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Title: Opportunities in Technology for the Base of the Pyramid in Brazil
Date: January 2015Title: The Bottom Line Investing For Impact on Economic Mobility In The U.S: "Insights from Abroad: Impact Investing in Emerging Markets"
Authors: Randall Kempner, Alexander Pan
Date: December 2014Title: Tectonic Shifts in the U.S. Electricity Sector
Authors: Andy Karsner, Roger Ballentine
Date: December 2014Title: 2014 Financial Security Summit: Rapporteur's Report
Authors: Colby Farber
Date: November 2014Title: Adapting to Plenty: Effects of the Oil and Gas Boom
Authors: Bill White, Chair, Leonard Coburn, Rapporteur
Date: October 2014Title: The Affordable Care Act: Affording Two-Generation Approaches Health
Date: September 2014Title: Responding to Trends in the U.S. Electricity Sector
Authors: Sue Tierney, Chair
Date: September 2014Title: Impact Inventing: Strengthening the Ecosystem for Invention-Based Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets
Authors: Alexander N. Pan
Date: September 2014Title: Fragmentation and Concentration in the New Digital Environment
Authors: Richard Adler
Date: August 2014Title: Report of the Ocean Community Strategy Roundtable
Authors: David Monsma, Executive Director, Nicole Buckley, Senior Program Manager, Energy
Date: June 2014Title: Another Penny Saved: The Economic Benefit of Higher US Household Saving
Date: June 2014Title: Mapping the Impact Investing Sector in Brazil
Date: May 2014Title: Housing at the Base of the Pyramid in Brazil
Date: May 2014Title: The Weightless Marketplace: Coming to Terms with Innovative Payment Systems, Digital Currencies and Online Labor Markets
Authors: David Bollier
Date: April 2014Title: Adapting for the Global Diplomatic Arena: A Report of the Aspen Institute Dialogue on Diplomacy and Technology
Authors: Shanthi Kalathil
Date: April 2014Title: Scaling Clean Energy: Lessons Learned and New Approaches
Authors: Roger Ballentine, Andy Karsner
Date: March 2014Title: Toward the Next Phase of Open Government
Authors: Panthea Lee
Date: January 2014Title: The Ocean Community Report: Building an Aligned and Supportive Ocean Conservation Community
Date: December 2013Title: The Future of the U.S. Electricity Sector
Authors: Bill Dickenson (Co-Chair), Phil Sharp (Co-Chair), Dave Grossman (Rapporteur)
Date: September 2013Title: Task Force Report on Streamlining and Consolidating Congressional Oversight of the US Department of Homeland Security
Date: September 2013Title: Responding to Change: The New World of Oil and Gas
Authors: Bill White (Chair), Leonard Coburn (Rapporteur)
Date: September 2013Title: Reinventing Health Care: The barriers to Innovation
Date: September 2013Title: Growth and Opportunity: The Landscape of Organizations that Support Small and Growing Businesses in the Developing World
Authors: Monitor Deloitte
Date: September 2013Title: Principled Pluralism: Report of the Inclusive America Project
Date: June 2013Title: Building Jordan's Entrepreneurship and Investment Ecosystem
Authors: Maysam Ali
Date: June 2013Title: Developing an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in the Palestinian Territories
Authors: Vanessa Zuabi, Katherine St. Onge
Date: May 2013Title: The Manufacturing Resurgence: What It Could Mean for the U.S. Economy
Authors: Thomas J. Duesterberg
Date: March 2013Title: Integrating Diplomacy and Social Media: A Report of the First Annual Aspen Institute Dialogue on Diplomacy and Technology
Authors: Clifton Martin, Laura Jagla
Date: March 2013Title: Summary Report from the Aspen Consultation on Health, Food Security and Population in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Date: February 2013Title: Civil Society Advocacy in Uganda: Lessons Learned
Authors: David Devlin-Foltz
Date: November 2012Title: The North American Oil and Gas Renaissance and its Implications
Date: October 2012Title: Freedom and Connectivity: Advancing the Freedom to Communicate in the Americas
Authors: Amy Garmer
Date: October 2012Title: Building Higher Education Partnerships in the Maghreb
Authors: Vanessa Zuabi, Tara Shallal
Date: September 2012Title: Human Resources for Health, Health Worker Migration, and the Role of the UK and the International Community in Zambia
Date: August 2012Title: Bilateral Agreement: The Case of US and Ghana
Date: August 2012Title: Confessionalism and Electoral Reform in Lebanon
Authors: Arda Arsenian Ekmekji
Date: July 2012Title: Nature as Foundation of Economy: Investing in Natural Infrastructure for Conservation Supporting Human Development
Date: June 2012Title: Overview of the WHO Global Code
Date: May 2012Title: Toward a Single, Global Digital Economy: The First Report of the Aspen Institute IDEA Project
Date: April 2012Title: Networks and Citizenship: Using Technology for Civic Innovation
Authors: Jeffrey Abramson
Date: April 2012Title: Updating Rules of the Digital Road: Privacy, Security, Intellectual Property
Authors: Richard Adler
Date: March 2012Title: Reinventing Health Care
Authors: Basit Chaudhry deBronkart, Carole Roan Gresenz, Joseph Hutter, Anjali Jain, Brent C. James, Shawn Martin, Lewis Mattison, Daniel L. Newton, Anthony Nguyen, Brent Parton, Kavita Patel, Steven Weinberger
Date: March 2012Title: A Northern Tiger? Canada's Economic and Fiscal Renaissance and its Implications for the United States
Authors: Jeremy A. Leonard
Date: March 2012Title: Building an Impact Economy in America
Date: December 2011Title: Global Energy Markets in a Time of Political Change
Authors: Bill White
Date: October 2011Title: Changing Currents: Turbulence for the Electricity Industry?
