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Caribbean Region: Review of Economic Growth and Development (pdf 324 pages)

Economic Freedom of the World: 2008 Annual Report, Cato Institute

Democracy

Chavez Wrecks Venezuela, Democracy. [American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research]. September 25, 2008.  [HTML format, various paging].

Reinventing Transparent Government, Source: The Century Foundation

South Korea’s Miraculous Democracy. [RAND Corporation]. August 31, 2008. [PDF format, 16 pages].

Media and Democracy in America Today: A Reform Plan for a New Administration. [Common Cause Education Fund]. August 29, 200 [PDF format, 32 pages].

Cuba’s Political Succession: From Fidel to Raul Castro. [Congressional Research Service, RS22742, Library of Congress].  Mark Sullivan.  Web posted April 6, 2008.

Can Raul Castro Revive Cuba’s Private Sector? [Brookings Institution]. Raj Desai]. March 10, 2008. [pdf format, 6 pages].

Infrastructure Governance and Corruption: Where Next?  [Policy Research Working Paper, WPS4331, Sustainable Development Network, Finance, Economics and Urban Division, World Bank].  August 27, 2007.[pdf format, 34 pages]

Haiti: Developments and U.S. Policy Since 1991 and Current Congressional Concerns.  [Congressional Research Service (CRS), RL32294, Library of Congress].  [pdf format, 45 pages]

Latin America’s New Security Reality: Irregular Asymmetric Conflict and Hugo Chavez --Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College

Weak Democracy, Strong Information- The Role of Information Technology in the Rulemaking Process

Economy, business and trade issues


New Financing Trends in Latin America: An Overview of Selected Issues and Policy Challenges. [Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta].  September 24, 2008.  [PDF format, 16 pages].

The New Competition for Global Resources. [Knowledge@Wharton, University of Pennsylvania].  September 28, 2008.  [PDF format, 24 pages].

NAFTA's Bad Rap [pdf]

New Estimates of Fundamental Equilibrium Exchange Rates. [Peterson Institute for International Economics]. Web posted August 7, 2008. [PDF format, 20 pages].

Marketing Food to Children and Adolescents. [Federal Trade Commission]. Web posted August 1, 2008.  [PDF format, 120 pages].

Promoting Film and Media to Enhance State Economic Development. [Center for Best Practices, National Governors Association]. July 15, 2008.  [PDF format, 30 pages].

The Year in Trade 2007. [U.S. International Trade Commission]. Web posted August 6, 2008. [PDF format, 229 pages].

Caribbean Region: Review of Economic Growth and Development, International Trade Commission (pdf)

Creating Value for All: Strategies for Doing Business with the Poor. [Development Programmes, United Nations]. July 5, 2008.  [PDF format, 180 pages].

How Much of Chinese Exports is [sic] Really Made in China?: Assessing Domestic Value-Added When Processing Trade is Perverse. [National Bureau of Economic Research]. June 2008. [PDF format, 28 pages].

Why Are Exchange Rates So Difficult to Predict? Economic Letter, Vol. 3, No. 6, June 2008, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Bank Structure and the Terms of Lending to Small Businesses. [Harvard Business School]. June 24, 2008. [PDF format, 35 pages].

 

Trends in Sustainable Development, 2008-2009. [Economic & Social Affairs, United Nations]. June 2008. [PDF format, 42 pages].

Integration in the Americas: One Idea for Plan B (Essay)

OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2008-2017. [Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development and Food and Agriculture Organization, U.N.]. May 2008.[PDF format, 73 pages].

20% Wind Energy by 2030. [U.S. Department of Energy]. [PDF format, 248 pages]

World Trade Indicators 2008. [World Bank]. June 29, 2008.  [PDF format, 150 pages]

Global Issues

World Malaria Report 2008. [World Health Organization, United Nations].September 26, 2008. [PDF format, 215 pages].

Biofuels and the Food Price Crisis: A Survey of the Issues. [Center for Global Development]. August 11, 2008.  [PDF document].

Medical Tourism: Consumers in Search of Value. [Deloitte Center for Health Solutions]. August 8, 2008.  [PDF format, 32 pages].

Oil’s Trouble Spots. [Council on Foreign Relations]. August 29, 2008.

A Call for a Strategic U.S. Approach to the Global Food Crisis. [Center for Strategic & International Studies]. Web posted July 31, 2008.[PDF format, 14 pages].

Money Laundering in Digital Currencies. [National Drug Intelligence Center, U.S. Department of Justice]. Web posted July 21, 2008. [PDF format, 16 pages].

Stem Cell Research Around the World. [Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life]. July 17, 2008.  [HTML various paging].

Forest Carbon Markets: Potential and Drawbacks. [Congressional Research Service, RL34560, Library of Congress]. Web posted July 29, 2008.  [PDF format, 22 pages].

