We describe the pension plan features of the states and the largest cities and counties in the U.S. Unlike in the private sector, defined…
Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama and Congress struggled until the 11th hour to agree on budget cuts that would avert a government…
Africa can feed itself in a generation. It can achieve this by harnessing abundant technologies that are available worldwide, expanding…
Last year, when China broke off military-to-military talks following the Obama administration's long-expected sale of defensive arms to…
Many governments, civil society organizations, and international development agencies today seek to limit the use of pretrial detention in…
I published The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks
and Changing American Institutions thirty-two years
ago, in 1978. Given the furor…
Following an acrimonious healthcare reform debate involving charges of "death panels," in 2010, Congress explicitly forbade the use of cost…
Researchers have long known that poverty in childhood is linked with a range of negative adult socioeconomic outcomes, from lower…
This paper explores the possibility that governance indicators can be harmonized across three levels (within an individual ministry or…