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"Large increases in biofuels production in the United States and Europe are the main reason behind the steep rise in global food prices," a World Bank policy-research paper concluded in 2008, although another in 2010 said its effects may have been "not as large as originally thought."

IEA Says Sustainable Biofuels Can Lift Food Output Caroline Henshaw 2011

This will bail out no more than 10% of homeowners whose mortgages are underwater, according to an estimate by Chris Papagianis of the nonpartisan policy-research institute e21, who notes there is roughly $700 billion in residential negative equity across the country.

Obama and Other People's Money Karl Rove 2012

In a monthly column for the June issue of China Dealmaker magazine, Mr. Xia and Chen Daofu, policy-research chief at the Financial Research Institute—a unit of the State Council's Development Research Center, which advises top leaders on economic policy—called for "urgent" overhaul in the management of forex reserves, which central bank Gov.

PBOC Adviser Urges Reserves Overhaul Jean Yung 2011

For about 20 years, state governments were shouldering an increasing share of school expenses, for reasons ranging from lowering property taxes to increasing spending equality between districts, says Michael Griffith, a senior policy analyst with the Education Commission of the States, a Denver-based policy-research group.

States Squeeze Local Schools 2010

Ellen Galinsky, the president of Families and Work Institute, a nonprofit policy-research group in New York, speculates that companies play to female tastes because they are aware that women make most household consumer choices, "so it's a way for them to increase their revenue."

Want To Save Money? Don't Be A Woman - The Consumerist 2010

Peter Fisher, research director of the Iowa Policy Project, a nonprofit policy-research group, said abatements generally make sense if they help jump-start development.

Philadelphia Tax Breaks Draw Ire 2009

"Chávez has crossed the line on too many occasions recently, and he's run into a rough patch not just at home but also in the region," says Michael Shifter of the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue policy-research group.

The Ghost Of Simón Bolívar 2008

Mr. Ma, born in 1949, is a long-serving central-bank official, having worked in various departments, including accounting and the policy-research bureau.

China Shuffles Bankers 2008

Smaller manufactures "don't have much pricing power," said Thomas Duesterberg, chief executive officer and president of Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI, an economic and policy-research group.

Pinched By Steel and Softness 2008

Examining their key tenets reveals an over-reliance on institution-building (such as party recruitment or policy-research projects) - the infrastructure of polyarchy.

Jeff Ballinger: GOP's Jekyll and Hyde Foreign Policy- Wolfowitz' Years in Jakarta 2008