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Product Description: Many medical authorities predict that average life expectancy could well exceed 100 years by mid century and rise even higher soon thereafter. This astonishing prospect, brought on by the revolution in molecular biology and information technology, confronts policymakers and public health officials with a host of new questions...read more
By Henry J. Aaron (editor), Brookings Institution (corporate author) and William B. Schwartz (editor)

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9780815700401 | Brookings Inst Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Many medical authorities predict that average life expectancy could well exceed 100 years by mid century and rise even higher soon thereafter.

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9780815700395 | Brookings Inst Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Many medical authorities predict that average life expectancy could well exceed 100 years by mid century and rise even higher soon thereafter.

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By Stephen Hess (editor), Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press (corporate author) and Marvin L. Kalb (editor)

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9780815735816 | Brookings Inst Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: The Brookings Institution's Welfare Reform & Beyond Initiative was created to inform the critical policy debates surrounding the upcoming congressional reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and a number of related programs that were created or dramatically altered by the 1996 landmark welfare reform legislation...read more
By Brookings Institution (corporate author), Ron Haskins (editor), Andrea Kane, Isabel V. Sawhill (editor) and Kent Weaver (editor)

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9780815706397 | Brookings Inst Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Brookings Institution's Welfare Reform & Beyond Initiative was created to inform the critical policy debates surrounding the upcoming congressional reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and a number of related programs that were created or dramatically altered by the 1996 landmark welfare reform legislation.

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Product Description: Since the 1960 national election, the nonpartisan Citizens¡¯ Research Foundation (CRF) has published a series of Financing the Election volumes, compiling reliable data on the costs and trends of campaign finance. For the 2000 edition, CRF and the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young University assembled leading political science scholars to analyze this historic election season where campaign finance was critically important...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Brookings Institution (corporate author) and David B. Magleby (editor)

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9780815706229 | Brookings Inst Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Since the 1960 national election, the nonpartisan Citizens¡¯ Research Foundation (CRF) has published a series of Financing the Election volumes, compiling reliable data on the costs and trends of campaign finance.

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9780815706212 | Brookings Inst Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Since the 1960 national election, the nonpartisan Citizens¡¯ Research Foundation (CRF) has published a series of Financing the Election volumes, compiling reliable data on the costs and trends of campaign finance.

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Product Description: The extensive reforms and liberalization of financial services in emerging markets worldwide call for cutting-edge strategies to capture the benefits of new investment opportunities. In Open Doors, a volume of papers from the third annual Financial Markets and Development conference, multidisciplinary financial sector experts analyze current economic and political trends and prescribe practical advice to the financial development community...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By International Monetary Fund (corporate author), Robert E. Litan (editor), Paul Masson (editor), Michael Pomerleano (editor) and World Bank Group (corporate author)

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9780815702450 | Brookings Inst Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The extensive reforms and liberalization of financial services in emerging markets worldwide call for cutting-edge strategies to capture the benefits of new investment opportunities.

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Product Description: For much of the post-World War II period, the increasing globalization of the U.S. economy was welcomed by policymakers and by the American people. We gained the benefits of cheaper and, in some cases, better foreign-made products, while U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Brookings Institution (corporate author), Gary T. Burtless (editor) and Progressive Policy Institute (other contributor)

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9780815711902 | Brookings Inst Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: For much of the post-World War II period, the increasing globalization of the U.

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Product Description: Many of the rules that govern labor markets in Latin America (and elsewhere) raise labor costs, create barriers to entry, and introduce rigidities in the employment structure. These include the exceedingly restrictive regulations on hiring and firing practices, as well as burdensome social insurance schemes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Brookings Institution (corporate author), Sebastian Edwards (editor) and Nora Lustig (editor)

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9780815721062 | Brookings Inst Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Many of the rules that govern labor markets in Latin America (and elsewhere) raise labor costs, create barriers to entry, and introduce rigidities in the employment structure.

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9780815721079 | Brookings Inst Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Many of the rules that govern labor markets in Latin America (and elsewhere) raise labor costs, create barriers to entry, and introduce rigidities in the employment structure.

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Product Description: The signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was expected to signal the beginning of a new era of close co-operation between Mexico and the United States. Subsequent events, however, have introduced new tensions into the relationship...read more
By Barryp Bosworth (editor), Brookings Institution (corporate author), Susan Margaret Collins (editor) and Nora Lustig (editor)

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9780815710271 | Brookings Inst Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was expected to signal the beginning of a new era of close co-operation between Mexico and the United States.

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Product Description: The collapse of communist power in the Soviet Union and subsequent measures to establish a private sector have created opportunities for both foreign and domestic private capital in Russia, and the non-Russian republics of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)...read more
By Brookings Institution (corporate author), David A. Dyker (editor) and Russian and Cis Programme (other contributor)

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9780815719991 | Brookings Inst Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The collapse of communist power in the Soviet Union and subsequent measures to establish a private sector have created opportunities for both foreign and domestic private capital in Russia, and the non-Russian republics of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

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Product Description: The transition to a market economy proves to be far more difficult in Russia than in the former centrally planned economies of eastern Europe. The Russian economy continues to face serious problems, including substantial inflationary pressures, falling output, and capital flight...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Brookings Institution (corporate author), Russian and Cis Programme (other contributor) and Alan Smith (editor)

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9780815780250 | Brookings Inst Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The transition to a market economy proves to be far more difficult in Russia than in the former centrally planned economies of eastern Europe.

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Product Description: The multilateral military intervention in Somalia was one of the international community's first major attempts to respond to a dangerous new challenge in the post-cold war era—the problem of state collapse and social disintegration...read more

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9780815753513 | Brookings Inst Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The multilateral military intervention in Somalia was one of the international community's first major attempts to respond to a dangerous new challenge in the post-cold war era—the problem of state collapse and social disintegration.

Product Description: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible...read more

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9780404571023 | Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1919, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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