Sentences with phrase «on policy interventions»

Climate Action has reached out to Ministers from all over the world for opinion articles on policy interventions, including Nicolas Hulot, the French Environment Minister, Minister of the Environment, Energy and Housing in Finland, Claire Perry, UK Minister for Climate Change and Industry, Catherine McKenna, and Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Canada.

On policy interventions he has issued so far, the president noted that his government will be introducing the free Senior High in September.

However, the story really changes if, instead of tying early career performance to dismissals, you focus on a policy intervention such as targeted supports.

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Any attempt to assess the potential economic impact of a Syria mission depends on a key assumption about foreign policy: Should President Obama decide for intervention, will the mission look more like Iraq and Afghanistan or Libya?

But to many Republicans, he's an unreliable ally who is often at odds with traditional conservative ideology on drug policy (he's for medical marijuana), foreign intervention (he opposes most military actions) and government surveillance (he thinks more checks are needed on federal power).

Policy makers largely ignore the indirect impact of trade intervention on capital.

This paper explores the concept of What Works Centres, independent and non-partisan organizations structured to create, collect and curate evidence on public policy challenges and the success — and failure — of government and community - based interventions.

It concluded that others would be better solved through administrative intervention on all new foreign investment, case by case, and it rejected a major policy shift, such as a «buy - back» strategy, towards increased Canadian ownership.

There are also some evidence - based policies that could help outside the realm of gun control, including more stringent regulations and taxes on alcohol, changes in policing, and behavioral intervention programs.

Should the Fed allow small financial catastrophes to proceed with little intervention - a «natural burn» policy - or should they defend against these problems on most occasions?

One leading member of that revisionist school, the American historian Harry Elmer Barnes (of Smith, Columbia, and the New School for Social Research), went on to oppose American intervention in the thirties and to justify German policies even after the war.

The war in the Balkans was justified as «humanitarian intervention» against a policy based on the premise that there are too many Kosovars.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

Tamesha Harewood, lead author on the paper in Infant and Child Development, said fathers, in addition to mothers, should be included in parenting research and family - intervention programs and policies.

The most effective intervention we have is a focus on parental attachment, through a public policy of home visit programs, starting in the first days of a child's life.

Views are particularly polarised in the United States, with interventions and costs of hospital births escalating and midwives involved with home births being denied the ability to be lead professionals in hospital, with admitting and discharge privileges.5 Although several Canadian medical societies6 7 and the American Public Health Association8 have adopted policies promoting or acknowledging the viability of home births, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists continues to oppose it.9 Studies on home birth have been criticised if they have been too small to accurately assess perinatal mortality, unable to distinguish planned from unplanned home births accurately, or retrospective with the potential of bias from selective reporting.

We don't have a specific policy on the National Infant Feeding Survey, but do propose an extensive range of interventions to promote and normalise breast - feeding, so a beneficial means of assessment may be adopted.

Since the early 1990s, government policy on maternity care in England has moved towards policies designed to give women with straightforward pregnancies a choice of settings for birth.1 2 In this context, freestanding midwifery units, midwifery units located in the same building or on the same site as an obstetric unit (hereafter referred to as alongside midwifery units), and home birth services have increasingly become relevant to the configuration of maternity services under consideration in England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lacking.

This study provided comprehensive evidence of the effect of interventions on early initiation, exclusive, continued and any breastfeeding rates when delivered in five settings: (i) Health systems and services (ii) Home and family environment (iii) Community environment (iv) Work environment (v) Policy environment or a combination of any of above.

On November 7th in Cork City, Young Knocknaheeny will bring together leading experts, policy makers, practitioners, and participants to share and connect the science, policy, and interdisciplinary practice across the domains of child development, health, equality, urban development, and change practices for whole community prevention and early intervention.

Both nurseries had a policy that newborns should sleep supine; therefore, only 6 newborns were noted to have spitting up episodes while lying on the side, with 66.7 % requiring no intervention and 33.3 % requiring bulb syringe.

The effects of breastfeeding on children's development have important implications for both public - health policies and for the design of targeted early intervention strategies to improve the developmental outcomes of children at risk as a result of biological (e.g., prematurity) or social adversity (e.g., poverty).

A progressive capitalism can only be forged with an enabling state that understands the global environment in which today's business leaders operate: where survival depends on profitability, where the world is awash with investment opportunities beyond the UK, and where arbitrary interventions in markets and constant changes in government policy discourage the long term investment Britain needs.