World Resources 2008: Roots of Resilience - Growing the Wealth of the PoorUnited Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme, World Bank, World Resources Institute

World Trade Report 2008: Trade in a Globalizing World. [World Trade Organization]. http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/booksp_e/anrep_e/world_trade_report08_e.pdf [PDF format, 204 pages]

While Doha Sleeps: Securing Economic Growth through Trade Facilitation. [CATO Institute]. June 17, 2008  [PDF format, 24 pages].

Coastal Capital: Putting a Value on The Caribbean's Coral Reefs, World Resources Institute

Crude Awakening: Behind the Surge in Oil Prices Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Letter May 2008

Making Trade Work for Developing Countries. [Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development]. May 2008

World Economic and Social Survey 2008: Overcoming Economic Insecurity. [Economic and Social Council, United Nations]. May 2008.   [PDF format, 22 pages]. 

Security/Regional Stability/Alliance Security


Latin America- Terrorism Issues (PDF), Congressional Research Service

International Drug Control Policy. [Congressional Research Service, RL34543, Library of Congress]. July 6, 2008. [PDF format, 42 pages].

Identity Theft: The Aftermath 2007. [Identity Theft Resource Center]. Web posted June 14, 2008.  [PDF format, 37 pages].

The Internet and Consumer Choice: Online Americans Use Different Search and Purchase Strategies for Different Goods. [Pew Internet & American Life Project].  May 23, 2008.  [PDF format, 42 pages].

Index of State Weakness in the Developing WorldSource: Brookings Institution

Social Capital, Violence and Public Intervention:  The Case of Cali.  [Economic and Sector Study Series, Region 3, Inter-American Development Bank].   [pdf format, 40 pages]

Money Laundering and Its Regulation.
[Research Department Working Paper Series 590, Inter-American Development Bank].

National Security Archive
The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II: A Collection of Primary Sources

The Global War on Terror and U.S. Development Assistance: USAID allocation by country, 1998-2005.

Toward a Revolution in Intelligence Affairs.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2005/RAND_TR242.pdf

National Defense Strategy of the United States of America.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2005/d20050318nds1.pdf

Port And Maritime Security: Potential For Terrorist Nuclear Attack Using Oil Tankers. [RS21997] Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. 

U.S. Society & Values


Teens, Video Games, and Civics. Pew Internet & American Life Project and MacArthur Foundation]. September 20, 2008.  [PDF format, 76 pages].

Recent Trends in U.S. Services Trade - 2008 Annual Report – International Trade Commission   (pdf 138 pages)

The Future Role of U.S. Trade Policy: An Overview – (pdf 6 pages)

Managing the Next Domestic Catastrophe: Ready (or Not)? [Center for Strategic & International Studies]. June 2008.  [PDF format, 103 pages].

Confronting Climate Change: A Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy. [Council on Foreign Relations]. June 2008.  [PDF format, 137 pages].

New Day, New Way: U.S. Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century

The America COMPETES Act and the FY2009 Budget. [Congressional Research Service, Library  of Congress]. May 9, 2008.   [PDF format, 21 pages].

Removing Aliens from the United States: Judicial Review of Removal Orders. [Congressional Research Service, RL34444, Library of Congress]. May 9, 2008.  [PDF format, 19 pages].

Measuring Immigrant Assimilation in the United States. [Center for Civic Innovation, The Manhattan Institute]. May 2008. [PDF format, 56 pages].

Nuclear Power's Role in Generating Electricity--Congressional Budget Office

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: History, Perspectives, and Issues. [Congressional Research Service, RL33341, Library of Congress].  Robert Bamberger.  Web posted April 7, 2008.

Agricultural Projections to 2017 [U.S. Department of Agriculture, OCE-2008-1]. February 10, 2008.  [pdf format, 110 pages]

Reaping the Rewards: How State Renewable Electricity Standards Are Cutting Pollution,

Links to Key Documents in American History. Updated December 1, 2004.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/other_documents/other_documents.cfm

Reports featured previously:

--Increasing Costs in Electric Markets

--Access, Adequacy, and Equity in Education Technology.

--Tackling Corruption, Transforming Lives: Accelerating Human Development in Asia and the Pacific.

--World Drug Report

--Global Trade and the Maritime Transportation Revolution.

--Climate Change and Tourism’s Winners and Losers

--The Threat of Global Food Shortages – Part I
--Renewable Energy Consumption and Electricity: Preliminary 2007 Statistics. -

--The Anatomy of Banking Crises-

--Economic (In)Security: The Experience of the African-American and Latino Middle Classes-

--Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates by Country,

--Hydrogen Fuel Initiative

--Global Risks: 2008: A Global Risk Network Report.

--The Graying of the Great Powers: Demography and Geopolitics in the 21st Century.

--The Energy Situation in the Western Hemisphere.  [Center for Strategic and International Studies ]

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