Authors: Phil Sharp
Date: October 2011Title: Re-Imagining Journalism: Local News for a Networked World
Authors: Michael R. Fancher
Date: September 2011Title: Spectrum for the Next Generation of Wireless
Authors: Mark MacCarthy
Date: July 2011Title: Race, Crime, and Punishment: Breaking the Connection in America
Authors: Keith O. Lawrence (ed)
Date: May 2011Title: News Cities: The Next Generation of Healthy Informed Communities
Authors: Richard Adler
Date: May 2011Title: The Future of Work: What It Means for Individuals, Businesses, Markets and Governments
Authors: David Bollier
Date: March 2011Title: Government Transparency: Six Strategies for More Open and Participatory Government
Authors: Jon Gant, Nicol Turner-Lee
Date: March 2011Title: Houston's Preparedness for Terrorism
Authors: Clark Kent Ervin
Date: December 2010Title: The New World of Natural Gas
Authors: John M. Deutch
Date: October 2010Title: Providing Energy Services in a Changing Industry
Authors: James E. Rogers
Date: October 2010Title: An Electricity Grid for the 21st Century
Authors: Linda Stuntz, Susan Tomasky
Date: October 2010Title: A Staircase in Nahr El Bared: The Future of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
Authors: Nadim Shehadi
Date: October 2010Title: Chicago's Preparedness for Terrorism
Authors: Clark Kent Ervin
Date: June 2010Title: Catalyzing Support for Small Growing Businesses in Developing Countries: Mapping the Policies of International Development Donors & Investors
Authors: Estera Barbarasa
Date: June 2010Title: Of the Press: Models for Transforming American Journalism
Authors: Michael Fancher
Date: May 2010Title: Innovations in Cooperation: A Guidebook on Bilateral Agreements to Address Health Worker Migration
Authors: Ibadat S. Dhillon, Margaret E. Clark, Robert Kapp
Date: May 2010Title: A Guidebook on Bilateral Agreements to Address Health Worker Migration
Authors: Iradat Dhillon, Margaret Clark, Robert Kapp
Date: April 2010Title: Los Angeles' Preparedness for Terrorism
Authors: Clark Kent Ervin
Date: September 2009Title: Sustainable Water Systems: Step One - Redefining the Nation's Infrastructure Challenge
Authors: David Monsma, Regan Nelson, Ray Bolger
Date: May 2009Title: Wall Street/Main Street: The Challenge of Building Financial Security in the Obama Era
Date: April 2009Title: Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing: The next-generation Internet's impact on business, governance and social interaction
Authors: J.D. Lasica
Date: April 2009Title: Media and Democracy: A Report of the 2008 Aspen Institute Forum on Communications and Society
Authors: Richard P. Adler
Date: March 2009Title: Lebanon: The Swing State of a New Levant
Date: December 2008Title: Climate Change and the Electricity Sector
Authors: Paul Runci
Date: December 2008Title: Civic Engagement on the Move
Authors: J.D. Lasica
Date: December 2008Title: New York City's Preparedness for Terrorism (and Catastrophic Natural Disasters)
Authors: Clark Kent Ervin
Date: October 2008Title: m-Powering India: Mobile Communications for Inclusive Growth
Authors: Richard P. Adler, Mahesh Uppal
Date: September 2008Title: China's March on the 21st Century
Authors: Kurt M. Campbell, Willow Darsie
Date: May 2007Title: Next-Generation Media: The Global Shift
Authors: Richard P. Adler
Date: March 2007Title: Minds on Fire: Enhancing India’s Knowledge Workforce
Authors: Richard P. Adler
Date: February 2007Title: Unmassing America: Ethnic Media and the New Advertising Marketplace
Authors: Amy Korzick Garmer
Date: November 2006Title: Energy: The New Normal?
