A review
of policy measures implemented in the transport sector (such as minimum energy performance standards, labels and promotion of modal shifts) within the European Union and in G20 countries.
The stronger data increased the likelihood China would achieve its 2016 gross domestic product (GDP) growth target of 6.5 % — 7.0 % and underlined the impact
of policy measures implemented earlier in the year, aimed at stimulating the Chinese economy.
Not exact matches
While top - down channels are used to communicate vision and strategy in order to get
policies and processes aligned with them, bottom - up processes are necessary too, in order for leaders to be aware
of the issues faced at the lower levels, as well as to
measure the impact
of the
policies and practices
implemented.
Home sales across the country have dropped in the wake
of several government
policy measures, including a stress test for home buyers with a down payment
of more than 20 per cent, that were
implemented to cool the country's hot housing market.
Stability is the
measure of a government's capacity to
implement policy during a political, social, or economic crisis.
Higher revenues and lower expenses resulting from the improvement in nominal GDP, coupled with the saving
measures implemented in the Budget are just sufficient to offset the impact
of the new
policy initiatives.
But has there ever been a more wicked
policy, with more disastrous social consequences, than the «one - child
policy» China began to
implement in the early 1980s — a state - decreed population - control
measure that resulted in, among other horrors, untold tens
of millions
of coerced abortions?
The report shows a sort
of tortured desire for some kind
of good, some kind
of affirmation
of human dignity: Wonderfully, it calls on Member States to «
implement policies and
measures aimed at preventing people from having abortions for social or economic reasons and providing support to mothers and couples in difficulty.»
The
policy addresses how CSWA will
implement measures to protect the confidentiality
of information and data used in its day - to - day operations.
Hopefully the APPG will help the government
implement the aspects
of the Global Strategy where there are found to be gaps and encourage it to reinstate the National Infant Feeding Survey so the impact
of policies can be
measured and available publicly.
Policy makers have yet to
implement internationally - agreed formula marketing standards in the UK, but there are some
measures preventing the promotion
of infant formula and using follow - on formula for cross-promotion.
It showed that 20 countries have enacted laws, decrees or other legal enforceable
measures, 27 have enacted many
of the Code's provisions as law, 21 countries have
implemented the entire Code as a voluntary
measure or as a national
policy and another 22 are currently drafting regulations based on the International Code and Resolutions.
The home secretary confirmed she would
implement the reports suggestions in full, including cancelling all existing suspension
measures featured in the report, introducing an operating
policy on secure ID checks, establishing a minimum level
of mandatory checks for all passengers and setting standards for record keeping.
At opposite ends
of the spectrum, it's not surprising that the Greens have an excellent and comprehensive suite
of environment
policies, while Ukip offer
measures that, if
implemented, would spell disaster for the planet.
Senate Republicans haven't ruled out passage
of the
measure before, but have raised concerns over how the
policy would be
implemented in the court system and whether violence crimes should be included.
As such these plans would have clearly violated both Lib Dem party
policy passed just weeks ago, and both the letter and spirit
of the Coalition Agreement that states «We will
implement a full programme
of measures to reverse the substantial erosion
of civil liberties and roll back state intrusion.»
«Many prevention
measures can be simple, like
implement adequate food safety staff training for all restaurant employees and apply sufficient sick leave
policies, and can potentially avoid substantial costs in the event
of an outbreak.»
Developed in consultation with foreign ministries, defense and education officials, and the International Committee
of the Red Cross, among other groups, it stipulates that countries agree to assist victims
of attacks on schools; help to keep classes running; investigate violent incidents; promote «conflict - sensitive» education
policies to lessen tension among diverse social or ethnic groups; and
implement various other
measures.
Respect and
implement UN security Resolution 2093, which requires AMISOM to take adequate
measures to prevent sexual violence and sexual exploitation and abuses by applying
policies consistent with United Nations zero tolerance
policy on sexual exploitation and abuses in the context
of peacekeeping.
In the WorkWize LMS structure, employees read the
policy or procedure, acknowledge that they have read the
policy or procedure, and then — if you choose to
implement this feature — take a short quiz to
measure their comprehension
of the
policy.
Once the state has decided on its
policy position, however, a judicial presence should be maintained to ensure that the chosen
policy is fully funded, is
implemented in a coherent manner, and results in substantially improved student performance, as
measured by validated assessments
of academic achievement and
of students» ability to function as capable citizens and workers.
Organizations need to be wary
of this aspect and have adequate security
policies and
measures in place before they start
implementing these approaches.
While eliminating applications raises questions for important aspects
of the largest federal K - 12 education aid program, the ESEA Title I program, the
policy guidance published by USED in March 2015 provides a wide range
of options for states and LEAs to
implement CEP with minimal interference with Title I funding allocations or accountability
measures.
Basis
Policy Research and ATI have built a partnership supporting the fair evaluation
of educator effectiveness by
implementing mathematical models that include multiple
measures of student growth and which evaluate educator effectiveness using techniques that take into account a variety
of factors that may impact student learning but over which the teacher has no influence.
In a 2014 report, called «Opportunity Mississippi,» the governor wrote, «My «Third Grade Gate» literacy
measure... will improve literacy achievement by ending social promotion
of third grade students who are not reading on grade level... As this
policy is fully
implemented, we will gain a better understanding
of how many children are struggling with literacy, and we will in turn be able to prove the need for additional resources.»
