At this time in our nation's history, which is characterized by an increasingly polarized and slow moving Congress, many American states have taken important policy steps to diversify their energy supply, encourage local ...

In November of 2011, Senator Tom Harkin traveled to West Africa to evaluate the progress of child labor reduction efforts in the region. His trip coincided with the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Harkin-Engel ...

Seguro Popular was part of a major reform to Mexico's healthcare system enacted in 2003. Essentially, it was designed so that Mexico could attain universal health coverage. The 2003 reform that created Seguro Popular ...

The purpose of this paper is to assess how the characteristics of class and race are associated with facility pollution levels. Other studies have examined the relationship between class and racial characteristics and ...

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have been steadily gaining popularity as a policy tool for alleviating poverty through a cash benefit and conditions promoting human capital acquisition for children in order to ...

Abstract

Free trade is a topic of heated debate: domestic consumers and producers in the export sector advocate freer access to foreign markets and a greater variety of goods and services, whereas domestic workers and producers in ...

Few empirical studies have been conducted to support the argument that countries with stronger human capital attract more foreign direct investment. Where available, these studies use quantitative measures of education ...

To capture the invisible political considerations underlying China's outward foreign direct investment in the new millennium, this study embeds a new component - the bilateral diplomatic relationship, into the traditional ...

In the sweeping speed of digital revolution, changes of the landscape of technology may profoundly alter the very nature of place and physical factors, such as access to raw materials and ports. The question of "Does place ...