Economic methodology for policy guidance

Tactile Guidance for Policy Adaptation

Demonstration learning is a powerful and practical technique to develop robot behaviors. Even so, development remains a challenge and possible demonstration limitations, for example correspondence issues between the robot and demonstrator, can degrade policy performance. This work presents an approach for policy improvement through a tactile interface located on the body of the robot. We introd...

Economic Development: An Individualistic Methodology

This paper establishes two theoretical frameworks in the study of economic development. These are constitutional analysis and interdisciplinary perspective. This study acknowledges that the economists are the ones to blame for lost of the underdevelopment in many parts of the world. These two theoretical frameworks are part of an individualistic methodology. The paper first, discusses individua...

Methodology for participatory policy analysis

In the course of time it has become clear that policy analysts who use traditional formal modeling techniques have limited impact on policy making regarding complex policy problems. These kinds of problems require the analyst to combine scienti®c insights with subjective knowledge resources and to improve communication between the parties involved in the policy problem. A policy analyst who tak...

Economic Policy Analysis in a Macroeconometric Model for Iran

Policy Forum Guidance for Evidence-Informed Policies about Health Systems: Linking Guidance Development to Policy Development

1 McMaster Health Forum, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Department of Political Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2 Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway, 3 Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, 4 Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Mal...