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Japan’s Post-Triple-Disaster Growth Strategy, by Masahiro Kawai and Peter J. Morgan. Asian Development Bank Institute. August 28, 2012 “The repercussions of the Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011 spread far beyond the geographical areas directly affected. The disaster also highlighted Japan’s many other structural challenges besides reconstruction needs, including persistently low growth, population …
What is the near-term global economic outlook? An interim assessment, Pier Carlo Padoan OECD Deputy Secretary-General and Chief Economist, September 6, 2012. “The growth outlook is weak: The global economy has weakened since spring, led by developments in the euro area where recession is again taking hold. Economies both inside and outside the OECD area …
Matthew Broaddus, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities “On September 12, the Census Bureau will release estimates of the number of Americans with and without health insurance coverage in 2011, based on its annual Current Population Survey. Other survey data and historical trends provide clues as to what the Census data are likely to show. …
Declines in Unemployment Benefits and Government Employment Shaped Poverty Trends in 2011, Preliminary Data Suggest, by Arloc Sherman and Danilo Trisi, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, September 7, 2012 “A preliminary analysis of Census data for the first 11 months of 2011 (which are the latest data now available) indicates that the average share …
“Pubget develops cloud-based content access tools for scientists, researchers and libraries. The companys core product, pubget.com, is a free site for legally finding and directly retrieving research papers. [It is] the comprehensive source for science PDFs, including everything you’d find in Medline. We add 10,000 new papers each day…Pubget was purchased by Copyright Clearance Center, …
CRS – Primer on Disability Benefits: Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Umar Moulta-Ali, Analyst in Disability Policy, August 31, 2012 “Generally, the goal of disability insurance is to replace a portion of a workers income should illness or disability prevent him or her from working. Individuals may receive disability benefits …
“This is an executive summary of the 2012 APEC Economic Policy Report which will be published by early October 2012. The 2012 APEC Economic Policy Report assesses the progress made by APEC in the priority areas included in the ‘Ease of Doing Business’ initiative.”
Central Banking for Financial Stability in Asia, Asian Development Bank Institute Working Paper Series No. 377, Masahiro Kawai and Peter J. Morgan, August 2012 “A key lesson of the 20072009 global financial crisis (GFC) was the importance of containing systemic financial risk and the need for a macroprudential approach to surveillance and regulation that can …
Energy Information Administration: “Natural gas use for power generation rose this summer because of hot-weather-driven electricity demand for air conditioning coupled with low natural gas prices. According to Bentek Energy, estimated daily natural gas use to produce electric power (also called power burn) averaged 26.3 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) so far in 2012 …
Sliter, John R., ‘Techno-Risk – the Perils of Learning and Sharing Everything’ from a Criminal Information Sharing Perspective (September 9, 2012). 30th Symposium on Economic Crime in Cambridge, England on September 5th, 2012. Available at SSRN. “The author has extensive law enforcement experience and the paper is intended to provoke thought on the use of …
