in economic crimes, the criminal outcome, i.e. spoiling the economic system of the nation and extensive profiteering motivation are the two indexes suggestive of the difficulties and challenges present in the process of prevention of such crimes. the preventive measures, following the said indexes, should be both extensive and motivation-confounding. in this article some of the situational prev...

Combining expressiveness and plainness in the design of web documents is a difficult task. Validation languages are very powerful and designers are tempted to over-design specifications. This paper discusses an offbeat approach: describing any structured content of any document by only using a very small set of patterns, regardless of the format and layout of that document. A segmentation model...

We examine the effects of mergers and internal groups (lobbies) in shaping national policies towards foreign direct investment. Lobbying is modeled following the political contributions approach. In this work we develop a partial equilibrium model of an oligopolistic industry in which a number of domestic and foreign firms compete in the market for a homogeneous good in a host country. It is as...

OBJECTIVES Health in All Policies (HiAP) has been promoted as a means of embedding concern for health impacts in the policy-making process. In South Australia, specific structures and processes to achieve this have been developed and tested. PARTICIPANTS The HiAP approach is designed to engage policy officers and managers in all sectors of government. SETTING South Australia, one of six Aus...

This paper examines under what conditions fiscal policy in the form of government spending should contribute to macroeconomic stabilisation. To this end optimal fiscal targeting rules minimising the microfounded social loss are examined in the following settings. Firstly, for the benchmark New Keynesian model, where monetary policy is unconstrained, a neutrality result for fiscal obtains: fisca...

Covid-19 Pandemic has become a worldwide issue that also impacts Indonesia. An adaptive and agile governance system is needed to overcome the pandemic in both central regional. One area considered successful Surabaya City. Even so, there phenomenon of high number positives rates Surabaya. It indicated this form policy hampered by local culture. Arek Suroboyo their cangkrukan were contradicting ...

The role of principles in shaping the development of public policy has garnered increasing attention. The authors explore the role of underlying principles in the development of a Canadian National Pharmaceuticals Strategy (NPS), an area in which practical policy development has been disappointing. In analyzing proposed principles for a NPS identified in government documents and by a set of maj...

The government of India has, over the past decade, implemented the "integration" of traditional, complementary and alternative medical (TCAM) practitioners, specifically practitioners of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-rigpa, and Homoeopathy (collectively known by the acronym AYUSH), in government health services. A range of operational and ethical challenges has manifested ...

BACKGROUND Female sterilisation is usually performed on an elective basis at perceived family completion, however, around 1-3% of women who have undergone sterilisation elect to undergo sterilisation reversal (SR) at a later stage. The trends in SR rates in Western Australia (WA), proportions of SR procedures between hospital types (public and private), and the effects of Federal Government pol...