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Financial Incentives Can Improve Public Sector Performance — Aug. 9, 2010

Performance-based accountability systems can improve how employees deliver public services, but evidence demonstrating how effective these systems are at achieving their performance goals is rare.

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Living Conditions in Anbar Province in June 2009 — Jul. 9, 2010

Effective counterinsurgency is dependent on understanding the local population. A survey of those living in Iraq's Anbar Province (once one of the country's most violent areas), reveals both the many improvements that have occurred, as well as the extent to which these Iraqis have suffered from the effects of war.

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Police and Security Worker Recruitment Maps — Jul. 9, 2010

This RAND Center on Quality Policing resource helps compare the actual number of police and other "security workers" in each block group in the United States with what is expected based on that area's characteristics in order to identify where worker recruiting activities would be most effective.

August 3, 2010: Disaster Recovery Conference Highlights Critical Role of Nonprofit Groups Following Katrina and Oil Spill

July 19, 2010: RAND Partnering with Hill House Association to Study How New Grocery Store Will Affect Pittsburgh's Hill District

May 14, 2010: The Future of Transportation Finance: A New Generation of User Fees, By Martin Wachs (Resources for the Future)

March 28, 2010: The Upside of Snowmageddon, By Susan S. Everingham, Stuart S. Olmsted, Henry L. Willis (The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

March 26, 2010: What We Can Learn from the Christmas Day Bombing Attempt, By Brian Michael Jenkins, Bruce Butterworth, Cathal Flynn (The Washington Post)

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The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State

An examination of options for strengthening the housing and transportation infrastructure of a potential future independent Palestinian state in the context of a large and rapidly growing Palestinian population. The book includes initial cost estimates for improving and expanding infrastructure to facilitate successful development.

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Building a Multinational Global Navigation Satellite System

The U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS), now the world's preeminent pointing, navigation, and tracking (PNT) system, will in the not too distant future be joined by the European Union's Galileo, a PNT system planned to be similar to GPS in function and performance. Will the two systems cooperate, providing users with the benefits of both, or will they compete? The authors assess the economic impact of competition and how the United States can address that competition, especially as it affects U.S. economic interests.

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