Pakistan’s development predicament is emblematic of many countries that are undergoing rapid growth in energy demand from demographic pressures as well as more intense industrialization. While such growth can certainly be a sign of progress and potentially a means of poverty alleviation, it can also lead to errant euphoria and rash decision-making by policy-makers. At such times of ambition and...

Implementing Company Classification Policy with the S/MIME Security Label Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document discusses how company security policy for data classification can be mapped to the S/MIME security label. Actual policies from ...

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice • vol x • no x • xx–xx • © Policy Press 2015 • #JPSJ Print ISSN 1759 8273 • Online ISSN 1759 8281 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/175982715X14418059634901 This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits adaptation, alteration, reproduction and distribution w...

\Access is the killer app" [3] is the vision of the Daedalus project at U.C. Berkeley. Being able to be connected seamlessly anytime anywhere to the best network still remains an unful lled goal. Often, even determining the \best" network is a challenging task because of the widespread deployment of overlapping wireless networks. In this report, we describe a policy-enabled hando system that al...

I show that a trade-o between in ation volatility and average unemployment arises in a New Keynesian model with search and matching frictions in the labor market. In this environment, unemployment rises more and faster in a recession than it decreases in an expansion. A monetary authority focused solely on stabilizing in ation exacerbates labor market volatility and leads to higher average unem...

Energy was a hot topic at the 2009 APS March Meeting. Eleven sessions had titles explicitly addressing energy generation or storage, compared to zero at least year’s meeting, and two at the 2007 meeting. An additional five sessions at this year’s meeting were devoted to hydrogen storage, which is crucial if hydrogen is to be used as a motor fuel. A number of talks focused on the use of polymers...

Rep. George Brown (D-CA), chair of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, who narrowly won a race many expected him to lose, most likely will continue to chair the science committee. For many years he has been considered one of the most knowledgeable members of the House on science policy. His calls for priority setting, increased accountability and demonstrated social benefit fr...

During the long economic slump in Japan, monetary policy in Japan has essentially consisted of a very low interest rate (since 1995), a zero interest rate (since 1999), and quantitative easing (since 2001). The intention seems to have been to lower expectations of future interest rates. But the problem in a liquidity trap (when the zero lower bound on the central bank's instrument rate is stric...