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The 14 chapters in this volume are either papers presented or remarks made at a seminar on "Trade Policy Issues," organized by the Fund's Policy Development and Review Department and the IMF Institute and held in Washington on March 6-10, 1995. The seminar covered a wide range of topics such as the design and implementation of trade reform; trade liberalization issues in industrial and transition economies; regional trading arrangements; the results of the Uruguay Round; institutional matters related to the World Trade Organization (WTO); and the post-Uruguay Round agenda

In this chapter addressing Strategic Policy Issues in the Strategic Survey 2004/5, four issues salient to international diplomacy are problematized in relation to increasing benefits to international security. Critiques of policy innovations in current case studies are analyzed: the limits of US military transformation as a central focus, current American & European attitudes toward nuclear non-proliferation, the tension between law & power in international institutions toward the "war on terror", & the paradoxical relationship of intelligence gathering to policy in the case of the National Intelligence Department (NID). Future impacts are predicted from a strategic perspective of maintaining & increasing international security through the development of sound public policy. Predictions & proposals for international security policy reform are presented from the perspective of the US as the inevitable leader of international security policy. J. Harwell

It took mankind until the turn of the last millennium to accumulate a corpus of data totalling five exabytes. That amount of data is now being produced roughly every two days. And almost all of it is potentially -- and instantaneously -- available to a global community of Internet users, numbering in excess of two billion as of 2011 and expected to double by 2018. This tsunami of information, and the impact it has had in terms of public expectations of transparency, has presented a particular challenge for the world's intelligence services. They had been accustomed to operating in relative secrecy and with something close to a monopoly on certain kinds of information, but now face a world where far more material is in the public domain and the percentage of information that is truly secret is both smaller and ever better protected. Adapted from the source document.

Intro -- Brief Contents -- Detailed Contents -- List of Exhibits -- Preface -- Chapter 1 The Rise of Medical Expenditures -- Chapter 2 How Much Should We Spend On Medical Care? -- Chapter 3 Do More Medical Expenditures Produce Better Health? -- Chapter 4 In Whose Interest Does The Physician Act? -- Chapter 5 Rationing Medical Services -- Chapter 6 How Much Health Insurance Should Everyone Have? -- Chapter 7 Why Are Those Who Most Need Health Insurance Least Able to Buy It? -- Chapter 8 Medicare -- Chapter 9 Medicaid -- Chapter 10 How Does Medicare Pay Physicians? -- Chapter 11 The Impending Shortage of Physicians -- Chapter 12 The Changing Practice of Medicine -- Chapter 13 Recurrent Malpractice Crises -- Chapter 14 Do Nonprofit Hospitals Behave Differently From For-Profit -- Chapter 15 Competition Among Hospitals: Does It Raise Or Lower Costs? -- Chapter 16 The Future Role Of Hospitals -- Chapter 17 Cost Shifting -- Chapter 18 Can Price Controls Limit Medical Expenditure Increases? -- Chapter 19 The Evolution of Managed Care -- Chapter 20 Has Competition Been Tried--And Has It Failed--To Improve the US Healthcare System? -- Chapter 21 Comparitive Effectiveness Research -- Chapter 22 US Competitivness And Rising Healthcare Costs -- Chapter 23 Why Is Getting Into Medical School So Difficult? -- Chapter 24 Will A Shortage Of Registered Nurses Reoccur? -- Chapter 25 The High Price Of Prescription Drugs -- Chapter 26 Ensuring Safety And Efficacy Of New Drugs: Too Much Of A Good Thing? -- Chapter 27 Why Are Prescription Drugs Less Expensive overseas? -- Chapter 28 The Pharmaceutical Industry: A Public Policy Dilemma -- Chapter 29 Should Kidneys And Other Organs Be Bought or Sold? -- Chapter 30 The Role of Governement In Medical Care.