Date: October 2006Title: Mapping the Jihadist Threat: The War on Terror Since 9/11
Authors: Kurt M. Campbell, Willow Darsie
Date: August 2006Title: Savings in America: Building Opportunities for All
Authors: Suzanne Nora Johnson, Lisa Mensah, C. Eugene Steuerle
Date: May 2006Title: Soft Power, Hard Issues: Reports of the 2005 Aspen Institute Roundtable on Public Diplomacy and the Middle East and the Forum on Communications and Society
Authors: Shanthi Kalathil
Date: April 2006Title: The New Energy Security: 2005 Global Oil and Gas Forum
Date: January 2006Title: A Silent Tsunami: The Urgent Need for Clean Water and Sanitation
Authors: Harriet C. Babbitt, William K. Reilly
Date: July 2005Title: Opening the Realm: The Role of Communications in Negotiating the Tension of Values in Globalization
Authors: Michael Suman
Date: April 2005Title: Information Technology and the New Global Economy: Tensions, Opportunities, and the Role of Public Policy
Authors: David Bollier
Date: March 2005Title: Opening Opportunities, Building Ownership: Fulfilling the Promise of Microenterprise in the United States
Authors: Elaine L. Edgcomb, Joyce A. Klein
Date: February 2005Title: Journalism, Transparency and the Public Interest
Authors: Jon Ziomek
Date: January 2005Title: Tackling the Critical Conundrum: How Do Business, Government and Media Balance Economic Growth and a Healthy Environment?
Authors: John A. Riggs
Date: May 2004Title: The Role of Health in the Fight against International Poverty
Authors: Lael Brainard
Date: April 2004Title: Crossing the Atlantic, A Report from the Aspen Atlantic Group 2003 Workshops
Authors: Madeleine K. Albright, Kurt M. Campbell
Date: April 2004Title: A Matter of Degree: The Role of Journalists as Activists in Journalism Business and Policy
Authors: Neil Shister
Date: April 2004Title: People / Networks / Power: Communications Technologies and the New International Politics
Authors: David Bollier
Date: March 2004Title: Capital Plus: The Challenge of Development in Development Finance Institutions
Authors: Development Finance Forum
Date: March 2004Title: An American Grand Strategy for the Middle East: A Report of the Aspen Strategy Group
Authors: Kurt M. Campbell
Date: March 2004Title: A Climate Policy Framework: Balancing Policy and Politics
Authors: John Riggs
Date: February 2004Title: Journalism, Security and the Public Interest
Authors: Adam Clymer
Date: October 2003Title: Fundusz Mikro: An Experiment In Partnership–Based Microfinance 1998 – 2002
Authors: Witold Szwajkowski
Date: October 2003Title: Electricity Restructuring, 2003
Authors: Paul Runci
Date: October 2003Title: Media Convergence, Diversity, and Democracy
Authors: Neil Shister
Date: March 2003Title: Biological Security & Public Health: In Search of a Global Treatment
Authors: Kurt M. Campbell, Philip Zelikow
Date: March 2003Title: The Rise of Netpolitik: How the Internet Is Changing International Politics and Diplomacy
Authors: David Bollier
Date: February 2003Title: Balancing Policy Options in a Turbulent Telecommunications Market
Authors: Robert M. Entman, Dale N. Hatfield
Date: February 2003Title: The Prospects for Political Reform in China: Religious and Political Expression
Authors: Richard Madsen
Date: January 2003Title: The Chinese Economy: WTO, Trade, and U.S.-China Relations
Authors: Barry Naughton
Date: January 2003Title: Taiwan's Approach to Cross-Strait Relations
Authors: Ying-jeou Ma
Date: January 2003Title: Taiwan in U.S.-China Relations
Authors: Shelley Rigger
Date: January 2003Title: China's New Leadership: Paradoxes, Characteristics and Implications
Authors: Cheng Li
Date: January 2003Title: Understanding Colombia: History and Background
Authors: Marco Palacios
Date: November 2002Title: U.S. Policy in the Andean Region
Authors: Michael Shifter
Date: November 2002Title: U.S. Interests and Options in Colombia: An Alternative Framework
Authors: Cynthia Arnson
Date: November 2002Title: U.S.-Russian Relations Ten Months After September 11
Authors: Robert Legvold
Date: August 2002Title: The United States and Russia in Central Asia: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran
Authors: Fiona Hill
Date: August 2002Title: The Nuclear Dimension of U.S.-Russian Relations: Missile Defense, Arms Control and 'Loose Nukes'
Authors: Rose Gottemoeller
Date: August 2002Title: Russian Health and Social Welfare: Limited Progress
Authors: Judyth L. Twigg
Date: August 2002Title: The State of the Natural World
Authors: Kathryn Fuller
Date: June 2002Title: Sustainable Growth: Do We Have a Choice?
