Category «Economy»

Analyzing Food Security Using Household Survey Data

“Moltedo, Ana; Troubat, Nathalie; Lokshin, Michael; Sajaia, Zurab. 2014. Analyzing Food Security Using Household Survey Data : Streamlined Analysis with ADePT Software. Washington, DC: World Bank. “Since the end of the Second World War, the international community has been focusing on reducing the number and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. Over time it …

Subjects: Economy, Knowledge Management

Investing in Place: Two Generations’ View on the Future of Communities

[The American Planning Association] – APA’s 2014 research poll is designed to probe in more depth the relationship between planning in local communities and spurring of economic development. This poll attempts to better understand how two key demographic groups — Millennials (aged 21 to 34) and ‘Active Boomers’ (aged 50 to 65) with at least some college …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

Point of Sale disclosure in the insurance, banking and securities sectors – final report

“The Joint Forum released today its final report on Point of Sale Disclosure in the insurance, banking and securities sectors. The report identifies and assesses differences and gaps in regulatory approaches to point of sale (POS) disclosure for investment and savings products across the insurance, banking and securities sectors, and considers whether the approaches need to be further aligned …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

CBO’s Major Recurring Reports

“We’ve created a new collection to make it easier to find our major recurring reports. Looking for our Budget and Economic Outlook or Analysis of the President’s Budget? This new collection has links to versions of those reports that we’ve published since 2000 along with our other major recurring reports. Some documents you’ll find include: Budget and Economic Outlook …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

New GAO Reports – Advanced Imaging Tech, Commercial Aviation, Financial Literacy, NIH, Nuclear Weapons, OPM

ADVANCED IMAGING TECHNOLOGY: TSA Needs Additional Information before Procuring Next-Generation Systems, GAO-14-357:  Published: Mar 31, 2014. Publicly Released: Apr 30, 2014. COMMERCIAL AVIATION: Status of Air Service to Small Communities and the Federal Programs Involved, GAO-14-454T:  Published: Apr 30, 2014. Publicly Released: Apr 30, 2014. DEFENSE ACQUISITIONS: Addressing Incentives is Key to Further Reform Efforts, GAO-14-563T: Published: Apr 30, 2014. Publicly Released: …

Subjects: Defense, Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care

A Primer on the GCF Repo® Service

A Primer on the GCF Repo® Service, April 2014. Number 671. Paul Agueci, Leyla Alkan, Adam Copeland, Isaac Davis, Antoine Martin, Kate Pingitore, Caroline Prugar, and Tyisha Rivas. “This primer provides a detailed description of the GCF Repo® Service, a financial service provided by the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation. The primer is composed of an introductory note and two separate papers. The first paper …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

Monetary Policy Coordination and the Role of Central Banks

IMF – Monetary Policy Coordination and the Role of Central Banks, by Rakesh Mohan and Muneesh Kapur, April 2014. “The unconventional monetary policies (UMPs) pursued by the advanced economies (AEs) have posed macroeconomic challenges for the emerging market economies (EMEs) through volatile capital flows and exchange rates. AE central banks need to acknowledge and appreciate the …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

Two new NOAA reports show strong economic gains from fishing, continued improvement in fish stocks

“U.S. commercial and recreational saltwater fishing generated more than $199 billion in sales in 2012, a gain of seven percent over the previous year, with the economic impact of fishing jobs increasing three percent from 2011 to 2012, according to a new NOAA Fisheries economics report. Further, two more fish stocks were rebuilt to target levels in …

Subjects: Economy, Environmental Law, Government Documents

Cybersecurity Procurement Language for Energy Delivery Systems

Energy Sector Control Systems Working Group (ESCSWG) April 2014: “Energy delivery systems are critical to the effective and reliable operation of North America’s energy infrastructure. Our twenty-first-century way of life is made possible by the vast network of processes enabled by these systems, as well as the interconnected electronic components, communication devices, and people who monitor and control those …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Economy, Energy, Financial System, Government Documents

Survey of Public Pensions: State- and Locally-Administered Defined Benefit Data

Census: “The Survey of Public Pensions: State- and Locally-Administered Defined Benefit Data provides revenues, expenditures, financial assets, and membership information for the defined benefit public pension systems. Data are shown for individual pension systems as well as at the national, state, and local level. There were 227 state-administered and 3,771 locally-administered defined benefit public pension …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

The Low-Wage Recovery: Industry Employment and Wages Four Years into the Recovery

“This report updates NELP’s previous industry-based analyses of job loss and job growth trends during and after the Great Recession. The report shows that low-wage job creation was not simply a characteristic of the early recovery, but rather a pattern that has persisted for more than four years now. We find that during the labor market downturn (measured …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

New GAO Reports – Regulators’ Foreclosure Review, DHS Acquisitions, Weapons Systems Management

FORECLOSURE REVIEW: Regulators Could Strengthen Oversight and Improve Transparency of the Process, GAO-14-376: Published: Apr 29, 2014. Publicly Released: Apr 29, 2014: “Rather than defining specific objectives for the $6 billion in foreclosure prevention actions regulators negotiated with servicers, regulators identified broad principles, including that actions be meaningful and that borrowers be kept in their homes. To inform …

Subjects: Defense, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents