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Economic Policy Institute, By Lawrence Mishel and Jessica Schieder, July 12, 2016: “What this report finds: In 2015, CEOs in America’s largest firms made an average of $15.5 million in compensation, which is 276 times the annual average pay of the typical worker. While the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio is down from 302-to-1 in 2014, it …
Improper Payments: CFO Act Agencies Need to Improve Efforts to Address Compliance Issues, GAO-16-554: Published: Jun 30, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 11, 2016. “For fiscal year 2014, 15 of the 24 Chief Financial Officers Act (CFO Act) agency inspectors general (IG) determined that their agencies did not comply with criteria in the Improper Payments Elimination …
“Thirty percent of consumers globally have experienced card fraud in the past five years, according to new global benchmark data from ACI Worldwide and Aite Group. The global fraud study of more than 6,000 consumers across 20 countries revealed that, compared to ACI’s 2014 benchmark study, card fraud rates—unauthorized activity on three types of payment …
“On 22 March, Jayne-Anne Gadhia, CEO of Virgin Money, published her review into the representation of women in senior managerial positions in financial services. On 11 July HM Treasury announced that 72 firms have signed the Women in Finance Charter. These firms have committed to implement four key industry actions, as recommended in Jayne-Anne Gadhia’s …
“If current laws governing taxes and spending did not change, the United States would face steadily increasing federal budget deficits and debt over the next 30 years, according to projections by CBO. Federal debt held by the public, which was equal to 39 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of fiscal year …
“Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Israel, Singapore, the Netherlands and the United States are leading the world when it comes to generating economic impact from investments in information and communications technologies (ICT), according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report 2016. On average, this group of high-achieving economies at the pinnacle of the report’s Networked …
By Annette Pasotti, Senior Communications and Impact Officer, via Kris Kasianovitz, Government Information Librarian: “Dr Kathryn Simpson, UK Data Service Research Associate, has been much sought after during the UK’s EU Referendum campaign for her expertise in comparative European politics, political behaviour and public opinion. Kathryn provided extensive media coverage leading up to the vote, …
“The Human Capital Index seeks to serve as a tool for capturing the complexity of education, employment and workforce dynamics so that various stakeholders are able to make better-informed decisions. Last year’s edition of the World Economic Forum’s Human Capital Reportexplored the factors contributing to the development of an educated, productive and healthy workforce. This …
Neoliberalism: Oversold? Finance & Development, June 2016, Vol. 53, No. 2 Jonathan D. Ostry, Prakash Loungani, and Davide Furceri “Instead of delivering growth, some neoliberal policies have increased inequality, in turn jeopardizing durable expansion. Milton Friedman in 1982 hailed Chile as an “economic miracle.” Nearly a decade earlier, Chile had turned to policies that have …
“Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Israel, Singapore, the Netherlands and the United States are leading the world when it comes to generating economic impact from investments in information and communications technologies (ICT), according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report 2016. On average, this group of high-achieving economies at the pinnacle of the report’s Networked …
Pew Research Center FactTank Posting: “There were more 24-year-olds in the U.S. than people of any other age in 2015. But for white Americans, 55 was the most common age, according to Census Bureau data. In this histogram, which shows the total number of individuals of each age last year, non-Hispanic whites tend to skew toward …
Oxford University Press blog, Harinder S. Kohli: “Before looking forward to 2050, we must first look back at the key economic and social developments during the past half a century, and perhaps look even further back than that. The rapid rise of emerging economies during the last 50 years is truly astounding in the long-term …
