Villagers may for instance prefer local tanks and wells to 'improved' government-supplied piped water.
A local think tank, the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, found that from 2007 to September, 2011, the unemployment rate for blacks in the city doubled, going from 10 percent to 20.6 percent.
"He could simplify complicated ideas into the language of the people," said Ou Virak, the head of Future Forum, a local think tank.
The Canadian Energy Research Institute, a local think tank, says rising output could contribute about C$3.6 trillion to Canada's GDP over the next 25 years.That makes the downturn in the tar sands less a collapse than a pause for breath.
She's a children's book illustrator; he's a terrorism expert at a local think tank and a pedantic fuddy-duddy who disapproves of smoking, drinking, dancing and, it seems, exuberance in any form.
"She represents a constituency that is rural, but that's it," says Jim Egan, executive director of Commonwealth North, a local think tank.
According to a November poll conducted by local think tank Hong Kong Transition Project (HKTP), Beijing loyalist Rita Fan was supported by 60% of the survey's 807 respondents to become the next chief executive.
The Center of Public Studies (CEP), a local think tank, published a poll this month showing that more than a quarter of Chileans think education has deteriorated over the past 10 years and a further 45% think it has simply stagnated.
But lately the thinking has turned around as a local think tank, the Beacon Hill Institute, released its own analysis, saying that transportation costs, traffic headaches and the loss of other non-convention business will outweigh the benefits of convention delegates and visitors–said to number 35,000 who will converge on Boston, spending money at hotels, restaurants and other attractions.
Hedges is project director of the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute, a unit of the Colorado Center on Law and Policy, a local think tank and advocacy group that seeks "justice and economic security for all Coloradans".
