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Looking to 2060: Long-term growth prospects for the world “The next 50 years will see major changes in country shares in world GDP. On the basis of 2005 purchasing power parities (PPPs), China is projected to surpass the Euro Area in a year or so and the United States in a few more years, to …
Thinking Like Your Client: Strategic Planning in Law Firms – A report from ALM Legal Intelligence, October 2012. “LexisNexis has spent the past few years highlighting the difference between the practice of law and the business of law; and the lackluster economic conditions over that same time span have only served to reinforce how important …
Press release: “North America leads shift in global energy balance, IEA says in latest World Energy Outlook – The global energy map is changing in dramatic fashion, the International Energy Agency said as it launched the 2012 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO). The Agency’s flagship publication, released today in London, said these changes …
Via LLRX – Litigation, trial and pre-trail iPad apps for lawyers: One of the most popular and rapidly growing categories of apps for lawyers are those developed for litigation, during trials and during the pretrial discovery phase. In this article, attorney, legal blogger and legal tech expert Nicole Black recommends more than a dozen affordable, …
CRS – Federal Employees Health Benefits Program(FEHBP): Available Health Insurance Options, Annie L. Mach, Analyst in Health Care Financing, November 6, 2012 “FEHBP is generally available to employees, annuitants, and their dependents. Eligible individuals may elect coverage in an approved health benefits plan for either individual or family coverage. For the 2013 plan year, there …
“How do the digital footprints of Internet and cellphone users affect privacy, and what impact does this have on freedom of expression? These questions lie at the heart of a new study released by UNESCO this week…This publication seeks to identify the relationship between freedom of expression and Internet privacy, assessing where they support or …
The liquidity consequences of the euro area sovereign debt crisis, by William A Allen and Richhild Moessner, Working Papers No 390, November 2012 “We examine the liquidity effects of the euro area sovereign debt crisis, including its effects on euro area banks as a group, on intra-euro area financial flows, on the supply of and …
Improving the BIS international banking statistics, CGFS Publications No 47, November 2012 “This report documents a series of enhancements of the BIS international banking statistics (IBS) that have recently been endorsed by the Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS) and are designed to make significant and long-lasting improvements to the IBS. The report provides …
CRS – The Federal Employees Compensation Act (FECA): The Federal Employees Compensation Act, November 7, 2012 “The Federal Employees Compensation Act (FECA) is the workers compensation program for federal employees. Like all workers compensation programs, FECA pays disability, survivors, and medical benefits, without fault, to employees who are injured or become ill in the course …
News release: “Financial disclosure laws requiring public officials to file a statement of their assets, liabilities and interests can make corruption easier to detect. However, a new World Bank database finds that although 78 percent of countries covered by the database have financial disclosure systems, only 36 percent systematically check public servants disclosures for irregularities …
conceptClassifier for SharePoint 2010 White Paper – The Optimal Solution for Leveraging SharePoint to Manage Unstructured Content, Prepared by: Concept Searching “The purpose of this white paper is to provide a broad overview of conceptClassifier for SharePoint and the key functionality available in the product that is still unique in the industry, and to explain …
“Climate change can reasonably be expected to increase the frequency and intensity of a variety of potentially disruptive environmental events-slowly at first, but then more quickly. It is prudent to expect to be surprised by the way in which these events may cascade, or have far-reaching effects. Over the coming decade, some climate-related events will …
