This report goes beyond narrow debates about how best to spur job creation through economic stimulus to address the deeper structural causes of the jobs crisis and outline necessary corrective action. It is prepared and issued by the New Economy Working Group (NEWGroup), an informal alliance coordinated by the Institute for Policy Studies [...]
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This report challenges the premise that America is broke. In fact, it argues that the current fiscal challenge poses an opportunity to harness the country’s ample but misdirected resources in ways that will make America stronger. The authors did not attempt to develop an exhaustive list of possible revenue-raisers or spending cuts. [...] Posted on September 8th, 2011
This year’s Institute for Policy Studies Executive Excess report, the 18th annual, explores the intersection between CEO pay and aggressive corporate tax dodging. It researched the 100 U.S. corporations that shelled out the most last year in CEO compensation. At 25 of these corporate giants, it found, the bill for chief executive compensation [...] Posted on September 6th, 2011
U.S. negotiators are hardliners against capital controls in current Trans-Pacific trade talks with eight other countries. Their position is more rigid than the International Monetary Fund and previous U.S. regimes, including the Reagan administration. This briefing paper concludes with recommendations for reforming U.S. trade and investment agreements to allow governments to use this [...] Posted on May 31st, 2011
In the wake of the global financial crisis, there is increased interest in the role that development banks and other forms of public finance can play in supporting job creation and stable, sustainable development. Efforts to expand public finance, however, could clash with subsidies restrictions in international trade and investment agreements. The purpose [...] 2 pages
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