Olympic Games Impact Study Final Report

Document originally hosted on http://www.sportdevelopment.org.ukPricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) was commissioned to undertake a multi-criteria analysis (MCA) as part of an Olympic Games Impact Study (OGIS) to assess the likely national, regional and local impacts of hosting the Olympics in London. The OGIS was expected to quantify as comprehensively, accurately and robustly as possible the net benefit streams that would arise from hosting the Olympics in 2012 in London based on a comparison of two scenarios: ‘with’ and ‘without’ the Olympics. It was also intended to inform the development of strategies to ensure that the full potential benefits of hosting the Olympics can potentially be realised and any risk mitigated

Retirement on the Edge: Women’s and Men’s Economic Insecurity After the Great Recession. Report #D500

collected in fall 2010, focusing on the perceptions people hold about their economic security in retirement following the Great Recession of 2007–2009. The report is part of a larger project to gather information and educate the public on how to improve the economic security of older women, low-income retirees, and other vulnerable Americans. The survey was supported as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Campaign for the American Worker initiative to describe the hardship and anxiety of Americans in the recession and recovery and to improve the understanding of current and proposed policies for providing economic security. It is being published together with a companion IWPR report, Women and Men Living on th