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- How To Investigate The Impact Of Foreign Direct Investment On Development
- This paper examines three topics: how to investigate the impact of manufacturing FDI Foreign Direct Investment on a developing country host economy, how to search for externalities and spillovers and identify the channels and mechanisms through which spillovers take place, and how to evaluate the question of whether host governments...
- White papers 2007-07-01
- The Implications Of Service Offshoring For Metropolitan Economies
- Certainly, any attempt to predict future economic changes, particularly at the metropolitan level, is full of risks. Yet the alternative - ignoring what one know about current trends, likely possibilities, and regional economic structures - is equally if not more risky, as it threatens to leave metropolitan areas unprepared for...
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Sources Of Growth In The Indian Economy
- This paper builds on a growth accounting framework to empirically examine these dimensions of India's growth. Where has the growth been concentrated, as among agriculture, industry, and the service-producing sectors? What are the major contributors to that growth: increased employment, capital per worker, educational attainment, or improvements in the basic...
- White papers 2006-07-15
- Making Sense Of Clusters: Regional Competitiveness And Economic Development
- In these years, "Cluster strategies" have become a popular economic development approach among state and local policymakers and economic development practitioners. An industry cluster is a group of firms, and related economic actors and institutions, that are located near one another and that draw productive advantage from their mutual proximity...
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Sharing and Reducing the Financial Risks of "Future Mega-Catastrophes"
- Without policy solutions, federal taxpayers in particular face unnecessarily large burdens for future disaster relief. The time has come for the federal government to convert what is de facto insurance - relief provided "After the fact" - into a formal re-insurance system that assesses the cost of such catastrophic risks...
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Blended Value Investment and a Living Return
- Today's investors face a challenge and an opportunity. By changing how people think about value within an investment frame, they can adopt the concept of "blended value", to utilize all available resources to promote environmental, social and financial equitability and sustainability. By changing how they define their appetite for returns,...
- White papers 2005-08-03
- Longer-Run U.S. Economic Performance And The Risk Of Financial And Fiscal Disarray
- The U.S. federal budget is on an unsustainable path. In the absence of significant policy changes, federal government deficits are expected to total around $5 trillion over the next decade. Such deficits will cause U.S. government debt, relative to Gross Domestic Profit GDP, to rise significantly. Thereafter, as the baby...
- White papers 2004-01-04
- The Normal, the Fat-Tailed, and the Contagious: Modeling Changes in Emerging Market Bond Spreads
- This paper examines the statistical properties of daily changes in emerging market bond spreads over US treasuries, and simulates an agent-based model to attempt to replicate those properties. The actual data indicate that changes in spreads are definitely not normally distributed, exhibiting much fatter tails. It further indicates that the...
- White papers 2003-05-13
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- Brook Venture Leads $7.1 Million Investment in Security Innovation
- Funding To Scale Sales and Marketing, Advance Product Development WAKEFIELD, Mass. -- Brook Venture Partners announces today that it has led a $7.1 million investment in Security Innovation, the leading provider of software security products and services to mid-size and Fortune 500 companies. Proceeds from this, the Company's...
- Articles 2008-06-25
- Plan would aid many poor in Utah
- WASHINGTON -- Utah's lower-income workers and families would benefit from expanded earned income tax credit policy proposals offered in the latest study from the Brookings Institution. While it would be up to Congress to ultimately pass any new rules for the tax credit, a study by the...
- Articles 2008-06-22
- 'I'd invite the BNP to a debate'
- AGAINST THE GRAIN Dennis Hayes is a visiting professor at the Westminster Institute of Education at Oxford Brookes University. He argues that academics should have the freedom to put forward controversial and unpopular opinions with impunity, no matter how offensive they might be. Every...
- Articles 2008-06-19
- Credit plan would aid many Utahns
- WASHINGTON -- Utah's lower-income workers and families would benefit from expanded earned income tax credit policy proposals offered in the latest study from Brookings Institution. While it would be up to Congress to ultimately pass any new rules for the tax credit, a study by the Metro...
- Articles 2008-06-16
- Report: Boise-Nampa Metro Area Leads Nation in Economic Vitality
- Boise-Nampa Tops List of 100 U.S. Metro Areas BOISE, Idaho -- According to a report released today, the Boise-Nampa metropolitan area is tops in the nation in terms of economic vitality. Published by the Brookings Institution, an influential think tank in Washington, D.C., the report ranked...
- Articles 2008-06-12
- The Asia Foundation Welcomes New Chairman of the Board
- SAN FRANCISCO -- The Asia Foundation, the premier non-profit organization devoted to Asia's development since 1954, announced today that Ambassador Michael H. Armacost has been appointed as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Ambassador Armacost, currently a Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, served for 24...
- Articles 2008-06-06
- Inland Institutional Capital Partners Announces Closing of Final Seed Properties in Joint Venture with Lexington Realty Trust
- OAK BROOK, Ill. -- Inland Institutional Capital Partners Corporation announced today the closing of the final group of seed properties into the $1.1 billion joint venture it negotiated on behalf of Inland American Real Estate Trust, Inc. ("Inland American") with Lexington Realty Trust (NYSE:LXP) to acquire and manage net-leased properties....
- Articles 2008-06-02
- Human heredity; principles & issues, 8th ed
- Human heredity; principles & issues, 8th ed. Cummings, Michael R. Brooks/Cole Publishing 2009 521 pages $144.95 Paperback QH431 Cummings Illinois Institute of Technology introduces cell division, transmission of traits from generation to generation, the...
- Articles 2008-06-01
- Global warming; looking beyond Kyoto
- Global warming; looking beyond Kyoto. Ed. by Ernesto Zedillo. Brookings Institution Press 2008 237 pages $26.95 Paperback QC981 Zedillo was president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000, and is now a professor in international...
- Articles 2008-06-01
- Twenty First Century Gateways
- Twenty First Century Gateways Audrey Singer, Susan W. Hardwick, & Caroline B. Brettel, editors Brookings Institution Press 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036 9780815779278, $26.95, www.brookings.edu Ellis Island--the cause of such a diverse European-descended population in New York City--but...
- Articles 2008-06-01
- City dwellers dubbed 'green'
- WASHINGTON -- While cities are hot spots for global warming, people living in them turn out to be greener than their country cousins. Each resident of the 100 largest metropolitan areas is responsible on average for 2.47 tons of carbon dioxide in energy consumption each year, 14...
- Articles 2008-05-29
- Musicians Institute Bands Join Battle for Vans Warped Tour
- HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- On Friday, May 30, Musicians Institute holds an exclusive live concert competition for bands vying to perform on the 2008 Vans Warped Tour. The event, held in conjunction with Skinnie Magazine, is limited to bands that include MI students and alumni, with the winner going on to...
- Articles 2008-05-29
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