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“With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, the question of how to finance, implement and monitor these goals moves to the centre of the debate. Today, international development co-operation takes place in an increasingly complex environment, with an ever growing number of actors, policies and instruments involved. This complexity raises the stakes for achieving …
Via MIT – “In many American communities, families working in low-wage jobs make insufficient income to live locally given the local cost of living. Recently, in a number of high-cost communities, community organizers and citizens have successfully argued that the prevailing wage offered by the public sector and key businesses should reflect a wage rate …
DOJ Memo – Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing, September 10, 2015: “…we’re taking six specific steps to hold individual corporate wrongdoers accountable. These steps are the subject of a memo that I issued yesterday to all of the department’s prosecutors and civil litigators…Some of these policies are new and some are already being practiced at …
Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures World Bank Group Consultative report – Payment aspects of financial inclusion, September 9, 2015: “In recent years,a number of reports have been prepared by organisations on financial inclusion , a topic whose importance is increasingly being recognised. However, few of these reports have addressed what may be called the …
Defense Infrastructure: In-Kind Construction and Renovation Projects Initiated by DOD during Fiscal Year 2013, GAO-15-649: Published: Sep 9, 2015. Publicly Released: Sep 9, 2015. General Aviation: Observations Related to Liability Insurance Requirements and Coverage for Aircraft Owners, GAO-15-740: Published: Sep 9, 2015. Publicly Released: Sep 9, 2015. GPS: Actions Needed to Address Ground System Development …
“The federal government’s budget deficit amounted to $528 billion for the first 11 months of fiscal year 2015, CBO estimates. That deficit was $61 billion smaller than the one recorded during the same period last year. Revenues and outlays were both higher than last year’s amounts, by 8 percent and 5 percent, respectively. Adjusted for …
Presentation by Wendy Edelberg, CBO’s Assistant Director for Macroeconomic Analysis, at the Economic Outlook Forum hosted by the NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business. September 8, 2015.
UK Office for National Statistics – Statistical Bulletin: Mergers and Acquisitions Involving UK Companies, Quarter 2 Apr to June 2015 – “Main points: •In quarter 2 (Apr to Jun) 2015 the total number of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving UK companies continued to record historically low levels of activity. •There were 93 successful domestic and …
Schnabel, Isabel and Seckinger, Christian, Financial Fragmentation and Economic Growth in Europe (September 2015). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10805. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2657161 “Using industry data from Eurostat and applying the Rajan-Zingales methodology, we investigate the real growth effects of banking sector integration in the European Union. Our sample stretches from 2000 until …
“Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH), unveiled the first CMS plan to address health equity in Medicare. The CMS Equity Plan for Improving Quality in Medicare (CMS Equity Plan for Medicare) is an action-oriented plan that focuses on six priority areas and aims to reduce health …
The Dynamics of Inequality – Xavier Gabaix, Jean-Michel Lasry, Pierre-Louis Lions, Benjamin Moll. June 25, 2015: “The past forty years have seen a rapid rise in top income inequality in the United States. While there is a large number of existing theories of the Pareto tails of the income and wealth distributions at a given …
Lender-Placed Insurance: More Robust Data Could Improve Oversight, GAO-15-631: Published: Sep 8, 2015. Publicly Released: Sep 8, 2015: “Mortgage servicers use LPI to protect the collateral on mortgages when borrower-purchased homeowners or flood insurance coverage lapses. The 2007-2009 financial crisis resulted in an increased prevalence of LPI. Because LPI premiums are generally higher than those …
