Cases

The Eagle and the Dragon: The November 1999 US-China Bilateral Agreement and the Battle Over PNTR

Publication Date: December 07, 2004

On December 11, 2001, China became a member of the World Trade Organization. Many say the 1999 US-China bilateral trade agreement and the vote in Congress to permanently establish normal trade relations with China paved the way for China's WTO...

Smarter Foreign Aid?: USAID

Publication Date: December 1, 2004

The US Agency for International Development (USAID), responsible for US government aid to developing nations, had come under increasing criticism from Congress and others during the 1990s. At the same time, the proportion of foreign aid...

The Coffee Crisis

Publication Date: December 01, 2004

In 2004, the governments of coffee producing countries were considering how to respond to the dramatic decline in coffee prices caused in part by a large increase in coffee production in Brazil and Vietnam. Coffee was the main source of income...

Trust and Mistrust: External Evaluators Assess Mexico's Anti-Poverty Programs (Abridged)

Publication Date: December 01, 2004

For much of its history as an independent nation, the government of Mexico provided a wide range of publicly-funded social services for the poor. Such "poverty alleviation" efforts included a free milk program, subsidies for the poor farmers,...

Trust and Mistrust: External Evaluators Assess Mexico's Anti-Poverty Programs

Publication Date: December 01, 2004

For much of its history as an independent nation, the government of Mexico provided a wide range of publicly-funded social services for the poor. Such "poverty alleviation" efforts included a free milk program, subsidies for the poor farmers,...

Aiding or Abetting? World Bank and the 1997 Judicial Reform Project

Publication Date: December 01, 2004

When the World Bank signed an agreement with the government of Peru in December, 1997 to provide a $22.5 million loan to help reform the country's antiquated and corrupt judicial system, the Bank knew it faced risks. Peru's President Alberto...

The White House Carves the Turkey

Publication Date: November 01, 2004

When a deputy director for environmental protection in the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff of the US Army learns that a project on which he'd worked for 14 months was about to be scrapped by the White House, he compares his fate to that...

Confrontation in Utah

Publication Date: November 01, 2004

When the new supervisor of the Manti-La Sal National Forest in San Juan County, Utah receives a letter from the local county commission demanding that she direct the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to remove a significant number of elk from...

Spilling the Beans in Owaho

Publication Date: November 01, 2004

This case about the pressures that the press can pose for public employees focuses on a project leader in the US Forest Service who finds she must deal, on a regular basis, with an aggressive reporter who covers environmental issues, and who...

Reporting in the "Fog of War": The Story of Jessica Lynch

Publication Date: November 01, 2004

On the evening of April 1, 2003, Americans turning on their televisions for the latest news on the two-week-old war in Iraq got a happy surprise: Jessica Lynch, a young Army private missing in action, had been rescued from an Iraqi hospital...

Hong Kong Copes with SARS, 2003: The Amoy Gardens Outbreak (Epilogue)

Publication Date: November 01, 2004

This epilogue accompanies the case 1774.0. In the last days of March, 2003, the frightening new disease known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, seemed to threaten to spread out of any control in the one of the world's most...

Hong Kong Copes with SARS, 2003: The Amoy Gardens (Epilogue)

Publication Date: November 01, 2004

In the last days of March 2003, the frightening new disease known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, seemed to threaten to spread out of any control in the one of the world's most densely-populated cities: Hong Kong. After weeks of effort to...