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Contributions Of The Earned Income Tax Credit To Community Development In Indian Country, Kristen Wagner, Karen Edwards, Miriam Jorgensen, Dana Klar

Center for Social Development Research

The earned income tax credit (EITC) has become a central element in a suite of programs and polices that promote “asset building” for the poor. Increasingly, it has become a way not only for individuals but also communities to turn their economic circumstances around. The Center for Social Development in collaboration with Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies engaged ten Native community organizations currently providing free tax preparation services in a study that examined uptake and potential uses of Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) income by Native people. Through community surveys we learned that a majority of survey …

Academic Capabilities And Disadvantaged Students: The Role Of Institutions, William Elliott Iii, Margaret Sherrard Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Notwithstanding the far reaching intellectual and practical contributions of Bandura’s theory of self-efficacy, researchers have suggested that it may not adequately address the role of institutions. This paper suggests that traditional measures of self-efficacy underemphasize institutional factors. This may have important implications, especially for considering the circumstances of disadvantaged groups. It may be productive to think of self-efficacy as a multidimensional construct that includes personal and institutional dimensions. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we examine how self-efficacy theory can be expanded to account for the social and economic realities of disadvantaged groups and lead to empirical work that can inform policy …

Wealth Building In Rural America: Programs, Policies, Research, Jon Bailey, Jami Curley, Karen Edwards, Gena Gunn, Eric Henson, Njeri Kagotho, Anna Lee, Kathleen K. Miller, Luxman Nathan, Trina R. Shanks, Michael Sherraden, Margaret S. Sherraden, Jean Schumacher, Bill Schweke, Ann Ulmer

Center for Social Development Research

Wealth Building in Rural America: Programs, Policies, Research

Law No. 3429 - Agreement Between The Republic Of Bolivia And The Republic Of Venezuela, Congreso Nacional De Bolivia

Latin American Energy Policies

Aproves the Energy Collaboration Agreement between Bolivia and Venezuela.

Comparison Of Risk Management Policies In Oecd Countries, Reza Lahidji

Geohazards

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development started in 2003 a series of country studies and reviews aimed at assisting its Member countries in evaluating the effectiveness of their risk management systems, notably in terms of their ability to contend with large-scale risks of the future, and at offering them guidance in making the requisite improvements. The project, entitled the OECD Futures Project on Risk Management Policies, focuses on the consistency of risk management policies and on their ability to deal with the challenges, present and future, created by the evolution of the risk landscape.

The Project gathers eight Member …

Law No. 28749 - General Rural Electrification Law, Presidente Del Congreso De La República Del Perú

Latin American Energy Policies

Law which has as main objective the establishment of regulations for the promotion and efficient electrification of rural zones and isolated locations in Peru.

The Social Implications Of Information Security Measures On Citizens And Business, K. Michael, M. G. Michael

Professor Katina Michael

The 2006 Workshop on the Social Implications of Information Security Measures on Citizens and Business was organised by the Research Network for a Secure Australia (RNSA) funded by the Australian Research Council. The Workshop will become a biennial event bringing together both researchers and practitioners in the fields relating to the national research priority entitled Safeguarding Australia.

In 2006, the workshop was held on the 29th May, at the Function Centre at the University of Wollongong between 8.30 am and 5.00 pm.

The Workshop was organised by RNSA members of the Centre for eBusiness Applications Research at the University of …

Hydrocarbons Organic Law, Asamblea Nacional De Venezuela

Latin American Energy Policies

Regulates the activities of exploration, exploitation, refining, industrialization, transportation and storage of hydrocarbons and their products.

Firewall - It-3310-01

Information Technology Services

Access to University IT resources from off-campus locations has increased due to the proliferation of teaching, research, and administrative applications and the increased mobility of faculty and staff. Opening unsecured and uncontrolled paths to University IT resources presents significant risks to the University community and IT infrastructure. Appropriate controls and protections are required in order to mitigate these risks, preserve and protect University IT assets.

Virtual Private Network - It-2310-00

Information Technology Services

Virtual Private Networking (VPN) services are offered by Georgia Southern University to provide secure network communication and extend local network access to offsite locations. The purpose of this policy is to provide guidelines for the Remote Access VPN that supports the Georgia Southern University’s Acceptable Use Policy, Workstation Security Standards, Remote Network Access Policy, and Security Standards for Information Systems Policy.

