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Improving the Corruption Perception Index Rank for United States
Alexandru V. Roman
In
the recently released 2010, Transparency International’s Corruption
Perception Index (CPI), which measures the perception of corruption in
the public sector, the United States received…
Business as Usual?
Josephine Gatti
Business
hasn’t been “as usual” in Las Vegas, NV, for quite a while.
Metropolitan Las Vegas has the highest foreclosure rate in the nation
and Nevada…
Transformation of Real-time Reporting: The Recovery Act
Donna S. Canestraro, Theresa A. Pardo, Natalie Helbig and Alison Heaphy
The
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) challenged state
agencies to meet the Act’s new…
Public Servants in Cameroon
Serving the public has never been anything easy to manage. There are two kinds of public servants here in Cameroon…It has never been easy to associate one-self in any of…
The Meaning of Friendship in a Social Networked World
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
This
quote is attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who
wrote extensively about the notion and importance of true…
Whence Conspiracy Theories? The Nation’s Founding From Fabric of Suspicion
President Obama’s recent appointment of Harvard Professor, Cass Sunstein, to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, would have gone largely uncommented upon were it not for Sunstein’s position,…
Corruption Threatens Kosovo’s New Democracy
Kosovo declared independence from Serbia on February 17, 2008, and thus far 71 countries, including the United States and most European nations, have recognized it as a sovereign state. Irrespective…
A Roof Over Our Heads: Housing in Camaroon
Having a roof over our heads in Africa generally and in Cameroon in particular, remains the tip of an ice burg. Most houses, even in the nation’s capital, are fast…
Boomerang Homeless Families
For the past eight years, the Bloomberg Administration has struggled in vain to control the number of homeless families in New York City. It has launched one policy initiative after…
Housing Needs for the Next Decade
For local policy makers anticipating the economic landscape in the post-recession and post-foreclosure period–roughly predicted to be the end of 2011 through until 2015–there are three factors that will influence…
A Leadership of Public Service
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said it most eloquently, “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment.…
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