邀请赛不按年级分组,参赛选手以高中生居多。我们演讲和辩论的多组小选手均要与明显比自己年长很多的美国/加拿大选手对垒,同时要克服熬夜比赛带来的各种不便,各组选手的每一轮比赛都打得很艰苦。 胡宸语(石家庄外国语学校,初一)与队友袁佳颖(...

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2021秋季辩论与演讲精品课程

SDcamps•演辩营秋季辩论与演讲精品课程以专业的演讲和辩论教练为教练团队,采用成熟的培训课程体系,覆盖从小学1年级到中学生的年级组别,涵盖的培训课程内容包括入门班(1-3年级)、基础班(4-6年级)、中级班(7-9年级)、高级班/备赛班全部范围。 秋季新学期具体课程内容、时间及教练安排见后面内容。 小班授课,每班一般4-6人,不超过8人;专业教练团队,精英式教学方式,无论常规课程的学习还是特定赛...

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赛事盛宴:2021美国藤校系列演讲与辩论赛正在报名

2021美国藤校系列演讲与辩论赛 耶鲁邀请赛  9.17-19 杜克邀请赛  10.1-3 乔治城锦标赛  10.8-10 密歇根大学锦标赛  11.6-8 西雅图大学锦标赛  11.20-21 普林斯顿精英赛  12.3-5 Topics: September-October PF Resolved: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization should substantially increase its defense commitments to the Baltic states. 高含金量的美国本土国际性赛事,等你来战! 赛事简介 美国常春...

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潮平两岸阔,风正一帆悬|3年级的国际组冠军李恩佐

当他跳着灵动的街舞舞步,换身时尚潮人时;当他挥着灵巧的冰球球杆,置身力量的碰撞时,你很难想象到,这同时是一个3年级就已经FCE优秀、收获了一堆国内英语演讲与辩论赛的冠亚军、拿下西雅图大学中学生辩论锦标赛N56组别国际组冠军的风一样的少年——李恩佐。 5月16日结束的西雅图大学中学生辩论锦标赛,李恩佐和他的队友,2年级的刘俊嘉,和美国的学生直接对垒,四战三胜,代表SDcamps中国战队拿到了N56组...

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潮平两岸阔,风正一帆悬|2年级的国际组冠军刘俊嘉

5月16日结束的西雅图大学中学生辩论锦标赛,刘俊嘉和他的队友,3年级的李恩佐,和美国的学生直接对垒,四战三胜,代表SDcamps中国战队拿到了N56组别的国际组冠军。他们不但刷新了这个组别的参赛年龄记录,更是给这个国际组冠军立了一个很难超越的最小获得者记录。 是的,你没看错,刘俊嘉只有2年级,英语辩论赛从初中一直打到大学,已经收割了多项冠亚军。相对俊嘉的年龄而言,他是神级的存在;更神奇的是...

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美国教练带你飞!SDcamps•演辩营2021暑假辩论与演讲课程

SDcamps•演辩营2021暑期课程以美国本土的职业演讲和辩论教练为教练团队,采用美国成熟的培训课程体系,覆盖从小学1年级到中学生的年级组别,涵盖的培训课程内容包括入门班(1-3年级)、基础班(4-6年级)、中级班(7-9年级)、高级班/备赛班全部范围。 暑期具体课程内容、时间及教练安排见后面内容。 小班授课,每班一般4-6人,不超过8人;美国教练天团,精英式教学方式,无论常规课程的学习还是特定赛事的...

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How IMF programmes can increase corruption

Corruption is one of the greatest obstacles to economic development. It deprives nations of income to invest into public services, with adverse implications for education, health, well-being, and prosperity. The Global Economic Forum estimates that corruption costs the public coffers US$2.6 trillion a year. Why is corruption so difficult to control? Scholars have long blamed...

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How years of IMF prescriptions have hurt West African health systems

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) provides financial assistance to countries in economic trouble. But its policy proposals don’t always yield positive results for the countries it purports to help. For instance, critics have argued that the IMF inhibits government spending on public health and diverts resources from the health sector to repay external debt. We set out to...

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The IMF is showing some hypocrisy on inequality

“I hope people will listen now” said Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month. Lagarde was alluding to the wave of reactionary populism that’s currently sweeping the developed economies, and was harking back to her speech at Davos in 2013 when she warned that economic “inequality is cor...

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Why South Africa shouldn’t turn to the IMF for help

Two men sit at the roadside in the hope of being offered work. South Africa’s unemployment is moving towards 30%.   The view that South Africa should look towards the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to be rescued from the unfolding economic meltdown seems to be growing by the day. It has been touted in the most unlikeliest of places. Even the new Finance Minister Mal...

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Haiti’s deadly riots fueled by anger over decades of austerity and foreign interference

At least seven people are dead and Haitian Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant has resigned after weeks of violent protests in Haiti that were sparked by a sudden increase of fuel prices. Demonstrations began on July 6, when the Haitian government said that gas prices would go up 38 percent to US$4.60 per gallon because the International Monetary Fund, a major Haitian creditor...

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COVID-19 further exposes inequalities in the global financial system

To stem the economic fallout from COVID-19, developed countries have injected an unprecedented US$9 trillion into their economies. The International Monetary Fund has recommended sustained fiscal support, emphasizing greater spending on health care and environmental protection projects. Meanwhile, countries in the “global south” – broadly, low- and middle-income countries in...

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IMF says it cares about inequality. But will it change its ways?

The IMF headquarters in Washington DC. Shutterstock The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has become increasingly infatuated by the negative consequences of excessive inequality. This new-found mission is laudable, but neglects the manifold ways its own policy advice contributed to growing income inequality. As lender of last resort, the IMF provides countries in economic t...

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Oxfam Says IMF Loans Force Spending Cuts That Exacerbate Poverty

The vast majority of International Monetary Fund loans extended during the Covid-19 pandemic have suggested or demanded spending cuts that would worsen poverty and inequality, charity group Oxfam says. Seventy-six of the fund’s 91 loans since March have sought belt tightening, according to Oxfam. The result could be deep cuts to public healthcare and pensions; wage freezes a...

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The IMF is hurting countries it claims to help

Mark Weisbrot The fund’s loan agreement with Ecuador will worsen unemployment and poverty Ecuadorian police arrest a protestor during a demonstration against president Lenin Moreno’s austerity measures.  When people think of the damage that wealthy countries – typically led by the US and its allies – cause to people in the rest of the world, they probably think of warfare. H...

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Developing countries are sinking in a world awash in cash. Here’s what the US can do.

US President Joe Biden looks toward Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in Washington, U.S., February 5, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque The Biden administration has inherited a crisis in poor and middle-income countries, where the economic fallout from COVID-19 has pushed hundreds of millions of people into extreme poverty. It’s a crisis that cries out for global leadership, a...

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