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Chinas Economic Transformation: Exacerbating Tensions or Strengthening Partnerships?
Carnegie Endowment submits: China recently surpassed Japan to become the second largest economy and is now the worlds assembly plant. Its share of trade to GDP surged from 10 percent in 1979 to over 70 percent today. The countrys continued ...
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Bonus Watch: Cornell Endowment Chiefs
Nice work if you can get it.In fiscal year 2009, which ended on June 30, 2009, CIO James Walsh received a compensation package that totaled $888,643. This included $413,680 in base salary pay, $15,000 in other reportable compensation, $49,963 in ...
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Who Should Exist?
The question of what people should exist seems complex and subtle, but basic economic theory suggests it may get a lot simpler in the future. Let me explain, via three possible questions.1. First, consider the binary question, should creature X ...
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Why China Faces a Difficult Economic Transition
Carnegie Endowment submits: The Chinese growth model is a muscular version of the Asian development model and shares fundamental features with other development strategies that generated periods of miracle growth, including Brazil in the 1960s ..
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America's Cultural Endowment
by Conor Friedersdorf Will Wilkinson writes: There is no form of libertarianism that simply falls out of our cultural endowment, as American moral culture has never been remotely libertarian. The average Tea Partier is, like the average voter, a ...
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Art in America: Does a great nation deserve great art?
The slogan for the National Endowment for the Arts raises questions about how we as Americans define great art and greatness itself.
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Christian Action Network Mounts Comeback with Islamophobic Agenda
Martin Mawyer's Christian Action Network, a two-decade-old anti-gay and anti-National Endowment for the Arts organization, is back on the scene...
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Barclay and Dennis Kass
Washington, DC"I believe in the mission of MIT," says Dennis Kass, "particularly of MIT Sloan, which is to develop 'principled and innovative leaders.' I've come to appreciate how critical this is in both public- and private-sector organizations, and ...
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Why So Many Administrators?
Todd Zywicki notes the growing bloat of university administrations--far faster than the illusory tenure-induced bloat*. He speculates on the cause: Jay focuses on the role of government subsidies in feeding the bloat of academic bureaucracy. That ...
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NEH Announces $31.5 Million in Grants and Awards
Source: Lee White at the National Coalition for History (8-20-10) The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced $31.5 million in grants for 201 humanities projects . This funding will support a wide variety of projects, including ...
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NEH Awards Initial Grants in its Bridging Cultures Program
Source: Lee White at the National Coalition for History (8-20-10) The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced the first in a series of Bridging Cultures grants, awarding a total of $1.7 million that will enable humanities ...
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Two Emerging Markets ETFs -- Good Places to Park Your Cash
If you want to retire, you're going to have to get more than a 0.04% return on your cash. How? You could do worse than follow Harvard's endowment into emerging market exchange-traded funds. Continue reading Two Emerging Markets ETFs -- ...
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Reply To Caplan on Kids
In general, those who can send better signals should put more effort into signaling. In particular, those with a better shot at them should work harder to gain status markers. So women with better relative endowments should delay and reduce kid ...
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The Best Way to Really Give Away Money
Private foundations tend to sit on their pots of gold. They should be spending them down more.
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Endowment funds flourish in France
In May, the French strategic committee monitoring a new charitable fundraising technique announced ...
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Harvard isnt divesting from Israel
The noise surrounding a perceived rotation out of Israeli stocks by the Harvard endowment is really rather hilarious. Benjamin Joffe-Walt has managed to amass a whole sequence of quotes from people who have no idea what they're talking about: one ...
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India's Airpower Modernization
Hudson Institute and the Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceCordially Invite you to India's Airpower Modernization Thursday, August 193:00-4:30 PM Through the ongoing modernization of ...
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Colleges Dip Into 'Underwater' Endowments
As more states lift strict legal restrictions on the expenditure of college endowment funds, an increasing number of institutions are spending money from "underwater" funds, according to a survey conducted by the Association of Governing Boards and ...
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In Cairo, An End To The Cacophony Of Calls To Prayer
In Egypt's sprawling capital, no longer will the call to prayer be delivered locally by each mosque. Instead, the government's Ministry of Religious Endowment has announced it will broadcast a single call from a downtown studio. Many Egyptians are ...
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Washington National Opera and Kennedy Center Discussing Future
The Washington National Opera and the Kennedy Center, where it performs, are discussing their "long-term relationship."
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Carol Platt Liebau: A Practice That Should Stop
The New York Times has reported on a practice that the GOP should pledge to stop: Endowments that offer "naming opportunities" for a variety of sitting office-holders.This has come to light, of course, through the...
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Washington National Opera plans are restricted by donor's limits, sources say
Organizations develop personalities over time. Some are powerful. Some are scrappy underdogs. The company now known as the Washington National Opera has always had trouble keeping its finances in order. As a result, it has come to rely on a small group ...
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Egyptian Minister calls on Muslim Tourists to Flood Jerusalem
Arab pilgrims seen as more effective than the failed boycott policy. Egyptian Minister of Religious Endowments Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq called on Muslims worldwide to visit Jerusalem and assert its Islamic identity.In an interview with the Arab daily ...
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The Rev. Paul Locatelli, Educator of 'the Whole Person' at Santa Clara U., Dies at 71
He built up the university's endowment and emphasized experiential learning for students.
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The Arts in the Obama Age
From the origin of the National Endowment for the Arts during the Johnson administration to the election of President Obama the arts community was united ...
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Companies, Lawmakers, Gifts to Colleges
Rep. Charles B. Rangel is not the only lawmaker with a university program financed in part by gifts from companies with business before Congress, The New York Times reported. It said that nearly a dozen current or former lawmakers have such endowments. ...
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Corporations Donate in Honor of Lawmakers to Win Favors: More in Money and Politics
by Marian Wang Though scrutiny of ethics violations and conflicts of interest would seem to be at a high in Washington right now, nearly a dozen current or former lawmakers have university endowments that are ...
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Lawmakers are linked to centers endowed by corporate money
Petitioners fund university honors for some in Congress
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America's Covert "Civil Society Operations": US Interference in Venezuela Keeps Growing
For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
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In Cairo, An End To The Cacophony Of Calls To Prayer
In Egypt's sprawling capital, no longer will the call to prayer be delivered locally by each mosque. Instead, the government's Ministry of Religious Endowment has announced it will broadcast a single call from a downtown studio. Many Egyptians are ...
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