Public Libraries in the United States Survey: Fiscal Year 2010. January 2013: “The Public Libraries in the United States Survey report analyzes data supplied annually by over 98% of public libraries across the country. This years report features nine performance indicators and examines differences in library service at the locality levels (city, suburb, town, rural… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2013
Preliminary international banking statistics at end-September 2012
“Statistics at end-September 2012 are preliminary and subject to change. Large movements in the latest data are highlighted in the Statistical release. Data are available via the BIS WebStats query tool, in PDF and CSV files on the BIS website (locational and consolidated), and as a single PDF file in detailed annex tables. Final statistics,… Continue Reading
Planning, Connecting, and Financing Cities Now: Priorities for City Leaders
“Rapid urbanization can hold long-term economic, social and environmental promise for developing countries if investments made now in infrastructure, housing and public services are efficient and sustainable, the World Bank says in a new report Planning, Connecting, and Financing Cities Now: Priorities for City Leaders…In the next two decades, cities are expected to expand… Continue Reading
Income Inequality and Market Fragility: Some Empirics in the Political Economy of Finance
Hockett, Robert C. and Dillon, Daniel, Income Inequality and Market Fragility: Some Empirics in the Political Economy of Finance (January 21, 2013). Available at SSRN “In a modern market economy with a developed financial sector, one would expect the Keynes-Kalecki update of the political economists crisis dynamic to work through the medium of ever more… Continue Reading
ILO – Global Employment Trends 2013
“Global Employment Trends 2013 highlights how the crisis is increasingly raising trend unemployment rates, partly driven by sectoral shifts of jobs that had been triggered by the crisis. Despite historically low interest rates in many advanced economies, investment and employment have not shown tangible signs of recovery. Depressed growth prospects have started to spread to… Continue Reading
Evaluation of High-Speed Rail Program Should Consider Wider Economic Benefits
World Bank – “According to the paper titled High-Speed Rail, Regional Economics, and Urban Development in China, there is an emerging consensus that major transport investments may have significant impacts that are not well captured through conventional cost-benefit analysis. Conventional economic evaluations of major transport infrastructure investments tend to focus on the direct costs and… Continue Reading
Bank of England – Speech: Monetary policy in a changing economy
Monetary policy in a changing economy – Speech given by Ian McCafferty, External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England, At Bloomberg, London, 18 January 2013 “Speaking to an audience of economists and financial experts at Bloomberg on 18 January, Ian McCafferty gives his first speech as a member of the Monetary Policy… Continue Reading
UK FSA – Final guidance Risks to customers from financial incentives
Final guidance – Risks to customers from financial incentives, January 2013. “This paper gives examples of how financial incentive schemes can be a key driver of mis-selling and how firms are not adequately managing these risks. It marks the start of a programme of work to reduce these risks. This programme will be taken forward… Continue Reading
Looking Forward and Sideways: Trajectories of New Governance Theory
Van der Heijden, Jeroen, Looking Forward and Sideways: Trajectories of New Governance Theory (January 21, 2013). General Subserie Research Paper No. 2013-01. Available at SSRN “New governance has emerged as a novel paradigm to public problem solving, with scholars in the fields of politics, public administration and law analysing and debating it for over two… Continue Reading
National Cancer Institute: U.S. Cancer Deaths Continue Long-Term Decline
Special Report – “According to the latest national data, overall death rates from cancer declined from 2000 through 2009 in the United States, maintaining a trend seen since the early 1990s. Mortality fell for most cancer types, including the four most common types of cancer in the United States (lung, colon and rectum, breast, and… Continue Reading
World Bank – Reforming Corporate Financial Reporting
Reforming Corporate Financial Reporting – Lessons from REPARIS for Other Technical Assistance Programs, December 2012. “The international financial crisis has had a serious impact on the countries of the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. Growth is slower, unemployment is higher, public debt has soared, and trust in the stability of banks has been eroded.… Continue Reading
RFP Issued by SF for Wireless Control and Communication System for LED Luminaires and Other Devices
Via Public Intelligence: “The following request for participants (RFP) was issued by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission on June 8, 2012. The RFP concerns the construction of a wireless control and communications system for managing the citys future network of dimmable LED streetlights. The RFP states that future uses for the secure wireless network… Continue Reading
