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“Global Employment Trends 2013 highlights how the crisis is increasingly raising trend unemployment rates, partly driven by sectoral shifts of jobs that had been triggered by the crisis. Despite historically low interest rates in many advanced economies, investment and employment have not shown tangible signs of recovery. Depressed growth prospects have started to spread to …
World Bank – “According to the paper titled High-Speed Rail, Regional Economics, and Urban Development in China, there is an emerging consensus that major transport investments may have significant impacts that are not well captured through conventional cost-benefit analysis. Conventional economic evaluations of major transport infrastructure investments tend to focus on the direct costs and …
Monetary policy in a changing economy – Speech given by Ian McCafferty, External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England, At Bloomberg, London, 18 January 2013 “Speaking to an audience of economists and financial experts at Bloomberg on 18 January, Ian McCafferty gives his first speech as a member of the Monetary Policy …
Final guidance – Risks to customers from financial incentives, January 2013. “This paper gives examples of how financial incentive schemes can be a key driver of mis-selling and how firms are not adequately managing these risks. It marks the start of a programme of work to reduce these risks. This programme will be taken forward …
Van der Heijden, Jeroen, Looking Forward and Sideways: Trajectories of New Governance Theory (January 21, 2013). General Subserie Research Paper No. 2013-01. Available at SSRN “New governance has emerged as a novel paradigm to public problem solving, with scholars in the fields of politics, public administration and law analysing and debating it for over two …
Special Report – “According to the latest national data, overall death rates from cancer declined from 2000 through 2009 in the United States, maintaining a trend seen since the early 1990s. Mortality fell for most cancer types, including the four most common types of cancer in the United States (lung, colon and rectum, breast, and …
Reforming Corporate Financial Reporting – Lessons from REPARIS for Other Technical Assistance Programs, December 2012. “The international financial crisis has had a serious impact on the countries of the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. Growth is slower, unemployment is higher, public debt has soared, and trust in the stability of banks has been eroded. …
Via Public Intelligence: “The following request for participants (RFP) was issued by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission on June 8, 2012. The RFP concerns the construction of a wireless control and communications system for managing the citys future network of dimmable LED streetlights. The RFP states that future uses for the secure wireless network …
The Financial Policy Committees powers to supplement capital requirements – A Draft Policy Statement, January 14, 2013 “The interim Financial Policy Committee (FPC) is today publishing a draft Policy Statement explaining the planned powers for the FPC to give directions setting extra capital requirements for the purposes of financial stability. The statutory FPC will be …
