We are amending the National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP, the Plan) and its auxiliary provisions by removing the descriptions of specific tests and sanitation procedures from the regulations. Instead, we will require tests to be performed and sanitation to be maintained in a manner approved by the Administrator. Approved procedures will be listed in an NPIP Program Standards document, which ...

The radiofrequency spectrum is a valuable national economic resource. Efficient use of this resource is important to national economic well-being. National administrations have traditionally relied on a centrally planned model to manage spectrum. This has involved planning the use for parts of the spectrum at a national level, consistent with international conventions, and then issuing device s...

The " Report on National Alzheimer's Plan Milestones— FY' 2014 " [1], which appears in the current issue of Alzheimer's & Dementia, provides an overview of progress in Alzheimer's research and " professional judgment " recommendations for specific " new milestones, " as a road map, for implementing the legislative intent of the National Alzheimer's Project Act (NAPA). This report reflects the c...

In the health sector, planning and resource allocation at country level are mainly guided by national plans. For each such plan, a midterm review of progress is important for policy-makers since the review can inform the second half of the plan's implementation and provide a situation analysis on which the subsequent plan can be based. The review should include a comprehensive analysis using re...

PROBLEM Cameroon has a severe shortage of human resources for health (HRH) and those that are available are concentrated in urban areas. APPROACH As the result of a national emergency plan for the years 2006-2008, innovative strategies and a multisectoral partnership - led by the Ministry of Public Health and supported by diverse national and international organizations - were developed to ad...

The purpose of this paper is to offer a Lachmannian analysis aimed at studying the coherence and the efficiency of reforms in China in terms of institutional change. The idea is that transition dynamics cannot be analyzed by reference to market criteria only; transition is, above all, a change in institutions. Every transition economy thus faces the problem of creating a new institutional frame...