Cases

Congestion Charging in London: The Economics of Congestion Tolls (B)

Publication Date: February 01, 2005

In July 2004, Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of Greater London, had to decide whether or not to expand the system of congestion charging he had implemented 17 months earlier. Skeptics had predicted fierce popular opposition or chaos from the...

Congestion Charging in London: The Western Extension (A)

Publication Date: February 01, 2005

In July 2004, Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of Greater London, had to decide whether or not to expand the system of congestion charging he had implemented 17 months earlier. Skeptics had predicted fierce popular opposition or chaos from the...

A Mega-Church Takes on Urban Problems: Fellowship Bible Comes to South Midtown

Publication Date: January 01, 2005

Twenty five years after its founding in members' homes, the non-denominational, evangelical Fellowship Bible Church of Little Rock, Arkansas had become a "mega-church", holding worship services on a 25-acre campus in one of the best locations in...

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...