RAND work in law, business, and regulation includes analyses of alternative dispute resolution, asbestos litigation, workers' compensation, insurance, and other civil justice matters. This research often has implications for the private sector, such as entrepreneurs facing legal and regulatory hurdles, or multinational corporations dealing with corporate ethics and governance issues.
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Text of a presentation to the annual meeting in April of the Central Association of College and University Business Officers, in Houston. Management's ability to stay one jump ahead of change is the most important factor for successful operations in ...
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An examination of the effects of graft, i.e., the misuse of public office for private ends, on economic development. Graft does not necessarily retard development. Moreover, it is not a homogeneous phenomenon: there are numerous types, both collus...
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Corporate programs to recruit minority employees have paid off in a steadily increasing minority population in the work force. The next step in promoting fair employment--developing the minority employee in his job--is the responsibility of the super...
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A caveat against the use of systems analysis to aid current economic-development decisionmaking. Systems analysis rationally identifies the preferable alternative through comparison of expected results in terms of goals. It is inapplicable to many ...
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Techniques for maximizing the quality and quantity of interview response from "nonmiddle class" populations must be developed. Past research has pointed out some of the sources of bias resulting from the use of interviewers of the same and higher cl...
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A Review of [The Crime of Punishment] by Karl Menninger, whose basic thesis is that psychiatry has more functional value within the criminological system than has been hitherto realized. Menninger's suggested reforms for our system include (1) trial...
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A sharply critical appraisal of [The] [Postwar Development of the Republic of] [Vietnam: Policies and Programs], a recent study of prospects for a non-Communist South Vietnam, and the U.S. role in its development.
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A description of COMBAT, the Cost Oriented Model Built to Analyze Tradeoffs, that enables the analyst to participate, through Rand's time-shared computer system JOSS, in a war-gaming or planning exercise and to supply instant estimates of the cost of...
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This historical analysis of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) focuses on its attempted coup of October 1965.
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Formulates an econometric model of the supply of Colombian coffee to use in estimating how the coffee industry would respond to price incentives to lower production.
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An examination of the growth potential of the Egyptian economy. Within the context of present political uncertainties in the Middle East, this study investigates the problem of whether Egypt will be able to return to a path of sustained growth, what ...
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A look at past economic development in Syria and a discussion of expected future growth, along with potential obstacles. Syrian oil production will be the most expansive factor in the economy, coupled with anticipated industrial agricultural benefit...
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A discussion of several recent trends in Arab intellectual thought with respect to Arab nationalism, Arab socialism, and the place of Islam in both. This Memorandum describes important questions and debates in Arab thought in the 1960s. Several sol...
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Description of RAND research in the field of political and economic development.
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Several articles in this issue discuss how economic planning is hampered by shortages of computers, desk calculators and abacuses, repairmen, and mathematical economists, by lack of coordination, and by the data problem. Economists and mathematicians...
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A review of events in Indonesia since the overthrow of Communism and of Indonesia's current plans for economic development. The priorities set by Indonesian economic planners are in accord with the best judgment of the international economic profess...
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Gustav Papanek, in his vigorous chronicle of Pakistan's economic development, uses Pakistan's experience to question many concepts in the development literature and to find ample evidence that destroys some of the shibboleths about traditional societ...
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A discussion of current economic concepts of regionalism and "second-best" worlds as they relate to problems of United States and Japanese aid programs in less-developed countries. Multicountry associations have been formed for many purposes with va...
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A description of the PPB system and its contributions to the planning process. First, it establishes and makes explicit the relationships, or linkages, among the organization's goals, programs, and activities and their resource implications and finan...
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An analysis of the demographic causes and consequences of the population explosion in Latin America. About half of the current population is under 15 years old, due to a high level of fertility and a decline in infant and child mortality. The resul...
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