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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"policy shift"”.
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What are the implications of South Africa's Protection of Investment Act on the SADC regions' aims to harmonise investment policy within the region, and how can possible inconsistencies and challenges be overcome?
… African government, galvanized the investment policy review process. The policy recommendation stemming from the review process included; that the South African cabinet refrain from entering into new bilateral investment treaties (BITs) - unless there were compelling political or economic …
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Impact of a Shift in National Public Policy on Continuing Education Administration in Institutions of Higher Education
… research project analyzed the impact of the 1976 shift (hereafter called The Shift) in Title I Part A of the Higher Education Act and what was implemented under it. The study population included 60 public institutions of higher education in 21 states throughout the continental United States (1) …
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Chinese popular nationalism and PRC policy in the South China Sea
… Chinese popular nationalism and PRC foreign policy on the South China Sea issue. China's shift to a more assertive policy from 2007 was demonstrably unrelated to public opinion, but the resultant international tensions soon attracted domestic attention. The subsequent rise of South China Sea …
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Reimagining Public Land: Municipal Land Use to Ease Housing Crisis in Boston
… units under the current Inclusionary Development Policy. The research draws on case studies from peer cities such as Chicago and Atlanta where municipal land has been successfully leveraged through transparent disposition processes, fast-tracked entitlements, and flexible affordability models. It …
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Standing closest to the flame: Community wildfire planning and the Healthy Forest Act
<p>Recently, national fire policy has been redirected from a primary focus on suppression towards a more integrated and comprehensive approach developed at the community level. As part of this policy shift, Congress passed the Healthy Forest Restoration Act (P.L. 108-148) in 2003 encouraging …
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The potential for trickle up : how local actors' experiments influence national forest policy planning
… forests in Vietnam encouraged central government policy makers to consider new ways to manage forest resources. A major forest policy shift -- moving away from state-led management -- began in earnest in pilot provinces in 1998, with the handing over of forest land and management responsibility to …
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The Effect of Mountain Pine Beetle Induced Tree Mortality on Home Values in the Colorado Front Range
… losses may justify a forest management policy shift in order to better mitigate the risk of future MPB outbreaks.
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The role of urban design in South African corridor development
… its popular support base. The radical and risky policy shift was influenced by demands of an international investor community and by the dictates of international donor organisations. Announcement of the policy shift was a low profile affair and few citizens had any real comprehension of the …
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Policy issue networks: Social network analysis case studies
… (SNA) can be a powerful, proactive tool for policy makers to understand the online policy networks in which they operate. It does so by undertaking SNA at two points in time to quantify the actor nodes of three Canadian public policy networks, comparing the network evolution over time, and …
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Financing of private selected secondary schools in Kitwe district.
Despite the policy shift in secondary education in Zambia from public provision to promoting private secondary schooling in response to the exponential growth in secondary school enrolment, , funding has emerged as a major constraint to this policy aspiration. The purpose of this study was to …
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Financing of private selected secondary schools in Kitwe district.
Despite the policy shift in secondary education in Zambia from public provision to promoting private secondary schooling in response to the exponential growth in secondary school enrolment, , funding has emerged as a major constraint to this policy aspiration. The purpose of this study was to …
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Recruiting International Students: A Comparative Study At the University of South Carolina and Mcgill University
… of students. The study is a reaction to policy and finance shifts in regards to international recruitment at the university level between two large, public institutions: The University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC and McGill University in Montreal, QC. For the purpose of this study, …
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Recidivism among Previously Incarcerated People Enrolled in Riverside County Whole Person Care
<p>The United States continues to policy shift towards reducing the number of incarcerated people; however, many people released from incarceration will be rearrested due to re-entry challenges. Several re-entry programs, such as the Whole Person Care pilot, have been developed to address these …
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The subnational politics of structured adjustment in Argentina : the case of San Luis
… widespread scholarly interest. The Argentine policy shift to structural adjustment under President Carlos Menem (1989-1995 and 1995-1999) was largely regarded by the literature as a successful example of radical market-oriented reforms. Despite major policy achievements, crisis and …
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The EMI content lecturer as a language policy broker
… is the result of a sociolinguistic and language policy shift throughout the 20th century, when higher education transitioned from French-medium to Dutch-medium following sustained protests by students, staff, and political activists. In this context, the use of English as a language of teaching …
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Japan's Security Interests, Policy, and Implementation
… environment in the East Asian-Pacific region and shifts in both Tokyo's and Washington's perception of each other have challenged Japan. Although Japan's defense capability has been accumulated during the Cold War era, it is yet incomprehensive and incapable of protecting Japan's security …
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Movin' on up : mainstreaming under-serviced urban communities in Colombo, Sri Lanka
This thesis offers an early look at a radical shift in Sri Lankan urban housing policy regarding slums in the capital city of Colombo. During the 1980s, the Sri Lankan government achieved widespread urban improvements by mobilizing community-led on-site slum upgrading. However, since the late …
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Downsizing: Personnel Reductions at the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, 1915-1939
… of a more need-based approach to layoffs. This policy shift was associated with an increased inclination of the management to involve the union in establishing the order of selection, which was a dilemma for the union leaders. Gender was an important aspect of the downsizing process. Women were …
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The potential and limits of the proactive land acquisition strategy: land reform implementation in Gauteng province of South Africa
… throughout and why such features persisted. The policy shift from a ‘demand-driven’ to a ‘supply-driven’ model has brought changes in terms of planning, implementation and resource mobilization. To achieve this, the researcher identified three cases where indepth research was conducted, and …
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'Agrarwende' : cognitive-normative approaches to policy change in German agro-biotechnology
… significantly. Before the BSE-crisis, Germany's policy had been predominantly driven by a neo-liberal framing of biotechnology as a central tool for innovation and international competitiveness. After BSE, biotechnology policy became caught up in a broader reform effort to change agricultural and …
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