The welldocumented gap between men's and women's earnings has aroused intense debate over the concept of comparable worth, that is, equal pay for work judged...
During the 1980s and into this decade, U.S. businesses poured billions of dollars into computers and other information technology. Yet the productivity performance of the...
During the 1980s and into this decade, U.S. businesses poured billions of dollars into computers and other information technology. Yet the productivity performance of the...
Private groups, such as Amnesty International and Save the Children Fund, have had a formal consultative status with the United Nations since its founding. Such...
Private groups, such as Amnesty International and Save the Children Fund, have had a formal consultative status with the United Nations since its founding. Such...
U.S. companies are still reeling from the takeovers, leveraged buyouts, junk bond issues, recapitalizations, and other financial restructuring transactions that reshaped corporations in the 1980s....
Longtime Brookings economist and former presidential adviser Barry Bosworth examines why saving rates in the United States have fallen so precipitously over the past quarter...
Longtime Brookings economist and former presidential adviser Barry Bosworth examines why saving rates in the United States have fallen so precipitously over the past quarter...
Explore the numerous paradoxes at the heart of the theory and practice of democracy promotion.The Democracy Promotion Paradox raises difficult but critically important issues by...
The nearly forgotten story of Soviet dissidentsIt has been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Unionenough time for the role that the...
While traditionally powerful Western economies are treading water at best, beset by crises in banking, housing, and employment, industrial growth and economic development are exploding...
This book, part of the Studies in Social Economics series, examines old age pensions in the United States. Alicia H. Munnell explores the factors that...
This is the thirtyfifth volume in the Brookings Studies of Government Finance series. In the first of its four essays, Analytical Foundations of Fiscal Policy,...
A nonincorporated territory of the United States, Puerto Rico operates under U.S. legal, monetary, security and tariff systems. Despite sharing in these and other key...
The Voucher Debate Has Been Both Intense And Ideologically Polarizing, In Good Part Because So Little Is Known About How Voucher Programs Operate In Practice....
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Analysts and pundits increasingly perceive a widening gulf between ''red states'' and ''blue states.'' Yet the research to support that perception is scattered and sometimes...
Analysts and pundits increasingly perceive a widening gulf between ''red states'' and ''blue states.'' Yet the research to support that perception is scattered and sometimes...
As America rushes headlong into a dramatic campaign season, it is clear that these consequential contestsand the ones that followwill be hugely influenced by recent...
Results from Census 2000 have confirmed that American cities and metropolitan areas lie at the heart of the nation's most pronounced demographic and economic changes....
Results from Census 2000 have confirmed that American cities and metropolitan areas lie at the heart of the nation's most pronounced demographic and economic changes....
A daunting challenge to the international community is how to go about lifting the world's huge poor population out of poverty. ''Assetbased'' approaches to development...
A daunting challenge to the international community is how to go about lifting the world's huge poor population out of poverty. ''Assetbased'' approaches to development...
Academics, community activists, and politicians have rediscovered regionalism, insisting that regions are critical functional units in a worldwide economy and, just as important, critical functional...
Academics, community activists, and politicians have rediscovered regionalism, insisting that regions are critical functional units in a worldwide economy and, just as important, critical functional...
The Soviet response to the first edition of Reflections has been a prime example of the new openness under glasnost in discussing previously taboo subjects....
"The still chaotic states of the former Soviet Union, a growing China, and the divergent nations of Eastern Europe are striving to radically transform their...
Many observers agree that federal regulation of business often fails to prevent monopoly profits, promote technological change, or protect consumers against market abuses. Why? President...
Many observers agree that federal regulation of business often fails to prevent monopoly profits, promote technological change, or protect consumers against market abuses. Why? President...
Many countries are still struggling to adapt to the broad and unexpected effects of modernization initiatives. As changes take shape, governments are challenged to explore...