Sentences with phrase «providing policy research»

In that time, FPI's work has provided policy research and analysis to support the value and impact of government economic and social investments.»

As Climate Solutions» Washington Policy Specialist, Ben provided policy research and expertise for Climate Solutions in and out of the Washington legislature.

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The app also provides a link that explains the gender wage gap, which sits at $ 0.80 on the dollar, according to the latest research from the Institute of Women's Policy Rresearch from the Institute of Women's Policy ResearchResearch.

Fostering innovation in the Canadian economy requires bringing a pro-innovation lens to a broad suite of policies that go well beyond the mainstay of providing businesses with research and development tax credits.

Liberal and Conservative governments in the 1980s and 1990s, wanted their public servants to provide their best advice, regardless of whether that disagreed with the government; they wanted policy options costed; and, they were even willing to defend research in public.

As a Director of Economic and Energy Affairs for an Abu Dhabi based Authority, Abdulla leads a team that conducts targeted research and provides strategic economic policy advice to the senior leadership of two distinctive authoritative bodies within the capital.

Our Migration Matters series led by Dr. Eva Busza, APF Canada's Vice-President Research and Programs, along with researchers Valentine Ostaszewski and Amar Nijhawan, will provide a brief demographic profile of each country, describe immigration policies, analyze challenges, and highlight successes.

CRISIL is a global analytical company providing ratings, research, and risk and policy advisory services.

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

«DNA is so unique, and there are so many data sources out there, that it is incredibly hard to fully anonymize — and more so to promise and provide any absolute guarantee that the data are anonymized,» says Laura Lyman Rodriguez, the director of policy, communications and education at the National Human Genome Research Institute.

The Council, co-chaired by Benjamin Dachis, Associate Director, Research at the C.D. Howe Institute and Adam Fanaki, Partner, Competition and Foreign Investment Review and Litigation at Davies, Ward, Phillips & Vineberg LLP provides analysis of emerging competition policy issues.

The Roundtables provided opportunities for feedback and discussion with stakeholders in the Asia - Pacific community (Vancouver); the business community (Toronto); and the policy community (Ottawa) on the results of a seven - year policy research program on coordinating trade policy and human rights.

Ms. Siu started her career as a member of the Global Markets Institute, the public policy research unit of Goldman Sachs, providing research and high - level advisory services to policymakers, regulators and investors around the world.

Prior to joining U.S. Bank in 2012, Roosevelt was an associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he helped shape monetary policy by providing fixed income, foreign exchange and macroeconomic research to senior Federal Reserve officials.

In trying to provide investors with information that «is not in the current stock price» and therefore giving them an «edge», many Wall Street, and independent investment research providers have begun focusing on such areas as «forensic» accounting, «channel checking», public policy analysis, «lie detection» on conference calls, data mining and «expert» networking.

The research provides insight into the policy options under consideration in Ottawa and how federal officials are testing various ways that those ideas could be sold to the public.

In order to focus on providing objective, conflict - free research and analysis to our clients, we do not discuss our policies or recommendations with issuers during the solicitation period (which begins on the date the notice of meeting is released and ends on the date of the meeting), unless we decide to conduct a Proxy Talk with the company, which we record for access by our clients.

C. Provide research and information to citizen advocate groups on the process for obtaining «leave to participate» in governmental proceedings, public policy development and rule - making in the communications arena.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Looking primarily to models based on quantitative research methodologies to provide a clear direction for policy in regulating media and violence can also distract policy makers from coming to grips with other difficult but more important value questions that impinge on the issue of media and violence, such as the purpose of broadcasting, issues of ownership and control of media, the international context of Australian media, the dominant economic nature of most of Australia's social communications, the distinctive ways in which the media reproduce and reconstruct myths and symbols of violence from within the culture, and how audiences use and respond to media myths and symbols.

The California Association of Winegrape Growers was founded in 1974 with the mission to provide industry leadership to advocate public policies, research and education programs and trade positions that enhance the business of growing California winegrapes.

Established in 1974, the California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG) provides industry leadership to advocate for public policies, research and education programs, sustainable farming practices and trade positions to improve the viability of winegrape growing as an essential contributor to California's economy, culture, and landscape.

