“This 22nd annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff has undertaken during the year, often in close partnership with domestic human rights activists. The introductory essay examines the Arab Spring, which has created an extraordinary… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Evaluating the Prospects for Increased Exports of Liquefied Natural Gas from the United States
Evaluating the Prospects for Increased Exports of Liquefied Natural Gas from the United States – Charles Ebinger, Kevin Massy, Govinda Avasarala – Brookings Energy Security Initiative, January 2012 “Owing to breakthroughs in drilling and production technology over the past five years, the United States finds itself facing a long period of abundant, low-cost natural gas… Continue Reading
Google – Find hotels by travel time
Official Google Blog: “…simply go to Hotel Finder, search for a city or a point of interest and select Hotels by travel time. Keep in mind that Hotel Finder and ‘Hotels by travel time’ are experimental and filtering by transit time is only available in cities where we have partnered with local transit agencies to… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Bank Holding Company Act, Traffic Congestion
Bank Holding Company Act – Characteristics and Regulation of Exempt Institutions and the Implications of Removing the Exemptions, GAO-12-160, January 19, 2012 Traffic Congestion – Road Pricing Can Help Reduce Congestion, but Equity Concerns May Grow, GAO-12-119, January 12, 2012 Continue Reading
EIA – Arctic oil and natural gas resources
Arctic oil and natural gas resources – Resource basins in the Arctic Circle region “The Arctic holds an estimated 13% (90 billion barrels) of the world’s undiscovered conventional oil resources and 30% of its undiscovered conventional natural gas resources, according to an assessment conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Consideration of these resources as… Continue Reading
U.S. Metro Economies 2012 Employment Forecast and the Impact of Exports
U.S. Metro Economies – 2012 Employment Forecast and the Impact of Exports, U.S. Conference of Mayors, January 2012 The median real income for US households in 2010 was $49,455. This is 7.1% lower than median real household income in 1999, which was $53,252 (in 2010 dollars). This decline has been even steeper for those in… Continue Reading
SIFIs: is there a need for a specific regulation on systematically important financial institutions?
Remarks of Stefan Ingves, Chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and Governor of Sveriges Riksbank, prepared for roundtable discussion at the European Ideas Network Seminar on Long-term growth: organizing the stability and attractiveness of European Financial Markets, Berlin (Deutsche Bank), 19-20 January 2012. “Good morning and thank you for inviting me to share… Continue Reading
Essay – The global war against baby girls
The Global War Against Baby Girls, Nicholas Eberstadt “Over the past three decades the world has come to witness an ominous and entirely new form of gender discrimination: sex-selective feticide, implemented through the practice of surgical abortion with the assistance of information gained through prenatal gender determination technology. All around the world, the victims of… Continue Reading
Census – Special Tabulation of Supplemental Poverty Measure Estimates
Special Tabulation of Supplemental Poverty Measure Estimates – This special tabulation of estimates using the Supplemental Poverty Measure were prepared at the request of the New York Times. It consists of five tables: Estimates of the number of people with incomes/resources between 100 and 150 percent of their poverty thresholds by different poverty measures and… Continue Reading
Less Forgiven? Race and the Bankruptcy System
Lawless, Robert M. and Cohen, Dov, Less Forgiven? Race and the Bankruptcy System (January 21, 2011). BROKE: HOW DEBT BANKRUPTS THE MIDDLE CLASS, Katherine Porter, ed., 2012. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1745138 “For a consumer considering bankruptcy, Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 are options with vastly different consequences. In Chapter 7, a consumer earns a quick… Continue Reading
Digitizing Federal Public Records
Digitizing Federal Public Records, By David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States: “Thank you for signing a petition asking the Obama Administration to digitize all public records. The Obama Administration believes increasing access to our collections by digitizing our records is a great idea. Our most recent efforts to do this ourselves as part of… Continue Reading
