Sentences with phrase «likely policy outcomes»

But even without a final consensus emerging, it has been interesting to see how even a modest narrowing of the range of likely policy outcomes has been enough to dramatically change the environment for carbon market participants.

Not exact matches

«You want to set policy based on the most likely outcomes, rather than the least likely outcomes,» Wright argues.

The forecasts outlined in the recent Statement on Monetary Policy give our best assessment of the most likely outcomes for Australia, contingent on these and other factors.

The findings summarized in this review have major policy implications, as they strongly suggest that investing in breastfeeding promotion is likely to lead not only to improved physical health but also to improved intellectual and psycho - emotional outcomes.

Trump had been publicly discussing ending the agreement, so one could argue that Kerry may have broken the spirit of the law, (or you could argue that he was simply acting as a lobbyist and 100 % legally because the meeting was regarding existing policy), but even if you take the argument that he deliberately went against what Trump was proposing as a likely outcome, Kerry didn't violate the Logan act because it was still policy at the time.

Perhaps the more interesting thing will be to see where the Assembly stands on the challenge from the Senate regarding changes made through budget language to how prisoners are counted for legislative districting, where the Assembly likely sides with the governor on the policy outcome but with the Senate on institutional prerogatives and procedure.

The protracted, multi-party negotiations likely to follow an indecisive electoral outcome will be a stage for taking on and discarding policy and rhetorical stances as parties manoeuvre for power.

The likely outcome of these policies will be more homeless sleeping on the streets throughout Dutchess County.

A defence policy review under such chairmanship, now without the restraint of a defence spokesman with a different view, makes it even less likely that the moderates still sitting round the shadow cabinet table can ultimately live with the outcome.

But just finding that some policy is likely to improve student outcomes does not mean that the improvement will reach the high levels sought by Washington Learns, or by others with similar views about what students should know.

With the Common Core State Standards Initiative likely to release the final version of its English and mathematics standards in early June, and states having to decide whether or not to adopt them, a crucial question has been neglected in the public policy debate: Is there good reason to believe that national standards will improve educational outcomes?

Given the substantial differences between students who were and were not assigned to double - dose algebra, simply comparing their later outcomes would likely produce misleading evidence on the policy's impact.

«Performance - based pay will likely take more of the focus away from the true exploration of ideas... and redirect the focus onto achieving higher test scores, which don't necessarily reflect «better» educational techniques or outcomes,» said one teacher who submitted their story to NC Policy Watch's «Your Soapbox» feature.

The study analyzes student outcomes associated with specific aspects of curriculum and instruction and identified policy conditions - especially regarding standards - based reform - under which effective classroom practices were likely to flourish.

This begs the obvious questions of whether the national policy commitment to structural change is likely to bring about a transformation in outcomes and whether any improvements that may follow are worth the expense, effort and (in the case of forced academisation) the turmoil that are entailed.

Jonathan Simons, head of education at the right - leaning think tank Policy Exchange, said: «Given all the candidates have mentioned the importance of social mobility and improving life outcomes, and given Gove's previous role, it is likely to give education a welcome prominence in this campaign.»

C's requirement that shelters take all necessary steps to find placement for animals, many of the policies outlined here regarding shelter standards, live - release, return of owned animals, and transparency, also provide procedural safeguards for animals entering shelters that make euthanasia a less likely outcome.

«Alarmism» encourages the idea that the case for relatively aggressive climate policy rests on the claim that climate change is more likely than not to produce catastrophic outcomes.

If they do not, the more likely outcome is a drive that tries to do too much with technology policy.

Based on the model outputs from 1960 to the present, policymakers and the public would be better served by rejecting the alarmist scenarios A and B; instead, moving forward, base all adaption and mitigation policies on Scenario «C», which would likely produce better outcomes with superior allocation of scarce resources.

This uncertainty argues even more strongly against premising policy largely on «most likely» outcomes because our ability to identify the most likely outcome is rather suspect.

As a result, the likely outcome of the report's release will be more of the same: a welter of scary scenarios, followed by politicians promising huge carbon cuts and expensive policies that have virtually no impact on climate change.

I'm willing to take my chances; I certainly think this would be more likely to lead to sensible outcomes than the current way climate policy is made.

That means two options — the Clean Air Act status quo and a new policy replacing it — appear the most likely outcomes.

But it utterly avoids the actual content of Emanuel's argument, which is that in setting policy, one does not generally focus concern on most likely outcomes but on most salient risks.

IMO it's not particularly sensible to frame the entire issue in terms of the small chance of «climate catastrophe» because then we risk having the rug abruptly pulled out from under our policies when someone proves that the catastrophe is less likely than was previously thought: — RRB - Also, arguing over the precise threshold probability for particular outcomes risks turning into angels - on - pins stuff.

Apart from this, the way to get around the whiplash problem is to get rid of the mindset and decision analytic framework whereby policies are based on a most likely outcome (with an uncertainty range), determined from a negotiated consensus about a highly uncertain topic.

# 48 Jeremy Grimm — I too follow RC as a non-scientist intensely interested in figuring out likely outcomes and realistic personal and political (policy) responses.

Unless models incorporate such two - way couplings, they are likely to miss important dynamics in the real Earth — Human system that may result in unexpected outcomes requiring very different policy interventions.

This makes current models likely to miss important feedbacks in the real Earth — Human system, especially those that may result in unexpected or counterintuitive outcomes, and thus requiring different policy interventions from current models.

This makes the models likely to miss important feedbacks in the real Earth — Human system that may result in unexpected outcomes requiring very different policy interventions.

Not that this would have changed the outcome; in fact, my point is that Iceland's alcohol policy could have come away from the litigation strengthened by an approval of the EFTA - Court (which would quite likely have happened, as the policy seems to be based on rather sound studies).

Even if claims against individual health care providers were likely to be successful, it should be added that tort law challenges to individual decision - makers may not be ideal from the perspective of patients with rare diseases as a group, as the individualized outcome in tort cases does not necessarily lead to the larger, policy change desired by many patients.

While the case concerns a local school board's restroom policy, it's outcome will likely be felt throughout the Fourth Circuit (including Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and the Carolinas) in a wide range of public and professional circumstances.

The outcome of the arbitration will likely set an important precedent for employers seeking to implement and enforce drug and alcohol related policies.

We only need to go back three years to remind ourselves of the likely outcome of such an absence of effective mechanisms to join the local and regional levels to the national level, and to join service delivery to policy development.

However, they reflect a broad spread of factors of policy concern and are all likely to be of interest as explanatory variables for later outcomes once the children reach adulthood.