Pandemic influenza poses a threat to public health at a time when the United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO) has said that infectious diseases are spreading faster than at any time in history. The last major influenza pandemic occurred from 1918 to 1919. Estimates of deaths worldwide if a similar pandemic were to occur have ranged between 30 million and 384 million people. Individual countries and international organisations have developed and begun to implement a strategy for forestalling (that is, containing, delaying, or minimising the impact of) the onset of a pandemic....
Pandemic influenza poses a threat to public health at a time when the United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO) has said that infectious disease...
Examines the benefits and costs associated with federal entities' acceptance of cards. This title also examines the effects of other countries' actions to limit interchange fees, and the impact on federal entities of using cards to make purchases.
Examines the benefits and costs associated with federal entities' acceptance of cards. This title also examines the effects of other countries' action...
Intends to present a cumulative supplement to the published third edition text that includes a variety of relevant decisions from 1 January to 31 December 2007.
Intends to present a cumulative supplement to the published third edition text that includes a variety of relevant decisions from 1 January to 31 Dece...
Contents: Preface; Wildland Fire Management: Better Information and a Systematic Process Could Improve Agencies' Approach to Allocating Fuel Reduction Funds and Selecting Projects; Forest Service: Better Planning, Guidance, and Data Are Needed to Improve Management of the Competitive Sourcing Program; Wildland Fire Management: Federal Agencies Lack Key Long - and Short Term Management Strategies for Using Program Funds Effectively; Wildland Fire: Management Improvements Could Enhance Federal Agencies' Efforts to Contain the Costs of Fighting Fires; Wildland Fire Management: A Cohesive...
Contents: Preface; Wildland Fire Management: Better Information and a Systematic Process Could Improve Agencies' Approach to Allocating Fuel Reduction...
The Small Business Administration's (SBA) 7(a) program, initially established in 1953, provides loan guarantees to small businesses that cannot obtain credit in the conventional lending market. In fiscal year 2006, the program assisted more than 80,000 businesses with loan guarantees of nearly $14 billion. This book examines: the program's purpose, based on its legislative history, and performance measures; evidence of constraints, if any, affecting small businesses' access to credit; the types of small businesses served by 7(a) and conventional loans; and, differences in SBA's estimates and...
The Small Business Administration's (SBA) 7(a) program, initially established in 1953, provides loan guarantees to small businesses that cannot obtain...
Congress granted financial regulators flexibility to establish their own compensation systems and required certain agencies to seek to maintain comparability with each other in pay and benefits to help the agencies overcome impediments to recruiting and retaining employees and avoid competing for the same employees. In response to a request, this book reviews: how the performance-based pay systems of 10 financial regulators are aligned with six key practices for effective performance management systems; the actions these agencies have taken to assess and implement comparability in pay and...
Congress granted financial regulators flexibility to establish their own compensation systems and required certain agencies to seek to maintain compar...
In 2006, consumers paid over $36 billion in fees associated with checking and savings accounts, raising questions about consumers' awareness of their accounts' terms and conditions. The author was asked to review: trends in the types and amounts of checking and deposit account fees since 2000; how federal banking regulators address such fees in their oversight of depository institutions; and, the extent that consumers are able to obtain account terms and conditions and disclosures of fees upon request prior to opening an account. The author analyzed fee data from private data vendors,...
In 2006, consumers paid over $36 billion in fees associated with checking and savings accounts, raising questions about consumers' awareness of their ...
Concerns have been raised about the public sector's capacity to meet the rising cost of providing its retirees with promised pension and other post-employment benefits, such as retiree health care. State and local retiree benefits are not subject, for the
Concerns have been raised about the public sector's capacity to meet the rising cost of providing its retirees with promised pension and other post-em...
US trade preference programs promote economic development in poorer nations by providing export opportunities. This title reviews the programs' effects on the United States and on foreign beneficiaries' exports and development, identifies policy trade-offs
US trade preference programs promote economic development in poorer nations by providing export opportunities. This title reviews the programs' effect...
Human trafficking is a transnational crime. This book discusses key activities federal agencies have undertaken to combat human trafficking crimes, federal efforts to co-ordinate investigations and prosecutions of these crimes, and how the Bureau of Justic
Human trafficking is a transnational crime. This book discusses key activities federal agencies have undertaken to combat human trafficking crimes, fe...
