Regulatory Policy

Philanthropy Industry Note: Corporate Philanthropy (D)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Philanthropy Industry Note: Philanthropy by Foundations (C)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Philanthropy Industry Note: Philanthropy by Individual Donors (B)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Philanthropy Industry Note: Landscape of Philanthropy in the United States (A)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Capitalization: The Politics of Privatization in Bolivia

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

In this case, the president of Bolivia and a team of officials grapple with questions of how to set up a model for privatizing a number of state-owned enterprises. In the 1980s, Bolivia, like most other Latin American countries, embraced a more...

Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

When the administration of Peru president Alberto Fujimori embarks on an ambitious privatization program, it turns inevitably to the nation's creaking telephone system. With but 2.5 phone lines per 100 persons, Peru, in the mid-1990s, had the...

Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

When the administration of Peru president Alberto Fujimori embarks on an ambitious privatization program, it turns inevitably to the nation's creaking telephone system. With but 2.5 phone lines per 100 persons, Peru, in the mid-1990s, had the...

The Regulation of Mud Flaps (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1994

When Congress calls for new regulations governing the size and effectiveness of truck mud flaps, small companies which had dominated the mud flap market suddenly find themselves in trouble. Failure to adapt their products to the new regulations...

The Regulation of Mud Flaps

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

When Congress calls for new regulations governing the size and effectiveness of truck mud flaps, small companies which had dominated the mud flap market suddenly find themselves in trouble. Failure to adapt their products to the new regulations...

Department of Transportation and Airport Landing Slots (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

The ability of commercial airlines to fly their planes means little without a space in which to land them. In some congested US airports, the times and spots for landing are known as "landing slots" and have been assigned to airlines at the...

Department of Transportation and Airport Landing Slots

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

The ability of commercial airlines to fly their planes means little without a space in which to land them. In some congested US airports, the times and spots for landing are known as "landing slots" and have been assigned to airlines at the...

Note on Competitive Bypass

Publication Date: January 01, 1986

In 1986, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), a private utility company serving most of northern and central California, was facing the loss of many of its biggest and best customers. The threat came not from conservation, general economic...