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Research Brief

How Might Marijuana Legalization in California Affect Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico?

Discusses whether legalizing marijuana in California would reduce the revenues of Mexican drug trafficking organizations and related violence.

Oct 11, 2010
Report

Building a More Resilient Haitian State: French translation of summary

Ce rapport passe en revue les défis auxquels est confrontée la République d'Haïti, ainsi que les projets de réforme envisagés, afin d'identifier les priorités les plus nécessaires, réalisables et durables dans le domaine de la construction étatique.

Aug 24, 2010
News Release

Rebuilding Haiti Requires New State-Building Strategy

Haiti's future prosperity and peace depend on its ability to build a more resilient state, one capable of providing public services like education and health care as well as responding effectively to natural disasters.

Aug 13, 2010
Multimedia

Keith Crane and Laurel Miller Discuss Building a More Resilient Haitian State

RAND Senior Economist Keith Crane and RAND Senior Political Scientist Laurel Miller discuss developing a Haitian state-building strategy. They identify the main challenges to more capable governance and suggest ways the influx of aid money can be used for long-term improvements, as well as offer other insights from their latest report, Building a More Resilient Haitian State.

Aug 13, 2010
Research Brief

Building a More Resilient Haitian State: Key Recommendations and Priorities

Haiti's future prosperity and peace require building a more effective, resilient state. RAND researchers identified Haiti's main challenges and recommended a set of state-building priorities that are necessary, feasible, and sustainable.

Aug 12, 2010
Report

Rebuilding Haiti Requires New State-Building Strategy

Haiti's future prosperity and peace depend on its ability to build a more resilient state, one capable of providing public services like education and health care as well as responding effectively to natural disasters.

Aug 6, 2010
Journal Article

Are Educational Vouchers Only Redistributive?

It is unclear if vouchers increase educational productivity or are purely redistributive, benefiting recipients by giving them access to more desirable peers at others' expense. To examine this, the authors study an educational voucher programme in Colombia which allocated vouchers by lottery.

Aug 1, 2010
Report

Extending U.S. Medicare to Mexico: Why It's Important to Consider and What Can Be Done

Explores the idea of allowing Medicare-eligible beneficiaries to use Medicare to cover health services received in Mexico.

Jul 15, 2010
Report

Victory Has a Thousand Fathers: Detailed Counterinsurgency Case Studies

Narratives on the 30 most recent resolved insurgencies, covering the period 1978 to 2008, and data on 76 factors hypothesized to be related to the success of counterinsurgency forces supplement analyses of historical and contemporary insurgencies.

Jun 18, 2010
News Release

Faith-Based Organizations Can Play an Important Role in the Response to HIV in Central America

Faith-based organizations such as churches and religious relief and development groups can play an important role in the response to HIV and AIDS in Central America.

Jun 1, 2010
Journal Article

Reflections on the Initial Multinational Response to the Earthquake in Haiti

Expert panel discussion of the emergency response in Haiti concluded that rigorous, objective after-action reports are needed both to improve ongoing operations in Haiti and to enhance future responses to large-scale population emergencies.

Jun 1, 2010
Research Brief

How Can Faith-Based Organizations Help Address the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Central America? (Spanish translation)

Describes the role that faith-based organizations play in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras and how this role might be expanded.

May 26, 2010
Report

The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in HIV Prevention and Care in Central America (Spanish translation)

Provides an overview of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras, describes the role that faith-based organizations play in addressing HIV in these countries, and discusses how this role might be expanded.

May 24, 2010
Research Brief

How Can Faith-Based Organizations Help Address the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Central America?

Describes the role that faith-based organizations play in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras and how this role might be expanded.

May 20, 2010
Report

The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in HIV Prevention and Care in Central America

Faith-based organizations such as churches and religious relief and development groups can play an important role in the response to HIV and AIDS in Central America, despite the fact that many do not support certain prevention measures such as condoms.

May 19, 2010
Commentary

A Month After the Earthquake: Opportunities Slipping Away

Previous efforts by the international community to stabilize Haiti have met with little or only short-term success. This time, following the earthquake, the U.S. response could actually leverage the response and recovery opportunities into a broader international plan, write Agnes Gereben Schaefer and Anita Chandra.

Feb 24, 2010
Testimony

Reconstructing Haiti

In testimony presented before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, James Dobbins discusses the current international disaster relief operation in Haiti and how it is affected by a preexisting post-conflict reconstruction mission, which he considers ultimately more important.

Jan 26, 2010
Commentary

Skip the Graft

The latest disaster to befall Haiti creates the opportunity to combine bipartisan accord on Haiti in Washington with keen and perhaps sustained American public interest, writes James Dobbins.

Jan 17, 2010
Journal Article

Theory and Method at the Intersection of Anthropology and Cultural Neuroscience

Exploring the intersection of neuroscience and anthropology can productively inform our understanding of the relationship between human brains and their socio-cultural contexts.

Jan 1, 2010
Journal Article

Height, Education and Later-Life Cognition in Latin America and the Caribbean

This study investigates the relationship between anthropometric markers (height and knee height), early-life conditions, education, and cognitive function in later life among urban elderly from Latin America and the Caribbean.

Jan 1, 2010

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