Sentences with phrase «less policy attention»

IEA study unveils key role for trucks in global oil - demand growth Fast - growing road - freight transport receives far less policy attention than passenger vehicles 3 July 2017

This pattern has received less policy attention than the race - based participation gap, and may point to issues with how schools identify students for special education.

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A pro tip for public policy advocacy groups: If you're looking for attention, it helps if your problem appears massively huge and your solution impossibly cheap — preferably less than a cup of coffee a week.

I have talked mainly about monetary policy in the context of inflation, with growth in activity and employment attracting less attention.

But unlimited vacation policies also have another benefit for employers that gets far less attention: a financial upside.

It's less about implementing policy than it is drawing attention to life and death issues that can be more complicated than bills and bans may suggest, she said.

Less than two days into the Lib Dem leadership, and Nick Clegg has won most media attention for his comments on religion rather than his policy proposals.

Stevens also underlines that the fragmented media environment - with national papers covering the big political issues and the Brussels «trade» press covering the daily policy grind - means that the media get a lot less attention from public affairs professionals.

The Asian countries» attitudes and policies regarding foreign study, though, have received far less attention.

In early childhood policy (and in the wider media), much attention has been paid to the so - called word gap — findings that show that low - income children hear 30 million fewer words, on average, and have less than half the vocabulary of upper - income peers by age three.

The indeterminate nature of leadership in the course of policy making, and the slippage that occurs as policy refinements accrue during implementation, help to explain how policies succeed or fail.243 Particular instruments used to reformulate policy are less important, according to this perspective, than understanding how a particular policy issue got the governor «s or the legislative committee «s attention in the first place.244 A third image, the practitioner perspective, emerges from studies of publicsector administrators; it examines the tendency of administrators to seek flexibility and autonomy in interpreting policies, and ways in which this tendency affects the broader process of change.

That is raising new questions about the wisdom of decades of public policy that focused on increasing access to higher learning but paid less attention to what happens once students arrive on campus.

«Under this system, districts can escape notice or attention simply by shining in categories that are less than academic and whose outcomes they control,» said Chad Aldeman, an education policy expert whose Boston - based nonprofit group flagged this problem in a recent report on California's school accountability system.

For instance: if you support gun control policies, you will likely pay more attention to studies about gun violence (because they reinforce what you already believe) and less attention to reports of gun control policies precipitating higher gun violence (because it conflicts.)

Much less systematic attention — again in the context of the global climate policy debate (as opposed to domestic debates, where thanks to the environmental justice movement the topic is very much in play)-- has been paid to the problem of inequality within nations.

We need to make policy choices based less on moral self - regard and more on attention to real - world results.

While many countries are focusing policies on renewable electricity, renewable heat is getting much less attention.

But the sector gets far less attention and policy focus than passenger vehicles.

Still, this industry has been lagging other renewable energies like solar and wind, and has received less attention in government policies.

When purchasing home insurance, Washingtonians must pay special attention to the coverage allotted to the less common perils; in many cases, additional and / or more comprehensive policies are needed to make sure you property is protected when affected by these specific events.

While the costs to business and to the economy in general of dealing poor mental health identified at work have been the focus of attention by policy makers in Europe and elsewhere in recent years (Dewa et al., 2007; McDaid, 2007), less attention has been given to evaluating the economic costs and benefits of promoting positive mental health in the workplace.