The ITC case study is part of a forthcoming issue brief by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development WBCSDD).
The European Union Institute for Security Studies produced this issue brief last year on the ecological consequences for the South China Sea.
Beginning in March, the Center for Arts and Culture, an independent research organization, will release a series of recommendations and issue briefs on "Art, Culture and the National Agenda".
In December, 2015, the Council of Economic Advisers, the research wing of the White House, released an issue brief concerning the escalating use of fines, fees, and money bail around the country.
While it has long been known that the government makes money on student loans, the numbers in the issue brief are surprising, said Terry Hartle, senior vice president of the American Council on Education.
The newly released documents are internal memos called "Hot Issue Briefs," apparently intended to document incidents of misconduct and offer guidance to officers on handling them, including from a public relations perspective.
An unlikely proponent was Mr. Greenspan himself when, under his chairmanship, the Fed began to issue brief explanations after each monetary policy meeting, including the votes of each member of the Federal Open Market Committee, the central bank's policy body.
Now, AIG promises quarterly conference calls, between Mr Greenberg and analysts and investors, to discuss profits and give more detail on each of the insurance operations, rather than just issue brief releases.
In an issue brief written for the Heritage Foundation, Matt A. Mayer neatly summed up the conservative position on this score: The Obama Administration requests roughly $28 billion for future disaster-mitigation projects on the East Coast.
In the past few months the press has been allowed to issue brief reports on at least some Politburo meetings after their conclusion the first time since the 1980s that ordinary Chinese have been regularly informed of their occurrence.
