“All of Statistics Canadas standard online products, including the census, socioeconomic and geographic data, will be offered to the public for free starting February 2012, Embassy has learned. While Statistics Canada has been working towards opening up more of its data for several years, it still currently charges for a portion of its online data, including, for example, some data sets inside its Canadian Socioeconomic Information Management System, what the agency calls its key socioeconomic database. Researchers, economists and other individuals buy these products, and several firms are also licensed by the agency to act as redistributors. Some of those firms charge for reselling the data, and some roll it into other value-added products they sell. This fall, the agency began alerting “key stakeholders” to the upcoming change.” [Cassandra Hartnett]
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Daily Archives: November 28, 2011
Report – How Politics Trumps Protection of Public Health, Worker Safety, and the Environment
Behind Closed Doors at the White House: How Politics Trumps Protection of Public Health, Worker Safety, and the Environment, by Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) Member Scholar Rena Steinzor, CPR Intern Michael Patoka, and CPR Policy Analyst James Goodwin “In preparing the report, CPR researchers compiled a comprehensive database of OIRAs [The White House Office… Continue Reading
Federal Judge Rejects SEC Settlement With Citi, Sets Trial Date
NYT DealBook: “Jed S. Rakoff, a judge for the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Manhattan, has rejected the proposed $285 million settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Citigroup related to the sale of mortgage securities. Here is the judges 15-page opinion, which concluded that the pact was neither reasonable, nor… Continue Reading
Presidential Memorandum – Managing Government Records
“This memorandum begins an executive branch wide effort to reform records management policies and practices. Improving records management will improve performance and promote openness and accountability by better documenting agency actions and decisions. Records transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provide the prism through which future generations will understand and learn from… Continue Reading
OECD Economic Outlook November 2011
“More than usual, world economic prospects depend on events, the nature and timing of which are highly uncertain. The projections presented in this Economic Outlook portray a scenario that rests on the assumptions that monetary policy remains very supportive (and, in some places, becomes more so), that sovereign debt and banking sector problems in the… Continue Reading
World Bank – Transition in Afghanistan: Looking Beyond 2014
Transition in Afghanistan: Looking Beyond 2014, November 21, 2011 “Transitionthe full assumption of Afghan responsibility for security by end-2014, the drawdown of most international military forces and the likely reduction in overall assistancewill have a profound impact on Afghanistans economic and political landscape, extending well beyond 2014. This study assesses the medium to longer term… Continue Reading
UN – Report of independent international commission of inquiry on Syrian Arab Republic
UN General Assembly, Human Rights Council Seventeenth special session, Report of the independent international commission of inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, November 23, 2011. “The deteriorating situation in the Syrian Arab Republic prompted the Human Rights Council to establish an independent international commission of inquiry to investigate alleged violations of human rights since March… Continue Reading
Housing Busts and Household Mobility: An Update
Housing Busts and Household Mobility: An Update, by Fernando Ferreira, Joseph Gyourko, and Joseph Tracy, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, “This paper provides updated estimates of the impact of three financial frictionsnegative equity, mortgage lock-in, and property tax lock-inon household mobility. We add the 2009 wave of the American Housing Survey (AHS) to our… Continue Reading
