Oil was discovered in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) just 50 years ago. During that time, UAE has been able to transform itself into a rapidly modernizing country, which is fast becoming a major economic hub and a key player on the international economic landscape. This paper discusses a number of aspects of the development strategy of the UAE that contributed to its phenomenal development: (i)...

Policy issues The impetus for our study came, initially, from an examination of a range of major policy reports relevant to the development of lifelong learning in the UK (Kennedy, 1997; National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education, 1997; Fryer, 1997). Within all three documents, it was striking that a strong priority was accorded to vocational education and training in spite of some gen...

Pre-publication draft 11 15 2010 (to be revised) Executive Summary Introduction – Objectives, Arguments, Findings I. Standards, Innovation and Economic Development – A Conceptual Framework II. China’s Strategy – Standards as a Tool for Indigenous Innovation III. China’s Dilemma: Globalization and Rising Complexity Constrain National Policies IV. Toward Greater Pragmatism? China’s Recent Policy ...

In many countries one approach to supporting family-and-friend caregivers is direct financial or monetary support. Debates about the benefits and consequences of such policies pervade the literature. Building on the premise that values underlie public policy, the paper examines four policy paradoxes in the literature and uses selected examples from an international policy analysis to illustrate...

OBJECTIVES To analyze the impacts of pharmaceutical sector policies implemented to contain country spending during the economic recession--a reference price system in Finland and a mix of policies including changes in reimbursement rates, a generic promotion campaign and discounts granted to the public payer in Portugal - on utilization of, as a proxy for access to, antipsychotic medicines. M...

the first step in policy making is describing the objectives and choosing the policy instruments and management strategies and then, analyzing and assessing the impacts of them. in this study, farmers’ responses to selected policy instruments and management strategies were assessed using a semi-distributed planning model in qazvin irrigation and drainage network. the proposed model, simulates t...