Authors: Paul V. Tebo
Date: June 2002Title: Population and the Environment
Authors: Joel Cohen
Date: June 2002Title: Plant Biotechnology and the Environment
Authors: Gordon Conway
Date: June 2002Title: Free Trade and Environmental Protection
Authors: Daniel C. Esty
Date: June 2002Title: America and the Global Energy Challenge
Authors: Hal Harvey
Date: June 2002Title: Where We Are and How We Got Here: An Overview of Developments in the Search for Justice and Reconciliation
Authors: Neil J. Kritz
Date: January 2002Title: The Pinochet Case: International and Domestic Repercussions
Authors: José Zalaquett
Date: January 2002Title: The Legacy of Abuse: Confronting the Past, Facing the Future
Authors: Mark Freeman, Paul van Zyl
Date: January 2002Title: Reflections on Intergenerational Justice
Authors: Jonathan Steinberg
Date: January 2002Title: Justice and Reconciliation: Responsibilities and Dilemmas of Peace-makers and Peacebuilders
Authors: Ian Martin
Date: January 2002Title: Sustaining Media Pluralism in Democratizing Societies
Authors: Craig LaMay
Date: March 2001Title: Uncharted Territory: New Frontiers of Digital Innovation
Authors: David Bollier
Date: January 2001Title: Transition to an IP Environment
Authors: Robert M. Entman
Date: January 2001Title: Reinventing Minority Media for the 21st Century
Authors: America Rodriguez
Date: January 2001Title: Journalism and Emerging Democracy: Lessons from Societies in Transition
Authors: Craig L. LaMay
Date: January 2001Title: American Journalism in Transition: A View at the Top
Authors: Amy Korzick Garmer
Date: January 2001Title: Values For the Digital Age: The Legacy of Henry Luce
Authors: Gerald M. Levin
Date: January 2000Title: Six Degrees of Competition: Correlating Regulation With the Telecommunications Marketplace
Authors: Robert Entman
Date: January 2000Title: New World, New Realities: The Remaining Roles of Government in International Telecommunications
Authors: Rob Frieden
Date: January 2000Title: Market, Technology, and Policy Drivers: The Future Structure of the Electricity Industry
Authors: Elizabeth Malone
Date: January 2000Title: Ecologies of Innovation: The Role of Information and Communications Technologies
Authors: David Bollier
Date: January 2000Title: Coming Together -- Bridging the Gap between Investors and Minority Internet Entrepreneurs
Authors: Robert M. Entman
Date: January 2000Title: Changing Rules In the Market for Attention: New Strategies for Minority Programming
Authors: Richard R. Adler
Date: January 2000Title: Campaigns in Cyberspace: Toward A New Regulatory Approach
Authors: Anthony Corrado
Date: January 2000Title: Toward Sustainable Competition in Global Telecommunications: From Principle to Practice
Authors: William J. Drake
Date: January 1999Title: The Internet and Global Telecommunications: Exploring the Boundaries of International Coordination
Authors: Michael J. Kleeman
Date: January 1999Title: The Global Wave of Entrepreneurialism: Harnessing the Synergies of Personal Initiative, Digital Technologies, and Global Commerce
Authors: David Bollier
Date: January 1999Title: Residential Access to Bandwidth: Exploring New Paradigms
Authors: Robert M. Entman
Date: January 1999Title: Media Madness: The Revolution So Far
Authors: David Bollier, Max Frankel
Date: January 1999Title: Information Literacy: Advancing Opportunities for Learning in the Digital Age
Authors: Richard P. Adler
Date: January 1999Title: Digital Broadcasting and the Public Interest
Authors: Angela Campbell, Forrest P. Chisman, Robert Corn-Revere, Anthony Corrado, Charles Firestone, D. Karen Frazer, Amy Korzick Garmer, Henry Geller, Andrew Graham, Monroe E. Price, Andrew L. Shapiro, Tracy Westen, Steven S. Wildman
Date: December 1998Title: Competition, Innovation, and Investment in Telecommunications
Authors: Aspen Institute, Robert M. Entman, David E. Gardner, Dale N. Hatfield
Date: April 1998Title: Utility Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe
Authors: Aspen Institute, Klaus Brendow
Date: January 1998Title: Effective Nonprofit Advocacy
Authors: Susan Rees
Date: January 1998Title: Persistent Poverty in Developing Countries: Determining the Causes and Closing the Gaps
Authors: Aspen Institute, Jacques Attali, Nancy Bearg Dyke, Carol Graham, Moises Naim, Meghan O'Sullivan, Moeen Qureshi, Michael Walton
Date: December 1997Title: Powering Asia: Is Gas the Answer?
Authors: John A. Riggs
Date: November 1997Title: Global Advance of Electronic Commerce
Authors: Aspen Instiute, David Bollier, Charles M. Firestone
Date: August 1997