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The Economics of Reprocessing Versus Direct Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, 2005)
This report assesses the economics of reprocessing versus direct disposal of spent nuclear fuel. The breakeven uranium price at which reprocessing spent nuclear fuel from existing light-water reactors (LWRs) and recycling ...
Securing the Bomb 2005: The New Global Imperatives
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. Nuclear Threat Initiative., 2005)
Evidence that terrorists are actively seeking nuclear weapons and the materials needed to make them, and that some nuclear stockpiles around the world remain dangerously vulnerable to potential theft and transfer to terrorist ...
Preventing a Nuclear 9/11
(2005)
Blaine's Name in Vain?: State Constitutions, School Choice, & Charitable Choice
(University of Denver, 2005)
In this article, Ms. Goldenziel explores the growing controversy over no-funding provisions, state constitutional provisions that restrict state funding of religious institutions. These provisions, allegedly rooted in ...
Administratively Quirky, Constitutionally Murky: The Bush Faith-Based Initiative
(New York University, 2005)
In this article, Ms. Goldenziel explores the administrative and constitutional peculiarities of the Bush Administration's Faith-Based Initiative. She argues that the Supreme Court's establishment clause jurisprudence offers ...
Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Africa
(2005)
The purposes of this paper include (a) a review of the literature on the so-called “African dummy;” (b) an explication of the system GMM method of estimation, by which Hoeffler (2002) shows the “Africa dummy” to be an ...
Science for Global Sustainability: Toward a New Paradigm
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-03)
This paper provides a context for the Dahlem Workshop on “Earth System Analysis for Sustainability.” The authors begin by characterizing the contemporary epoch of Earth history in which humanity has emerged as a major—and ...
Dads, Disease and Death: Decomposing Daughter Discrimination
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-05)
Existing literature suggests that girls are differentially affected by (1) income shocks and (2) changes in bargaining power. However, these analyses do not shed light on the actual sources of discrimination, i.e. whether ...
What You Export Matters
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-12)
When local cost discovery generates knowledge spillovers, specialization patterns become partly indeterminate and the mix of goods that a country produces may have important implications for economic growth. We demonstrate ...