Economics

Regulatory Reform at OSHA (C)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration, created by Congress in 1970 to curtail what was viewed as a still-alarming level of industrial accidents, had, 20 years later, become a lightning rod for controversy. Its advocates...

Regulatory Reform at OSHA (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration, created by Congress in 1970 to curtail what was viewed as a still-alarming level of industrial accidents, had, 20 years later, become a lightning rod for controversy. Its advocates...

Regulatory Reform at OSHA (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration, created by Congress in 1970 to curtail what was viewed as a still-alarming level of industrial accidents, had, 20 years later, become a lightning rod for controversy. Its advocates...

Issues in Assessing the Impact of Social Investment: The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

In the early 1980s, The Ford Foundation, among other funders, help create a new type of organization designed to finance the renewal of older, inner city neighborhoods, both through housing renovation and other investments. The Local Initiatives...

Issues in Assessing the Impact of Social Investment: The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

In the early 1980s, The Ford Foundation, among other funders, help create a new type of organization designed to finance the renewal of older, inner city neighborhoods, both through housing renovation and other investments. The Local Initiatives...

Santiago's Sewage

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

Although 81 percent of Santiago, Chile's households are connected to sewers, the sewage is dumped untreated into local rivers that are in turn used to irrigate farmers' fields. These practices have caused serious health problems including...

The Paraguay-Parana Waterway

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

The governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay proposed in 1996 a US $85 million program of dredging and navigational aids to allow year-round barge operations on the upper reaches of the Paraguay-Parana river system. The...

Hidrocapital: The Caracas Water Company

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

The public water company serving Caracas, Hidrocapital, must ration water because demand far exceeds supply. A major part of the problem is that many customers are illegally connected or simply ignore their water bills.Learning Objective:The...

Bridge over the Tempisque River

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport of Costa Rica proposed to build a bridge over the Tempisque River that will cut travel times to the Nicoya Peninsula. Most residents are pleased with the proposal but environmentalists argue that it...

Black Wednesday: The Bundesbank Connection

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

Throughout the 1980s, the lead of Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, in helping to align the currencies of the European Economic Union members appeared to serve a variety of potentially difficult-to-reconcile causes: political union in...

Black Wednesday in Britain: The Politics of ERM Crisis (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

The withdrawal of Britain from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, designed as a precursor to a European political and currency union, has been described as a "seminal moment in European politics...on a rank with the first oil shock." This...

Black Wednesday in Britain: The Politics of ERM Crisis

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

The withdrawal of Britain from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, designed as a precursor to a European political and currency union, has been described as a "seminal moment in European politics...on a rank with the first oil shock." This...