Women looking for bargains probably won’t find them at Customs. The burden of tariffs falls heavily—and in many cases exclusively—on the consumer. So when the tariff on women’s leather shoes is higher than the tariff on men’s leather shoes (which it is), women feel the pain, says Dr. Lori Taylor, an associate professor at the […]
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Bush School Students Travel to Cambodia for Capstone Research
A team of four students from the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University traveled to Cambodia in February as part of their Capstone project evaluating a community-based micro-financing program. The advisor to the Capstone project was Dr. Leonard Bright, an associate professor in the Master of Public Service and Administration […]
Accenture Sponsors Texas A&M Graduate Study Research Project with George Bush School of Government
RESTON, Va; May 3, 2011 – Research on public policy reform by Texas A&M graduate students was presented today to Accenture executives and clients at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The research was conducted under the Capstone project at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Accenture […]
Layne Commissioned to do Study for NIC
Professor Christopher Layne, who holds the Robert M. Gates Chair in National Security at the George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Service, has been commissioned by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) to write a paper on the “Unipolar Exit,” an examination of whether U.S. primacy is waning, and if so, what this […]
Dropouts Cost Texas $9.6 Billion, Finds Texas A&M Study
COLLEGE STATION, Aug. 25, 2009 – Students who drop out of high school will cost Texas up to $9.6 billion in lost revenue and outright expenses over their lifetimes, and that figure escalates as each new crop of dropouts is created, concludes a study commissioned by the United Ways of Texas and written by The […]
