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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 43–54.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Baz Dreisinger Singapore has transformed its prison system over the last 20 years to focus on rehabilitation, and recidivism rates have fallen by nearly 50 percent. But Baz Dreisinger finds that the government’s push to employ former prisoners is driven more by an abundance of low-level jobs than...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 77–81.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Khadija Sharife Botswana owns a 15 percent share in De Beers, an unprecedented entangling of a sovereign country with a private company. Investigative reporter Khadija Sharife reveals a mutual dependence between the diamond giant, Botswana, and the country’s leading party that has perverted...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 58–69.
Published: 01 March 2016
... as Ciutat Meridiana where about 20 percent of apartments are in eviction proceedings. But, as Brenna Bhandar writes, Ciutat Meridiana, like so many other communities, has united to fight evictions and reform Spain’s punitive mortgage laws. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 Spain...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 61–67.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Lam Thuy Vo Afghanistan is an increasingly dangerous war zone, but, according to journalist Lam Thuy Vo, Germany hasn't exactly laid out the welcome mat for Afghan refugees. While Germany approved 96 percent of asylum applications for Syrians in 2015, Afghan asylum-seekers have less than a 50-50...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 17–23.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., the better the financial and organizational performance. Catalyst, a global non-profit organization, revealed in a 2011 study that Fortune-500 companies whose boards were comprised of 19 percent to 44 percent women had a return on sales that was 16 percent higher than companies with no women on their boards...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 17–22.
Published: 01 December 2015
... the IMF revealed its World Economic Outlook. Even in a mediocre environment where global GDP is expected to expand a bit over 3 percent in 2015, the numbers for Latin America were dismal. The region’s economy is expected to contract 0.3 percent this year and to grow by less than 1 percent in 2016...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 88–95.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... Puerto Rico still provides incentives to companies like Pfizer, including an exemption from income, property, municipal, and other taxes (where a tax is levied, such as an excise, it is just 1 percent). These tax benefits don’t expire until 2029. But when repatriation rules changed, so did Pfizer’s...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 10–15.
Published: 01 December 2016
... in which men seek to make the public sphere so inhospitable for women that they disengage from electoral politics. Percentages of women in parliament reveal two interesting facts on global underrepresentation. First, although women make up roughly 49.6 percent of the world’s population, only two...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 102–110.
Published: 01 December 2013
... to small distant towns. In its first stage, the program was opened exclusively to Brazilian doctors, but candidates who arrived barely filled 15 percent of 15,000 vacancies. So in its second phase, the government opened the program to foreigners willing to fill the remaining vacancies, underwriting...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 72–81.
Published: 01 March 2012
... surely would have lived longer than 61 years. Scientific advances in the last 40 years have greatly improved the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease both in the United States and abroad. In the 1960s, the chance of dying within days of a heart attack was almost 40 percent in the U.S...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 39–47.
Published: 01 March 2014
... conservative female opponent, Evelyn Matthei, in the December 2013 election, the Alameda was not the same party welcoming Bachelet’s first term. Bachelet finished her presidency in 2010 with a record 84 percent approval rating, and her popularity remained significantly strong in Chile while she worked...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 68–72.
Published: 01 December 2016
... percent to 48 percent margin—was not a disaster for all: Populist right-wing groups across Europe, including the U.K. Independent Party (UKIP), which did much to spur anti-EU sentiment in the run up to the U.K. vote, moved quickly to exploit the chaos. France’s National Front leader Marine Le Pen...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 100–112.
Published: 01 June 2014
..., and whether it wants to go forward with further development of new nuclear power plants. Changes in the balances of power directed at energy systems at the federal and prefect levels seem to be in order. Prior to 3/11, there was serious discussion of moving toward 50 percent nuclear energy in the coming...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (2): 3–6.
Published: 01 June 2013
... of global experts what they see as the most effective and expeditious way of creating jobs. Africa’s workforce, young and growing quickly, will be the world’s largest by 2035. Unemployment stands at just 9 percent, but two-thirds of the labor force are in vulnerable, non-wage-paying jobs. Stable...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 52–59.
Published: 01 March 2011
... their rent.” In Spain, 4.69 million people—20.3 percent of the workforce—were unemployed in 2010, according to figures published by the National Statistics Institute. The December 2010 average for the European Union was 9.6 percent, just above the 9.4 percent posted in the United States. Spain...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 63–67.
Published: 01 June 2015
... very similar to the materials that go into your LEDs then? AMANO: That’s the gallium nitride and the silicone carbide. WPJ: What kind of materials? AMANO: Yes, the last 5 percent we can reduce to 0.5 percent by using the new materials system. WPJ: Do you think you can get...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 73–78.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., and and the like. Disease, which recognizes no along with them the economic prospects of borders, attracts less attention than warfare highly infected nations. Some 40 percent and civil strife, yet it can be even more of Zambia’s and 70 percent of Swaziland’s threatening to state survival. Three times...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 18–23.
Published: 01 March 2017
... campaign’s resonance: With around 12 percent today, the former schoolteacher excels at slamming the political establishment and at unpacking the National Front’s populist hustle. For better or worse, the current incarnation of the Socialist Party appears ill-prepared for the task ahead. Taking power...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 21 (4): 29–37.
Published: 01 December 2005
.... 1950, life expectancy in emerging markets Two decades ago, globalization was (countries with less than one-third the per hardly discussed. At the time, less than 15 capita income of the United States, or nearly percent of the world’s population partici­ 85 percent of the world’s...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 22–30.
Published: 01 June 2014
... to the dollar. But her dealer gave her 11—the black market rate at the time—and kept a small fee for himself. That meant she got some 40 percent more pesos for her U.S. money. “When I see tourists take money out of the cash machine, I want to tackle them,” says Wanderer, 40, a Georgia-born journalist who’s...