Do policy conditions attached to International Monetary Fund (IMF) lending programmes have an impact on government health expenditure in developing countries? Yes, according to a large body of literature (see Kentikelenis, 2017), and our recent article (Stubbs et al., 2017). We systematically reviewed IMF loan agreements and staff reports to generate a database of “binding” conditions that coul...

economic development plans normally contain some policy objectives, especially for the most important macroeconomic variables. governments are expected to take best policies to achieve these objectives, although due to some structural or other impediments they may fail to touch the objectives. we have attempted to uncover the determinants of private consumption and investment as the objectives ...

This paper aims to find out the reasons for North Korea's behavioral motives rejecting Panmunjom Declaration. The Korean peninsula returned a tense situation after Korea violated several value agreements that threatened South and regional security stability by continuing test its nuclear weapons blow up liaison office in retaliation failure prevent anti-North deployments. propaganda from defect...

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). CHI’15 , April 18–23, 2015, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Abstract In our research project, dubbed BudgetWiser, we focus on the government budget, one of the most important policy documents of a government. Our goal is to increase public interests in the budget and encourage public participation in the budgeting process by leveraging open government data. W...

OBJECTIVE To assess government actions to improve the healthiness of food environments in New Zealand, based on the healthy food environment policy index. METHODS A panel of 52 public health experts rated the extent of government implementation against international best practice for 42 indicators of food environment policy and infrastructure support. Their ratings were informed by documented...

This paper analyzes the land reform policy of Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff governments how presidential mandates Workers' Party (PT) constituted a residual in Brazil. The aims to systematically compose meanings practices political conflict between PT’s agrarian movements with sessions that replace data obtained from analysis electoral governmental documents, accompanying national journals, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic that has hit the entire world not yet ended. This forces Indonesian government to continue issue various policies reduce number of victims infected with this virus. One government's is recommendation work, worship, and study from home, which followed by establishment Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM). policy caused many new problems, such as violence against women. ai...

BACKGROUND Harmonisation is a key principle of the Paris Declaration. The Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Partnership, an initiative of the European Union, the Government of Luxembourg and the World Health Organization, supported health policy dialogues between 2012 and 2015 in identified countries in the WHO African Region. The UHC Partnership has amongst its key objectives to strengthen natio...