Social Investment and Economic Development Fund for the Americas Act of 2005
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
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ISBN : 1428957766
Social Investment and Economic Development Fund for the Americas Act of 2005; Acknowledging African Descendants of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in All of the Americas with an Emphasis on Descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean, and for Other Purposes; and Haiti Economic and Infrastructure Reconstruction Act
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 49,75 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
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Journal and History of Legislation
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Banks and banking
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Social Inclusion and Economic Development in Latin America
Author : Mayra Buvinić
Publisher : IDB
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,45 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1931003653
Book Description
Poverty and inequality in Latin America are easily recognizable in the faces of women, Afro-descendents, the indigenous, people with disabilities, victims of HIV/AIDS, and other groups outside the societal mainstream. Social Inclusion and Economic Development in Latin America reviews the common features of these excluded populations, including their invisibility in official statistics and the stigma, discrimination, and disadvantages they have long endured. But it also examines the region's inclusionary policies and programs that can improve access by these groups to the quality social services and economic and political resources these groups need to level the playing field. Case studies examine ethnic and racial political organization, gender quotas, and labor markets across the region, and social exclusion in Brazil, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru. Comparative studies summarize social inclusion policies of both the European Union and selected countries on the Continent.
The State of State Reforms in Latin America
Author : Eduardo Lora
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 2006-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821365762
Book Description
Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or 'second generation' reforms. 'The State of State Reform in Latin America' reviews and assesses the outcomes of these less studied institutional reforms. This book examines four major areas of institutional reform: a. political institutions and the state organization; b. fiscal institutions, such as budget, tax and decentralization institutions; c. public institutions in charge of sectoral economic policies (financial, industrial, and infrastructure); and d. social sector institutions (pensions, social protection, and education). In each of these areas, the authors summarize the reform objectives, describe and measure their scope, assess the main outcomes, and identify the obstacles for implementation, especially those of an institutional nature.
The Economic Research Service in ...
Author : United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Agriculture
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Congressional Record
Author : United States. Congress
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Page : pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Law
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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Legislative Calendar
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 38,20 MB
Release : 2006
Category : United States
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CIS Annual
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Page : 784 pages
File Size : 28,30 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Government publications
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The Pig Book
Author : Citizens Against Government Waste
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 146685314X
Book Description
The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!
