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Demographic Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Housing Markets, Prepared for the Bipartisan Policy Center | March 2012 “This paper summarizes six key demographic trends against the backdrop of the still unfolding U.S. housing crisis, which has thrown markets into disarray and disrupted long-term trends in demography and housing demand. In 2010, young adults lived in …
“At the release of the OECDs Meeting the Water Reform Challenge, OECD Secretary-General, Angel Gurría warned: Without major policy changes, we risk high costs to economic growth, human health, and the environment. But with sustainable financing, effective governance and coherent policies,governments can harness waters potential. Economic instruments like tariffs, taxes and transfers the 3Ts …
EIA – “The world oil market is complicated. Companies are often thought of as the primary actors in this market, but governments play a large role as well. To answer this question, we’ll explore the role oil companies and governments play in the world oil market and their interactions. The United States has no national …
“After four years of negotiations and a year of work by WTO members on implementation measures and data collection, the WTO launched on 14 March 2012 a new publically available database on non-reciprocal preferential schemes – Database on Preferential Trade Arrangements. The Transparency Mechanism for Preferential Trade Arrangements is a WTO agreement concluded in December …
Monetary Policy in Emerging Market Economies: What Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis? Brahima Coulibaly, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, February 2012 “During the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, emerging market economies (EMEs) loosened monetary policy considerably to cushion the shock. In previous crises episodes, by contrast, EMEs generally had to tighten monetary …
News release: “Humanity has witnessed unprecedented growth and prosperity in the past decades, with the size of the world economy more than tripling and population increasing by over 3 billion people since 1970. This growth, however, has been accompanied by environmental pollution and natural resource depletion. The current growth model and the mismanagement of natural …
An Analysis of the President’s 2013 Budget: “This report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) presents an analysis of the proposals contained in the President’s budget request for fiscal year 2013. The analysis is based on CBO’s economic projections and estimating techniques (rather than the Administration’s) and incorporates estimates by the staff of the Joint …
Information Security – IRS Needs to Further Enhance Internal Control over Financial Reporting and Taxpayer Data. GAO-12-393, Mar 16, 2012 Military Training – Observations on the Army’s Implementation of a Metric for Measuring Ground Force Training, GAO-12-191R, Mar 16, 2012
News release: “The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a rule proposal to help protect investors from identity theft by ensuring that broker-dealers, mutual funds, and other SEC-regulated entities create programs to detect and respond appropriately to red flags. The SEC issued the proposal jointly with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Section 1088 of …
Ryan J. Reilly: “An independent report [500 pages] released Thursday concluded that Justice Department prosecutors engaged in systematic concealment of information that would have benefited the defense of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) and that they allowed false testimony to be introduced. The over 500-page report does not recommend prosecuting any of the lawyers for criminal …
Globalization, Worker Insecurity, and Policy Approaches, Raymond J. Ahearn, Specialist in International Trade and Finance, February 27, 2012 “Todays global economy, or what many call globalization, has a growing impact on the economic futures of American companies, workers, and families. Increasing integration with the world economy makes the U.S. and other economies more productive. For …
Review of NASA’s Lessons Learned Information System, March 6, 2012: “NASAs policy on lessons learned requires the collection, validation, assessment, and codification of lessons learned submitted by individuals, NASA directorates, programs and projects, and any supporting organizations and personnel. To this end, the Lessons Learned Information System LLIS is designed to be searchable and available …
