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Item Brick by Brick: Building Social Capital Through Artist Agreements in Community Theater(2019-05) Davidoff, Naomi; Browne, Rachelle; Lucas, Gregory; Ewell, Maryo; MA in Arts AdministrationThis paper highlights the importance of creating effective written agreements between authors, composers, lyricists, and nonprofit community theaters. Nonprofit community theaters, by assuming responsibility to produce agreements that benefit and protect both the artist and the arts organization, create relationships that strengthen social capital, supporting strong communities and a development of the local creative economy. By addressing specific agreement protections for both the artist and the organization, community theaters can further their mission, establish trust, and avoid legal risk. Nonprofit community theaters can better serve their artists by reducing barriers for agreement negotiations through encouraging legal education, navigating power dynamics, and engaging in active listening. This paper cites research on social capital, copyright law, employed contracts in nonprofit and commercial settings, and creative economic development. The paper concludes with recommendations for nonprofit community theaters when engaging authors, composers, and lyricists in the creation of an original work.Item How Does Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Affect GDP per Capita and Trade Volume in Land Locked Developing Countries in Asia, Africa, and South America?(2022-05-25) Regmi, Anubhooti; Safner, Ryan; Economics Department; Departmental HonorsThis paper aims to quantify the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on Trade volume and GDP per Capita. Due to lack direct access to the warm waters, high transport and transit costs land locked developing countries are at a significant economic disadvantage compared to the rest of the world. In quantifying the effect of ICT on economic growth and trade volume, I employ a two-way fixed effect model to quantify the effect of ICT growth on trade volume and GDP per Capita. I use secondary data from the World Bank Database and International Telecommunication Union. This paper aims to quantify the effect of ICT development in terms different ICT indicators. Indicators required for enabling infrastructure or the adoption of technology among the population as identified by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) are Fixed-telephone subscriptions, Mobile-cellular subscriptions, Percentage of Individuals using the Internet, Fixed-broadband subscriptions, Mobile-broadband subscriptions, and international bandwidth. This paper applied annual data across a timespan of 14 years, from 2007 to 2020. When regressed GDP per capita and trade volume against all the independent variables and co-variate I find that any one percent Mobile Cellular subscription increases GDP per capita and trade volume by 0.156% and 0.421% respectively.