Dushni Weerakoon of the Institute of Policy Studies in Colombo says that the concessions are so generous that political pressure for a deal must have trumped economic concerns.
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The report was based on research conducted by the left-of-centre Policy Studies Institute on behalf of the Government.
"This has to do with a business model that exploits U.S. immigration loopholes for competitive advantage, " said Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at Rochester Institute of Technology who studies outsourcing.
Psychologically, however, it might fill a different kind of void: According to the Institute for Policy Studies, the top 10 percent of all citizens here own 80 percent of all stock market wealth.
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"Most people will tell you that they are above-average drivers and stock investors, " says Amitai Etzioni, director of the Institute for communitarian policy studies at George Washington University.
For more, we've got Bill Fletcher, a senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies and former president of TransAfrica Forum.
Les Brown, the president of the Earth Policy Institute, points to studies that coal emissions, including mercury and other pollutants, cause more than 10, 000 deaths a year.
Michael Eisenstadt of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Andrew Bacevich of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies collaborated in a separate study of the role the U.S. can play in supporting a Syrian-Israeli peace agreement sponsored by the Washington Institute.
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And Mira Woods is co-director of foreign policy in focus at the Institute for Policy Studies.
She's the co-director of foreign policy and focus at the Institute for Policy Studies.
Irwin Stelzer is the director of economic policy studies at the Hudson institute, washington.
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He is a professor and economics chair at Howard University, plus Chris Edwards, he's the Director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute.
"The idea of user fees is not a bad idea, " says Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute in Washington.
Mr. Hassett is director of Economic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
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Narushige Michishita, a specialist in strategic and defense studies at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, says Kan needs to address the issue of defending Japan.
One of the industry's most enduring optimists, Lynch spent 20 years working on energy policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies, his alma mater.
"I don't think that we should have expected anything differently" from the talks, says Daniel Ikenson, director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute.
David Neumark, an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine, and a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, has done the best-known empirical studies on job loss resulting from minimum wage hikes.
In the United Kingdom there's a controversial agency called the National Institute for Health and Clinical Evidence that performs those kinds of studies and sets policy for the national health budget.
Unless capacity growth has improved, it suggests that fiscal policy has been looser than previously thought, says Carl Emmerson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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The government has asked the committee to examine the proposals before the finalised bill is introduced - and their first group of witnesses include Age UK, Carers UK, the TUC, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Pensions Policy Institute, former government pensions policy adviser Dr Ros Altmann, former Labour minister Baroness Hollis of Heigham and Professor Jay Ginn (Institute of Gerontology, King's College London), Women's Budget Group.
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