Improving Historic Preservation Enforcement In The District Of Columbia, David J. Henry

Georgetown Law Historic Preservation Papers Series

Within the past few years, the creation of the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) has been an important change in the District of Columbia government. OAH is viewed by many as an innovative government agency that provides fair and impartial administrative adjudication for District agencies, with efficiency. However, since OAH began full operations in 2004, the effectiveness of historic preservation enforcement has actually decreased. The primary indicators of this are the fewer number of completed adjudications and the smaller amount of fines collected in the past year.

This paper is a policy paper. As such, the paper will identify problems …

Plan For The Generation Of The Dominican Electricity Sector 2006-2020, Comisión Nacional De Energía

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

This document outlines a strategic plan which focuses on providing for growth in the sector by promoting development in the field of energy generation through private investment.

County Characteristics And Poverty Spell Length, Andrew Grodner, John A. Bishop, Thomas J. Kniesner

Center for Policy Research

*In this paper we ask, how do individual and community factors influence the average length of poverty spells? We measure local economic conditions by the county unemployment rate and neighborhood spillover effects by the racial makeup and poverty rate of the county. We find that moving an individual from one standard deviation below the mean poverty rate to one standard deviation above the mean poverty rate (from the inner city to the suburbs) lowers the average poverty spell by 20 to 25 percent. This effect is equal in magnitude to the effect of changing the household head from female to …

Finding The Constitutional Right To Education In San Antonio School District V. Rodriguez, John H. Ryskamp

ExpressO

In Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court abolished the scrutiny regime because it impermissibly interfered with an important fact, liberty. And yet, even in earlier cases which ostensibly upheld the scrutiny regime, it is difficult to see that the Court ever did so to the detriment of facts it considered important. In short, the Court often (always?) found itself raising the level of scrutiny for a fact in the same case it upheld the regime, leaving us to wonder if the scrutiny regime ever actually had any effect at all, or even whether the Court felt it was relevant. As …

Senseless Kindness: The Politics Of Cost Benefit Analysis, Louis E. Wolcher

ExpressO

This essay identifies a social phenomenon that the Russian-Jewish novelist and war correspondent Vasily Grossman calls "senseless kindness." Emerging without prior warning from certain face-to-face encounters between human beings, the striking reversal of preferences that characterizes this phenomenon can be used to cast a critical light on the practices of Cost Benefit Analysis ("CBA"). Not only does senseless kindness highlight the troubling theoretical problem of determining the "correct" ex ante—the point in time at which CBA measures people's preferences—it also points towards the possibility of a more general critique of CBA's indifference to how preferences are formed and expressed. The …

Maine Women's Insider (April 2006), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Performance Measurement: Managing And Using Home And Community-Based Services Data For Quality Improvement, Maureen Booth Mrp, Ma, Julie T. Fralich Mba

Disability & Aging

The Data Management and Use Series represents the third in a group of papers synthesizing the ideas and practices of states as they improve the quality of home and community based services (HCBS) and supports for older persons and persons with disabilities.

Reporting: Managing And Using Home And Community-Based Services Data For Quality Improvement, Taryn Bowe, Maureen Booth Mrp, Ma, Stuart Bratesman Mpp, Julie T. Fralich Mba

Disability & Aging

The Data Management and Use Series represents the third in a group of papers synthesizing the ideas and practices of states as they improve the quality of home and community based services (HCBS) and supports for older persons and persons with disabilities.

Data Quality And Analysis: Managing And Using Home And Community-Based Services Data For Quality Improvement, Julie T. Fralich Mba, Maureen Booth Mrp, Ma, Robert G. Keith Phd

Disability & Aging

The Data Management and Use Series represents the third in a group of papers synthesizing the ideas and practices of states as they improve the quality of home and community based services (HCBS) and supports for older persons and persons with disabilities.

Decree No. 58 - General Agreement Of Cooperation Between The Governments Of The Republic Of Chile And The Kingdom Of Morocco, Ministerio De Relaciones Exteriores, Chile

Latin American Energy Policies

The objective of this decree is to strengthen and deepen the traditional ties of friendship and cooperation between the governments of Chile and Morocco. Article 6 stipulates that these two governments will promote the strengthening and consolidation of bilateral relations in the areas of commercial, industrial, and financial cooperation. Included is cooperation in the field of renewable energy and the rational use of energy.

