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Monthly Archives: February 2012
World Bank – Doing Business Project; Doing Business law library
“The Doing Business Project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 183 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. The Doing Business Project, launched in 2002, looks at domestic small and medium-size companies and measures the regulations applying to them through their life cycle. By gathering and analyzing comprehensive… Continue Reading
Fuel prices in the United States are rising because of the increasing cost of crude oil
Blog USA.gov: “Fuel prices in the United States are rising because of the increasing cost of crude oil. Crude oil is the natural form of oil as it is found in the ground, before it has been refined into gasoline. As of January 2012, the price of crude oil made up 76% of the cost… Continue Reading
FTC Takes Action to Stop Massive Robocalling Operations
News release: “As part of the Federal Trade Commission’s ongoing efforts to crack down on illegal, prerecorded “robocalls,” the FTC is taking legal action to stop two operations that allegedly enabled telemarketers to place hundreds of millions of illegal prerecorded calls to consumers around the country, including many who had registered their phone numbers on… Continue Reading
Asia is the world's largest petroleum consumer
“Asia surpassed North America as the largest petroleum-consuming region in 2008. Asian demand surged nearly 15 million barrels per day from 1980 to 2010, an increase of 146%. North America’s petroleum consumption increased 16% between 1980 and 2010. Global petroleum consumption increased 36%, nearly 23 million barrels per day, during the period.” Continue Reading
World Bank – Women, Business and the Law 2012
“Women, Business and the Law presents indicators based on laws and regulations affecting women’s prospects as entrepreneurs and employees, in part drawing on laws contained in the Gender Law Library. Both resources can inform research and policy discussions on how to improve women’s economic opportunities and outcomes.” Women, Business and the Law 2012 – Removing… Continue Reading
Bachelor's Degree Attainment Tops 30 Percent for the First Time, Census Bureau Reports
News release: “In March 2011, for the first time ever, more than 30 percent of U.S. adults 25 and older had at least a bachelor’s degree, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. As recently as 1998, fewer than one-quarter of people this age had this level of education. From 2001 to 2011, the number of… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Afghanistan Security, Decennial Census
Afghanistan Security – Department of Defense Effort to Train Afghan Police Relies on Contractor Personnel to Fill Skill and Resource Gaps – GAO-12-293R, Feb 23, 2012 Decennial Census – Additional Actions Could Improve the Census Bureau’s Ability to Control Costs for the 2020 Census, GAO-12-80, Feb 23, 2012 Continue Reading
White House Report – Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World
Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital Economy, February 2012 “Never has privacy been more important than today, in the age of the Internet, the World Wide Web and smart phones. In just the last decade, the Internet has enabled a renewal of… Continue Reading
Bioethics Commission Posts Additional Documents on Public Health Service STD Studies in Guatemala
“Today the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues posted on its website hundreds of supporting documents related to its investigation into the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) studies conducted in Guatemala in the 1940s. The documents include a spreadsheet that Commission staff painstakingly created to document the research subjects in Guatemala. In addition,… Continue Reading
Lawyers Sue Westlaw and Lexis Over Publication of Briefs
Via WSJ Law Blog: “Two lawyers are taking on legal database providers Westlaw and LexisNexis with what appears to be a novel interpretation of copyright law. Edward L. White, a Oklahoma City, Okla., lawyer, and Kenneth Elan, claim WestLaw and LexisNexis have engaged in unabashed wholesale copying of thousands of copyright-protected works created by, and… Continue Reading
FTC Commissioner Warns of International Threats to Internet Freedom
Via WSJ, this commentary by FTC Commission Robert K. McDowell: “On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet. Dozens of countries, including Russia and China, are pushing hard to reach this goal by year’s end. As Russian… Continue Reading
