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Backer, Larry Catá and Haddad, Nabih and Teraoka, Tomonori and Wang, Keren, Democratizing International Business and Human Rights by Catalyzing Strategic Litigation: The Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the U.N. Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights from the Bottom Up (September 14, 2013). Available at SSRN “With the June 2011 endorsement of the U.N. …
“Between 2009 and 2012, the federal government recorded the largest budget deficits relative to the size of the economy since 1946, causing federal debt to soar. Federal debt held by the public is now about 73 percent of the economy’s annual output, or gross domestic product (GDP). That percentage is higher than at any point …
Ellen Nakashima – Washington Post: “A federal surveillance court on Tuesday released a declassified opinion upholding the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s sweeping collection of billions of Americans’ phone records for counterterrorism purposes. The gathering of “all call detail records” from phone companies is justified as long as the government can show that it …
Focus on manager’s role could spark improvement in companies’ ability to manage change “While employers believe a majority of their change management programs succeed initially, a new survey by global professional services company Towers Watson reveals that only one-quarter of organizations are able to keep the momentum going over the long term. The survey blames …
BIS Working Papers: Order Flow and the Real: Indirect Evidence of the Effectiveness of Sterilized Interventions Interventions and inflation expectations in an inflation targeting economy The impact of pre-announced day-to-day interventions on the Colombian exchange rate On central bank interventions in the Mexican peso/dollar foreign exchange market Asymmetric effects of FOREX intervention using intraday data: …
September 2013 Quarterly Review: Markets precipitate tightening, 15 September 2013 “Higher yields in advanced economies generated serious tremors in emerging markets. Cross-border claims of BIS reporting banks were broadly stable in the first quarter of 2013. Banks redirected lending from the advanced economies to emerging markets, especially to China, Brazil and Russia. Japanese banks returned …
More Than 1 Million U.S. Residents Speak Vietnamese at Home, Census Bureau Reports More Than 1 Million U.S. Residents Speak Korean at Home, Census Bureau Reports Nearly 3 Million U.S. Residents Speak Chinese at Home, Census Bureau Reports
“This report presents data on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in the United States based on information collected in the 2013 and earlier Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplements (CPS ASEC) conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. Summary of findings: Real median household income in 2012 was not statistically different from the 2011 …
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: “Very timely case-by-case data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) show that no more than 14 percent of the “detainers” issued by the government in FY 2012 and the first four months of FY 2013 met the agency’s stated goal of targeting individuals who pose a serious threat to public safety …
Executive Office of the President, September 2013 “Five years ago this week, a financial crisis unlike any in generations rocked Wall Street, turning a recession that was already hammering Main Street into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. In the months before President Obama took office, the economy was shrinking at a rate …