Flexible Work Arrangements: A Definition And Examples, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Memos and Fact Sheets

Workplace Flexibility 2010 defines a “flexible work arrangement” (FWA) as any one of a spectrum of work structures that alters the time and/or place that work gets done on a regular basis. A flexible work arrangement includes:

1. flexibility in the scheduling of hours worked, such as alternative work schedules (e.g., flex time and compressed workweeks), and arrangements regarding shift and break schedules;

2. flexibility in the amount of hours worked, such as part time work and job shares; and

3. flexibility in the place of work, such as working at home or at a satellite location.

Our research indicates …

Decree No. 77/006 - Special Contracts For Sale And Purchase Of Electricity Produced Through Renewable Energies, Ministerio De Industria, Energía Y Minas

Latin American Energy Policies

The National Administration of Power Stations and Transmissions will promote special contracts with energy providers who produce energy through wind, biomass or hydroelectric power plants.

Resolution 180256 - Amendment To Resolution 181782, El Ministerio De Minas Y Energía, Colombia

Latin American Energy Policies

Partially amends Resolution 181782 of December 29, 2005; by which the country adopted the plan of Expansion of Referral Generation - Transmission from 2005 to 2019.

When Policy Meets Practice: The Untested Effects Of Permanency Reforms In Child Welfare, Amy D’Andrade, J Berrick

Faculty Publications

The Adoption and Safe Families Act (P.L. 105-89; ASFA) passed into federal law in 1997. ASFA emphasized child protection over family preservation, and introduced reforms intended to increase the likelihood and the speed with which children in the child welfare system attain a permanent home. This article details two provisions of the law, concurrent planning and reunification exception, and explores challenges in their implementation. These provisions have the potential to shift the nature of how child welfare services are delivered, and which families will receive them. An examination of implementation in the state of California suggests there is a need …

Rehabilitating A Rogue: Libya’S Wmd Reversal And Lessons For Us Policy, Dafna Hochman

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

State Law And Policy On Prostitution And The Impact On Sex Trafficking, Donna M. Hughes Dr.

Donna M. Hughes

Law and policy on prostitution are being debated and changed in many countries around the world. A number of countries have changed their laws and policies on prostitution in the last seven years (the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, New Zealand, and South Korea), and several more governments have proposed change in their prostitution laws (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ghana, Russian Federation). The different state approaches to prostitution – prohibition, regulation, decriminalization, and abolition – will be defined and described. Central to the debate on law and policy on prostitution is the relationship between sex trafficking and prostitution. All four of these …

State Capacity Under Reform: A Case Study Of The Adminstrative, Policy, And Private Consultative Capacity Of The Ministry Of Foreign Trade And Industry In Egypt, Mona Hosny Ghander

Archived Theses and Dissertations

During the 1960s and 1970s, a number of developing countries have emerged among the top industrializing countries in the world achieving unprecedented growth rates. These countries became known as the Newly Industrializing Countries (NICs) or the Newly Industrializing Economies (NIEs). The interest in interpreting the NICs experience to identify prospects for emulation in other developing countries have led to a surge in the literature examining the role of the state in development and growth. It has been argued that while growth in these countries did not follow a unified path or emerge due to a unified set of factors, there …

An Exploration Of Structural, Cultural And Institutional Factors Behind The Japanese Recession, 1990-2000, Yasmin Ahmed Mowafy

Archived Theses and Dissertations

This paper analyses the causes behind the Japanese economic downturn which started in the 1990s and investigates the failure of both fiscal and monetary policy to remedy the recession. The author asserts that the Japanese economy was due for recession when two factors occurred to precipitate it, the asset price bubble and the banking crisis. However, a recession would have occurred even if these events had not transpired, because of a number of structural factors. The recession was then prolonged by the existence of the "liquidity trap". The inevitability of the recession stems from the fact that the Japanese economy …

Reform In Lieu Of Change: Tastes Great, Less Filling, Jonathan G.S. Koppell

Publications from President Jonathan G.S. Koppell

In this response to Light, Koppell argues that the increasing frequency of reform may reflect Congress's inability to make significant changes to the substance of entrenched government programs. Moreover, he observes that the more profound evolution in government has been the movement toward the market-based provision of services, which has created a demand for new competencies in the public sector.

Executive Decree No. 60 - Creates The National Energy Council, Organo Ejecutivo

Latin American Energy Policies

The Council's goal is to work with different organizations on the approval of energy strategies which contribute to the socio-economic development of the Country taking into account the well-being of the environment.