Collateral damage: Dollar strength and emerging markets’ growth

Collateral Damage

Globalization and growth in emerging markets and the New Economy

Not long ago, everyone was talking about the New Economy. Recent events — notably the global economic slowdown and a possible impending war — have crowded out discussions of the New Economy. To be sure, some of the rosy scenarios portrayed at the time — most notably, that the New Economy portended the end of the business cycle — seem curiously dated. Indeed, in terms of the gap between the econ...

Increasing Economic Growth and Stability in Emerging Markets

The Bush administration’s emerging market strategy is an interrelated part of our overall international economic agenda. The agenda focuses on two goals: increasing economic growth and increasing economic stability throughout the world, not only in emerging markets countries, but also in the developing countries and in the industrial countries, including the United States. President Bush’s idea...

Evader Interdiction and Collateral Damage

In network interdiction problems, evaders (e.g., hostile agents or data packets) may be moving through a network towards targets and we wish to choose locations for sensors in order to intercept the evaders before they reach their destinations. The evaders might follow deterministic routes or Markov chains, or they may be reactive, i.e., able to change their routes in order to avoid sensors pla...

Understanding Cyber Collateral Damage

INTRODUCTION In conventional (kinetic) U.S. warfare, there exists a standard methodology for identifying and assessing collateral damage (i.e. accidental damage to civilian targets). Indeed, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) relies on a governing document that defines the policy regarding unlawful military targets (no-strike targets), and methods for estimating collateral damage from kinetic...