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Has the Congressional Budget Office Joined the ...

Over the last three decades the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has built up a reputation for solid impartial analysis of economic and policy issues. While the party controlling Congress gets to ...

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Greece and the IMF: Who Exactly is Being Saved?

On May 9, 2010, a joint mission of the IMF and the European Commission concluded negotiations on a loan package to be provided to the Greek government. The amount of these loans as well as the volu...

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Alternativas a la austeridad fiscal en España

En este trabajo se analizan las medidas de austeridad programadas en España, los fundamentos para los recortes en el gasto y los incrementos en los impuestos, los probables resultados para las rela...

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Alternatives to Fiscal Austerity in Spain

This paper looks at the planned austerity measures in Spain, the rationale for the spending cuts and tax increases, likely outcomes for future debt-to-GDP ratios, and the probable results of altern...

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The Urgent Need for Job Creation

Many lawmakers, policymakers, and economic commentators do not appear to recognize the depth of the current labor-market recession. Between December 2007 – the official first month of the recession...

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The Impact of Social Security Cuts on Retiree I...

There has been a serious push in policy circles to cut Social Security benefits for near- and/or current retirees. The argument for such cuts has been based on the deficits in the federal budget; t...

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The Adult Recession

Since the Great Depression, the worst episode of unemployment came in the second half of 1982 and the first half of 1983. Over that time, the unemployment rate stayed above ten percent from Septemb...

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The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration

The United States currently incarcerates a higher share of its population than any other country in the world. The U.S. incarceration is also higher now — 753 per 100,000 people — about 240 percent...

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Social Security and the Age of Retirement

Unlike a century ago, people expect their children to live past the age of retirement. This fact has important implications for how workers save for retirement, but has no specific implications for...

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A Short History of Financial Deregulation in th...

As America weathers the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression, a singular debate pervades the country – what went wrong? Was it greed or negligence, or some combination of both? W...

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The Benefits of State and Local Government Empl...

In a recent report, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) found that state and local government employees pay a wage penalty of about four percent for working in the public sector, rel...

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A Modern Framework for measuring poverty and ba...

Details how the dominant framework for defining poverty has been defined down over time, analyzes the Obama Administration’s Proposed improvements to the current poverty measures, and then recommen...

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A Concise History of Exchange Rate Regimes in L...

This paper analyzes exchange rate regimes implemented by the major Latin American countries since the Second World War, with special attention to the period of the second globalization process begi...

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Capital Controls and Monetary Policy in Develop...

This paper looks at both the theoretical and empirical literature on capital controls and finds that capital controls can play an important role in developing countries by helping to insulate them ...

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Utilizando la Asistencia Alimentaria para Ayuda...

Este informe propone que los donantes internacionales que quieren ayudar al sector agrícola haitiano y proporcionar alimentos para aquellas personas necesitadas pudieran ayudar a Haití a ser más au...

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Usando La Asistencia Alimentaria para Ayudar, N...

Este informe propone que los donantes internacionales que quieren ayudar al sector agrícola haitiano y proporcionar alimentos para aquellas personas necesitadas pudieran ayudar a Haití a ser más au...

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A Concise History of Exchange Rate Regimes in L...

The paper analyzes exchange rate regimes implemented by the major Latin American countries since the Second World War, with special attention to the period of the second globalization process begin...

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Profits on Citigroup Stock: Can They Be the Bas...

Last month the government announced plans to sell the stock it obtained in November of 2008 as part of its bailout package of Citigroup. The media jumped on the fact that, at the stock’s current ma...

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Using Food Aid to Support, Not Harm, Haitian Ag...

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Unions and Upward Mobility for Immigrant Workers

This report reviews the characteristics of the immigrant workforce and analyzes the impact of unionization on the pay and benefits of immigrant workers. According to the most recent available data,...

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