During his tenure, he made the MTA the voice
of the profession and established the teachers union as a partner in developing and
implementing state and federal
policy such as teacher - evaluation frameworks, new curriculum standards, district and school accountability
measures, while strengthening labor - management collaboration focused on improving student achievement.
Obama's «Race to the Top»
policy — the brainchild
of Secretary
of Education Arne Duncan, the former «CEO»
of Chicago Public Schools — further codifies high - stakes testing by allocating scarce federal resources to those states most aggressively
implementing these so - called accountability
measures.
Developing
policies was one piece
of the puzzle, but the schools needed experts on - site to
implement the safety
measures required by the state.
ROBUST AGREEMENT IN FAVOR
of exploring less - punitive disciplinary
measures has not prevented the emergence
of controversy, however, especially as elected officials and districts move to
implement broad
policy changes quickly.
We achieved this sign - on rate even though all participating LEAs will have to
implement a bold set
of policy and practice changes, including using student growth as one
of multiple
measures in evaluating and compensating teachers and leaders; denying tenure to teachers who are deemed ineffective as gauged partly by student growth; relinquishing control over their persistently lowest - achieving schools; increasing the number
of students who are taught by effective teachers; and, in many cases, opening their doors to more charter schools.
Summary: Despite a recent shift toward national control over education
policy, New Hampshire has
implemented a variety
of measures designed to embrace localization and flexibility.
Political challenges and other education priorities have also led to slower progress toward
implementing additional evaluation
policies, particularly the use
of student growth
measures based on state assessments in evaluating teachers.59 60 States have responded to public backlash by decreasing the weighting
of value - added scores or other student growth
measures in teacher evaluation ratings.
«And while that's no reason not to
implement promising new approaches or to shrink from experimentation, it puts an onus on
policy makers and administrators to bring generous
measures of training, support and patience to the task.»
Now, instead
of just mandatory annual testing and punitive
measures for struggling schools, cash - strapped states — who had little choice but to pursue the multi-billion-dollar grant money — were made to
implement specific federally supported education reforms.19 In the end, despite the Obama administration's efforts to distance itself from NCLB, and the failure
of NCLB's testing mandates (in particular the mandated but statistically impossible 100 percent proficiency rates), the act's design provided the
policy blueprint that led to RTTT.
Concerns have mounted that home prices in Canada's largest city have spiralled to the point where
policy - makers need to intervene, as they have in Vancouver, where a number
of measures have been
implemented including a tax on foreign buyers.
Cats Protection's Advocacy Manager Jacqui Cuff said the manifesto would call on key
policy - makers to
implement measures to improve the long - term welfare
of cats in Northern Ireland.
Another report by the German Institute
of Economic Research concluded that «If climate
policy measures are not introduced, global climate change damages amounting to up to 20 trillion US dollars can be expected in the year 2100... The costs
of an active climate protection
policy implemented today would reach globally around 430 billion US dollars in 2050 and around 3 trillion US dollars in 2100.»
From these three country experiences, we find that fostering public support to
implement lasting reform may depend on four
measures: (1) forming a public engagement plan and a comprehensive reform
policy that are then clearly communicated to the public in advance
of price increases; (2) phasing in price adjustments over a period
of time to ease absorption; (3) providing a targeted compensatory cash transfer to alleviate financial impacts on low - to middle - income households; and (4) capitalizing on favorable global macroeconomic conditions.
Webinar panelists reviewed the various
policy measures implemented in the transport sector (such as minimum energy performance standards, labels and promotion
of modal shifts) within the European Union and in G20 countries, and they related them to energy demand growth and energy efficiency improvements.
Through their decisions and actions, they need to avoid
policies that would damage already stressed aquatic resources and human lives and, instead,
implement measures that take full advantage
of the environmental and food security services that healthy aquatic resources offer.»
It takes account
of broad
policy commitments and plans that have been announced by countries... even if the
measures to
implement these commitments have yet to be identified or announced.»
While the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change findings make clear that future climate
policy will be needed to significantly reduce emissions, the timing
of the precise
policy measures that will
implement those reductions remain unclear.
The article outlines a number
of no - regrets
policy measures that have been or will be
implemented.
The objectives are: i. the impact
of socio - economic and institutional factors on
implementing energy efficiency
policies and
measures, ii.
The criteria include: using natural pests and composting in place
of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers whenever possible;
implementing no - burn
policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut the risk
of fires spreading into forest areas; sparing forests with high conservation value from development; taking
measures to reduce air pollution; and creating catchment ponds to prevent palm oil mill effluent — a byproduct — from entering waterways where it would damage aquatic habitats.
Importantly, whether one thinks global warming poses little or no threat or that the planet is on a path toward catastrophe, the cumulative climate effect
of these
policies, if
implemented, would be a change in the earth's temperature almost too small to
measure.
He noted that because
of the aggressive
policies and
measures they've
implemented since 2007, the growth
of their greenhouse gas emissions will slow.
If you look at the scientific integrity
policies at NOAA for example, it can be seen that the agency has developed
measures to control the integrity
of scientific information and
implemented specific
measures to control the release
of ISI.
He noted that because
of the aggressive
policies and
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