Global Economic Outlook – Q1 2011 – Emerging markets lead recovery: “As developed economies transition out of the crisis and into sustainable recovery, a bigger and longer term transition is under way. The big emerging markets have gradually increased their share of the global pie and the process of catching up appears to be accelerating,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Citizen Satisfaction With Federal Government Services Plummets, According to ACSI
News release: “Citizen satisfaction with the services provided by the U.S. federal government plunges this year, down 4.8% to 65.4 on a 0-100 scale, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). This drop represents the largest single-year decline in satisfaction with the federal government since ACSI measurement began in 1994. The latest ACSI results… Continue Reading
BLS: Regional and State Employment and Unemployment – December 2010
News release: “Regional and state unemployment rates were generally little changed in December. Twenty states recorded unemployment rate increases, 15 states and the District of Columbia registered rate decreases, and 15 states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia posted unemployment rate decreases… Continue Reading
Report: The Degree Qualifications Profile
“Through this document, Lumina Foundation for Education offers a Degree Qualifications Profile, a tool that can help transform U.S. higher education. A Degree Profile or qualifications framework illustrates clearly what students should be expected to know and be able to do once they earn their degrees at any level. This Degree Profile… Continue Reading
The Nations Report Card: Science 2009
News release: “This report presents results of the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in science at grades 4, 8, and 12. National results for each of the three grades are based on representative samples of public and private school students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Department of Defense… Continue Reading
Implementing Telework: Lessons Learned from Four Federal Agencies
Implementing Telework: Lessons Learned from Four Federal Agencies, IBM Center for The Business of Government / Scott P. Overmyer, Professor and Director of the MSIS Program, Center for Graduate Studies, Baker College “This report offers practical implementation advice to agency leaders and front-line managers faced with implementing the newly-enacted law expanding telework opportunities to over… Continue Reading
It Pays to be the Boss–Supervisory Wages in the National Compensation Survey, 2009
It Pays to be the Boss–Supervisory Wages in the National Compensation Survey, 2009 – by James E. Smith, Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 21, 2011 [This article uses National Compensation Survey data to illustrate differences in annual wages for team leaders and first-line, second-line, and third-line supervisors in the United States and in the Census… Continue Reading
Some Economic Consequences of Global Aging: A Discussion Note for the World Bank
Global Aging: A Discussion Note for the World Bank, Ronald Lee, Andrew Mason and Daniel Cotlear “The note describes the importance of population aging world-wide, clarifying its prevalence among middle- and low-income countries, which suggests that many developing countries are getting old before they are growing rich. The note then asks in what way population… Continue Reading
Report of the ePractice workshop on Inclusive eGovernment
European Commission – Report of the ePractice workshop on Inclusive eGovernment: 11 January 2011: This workshop, held on 13 October 2010, aimed to encourage the sharing of good practice in the area of Inclusive eGovernment. The report documents the presentations made during the workshop session. Topics of discussion were: eGovernment policies targeted at groups at… Continue Reading
DHS Releases Freedom of Information Act Report for 2010
EPI: “The Department of Homeland Security has released the Freedom of Information Act Report for 2010. The report analyzes the processing of FOIA requests made throughout the year by each DHS component, detailing the disposition of each request, response times, and the number of backlogged requests. DHS is under scrutiny for their policy of referring… Continue Reading
"Embracing Complexity: Meeting the Challenges of International Forest Governance"
News release: “A new study assessing international efforts to improve forest governance was issued together with a policy brief on 24 January 2011 by the Global Forest Expert Panel on International Forest Regime. It suggests among other things that global efforts have too often ignored local needs and failed to address the fact that deforestation… Continue Reading
PFC Energy 50 Ranking of World's Top Energy Companies
PFC Energy 50: “ExxonMobil, with a market capitalization of $368.7 billion, regained the top position it has held almost every year on the PFC Energy 50 list. Last year’s leader PetroChina closed the year 18% behind ExxonMobil, following a 14% decline in its market value. Petrobras rises to #3 this year, with a $228.9 billion… Continue Reading
