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Economic Implications of Recent and Anticipated EPA Regulations Affecting the Electricity Sector, October 31, 2012 “In this report prepared for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a NERA team led by Senior Vice Presidents and Environment Group Co-Heads Dr. David Harrison and Dr. Anne E. Smith evaluates the potential energy and economic impacts of …
Counting Electoral Votes: An Overview of Procedures at the Joint Session, Including Objections by Members of Congress, November 30, 2012 “The Constitution and federal law establish a detailed timetable following the presidential election during which time the members of the electoral college convene in the 50 state capitals and in the District of Columbia, cast …
Industrial Competitiveness and Technological Advancement: Debate Over Government Policy, Wendy H. Schacht, Specialist in Science and Technology Policy. December 3, 2012 “There is ongoing interest in the pace of U.S. technological advancement due to its influence on U.S. economic growth, productivity, and international competitiveness. Because technology can contribute to economic growth and productivity increases, congressional …
News release: “Today EFF posted several thousand pages of new drone license records and a new map that tracks the location of drone flights across the United States. These records, received as a result of EFFs Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), come from state and local law enforcement …
IMF Reforms: Issues for Congress, December 4, 2012 “In December 2010, the International Monetary Fund (IMF, the Fund)s Board of Governors, the institutions highest governing body, agreed to a reform package that addresses two major concerns about the institution: (1) that the size of the IMFs resources has not kept pace with increased economic activity …
WSJ.com: “Women account for a third of the nation’s lawyers and doctors, a major shift from a generation ago when those professions were occupied almost exclusively by men, new Census figures show. Women’s share of jobs in the legal and medical fields climbed during the past decade even as their share of the overall workforce …
National Security Archive: “A government-wide Freedom of Information Act audit by the National Security Archive has found that sixty-two out of ninety-nine government agencies have not updated their FOIA regulations since US Attorney General Eric Holder issued his March 19, 2009 FOIA memorandum to all heads of executive departments instructing them to make discretionary FOIA …
Shadow Banking: Economics and Policy. Stijn Claessens, Zoltan Pozsar, Lev Ratnovski, and Manmohan Singh, December 4, 2012 “Shadow banking is often seen as a form of regulatory arbitrage. It surely has such aspects, and they played a significant role in the run-up to global financial crisis. But beyond that, shadow banking also provides important financial …
Operationalising the selection and application of macroprudential instruments, CGFS Publications No 48, December 2012 This report – prepared by a Working Group chaired by José-Manuel González-Páramo, formerly European Central Bank – aims to help policymakers in operationalising macroprudential policies. Specifically, it draws out three high-level criteria that are key in determining the selection and application …
CRS – The U.S. Income Distribution and Mobility: Trends and International Comparisons. Linda Levine, Specialist in Labor Economics, November 29, 2012 The historically slow rebound in the labor market from the 2007-2009 recession appears to be partly responsible for the current focus of some within the public policy community on the unequal distribution of the …
“The key to leverage extractive resources to attain beneficial development outcomes is to increase accountability and transparency as well as improve governance in the sector. A new publication, Implementing EITI for Impact: A Handbook for Policymakers and Stakeholders, analyzes the importance of implementing the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)to domestic economies, governance structures, and local …
The Global Carbon Budget 2012. The Global Carbon Projects most recent analysis by scientists from the United States, Norway, Australia, France and the United Kingdom published in the current issue of the journal Nature Climate Change shows that a global economy fueled with coal, oil and natural gas is putting increasing pressure on the global …
