This book discusses developments in the United States' exports and imports of professional services, with a focus on education, healthcare, and leg...

The U.S. trade deficit has risen more or less steadily since 1992. In 2006, the trade imbalance reached $811.5 billion, an increase of $20 billion ...

U.S. trade preference programs promote economic development in poorer nations by providing export opportunities. The Generalized System of Preferen...

Congress has created multiple trade preference programs designed to foster economic growth, reform and development in less developed countries. The...

This book focuses on U.S. trade building with developing countries; a heterogeneous group of low and middle-income countries that have become an in...

The United States has a long history of employing various types of trade incentives to encourage specific trade activities. Motivated by commercial...

The U.S. trade deficit is shrinking primarily because the global financial crisis is causing U.S. exports to drop faster than U.S. imports. In toda...

Policymakers at all levels of government are debating a wide range of options for addressing the nation's faltering economic conditions. One option...

The conventional wisdom is that the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001 prompted a substantive change in U.S. immigration policy on visa issua...

The United States and the European Union (EU) economic relationship is the largest in the world -- and it is growing. The modern U.S.-European econ...

There has been a recent increase in the level of drug trafficking-related violence within and between the drug trafficking organisations in Mexico....

The offshore areas of the Gulf of Mexico provide a setting for domestic and international energy production, U.S. military training and border oper...

The final text of the proposed U.S.-Panama FTA incorporates specific amendments on key issues at the behest of congressional leadership. The most s...

The U.S.-Singapore FTA has taken on new importance in trade policy because the United States is engaged in negotiations to join the Trans-Pacific P...

This book provides an overview of the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) which covers a wide range of bilateral economic activities,...

The path that brought us here as a species is not only filled with lies and deception of unimaginable proportion, but also with continuous manipula...

The aim of this book is to fill this gap by carrying out an analysis that helps explain recent U.K. developments, yet focuses on past policies rath...

This book is a compilation of CRS reports on Ukraine. The collection opens by discussing the 2014 protests of the Ukranian government’s postponemen...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of reports, correspondence and other publications on Ukraine. Some of the issues discussed include: ·U.S. ...

The monograph is devoted to the modern development of the Ukrainian state, which appeared on the political map after 1991. The movement to the inde...

Written toward the end of Mises's life, his last monograph, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science, returned to science, economics as a scienc...

In the beginning of this new century, when able people in science across the world are working on scientific methods of providing sustainable devel...

Understanding exporting in the small and micro firm presents an SOR model that owners/managers and public policy makers can use to help them develo...

During recent years, news headlines have been rife with criticisms of the risk management practices of public and private sector entities. These cr...

The book is divided into three sections. The first section examines issues in relation to corporate governance in the private sector, with emphasis...

The institutional endowment of a country determines government's regulatory choices, the public policies, incentives, and the direction of economic...

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has declared the U.S. economy to be in recession since December 2007. In response to high unemploym...

The unemployment rate has greatly increased since the onset of the recession in December 2007, when it measured 5.0%. The rate peaked at 10.1% in O...

The global economic crisis has had numerous implications for individuals, businesses and policy makers, but none were as profound and as socially a...

This book discusses unemployment and its relations to economic, political and social aspects. The first chapter studies the relationship of unemplo...

The most recent recession led to an unprecedented increase in the number of those unemployed for more than 26 weeks (the long-term unemployed). As ...

Unemployment insurance (UI) is a federal-state system and mandatory AJC partner. UI benefits are available to workers who have involuntarily lost t...

This book examines the antipoverty effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits over the past three recessions. The analysis especially focuses ...

The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA) culminated years of efforts by state and local government officials and various business interests ...

The total U.S. civilian non-institutionalized population in 2009 was estimated to be slightly more than 301 million, of whom 15.1% or 45.5 million,...

This book examines the strategic risk posed by a smaller and restructured Army; the "health" of the Army given the impending downsizing; the draw-d...

U.S. aid to the Palestinians is intended to forward at least three major U.S. policy priorities of interest to Congress: 1) combating, neutralising...

The nation's budget situation is challenging. In February 2009, the CBO projected that the deficit in 2009 will reach more than $1.4 trillion, whic...

Budgeting for the federal government is an enormously complex process. It entails dozens of sub-processes, countless rules and procedures, the effo...

The Arctic region faces growing economic, environmental, and cultural challenges, heightening the need for co-ordinated research across institution...

The signing of the Maastricht treaty created economic structure and institutions, and set in motion the process of adopting a common currency. The ...

U.S. foreign-trade zones (FTZs) are geographic areas declared to be outside the normal customs territory of the United States. This means that, for...

This book examines the significance, prospects, and policy options of U.S.-Japan economic relations. Japan and the United States are the two larges...

Universal Economics is a new work that bears a strong resemblance to its two predecessors, University Economics (1964, 1967, 1972) and Exchange and...