Rather than discuss each kind of policy — broadcast, press, online, etc — separately and on its own terms, we have wanted to provide a more general overview over forms of intervention in increasingly convergent media markets and help shed some light on an otherwise all too opaque policy area attracting increased interest as some commercial media companies continue to struggle and newsrooms in many countries are cut.

NEA's research team has over 30 years» combined experience of working on and researching fuel poverty, domestic energy issues and the impact of associated policy and practice interventions.

In this regard, in 2018, efforts will be geared towards keeping the lights on at affordable rates to consumers, particularly industries and small businesses through reform and policy interventions over a two - year period.

Jamie Reed Labour MP for Copeland The pick of online comments from TotalPolitics.com Commenting on Iain Wright MP's blog praising Ed Miliband's call for greater «patriotism» in UK business policy, Ralph Baldwin was dismissive of the Labour leader's intervention.

Tomorrow, Mr Blair will deliver a major speech on foreign policy on how «global values» such as democracy and the rule of law are applied, looking at everything from interventions in Kosovo to a broader policy towards Africa and climate change.

Part B3 (p.514 - 517)- The legislative budget does not include Governor Pataki's original proposal to mandate early intervention costs on health insurance policies.

I am constrained to make this final intervention on the impact of multiple and hugely divergent foreign exchange rates as well as unclear, unarticulated and confusing economic policy on foreign direct investment in response to our «academic» economist's long treatise of May 18, 2017 in this newspaper.

At best Fallon's intervention today will have moved on the debate from Labour's popular non-dom tax policy announcement.

Former policy of Central Bank was interventions on the currency exchanbge market to support ruble while inflation was high.

Despite this, the chancellor found time to comment on Tony Blair's foreign policy and the government's commitment to preemptive action and humanitarian intervention.

It comes after series of senior colleagues have openly defied the leader's views on important policy issues, ranging from Trident to the Heathrow third runway to intervention in Syria.

PoliticsHome reports that Hawking was in talks with Labour to stage an intervention on immigration policy - but the plans appear to have been put on hold.

This was coming on the heels as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in company of 16 Nigerian states stormed Osun to understudy the success of the state's Social Intervention Policies.

The City Council is introducing a package of bills on Tuesday to require the city's Department of Correction to provide detailed reports on inmates» demographic information and the department's use - of - force policy, and to create a crisis intervention plan at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex.

Her intervention contrasts with Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry, who earlier called on Amber Rudd to resign but refused to say if the Government was either racist or responsible for a racist policy.

Upper East Regional Director of Food and Agriculture Francis Ennor, said the exercise will provide data on community facilities such as roads, hospitals and schools, among other things for proper policy interventions to propel the development of farmers in the rural areas.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

Kechi's father, Mr. Okwuchi, in a letter read by Mazi Okoronkwo said «On December 10, 2005, Shell intervened, notwithstanding the medical uncertainty to save life regardless of cost; intervention propelled by a corporate policy that puts life above else.

By contrast, Cooper made some good interventions, proactively generating stories over Labour's policies towards the assets of criminals and exposing the government's poor record on waiting times for victims of crime.

«This is a government whose budget program was approved on the 31st of March and as at the 1st of June most of the policy interventions including the tax cuts have not been implemented.

They should mention one specific policy intervention that would have brought about an improvement in the economy other than John Mahama's investment in the oil sector and improvement in the prices of gold on the international market,» he said.

Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps had written to UN secretary general Ban Ki - moon criticising Raquel Rolnik's interventions on the policy.

It is understood that Corbyn wants the party to speak with one voice on matters relating to defence and military intervention and it is felt among his allies that splits over foreign policy have overshadowed the shadow cabinet's unity over economic and domestic matters.

The Fund will be the first time government's social policy intervention to focus on developing residents of Zongo communities.

«David Cameron today fired one of his top policy advisers for failing to vote for the government in last week's vote on military intervention in Syria.

The intervention comes as the home secretary, Amber Rudd, is due to publish her own long - delayed white paper on post-Brexit immigration policy.

The Forum on Human Germline Interventions, organized by AAAS, convened a multi-disciplinary group of scientists, ethicists, and theologians to participate in discussions regarding scientific freedom and responsibility issues; the history and status of religious involvement; ethical and theological issues; therapeutic vs. enhancement applications; and setting policy and developing guidelines on human germline research and applications.