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Jobs for America | Investments and Policies for Economic Growth and Competitiveness
Ross DeVol and Perry Wong (1-26-2010)
Changes to economic and tax policies and investment in key infrastructure project categories could create more than 11 million jobs in the United States this decade.
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Clean Economy, Living Planet: Building Strong Clean Energy Technology Industries
Ward van den Berg, Senior Research Associate, Arnoud van der Slot, Partner, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants (1-26-2010)
The market for clean energy technology (CET) is booming and will be the third-largest industrial sector in the world.
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Building Strong Clean Energy Technology Industries
U.S. Outward FDI: Current Flows Lowered in Weakened Global Economy but Attraction of Emerging Markets Remains
Karl P. Sauvant, Executive Director, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International (1-26-2010)
Current FDI flows lowered in weakened global economy, but attraction of emerging markets remains.
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Country Profiles of Inward and Outward Foreign Direct Investment
Manufacturing Resurgence | A Must for U.S. Prosperity
Joel Popkin and Kathryn Kobe, National Association of Manufacturers and the NAM Council of Manufacturing Associations (1-19-2010)
Manufacturing is essential for U.S. economic growth and prosperity but faces big challenges.
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Manufacturing Resurgence
Cleantech Revolution: Building Smart infrastructures
PricewaterhouseCoopers (1-19-2010)
Efforts are under way to build foundational infrastructures that will support a smart electricity grid and an electric vehicle ecosystem.
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Building Smart Infrastructures
Quality Counts 2010 - Education Week’s Annual Education Report Card
Education Week (1-15-2010)
The nation and many states face a continuing struggle to deliver a high-quality education to all students, according to Education Week’s annual education report card.
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24th Annual Corporate Survey & 6th Annual Consultants Survey Complete Results
Area Development Magazine Special Presentation (Dec/Jan 10)
After 2009’s economic woes, business executives look to balance their cost-related priorities with their 2010 growth strategies according to Area Development's Annual Corporate and Consultants Survey.
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OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2009
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (12-22-2009)
The ninth edition of the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard explores recent developments in matters relating to innovation, science, technology, and globalization. In this regard, it compares characteristics of OECD member and major non-member economies.
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OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2009
United States Economy Overview — Winter 2010
Jones Lang LaSalle (12-21-2009)
The “great recession” is over, but the expansion underway will remain fragile as the overwhelming support from government stimulus begins to fade out in 2010.
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United State Economic Overview 2010
Emerging Trends in the U.S. Solar Market
GTM Research (12-18-2009)
The United States is rapidly emerging as one of the world’s leading markets for solar power.
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Emerging Trends in the U.S. Solar Market
Innovating for Better Buildings | An Opportunity Disguised as a Meltdown
Nth Power and the Faunhofer Institute (12-18-2009)
The new construction sector of the U.S. building industry offers an attractive and timely opportunity to innovate.
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Innovating for Better Buildings
2010 U.S. Manufacturing CFO Outlook
Bank of America Business Capital (12-10-2009)
Despite giving the current economy low marks, U.S. manufacturers CFOs are more optimistic than in recent years about the nation’s economic outlook.
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2010 CFO Outlook
Do Green Buildings Make Dollars and Sense?
Norm G. Miller, PhD, University of San Diego, Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate, Dave Pogue, LEED AP and National Director of Sustainability, CBRE (11-23-2009)
Many tenants of Energy Star-labeled buildings find such space more productive, and these buildings do save money on energy costs.
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Do Green Buildings Make Dollars and Sense?
Green Buildings and Productivity
Norm G. Miller, PhD, University of San Diego, Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate, Dave Pogue, LEED AP and National Director of Sustainability, CBRE (11-23-2009)
Healthier buildings reduce sick time and increase productivity, making it easier to recruit and retain employees.
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Green Buildings and Productivity
Best-Performing Cities 2009
Ross C. DeVol, Armen Bedroussian, Kevin Klowden, and Candice Flor Hynek, Milken Institute, Greenstreet Real Esate Partners (11-12-2009)
Leaders in the 2009 Best-Performing Cities index are all metros that succeeded in avoiding the worst of economic declines driven by falling housing markets and job losses in manufacturing and global trade.
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Best-Performing Cities 2009
Deloitte Debates — Bring Manufacturing Jobs Home!
Deloitte Consulting LLP (11-9-2009)
Is it time to start bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.?
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Bring manufacturing jobs home!
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Much Ado About Some Money
Charles Kovacs, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment (10-26-2009)
SWFs will continue to favor the major advanced economies, although they are unlikely to become a significant source of FDI.
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Sovereign wealth funds: much ado about some money
Sustainable, High Performance Projects and Project Delivery Methods
The Charles Pankow Foundation, The Design-Build Institute of America (10-16-2009)
LEED APs rate design-build (DB) and construction manager-at-risk (CMR) higher than design-bid-build (DBB); research shows procurement method affects outcome.
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Sustainable, High Performance Projects
IBM Global Location Trends 2009
IBM Global Business Services (10-13-2009)
IBM's Global Location Trends report advises companies on their global location strategies and economic development organizations on improving their strategies to attract such companies.
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Global Location Trends
People and Profitability: A Time for Change
The Manufacturing Institute, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Oracle Corporation (10-7-2009)
Amidst ongoing economic uncertainty, record-high unemployment rates and continued layoffs and mandatory furlough days, manufacturers are struggling to find and retain high-skilled, flexible workers.
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A 2009 people management practices survey of the manufacturing industry
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