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“All of Statistics Canadas standard online products, including the census, socioeconomic and geographic data, will be offered to the public for free starting February 2012, Embassy has learned. While Statistics Canada has been working towards opening up more of its data for several years, it still currently charges for a portion of its online data, …
Behind Closed Doors at the White House: How Politics Trumps Protection of Public Health, Worker Safety, and the Environment, by Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) Member Scholar Rena Steinzor, CPR Intern Michael Patoka, and CPR Policy Analyst James Goodwin “In preparing the report, CPR researchers compiled a comprehensive database of OIRAs [The White House Office …
NYT DealBook: “Jed S. Rakoff, a judge for the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Manhattan, has rejected the proposed $285 million settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Citigroup related to the sale of mortgage securities. Here is the judges 15-page opinion, which concluded that the pact was neither reasonable, nor …
“This memorandum begins an executive branch wide effort to reform records management policies and practices. Improving records management will improve performance and promote openness and accountability by better documenting agency actions and decisions. Records transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provide the prism through which future generations will understand and learn from …
“More than usual, world economic prospects depend on events, the nature and timing of which are highly uncertain. The projections presented in this Economic Outlook portray a scenario that rests on the assumptions that monetary policy remains very supportive (and, in some places, becomes more so), that sovereign debt and banking sector problems in the …
Transition in Afghanistan: Looking Beyond 2014, November 21, 2011 “Transitionthe full assumption of Afghan responsibility for security by end-2014, the drawdown of most international military forces and the likely reduction in overall assistancewill have a profound impact on Afghanistans economic and political landscape, extending well beyond 2014. This study assesses the medium to longer term …
UN General Assembly, Human Rights Council Seventeenth special session, Report of the independent international commission of inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, November 23, 2011. “The deteriorating situation in the Syrian Arab Republic prompted the Human Rights Council to establish an independent international commission of inquiry to investigate alleged violations of human rights since March …
Housing Busts and Household Mobility: An Update, by Fernando Ferreira, Joseph Gyourko, and Joseph Tracy, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, “This paper provides updated estimates of the impact of three financial frictionsnegative equity, mortgage lock-in, and property tax lock-inon household mobility. We add the 2009 wave of the American Housing Survey (AHS) to our …
