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Showing 1 to 20 of 248 for “"Policy interventions"”.
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What Work? Quasi-Experiments in Cybersecurity Policy Interventions
Given the significance policymakers place on cybersecurity, how effective has a decade of policy interventions been at reducing social costs? This paper uses the limited regulations implemented by State and United States government agencies as quasi-experiments. This work measures regulatory …
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The Economics of Data Breach: Asymmetric Information and Policy Interventions
… leading to state, national, and international policymakers enacting legislation to manage these costs. Inadequate economic modeling exists to analyze this phenomenon, despite the large economic impact of cyberspace, e-commerce, and social networking. This research advances information security …
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Systemic Design & Sustainability Transitions. Co-designing policy interventions within the Tourism ecosystem.
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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TRANSFORMING GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEMS: INNOVATIONS AND POLICY INTERVENTIONS FOR HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE DIETS
… challenges requires collaborative efforts from policymakers, the food industry, and consumers to foster sustainable and healthy food choices. This thesis explores two key mechanisms for achieving this transformation: sustainable innovations in the food sector, particularly upcycled foods, and …
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Examining the effects of policy interventions on increasing electric vehicle adoption in California
… challenges. This paper examines several policy proposals to combat these barriers and examines the impact similar policies could have on the electric vehicle market in California. California is chosen because of its historical leadership in environmental causes, and for exhibiting …
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Health Care and Policy Interventions to Improve the Health of Patients Experiencing Homelessness
… reimbursement structures, health systems and policymakers have a vested interest in reducing high-cost utilization and addressing social determinants of health, including housing. Therefore, in this dissertation, I address three research questions at the intersection of housing needs and the …
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Essays on Efficient Policy Interventions in Electricity, Natural Resource, and New Technology Markets
Designing policies to solve environmental problems is inherently difficult. Theoretically optimal policies are often impractical or are met with powerful political opposition. This is especially true for challenges such as climate change, for which effective mitigation policies may require buy in …
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WOMEN’S POLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN AFRICA: POLITICAL VIOLENCE TARGETING WOMEN, POLITICAL PARTIES AND POLICY INTERVENTIONS
… targeting women. This has broad implications for policymakers and academics seeking to implement policies, such as gender quotas, aimed at enhancing women’s participation and inclusion in government and politics. My second empirical chapter examines political parties in African countries and how …
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Reducing demand, controlling supply: evaluating new street-level prostitution policy interventions and paradigms in Nottingham
… describes and explains the impact of a number of policy initiatives intended to tackle the demand for, and supply of, street-level markets operating in Nottingham. The research triangulated survey data undertaken with 104 men attending a Nottingham-based ‘Kerb-Crawler Rehabilitation Programme’ …
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Farebox Freedom: An analysis of centralized fare policy interventions relative to the suburbanization of poverty
… bridging a research gap between transit fare policy and the suburbanization of poverty, analyzing seven transit systems across the US through a Spatial Difference in Differences research approach, revealing mode specific shifts in transit cost burdens from 2019 to 2021 and impacts of these …
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Understanding Refugee Women at Risk Experiences in Light of Social Protection Initiatives and Policy Interventions in Uganda
… issues, bureaucratic hurdles, and weak policy enforcement. The study recommends specific policy reforms, trauma-informed programs, better resource distribution, and improvements in housing and food security. By amplifying the voices of Congolese RWaR, this research advances refugee, …
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Dynamics of policy interventions : the case of the government and the automobile industry in Japan c.1900 - c.1960.
Thesis. 1977. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science.
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Towards evening paratransit services to complement scheduled public transport in Cape Town: exploring alternative policy interventions from the minibus-taxi industry's perspective
… as espoused by the City. The feasibility of interventions to improve evening service quality complementarity, specifically related to mismatched service span and long off peak headways, is explored with minibus-taxi operators. The two key stakeholders among operators are vehicle owners and …
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Contextualising energy justice in low-income built environment: Towards data-driven policy interventions for addressing distributive injustices in slum rehabilitation housing of the Global South
… challenge. Slum rehabilitation housing is a policy effort to solve this crisis and alleviate urban poverty. However, the question of whether slum rehabilitation programmes are accomplishing more good than harm or whether they are creating a whole host of new problems remains unexplored in the …
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The Quest to Humanize Policy Interventions: Exploring the Relationship between Neighborhood Revitalization Programs and Subjective Well-being of Low-Income Communities in the United States
This dissertation explores policy interventions used in many low-income American cities in their revitalization efforts and examines the impact of these policy programs on the resident's overall quality of life outcomes. This study uses an exploratory sequential mixed methods research design to …
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The Impact of Nutritional Deficiencies and Iron Deficiency Anaemia on Pregnancy Outcome Among Adult Pregnant South Asian Women in the UK: Review of Health Risks, Barriers and Policy Interventions
… barriers to get adequate nutrition and existing policy interventions. Method: A systematic literature review (SLR) is chosen in this review as a research design. We searched PubMed, ProQuest and Google Scholar and the literature search covered the period from 1st January 2017 to 30th September …
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Role of Speculation In Short-Term Us Oil Crude Prices and Gasoline Price Variability of the 2000S and the Role of Monetary Policy Price Stability Interventions
… prices for consumers, and the effect of monetary policy interventions on the stability of the real price of oil for 2000-2008. In this study I used three sets of multivariate VEC models to estimate these relationships. My results show that, after accounting for supply and demand conditions, crude …
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An assessment of capital expenditure, required to establish a steel distribution business, as a barrier to entry into the steel distribution industry
… especially access to finance capital, require policy interventions to assist entrepreneurs to enter into the industry. This paper explores the barriers to entry for new entrants in the industry, with particular focus on capital expenditure as the main barrier to entry and seeks to understand …
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Operationalizing integrated household energy planning : the case of Malawi
… and failures of woodfuel projects and other policy interventions have led to a radical reconsideration and criticism of the woodfuel scarcity paradigm and associated methodologies and assumptions. Recent research has been focussing on developing a new methodological framework for integrated …
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Rationalisation of Namibia's civil service: An impact analysis of public policies, 1993 to 2003
… It examined the gaps and discrepancies between policy intentions, the implementation process and eventual outcomes, in terms of the size and cost of the Namibian civil service, and drew lessons from international and local experiences for future policy interventions
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