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Showing 1 to 20 of 180 for “"policy-issues"”.
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Education policy issues in Turkey
Since the mid-1990s, public education provision in Turkey has been in constant transformation, a result of modernization efforts connected to the political determination of governments to complete Turkey's accession to the European Union. During this period two nation-wide reforms stand out due to …
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Essays on Fiscal Policy Issues in Small Open Economies.
North Carolina State University Theses Economics.
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Formulating effective policy: issues in language and education in Malawi
… in adequate planning and implementation of policy statements based on procedures offered by professionals. In this light the main debate is between linguistic conservationism and linguistic pragmatism. Here the study seeks to explore how the conflicts between these two views could possibly …
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Processed Food Exports from Developing Countries: Patterns, Determinants, Policy Issues
… chapters on demand for processed food imports, issues of food safety compliance, and drivers of inter-country differences in export performance. The first core chapter (Chapter 3) addresses the issue of whether the global market conditions are conducive for placing policy emphasis on promoting …
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Processed Food Exports from Developing Countries: Patterns, Determinants, Policy Issues
… chapters on demand for processed food imports, issues of food safety compliance, and drivers of inter-country differences in export performance. The first core chapter (Chapter 3) addresses the issue of whether the global market conditions are conducive for placing policy emphasis on promoting …
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Benefits of emerging transportation technologies : simulation analysis and policy issues
… simultaneous consideration of technical and policy issues. Benefits are first defined and identified based on current literature and discussions. Key benefits include delay impacts, safety impacts and environmental concerns. A key element of such quantification and analysis is traffic …
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Floodplain Resource Management: An Economic Analysis of *Policy Issues in Bangladesh
… in the proper institutional context before policy recommendations are made, since local institutions play an important role in how resources are allocated in the floodplain.
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Technical and policy issues surrounding the use of autonomous maneuverable earth observing satellites
… Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2003.
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A study of selected policy issues pertaining to cooperative team agreements in Illinois high schools
In 1987, principals of Illinois High School Association member schools voted to approve a proposal that allowed class A public schools to form cooperative teams for interscholastic competition. The first year of the program approximately 100 schools formed cooperative teams. Currently, over 200 …
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Unemployment and Underemployment Rates among Immigrant and Refugee Professionals: Profiles and Policy Issues for the Community Development
… grounded in Community Development and Policy Analysis. It is a heuristic capacity assessment of the Community Capitals Framework to understanding the unemployment and underemployment rates of immigrant and refugee professionals in the United States. As two critical aspects of the labor …
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Predictors of Attitudes Toward Disability and Employment Policy Issues among Undergraduate Students at the University of Nairobi
Disability rights issues are an emerging area of discourse in Kenya. Persons with disabilities in Kenya face many barriers to integration into the larger Kenyan society possibly due to barriers such as societal negative attitudes. Research has indicated that the greatest barrier to rehabilitation …
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The Economics of Health Foods and Policy Issues: Impact of Health Claims on the Demand for Foods and Population Health
… This thesis examines the impacts of health claim policy on food demand and population health in North America. The demand for food is estimated using a linear-approximate almost ideal demand system. Population health is evaluated using a health production function. The results indicate health …
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A case study of investment in agricultural sustainability: adoption and policy issues for nitrogen pollution control in the Chesapeake Bay drainage
… conducted to examine the impact of alternative policy tools on adoption incentives. Both financial incentives and education and information programs are found to be important tools for influencing producers' decisions. Producers' interest in the alternative systems and desire for information on …
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Policy issues and regional integration: a case study of Nigeria'a policy in the economic community of West African States (ECOWAS) - 1979-1997
… of successes. This study addresses Nigeria 's policy in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) between 1979-1997. It is an investigation of the forces that have been driving the integration efforts in West Africa. The study focuses on the period between 1979-1997. The analysis …
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Political Awareness and Public Opinion on Health Care Reform
… public opinion, especially on contentious policy issues such as health care reform. Political information from elite discourse is often partisan in nature, which shapes citizens’ attitudes toward policy issues. Citizens who are politically aware process political information differently …
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A Political History of U.S. Commercial Remote Sensing, 1984-2007: Conflict, Collaboration, and the Role of Knowledge in the High-Tech World of Earth Observation Satellites
… systems has generated intense debates and policy conflicts, primarily centered on U.S. government concerns over the national security and foreign policy implications of high-resolution commercial satellite systems. Conversely, proponents of commercial observation satellites have urged U.S. …
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Policy communities and policy networks : educational policy making in Saskatchewan
The purpose of the study was to describe the policy community within which educational policies are currently developed in Saskatchewan. The study used the policy-community/ policy-network conceptual framework of Atkinson and Coleman (1985) and Coleman and Skogstad (199Gb). The assumption was made …
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Restructuring the Indian Health Service: An Example of Consensus Policy-Making
… American governing style of resolving policy issues through a majority rule process, the adoption of the IHDT recommendations followed the traditional Indian governing style of full consensus. This process is significant in that it defines a new paradigm for joint decision-making as the …
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