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Mar 8th, 2013 |
By Claire Pritchard
Professor of Law Amos Guiora discusses when drone strikes are morally and legally justifiable and how U.S. drone policy gets it wrong.
Posted in International Affairs, Law & Justice, Policy in Practice |
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Tags: Al Qaeda, Arab world, Article 51, Bush Administration, Bybee Memo, Department of Justice White Paper, drone court, drones, Hezbollah, imminence, Iran, Israeli Defense Forces, judicial review, Lebanon, missiles, Obama Administration, Pakistan, self-defense, Supreme Court Justice Jackson, Syria, targeted killing, UN Charter
Oct 25th, 2012 |
By Claire Pritchard
An international human rights advocate discusses opportunities and obstacles in the fight for LGBT rights.
Posted in International Affairs, Law & Justice, Policy in Practice |
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Tags: Advocacy, Boris Dittrich, Claire Pritchard, human rights, Human Rights Law, Human Rights Watch, LGBT, LGBT Rights, Marriage Equality, Netherlands, Same Sex Marriage, Uganda, Ukraine
Aug 8th, 2012 |
By Claire Pritchard
Researchers examine how labor and capital mobility impact the size of government
Posted in Research in Brief |
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Tags: Alberto Alesina, capital mobility, Center for International Development, Dani Rodrik, FDI, Foreign Direct Investment, GATT, Government size, international migratio, Mexico, NAFTA, René Cabral Torres, Romain Wacziarg
Jun 3rd, 2012 |
By Claire Pritchard
In a study of OECD countries, immigration had a small positive impact on receiving countries’ labor markets.
Posted in International Affairs, Research in Brief |
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Tags: average wage, borders, Child & Family, complementarity, emigration, employment, immigration, immigration and emigration, Jobs, justice, schooling externalities, wage inequality, Wages
May 25th, 2012 |
By Claire Pritchard
Policymakers can fight human smuggling with economics.
Posted in International Affairs, Law & Justice, Research in Brief |
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Tags: border enforcement, Europe, human smuggling, human trafficking, imigration policy, immigration, Immigration reform, Mexico, undocumented workers, United States, visas
May 10th, 2012 |
By Claire Pritchard
The “Geneva of the Orient” provides a case-study of economic development in China.
Posted in International Affairs, Research in Brief, Urban Affairs |
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Tags: China, Dennis Weia, Economic and Technological Development Zones, Economic Development, Economic Development Incentives, Geneva of the Orient, Habitat International, Hangzhou, Urbanization, Yangtze River Delta, Ye Hua
May 2nd, 2012 |
By Claire Pritchard
Food remittances and foreign aid ease the impact of food price shocks.
Posted in International Affairs, Research in Brief |
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Tags: Christian Ebeke, Food Aid, Food Price Shocks, Food Prices, Foreign Aid, GDP, IMF, International Monetary Fund, Jean-Louis Combes, Mireille Ntsama Etoundi, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Remittances, sub-Saharan Africa, Thierry Yogo, World Bank