Implementing NAFTA in Aguascalientes (B): How One Mexican State Responded to the Possibilities And Problems of Free Trade (1994-1998)

Publication Date: February 01, 2003

When Mexico, the United States, and Canada approved the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in late 1993, many observers predicted that the historic agreement's passage would have the greatest impact on Mexico, opening the country's...

Implementing NAFTA in Aguascalientes (A): How One Mexican State Responded to the Possibilities And Problems of Free Trade (1992-1994)

Publication Date: February 01, 2003

When Mexico, the United States, and Canada approved the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in late 1993, many observers predicted that the historic agreement's passage would have the greatest impact on Mexico, opening the country's...

Arsenic in Drinking Water

Publication Date: January 22, 2003

In January 2001, on the last day of the term of President William Clinton, the US Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) had reduced the maximum permissible level of arsenic in drinking water from 50 to 10 parts per billion (ppb)...

White Powder in Georgia: Responding to Cases of Suspected Anthrax After 9/11

Publication Date: January 01, 2003

In October, 2001, a series of anthrax-laced letters resulted in deaths in Florida, New York and Connecticut, in an act of apparent domestic terrorism. As a result, public health authorities throughout the United States were inundated with...

Uniting Welfare and Child Welfare: The El Paso County Department of Human Services

Publication Date: January 01, 2003

When he takes the reins of the El Paso County, Colorado, Department of Human Services (DHS) in 1997, David Berns has ambitious goals for the department's struggling child welfare services division. He must deal with a rising caseload of children...

The Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai Bridge Proposal

Publication Date: January 22, 2003

In the first years after its 1997 reunification with China, the economy of Hong Kong, a former British crown colony that had developed as a post-World War II economic powerhouse, was sputtering. Growth in gross domestic product had slowed and...

The Georgia Early Learning Initiative: United Way of Metro Atlanta Turns to "Community Building" (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 2003

In the spring of 1999, United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta (UWMA) was in the midst of historic organizational change. It had become convinced that the traditional United Way approach to philanthropy--one of soliciting funds from the public and...

Starting Amachi: The Elements and Operation of a Volunteer-Based Social Program

Publication Date: January 01, 2003

By the spring of 2003, less than two years after its founding, the Philadelphia nonprofit Amachi had arranged more than 500 volunteer mentors, drawn from inner city African-American churches, to counsel the children of incarcerated parents. The...

Crossing the River: An Economic Development and Diversity Initiative in Southwestern Michigan (Part B)

Publication Date: January 01, 2003

The twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan, have long been known for manufacturing, particularly Whirlpool Corp., and racial tension. Prominent accounts--including journalist Alex Kotlowitz's "The Other Side of the River"--account...

Crossing the River: An Economic Development and Diversity Initiative in Southwestern Michigan (Part A)

Publication Date: January 01, 2003

The twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan, have long been known for manufacturing, particularly Whirlpool Corp., and racial tension. Prominent accounts--including journalist Alex Kotlowitz's "The Other Side of the River"--account...

Child Welfare Services in El Paso County, Colorado: Where Human Services and the Courts Meet

Publication Date: January 01, 2003

When he takes the reins of the El Paso County, Colorado, Department of Human Services (DHS) in 1997, David Berns has ambitious goals for the department's struggling child welfare services division. He must deal with a rising caseload of children...

A Virtual Defeat? Stalling the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)

Publication Date: January 01, 2003

Negotiations for the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) began in 1993, at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Despite initial expectations, the talks failed to produce an agreement. The MAI negotiations were...