Myanmar's China Policy since 2011: Determinants and Directions

China : Policy and Practice of MCH since the Early 1990

China: Policy and Practice of MCH since the Early 1990s Youde Guo, David Zakus and Hong Liang (1 School of Social Develoment and Public Policy, Fudan University, China 2 Centre for International Health, University of Toronto, Canada) Abstract Since the socioeconomic reforms in China in the late 1970s the improvement of maternal and child health (MCH), which was once considered one of the great ...

Obama’s “Pivot to Asia” Policy (2011- 2016): the Case of China

It has been argued and stated that the 21st century is America's Pacific Century, the century or millennium of Asia, and century or era of China, the inevitable superpower. This paper explains the essence of the new changes when the Pivot Policy was announced by President Obama in 2011. The main question discussed is therefore the following: ‘Why (and how) did President Obama adopt (and impleme...

Changes in capital punishment policy since 1939.

U.S. population policy since the Cairo conference.

This article briefly describes key features of the 1994 Cairo Plan of Action and US population assistance, and identifies US efforts to implement the Cairo agenda. US leadership and funding play a key role in global population stabilization issues. Opponents of population assistance in recent years have been undermining the US position as a world leader in global stabilization and restricting...

UK Renewable Energy Policy since Privatisation

The aim of this paper is to look at the UK’s renewable energy policy in the context of its overall decarbonisation and energy policies. This will allow us to explore the precise nature of the ‘failure’ of UK renewables policy and to suggest policy changes which might be appropriate in light of the UK’s institutional and resource endowments. Our focus is on the electricity sector both in terms o...