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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
Commentary

Prime Numbers: Doped

The illicit drug trade is the ultimate value-added chain. As cocaine and heroin make their perilous journeys from the fields of Colombia and Afghanistan to markets in U.S. and European cities, each border crossed and each trafficker involved adds dollars to a price, write Beau Kilmer And Peter Reuter.

Oct 19, 2009
Report

Estimating the size of the global drug market: A demand-side approach: Report 2

The report generates country-level consumption and retail expenditure estimates for cannabis, heroin, cocaine, and amphetamine-type substances.

Apr 21, 2009
Report

Economic Costs of Major Oil Supply Disruption Pose Risk to U.S. National Security

While on a net basis the United States imports nearly 60 percent of the oil it consumes, this reliance on imported oil is not by itself a major national security threat. The study finds that the economic costs of a major disruption in global oil supplies—including higher prices for American consumers—pose the greatest risk to the United States.

Apr 20, 2009
Report

Organized Crime Is Increasingly Active in Film Piracy; Three Cases Link Terrorists to Piracy Profits

Organized crime increasingly is involved in the piracy of feature films, with syndicates active along the entire supply chain from manufacture to street sales. While crime syndicates have added piracy to their criminal portfolios, the profits from film piracy also have been used on occasion to support the activities of terrorist groups.

Jan 14, 2009
Journal Article

Prime Numbers Doped: How Two Plants Wreak Havoc on the Countries That Produce and Consume Them--And Everyone in Between

No abstract is available for this document.

Jan 1, 2009
Journal Article

Education Vouchers in Colombia

This chapter presents evidence on the impact of a voucher program implemented in 1991 in Colombia. Specifically, the analysis is centered on the mechanism by which the program increased learning outcomes.

Jan 1, 2009
Report

Lessons Learned from Past Counterinsurgency (COIN) Operations

Six historic counterinsurgency operations are examined to determine which tactics, techniques, and procedures led to success and which led to failure, with the hope that U.S. counterinsurgency operations in the future can learn from past lessons.

Aug 17, 2007
Report

Ungoverned Territories: Understanding and Reducing Terrorism Risks

Examines the sources and types of ungoverned territories and the security challenges that they present and proposes mitigating strategies.

Jul 22, 2007
News Release

RAND Study Finds Terrorist Groups Teach Each Other Deadly Skills

May 9, 2007 news release: RAND Study Finds Terrorist Groups Teach Each Other Deadly Skills.

May 9, 2007
Report

Terrorist Groups Teach Each Other Deadly Skills

Terrorist groups around the world with different ideologies and from different religious and ethnic backgrounds have improved their effectiveness by teaching each other deadly skills such as bomb-making and guerilla warfare techniques.

Mar 15, 2007
Journal Article

Efecto Del Consumo De Un Complemento Alimentario En La Concentracion Plasmatica De Cinc En Adultos Mayores Residentes En Santiago De Chile =: Effect of the Consumption of a Food Supplement on Plasma Zinc Concentrations of Free-Living Chilean Elderly Adults

The consumption of a food supplement significantly increased plasma zinc concentrations in Chilean elderly adults.

Jan 1, 2007
Journal Article

Deteccao De Doencas Sexualmente Transmissiveis Em Ambientes Clínicos E Nao Clinicos Na Cidade De Salvador, Bahia, Brasil =: Screening of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Clinical and Non-Clinical Settings in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Screening in non-clinical settings in Brazil is feasible and has a high yield among young adults in low-income communities.

Feb 1, 2006
Journal Article

The Prevalence of Diarrheal Disease Among Brazilian Children: Trends and Differentials from 1986 to 1996

In this paper, the authors examine trends and differentials in diarrhea prevalence and treatment in Brazil between 1986 and 1996.

Jan 1, 2005
Report

The Lessons of the Asian and Latin American Financial Crises for Chinese Bond Markets

Examines the conditions for a successful corporate bond market in China.

Dec 20, 2004
Report

Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality in Developing Countries: The Case of Child Survival in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Mother's education emerged as the key factor underlying socioeconomic inequalities in under-five mortality even as levels of education for women increased and inequality in schooling fell.

Jan 1, 2004
Report

Urbanization, Development, and Under-Five Mortality Differentials by Place of Residence in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1970-1991

This paper examines the differentials in under-five mortality for the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, between urban and rural areas and by location within urban areas over a 21-year period between 1970 and 1991.

Jan 1, 2004
Report

Arms Trafficking and Colombia

Identifies the sources and routes used by arms traffickers to buy, sell, transfer, and ship weapons and the implications of small-arms trafficking patterns for U.S. policy.

Jan 1, 2003
Journal Article

Mental Health and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Adult Latino Primary Care Patients Living in the United States with Previous Exposure to Political Violence

Latino immigrants in primary care in Los Angeles have a high prevalence of exposure to political violence before immigrating to the United States.

Jan 1, 2003
Commentary

The Americas: Colombia's Rebels Talk Peace but Make More War

Colombia's friends, primarily the U.S., should be prepared to provide sustained and adequate support to the Colombian armed forces, not just for drug eradication, as is the case with the current policy, but to restore the capacity of the Colombian state to defend itself against forces that seek to overthrow ...

Jul 13, 2001

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