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CLIMATE-RELATED RISKS

SEC Has Taken Steps to Clarify Disclosure Requirements

by Hugues Dumont
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018

Impacts from a changing climate can pose serious risks to the global economy and affect many economic sectors, according to reports. Public companies are generally required to disclose certain risks in their SEC filings. In 2010, SEC issued guidance to clarify how existing disclosure requirements apply for climate-related matters...

FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

Trends in Management Representation of Minorities and Women and Diversity Practices, 2007–2015

by Hugues Dumont
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018

The U.S. workforce force has become increasingly diverse and is projected to become even more diverse in the coming decades. As a result, many private sector organizations have recognized the importance of recruiting and retaining minorities and women for key positions to improve their business or...

RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

Actions Needed to Improve the Effectiveness and Oversight of Continuing Disability Reviews

by Hugues Dumont
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018

RRB is an independent agency that administers disability benefits for railroad workers. In fiscal year 2016, about 31,000 railroad workers with disabilities received $1.1 billion in disability benefits. RRB is generally required to periodically assess beneficiaries’ medical condition or earnings...

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Additional Action Needed to Improve Process for Billing Licensees

by Hugues Dumont
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018

NRC is responsible for regulating the commercial nuclear industry, including nuclear power plants. NRC provides services, such as inspections, for regulated entities that hold licenses—that is, licensees. NRC recovers the costs for these services by assessing fees and billing licensees quarterly....

National Accounts of OECD Countries, Financial Balance Sheets 2010

by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011

The National Accounts of OECD Countries, Financial Balance Sheets includes financial stocks (both financial assets and liabilities), by institutional sector (non-financial corporations, financial corporations, general government, households and non-profit institutions serving households, total economy and rest of the world) and by financial instrument.

National Accounts of OECD Countries, Volume 2011 Issue 1

Main Aggregates

by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011

The National Accounts of OECD Countries, Main Aggregates covers expenditure-based GDP, output-based GDP, income-based GDP, disposable income, saving and net lending, population and employment. It includes also comparative tables based on purchasing power parities and exchange rates. Data are shown...

Regulating Charities

The Inside Story

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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017

In this volume charity commissioners and leading charity policy reformers from across the world reflect on the aims and objectives of charity regulation and what it has achieved. Regulating Charities represents an insider’s review of the last quarter century of charity law policy and an insight...

The Prompt Payment Act Answer Book

by William G. Arnold CDFM-A, CCA
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009

Find the Answers You Need to Comply with the Prompt Payment Act! It can be challenging for federal agencies to comply with the Prompt Payment Act. Although the basic rules are simple, they can be difficult to interpret and apply properly — until now. Designed as a reference, The Prompt Payment...

Assessment Methodology for

Economic Analysis

by Hugues Dumont
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018

In its engagements, GAO may review economic analyses that are intended to inform decision-makers and stakeholders about the economic effects of a public action. The economic analyses that GAO reviews may have been performed to meet requirements described in Executive Order or related statutes, to...

How the Euro Was Saved

by Financial Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

A vivid and authoritative account of how the eurozone crisis was laid to rest but left a sullen Europe in its wake. This ebook expands and updates an investigation published by the Financial Times in 2014. Peter Spiegel, the newspaper's bureau chief in Brussels, takes the reader deep into the corridors...

COMMERCIAL SPACE LAUNCH INSURANCE

FAA Needs to Fully Address Mandated Requirements

by Hugues Dumont
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2018

The federal government shares liability risks with the commercial space launch industry for accidents that result in damages to third parties or federal property. This arrangement requires space launch companies to have a specific amount of insurance to cover these damages. The government is potentially...

FEDERAL REAL PROPERTY

DHS and GSA Have Not Implemented Recommendations to Strengthen the Management of DHS Headquarters Consolidation

by Hugues Dumont
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018

DHS and GSA have been managing efforts to consolidate DHS executive leadership, operational management, and other personnel at one secure headquarters location rather than at multiple locations throughout the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. The consolidation is to include the development of multi-billion dollar headquarters facilities at the St. Elizabeths campus in Washington, D.C...

Financial Sustainability and Intergenerational Equity in Local Governments

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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018

Due to the mortgage crisis of 2008, laws aimed at achieving budgetary and financial stability were enacted. The concept of ﬁnancial sustainability has been linked to the need of rendering public services without compromising the ability to do so in the future. Financial Sustainability and Intergenerational...

HIGHER EDUCATION

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