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    Why do Japanese workers remain in the labor force so long?

    Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2007
    As part of the search for answers to questions about what could be done to increase labour force participation rates among older American workers, this paper looks at recent developments in Japan, one of the few industrial nations that has substantially higher labour force participation rates among older workers than the United States.
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    Rethinking insurgency

    Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College, 2007
    This report argues that the United States military must rethink its counter-insurgency methods. It claims that current strategies in Afghanistan and Iraq are based on Cold War era nationalistic insurgencies, rather than the complex conflicts which characterise the post-Cold War security environment.
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    Greater than the sum of its parts? Assessing "whole of government" approaches to fragile states

    International Peace Academy, 2007
    This study examines efforts to promote policy coherence toward fragile states by seven donor governments: the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, and Sweden.
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    Bridging divides: the role of ethnic community based organisations in refugee integration

    Migration Policy Institute, 2007
    How are organisations founded by refugees helping others who have escaped violence and persecution abroad to adjust to life in the United States? This study, released for World Refugee Day on June 20, paints an overall portrait of refugee resettlement in the United States by highlighting the size and composition of refugee arrivals.
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    Assimilation models, old and new: explaining a long-term process

    Migration Policy Institute, 2007
    What are the present levels of assimilation among today's immigrant groups? Examining this question requires considering the possibility that the process itself may be changing. This online article examines three major theories of immigrant and ethnic group integration.
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    Center on International Cooperation, New York University (CIC)

    The Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University works to enhance international responses to humanitarian crises and global security threats through applied research and direct eng
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    Women and food crises: how US food aid policies can better support their struggles

    ActionAid International, 2007
    Women are often at the centre of food crises and are disproportionately affected by hunger, yet their important role in providing solutions is often overlooked.
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    Flat taxes: a policy note

    International Studies Programmme, Georgia State University, 2007
    This paper provides an assessment of flat tax policies. The authors argue that there is considerable confusion among policy makers as to what a flat rate income tax is and what the benefits are. Similarly, they find that the empirical evidence on the effect of a flat tax on economic and revenue growth is mixed.
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    CARE USA

    CARE USA is part of CARE International, a humanitarian organisation that is dedicated to fighting global poverty.
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    Economic dimensions of security in Central Asia

    RAND Corporation, 2006
    This report assesses the economic dimensions of security in post- Soviet Central Asia and considers their implications for the role of the United States in the region. It particularly focuses on a number of economic and related social problems in the five post-Soviet Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

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