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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 8–14.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Nara Milanich Latin America has long been known for its low marriage rates and high rates of children born outside of marriage. Beginning in 2000, politicians across the region began promoting “responsible paternity,” sponsoring legislation to help women track down their children’s fathers...
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World Policy Journal (2008) 25 (3): 137–140.
Published: 01 September 2008
...William D. Hartung At first glance, the international arms trade seems to be one of those problems that will always be with us, like death and taxes. But just as life can be prolonged and tax rates can be reduced, the traffic in weapons can be reined in, given the political will to do so, as I...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 36–37.
Published: 01 June 2017
... Europeans are increasingly afraid of refugees fleeing war and violence in Syria and Iraq. World Policy Journal compares data from eight European countries, and concludes there’s little connection between refugees, crime rates, and xenophobia. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017...
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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 (2017) 34 (1): 24–25.
Published: 01 March 2017
... World Policy Journal explores the correlation in France between support for the far-right National Front and the unemployment rate. MAP ROOM
C’EST L’ÉCONOMIE, STUPIDE?
World Policy Journal explores the correlation in France between support for the far-right National
Front and the unemployment...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 22–30.
Published: 01 June 2014
... in January, Ande Wanderer rang up her money dealer—a former official in Argentina’s national government. She’d sold off her stocks, cashed in her American savings, and wired him the money. Now she rushed to his office, a ninth floor room in downtown Buenos Aires. The official exchange rate was 8 pesos...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 72–81.
Published: 01 March 2012
... pernicious trends of the last generation. By going beyond simple GDP and looking at a diversity of timely data we can better diagnose our economic health. In the global age, new economic thinking needs to be oriented around developing human capital, not blindly stoking GDP through low interest rates...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 31–38.
Published: 01 June 2014
... contrast to the current “managed floating exchange rate mechanism,” that has made life much more predictable to most Chinese these days. Since mid-2005, the yuan has appreciated about 30 percent against the U.S. dollar, and at a relatively smooth rate. As a result, the cost of a product imported from...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 73–78.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., China, and position.
India— and to thereby alter the global mili All three countries face major obstacles
tary balance.5 Eurasia (defined as Russia, in controlling their respective Hiv transmis
plus Asia), is home to five-eighths of the sion rates. India’s ability to control trans
world’s...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 99–104.
Published: 01 September 2017
... South Africa’s lottery. As part of the merger, it appears that GTech engaged in tax avoidance to slash its corporate tax rates in half and hide billions from the taxman. An exclusive analysis of public financial documents shows that the company has avoided hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 37–44.
Published: 01 March 2006
... are stated at market ex
headlines like one that appeared in the De change rates (m e r ). Many economists prefer
cember 6, 2004, issue of BusinessWeek-. “Does “purchasing power parity” (p p p ) calcula
It Matter If China Catches Up to the U.S tions, based on comparisons of the cost of
The article...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 108–115.
Published: 01 September 2014
... and selling fuel on the Zimbabwe-dollar market. Now, however, exchange rate differentials between the U.S. dollar and the South African rand have paved a path for arbitrage. Many seventeen-year-olds had to drop out of school because their parents could not afford fees or due to the exodus of qualified...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (3): 29–42.
Published: 01 September 2002
... in the country since the
rate of 22 percent, the collapse of the early 1920s. As Harvard political scientist
banking system despite a freeze on bank Steven Levitsky remarked, Argentina ap
deposits, and the creation of more than one peared to have turned toward “normalized”
and a half million new poor...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 41–51.
Published: 01 March 2011
... school in the nation—simply did not get going seriously until the end of 2009. But the financial crisis, recession risk and jobless rate had all peaked more than six months earlier. Moreover, while Labor's fiscal stimulus was designed to be “timely, temporary and targeted,” it was not tweakable. It could...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (3): 52–58.
Published: 01 September 2003
... depositors, etc The IMF econ
narrowing towards a more comfortable omists were embarrassingly wrong about
range.” The report went on to forecast a South Korea’s susceptibility to crisis, as
6—7 percent growth rate for South Korea were, to be fair, most economists working at
in 1998.1...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 126.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 MATERNAL MORTALITY
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 115–124.
Published: 01 March 2014
... rate at the time was 35 koruna to the dollar. In Vienna, though, that number soared to at least 140 to the dollar—a four-fold profit. But as my car inched toward the frontier I recognized that I’d avoided what could have been a horrendously embarrassing, not to say outright dangerous, series...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 10–20.
Published: 01 June 2001
..., and the regional de for the big foreign banks to which Argen
velopment banks— continue to bicker about tina owes $70 billion, leading to an immedi
their responsibilities to prevent financial cri ate increase in interest rates charged to other
ses and help debtor countries get back on emerging-market...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 97.
Published: 01 September 2012
.... Argentina’s tough import restrictions, designed to help the central bank maintain a stable exchange rate by controlling the amount of foreign currency in circulation, require companies to send out as much as they bring in. Since her re-election in October, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has forced...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 39–45.
Published: 01 December 2012
... and literacy rates, infant and maternal mortality, life expectancy, and general political stability. These indicators differ substantially between Anglophone and Francophone Africa. Nigeria, a predominantly English-speaking nation once known as the “giant of Africa,” has crumbled under the weight...
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