Village Fund Policy Based Planning Development

African Development Bank African Development Fund the Gender Policy

European Innovation Policy through the European Regional Development Fund

Child Care and Development Fund: A Policy Analysis

Legislated as part of welfare reform, the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) is the main source of child care government funding earmarked for low-income families. As a block grant, with broad federal guidelines, states have signifi cant freedom in implementing this legislation to meet the needs of their citizens. This diverse implementation has challenged legislators and scholars trying to...

Gradient - based Reinforcement Planning in Policy - Search

We introduce a learning method called “gradient-based reinforcement planning” (GREP). Unlike traditional DP methods that improve their policy backwards in time, GREP is a gradient-based method that plans ahead and improves its policy before it actually acts in the environment. We derive formulas for the exact policy gradient that maximizes the expected future reward and confirm our ideas with n...

Analysis of social capital of rural micro-credit fund Case: Bstaq village in Sarayan County

Introduction Sustainable development is actually a process towards sustainability. It can be conceptually classified within other concepts such as social reorganization, transition to a better future, conserving the quality of the environment, people empowerment, creating new capacities, and respecting indigenous knowledge and information. All these concepts are considered to be the main axi...