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The Trans-Pacific Partnership and regulating capital flows: recommendations for strengthening proposed safeguards in the leaked TPP investment chapter
This repository item contains a policy brief from the Boston University Global Economic Governance Initiative. The Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) is a research program of the Center for Finance, Law & Policy, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. It was founded in 2008 to advance policy-relevant knowledge about governance for financial stability, human development, and the environment.The leaked text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement’s investment chapter reveals that negotiators are giving serious consideration to a safeguard intended to allow nations to regulate capital flows. It is critical that the safeguard be drafted in such a way that governments have sufficient policy flexibility to prevent and mitigate financial instability
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A Comprehensive Analysis on the Healthcare Systems in Latin America
This comprehensive report summarizes and analyzes the current state of healthcare in Latin America, specifically in the countries of Mexico, Brazil, the Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras), the Andean Region (Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia) and the Rioplatense Region (Uruguay, and Argentina). Each country's healthcare system is examined in depth, in terms of health infrastructure, the healthcare providing industry, and the effects of healthcare on the countries' respective populations.Mosser, Michael W.International Relations and Global Studie
The Binary Black Hole Model for Mrk 231 Bites the Dust
Mrk 231 is a nearby quasar with an unusually red near-UV-to-optical
continuum, generally explained as heavy reddening by dust (e.g., Leighly et al.
2014). Yan et al. 2015 proposed that Mrk~231 is a milli-parsec black-hole
binary with little intrinsic reddening. We show that if the observed FUV
continuum is intrinsic, as assumed by Yan et al. 2015, it fails by a factor of
about 100 in powering the observed strength of the near-infrared emission
lines, and the thermal near and mid-infrared continuum. In contrast, the line
and continuum strengths are typical for a reddened AGN spectral energy
distribution. We find that the HeI*/Pbeta ratio is sensitive to the spectral
energy distribution for a one-zone model. If this sensitivity is maintained in
general broad-line region models, then this ratio may prove a useful diagnostic
for heavily reddened quasars. Analysis of archival HST STIS and FOC data
revealed evidence that the far-UV continuum emission is resolved on size scales
of ~40 parsecs. The lack of broad absorption lines in the far-UV continuum
might be explained if it were not coincident with the central engine. One
possibility is that it is the central engine continuum reflected from the
receding wind on the far side of the quasar.Comment: Consistent with the accepted ApJ pape
Validating the Universe in a Box
Computer simulations of the formation and evolution of large scale structure
in the universe are integral to the enterprise of modern cosmology.
Establishing the reliability of these simulations has been extremely
challenging, primarily because of epistemic opacity. In this setting,
robustness analysis defined by requiring converging outputs from a diverse
ensemble of simulations is insufficient to determine simulation validity.
Instead, we propose an alternative path of structured code validation that
applies eliminative reasoning to isolate and reduce possible sources of error,
a potential path that is already being explored by some cosmologists.Comment: 13 pages. Accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science for the
PSA2018 symposium proceedings issu
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