Sentences with phrase «bad policy outcomes»

Even as another UN-based agency with weak civil society presence, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), moves forward to expand its regulatory oversight of Internet policy issues, the WIPO broadcast treaty prove once again that bad governance makes for bad policy outcomes.

But this is not true and this failure of understanding is unfortunate, because it can lead to bad policy outcomes for both current and future generations.

Not exact matches

Schatz said limiting legislating to only those who are well - versed in tech policy could have worse outcomes.

«As a result, the brokers produce worse outcomes for their institutional investor clients — and therefore, for individual pension beneficiaries, mutual fund investors and insurance policy holders — and ill - gotten gains for the brokers,» Macey and Swensen concluded.

As a result, the brokers produce worse outcomes for their institutional investor clients — and therefore, for individual pension beneficiaries, mutual fund investors and insurance policy holders — and ill - gotten gains for the brokers.

Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, the shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, said it was hard to imagine a worse outcome from the policy brought in through a series of new laws from 2010 to create a hostile environment towards illegal immigrants.

«Firms with increasingly good or bad performance spend more to influence the outcome of a contested environmental policy issue» like climate change, the authors said.

«Emergency department crowding is clearly linked to worse patient care and worse outcomes, including higher mortality rates, higher rates of complications, and errors,» said Jesse M. Pines, M.B.A., M.D., director of the Office for Clinical Practice Innovation, professor of emergency medicine and health policy at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

«Even when global efforts fail, we show that local policies can still have a positive impact,» Tol said in the statement, «making them at least a useful insurance for bad climate outcomes on the international stage.»

The piece was intended to demonstrate that 1) good outcomes are associated with good choices made by families and thus 2) we can not conclude that schools and neighborhoods do not matter because such conclusions are invalidated by selection; that 3) we can not tell whether «bad» families are inefficacious because they only have bad choices open to them or because they would make bad choices even if offered good ones; and 4) we ought to be far more open to any policy that makes better choices available to families who now have little or no choice open to them.

These strong conclusions have a lot of scientists and policy experts pushing for prompt action, after decades of waffling, both to cut the odds of the worst outcomes by curbing greenhouse gas emissions and by boosting resilience to climate extremes — whatever the cause.

Stephen H. Schneider, the Stanford climatologist I've been interviewing since 1988 on this issue, has long favored pursuing climate policies that reflect the overall reality that the risk of bad outcomes rises with gas concentrations:

He slammed those who support a «fundamentally immoral» policy of delivering a hothouse climate to future generations, especially since avoiding the worst outcomes requires means redirecting at most 2 % of our wealth.

The article Judith cites makes a useful observation about a policy situation worse than gridlock, because it tends to result in even worse outcomes.