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) conducts research to provide innovative, evidence - based policy solutions to enhance food security and fight poPolicy Research Institute (IFPRI) conducts research to provide innovative, evidence - based policy solutions to enhance food security and fight Research Institute (IFPRI) conducts research to provide innovative, evidence - based policy solutions to enhance food security and fight research to provide innovative, evidence - based policy solutions to enhance food security and fight popolicy solutions to enhance food security and fight poverty.

It provides research and resources related to alcohol beverage regulation and policies and assists members with alcohol awareness, public health and policy issues.

The Centre also provides information on research, conversion advice, education and policy work on organic food and farming.

GFI works to affect legal change through lobbying policy makers, writing op - eds, providing information to congressional offices, and researching potential regulatory pathways for cultured products.23 GFI also organized an event on Capitol Hill to promote plant - based meat that was co-sponsored by Beyond Meat.

This toolkit, to be released in 2016, will bring together lessons from our research and policy work in date labeling, tax incentives, liability protections, as well as other food waste policies, to provide policy makers with a comprehensive menu of policy options.

California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG) is an advocate for farmers, providing leadership on public policies, research and education programs, sustainable farming practices and trade policy to enhance the California winegrape growing business and our communities.

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We produced a new research summary on Anti-Social Behaviour and Fathers, to help inform ongoing and future policy work around fathers / fatherhood and crime; we also provided background research material for other policy work.

Collating the latest research evidence on fathers and fatherhood is a key element of our work as an Institute — providing us with the building blocks on which to develop our policy work, training courses and publications.

In the case that not everything and everyone is covered under your policy, it's time to do some research into insurance that will provide adequate coverage.

«Finding ways to decrease the incidence and severity of sports - related injuries is critical to keeping kids playing sports long - term and reaping the benefits that organized athletics provides,» said Dawn Comstock, PhD, a co-author of the study and assistant professor at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

• Helping mothers develop skills and techniques to ensure breastfeeding goes well • Providing expertise in the management of breastfeeding challenges • Training other healthcare workers using current evidence based knowledge • Collaborating with other healthcare workers to meet the family's needs • Investigating and participating in research • Educating policy makers on the economic and health benefits of breastfeeding • Advocating for services to support breastfeeding

Part of an Australian Research Council funded study titled Being and becoming musical: towards a cultural ecological model of early musical development, the study aims to provide a comprehensive account of how Australian families use music in their parenting practices and make recommendations for policy and practice in childcare and early learning and development.

This series provides economic data to inform policy makers about how breastfeeding leads to savings in health costs and other costs, raises awareness among the academic and wider community and highlights a new and publicly relevant area of research.

The 2012 National Action Plan for Child Injury Prevention provides actions in surveillance, research, communication, education, health care, and public policy to guide efforts in saving lives by reducing injuries.

In this chapter, we focus on recent research related to home visitation programs» identification and response to maternal depression, identify gaps in this existing research, and provide recommendations for the practice and policy community on addressing maternal depression within home visitation.

Pew conducts original research and analyses to help policymakers understand local policy challenges, from providing healthy school lunches for children to designing retirement programs for public employees.

As the New York Times article discusses more fully, the impetus for the price increase was a finding by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research organization in Washington, that by keeping the price of the full meal too low, the paid meals were effectively being subsidized by the federal dollars which are supposed to be allocated to the meals provided to kids who are on free / reduced lunch.

The center has supported thousands of women to achieve their breastfeeding goals since its inception, performed lactation research, provided education on lactation topics to both parents and professionals, advocated for changes in breastfeeding policies and provided lactation therapy for the treatment of infant sucking problems and maternal breast and nipple problems with an over 95 % success rate.

The California Endowment provided $ 100,000 to cover the fees of the research institution, the Central Valley Health Policy Institute, which provided project management and research expertise.

Control: at the control sites, the research team provided routine services, in which, according to national policy, workers are required to advise exclusive breastfeeding for 4 - 6 months.

By shedding light on public preferences, the research will contribute to an important debate about the effects of corruption and insecurity on public legitimacy and will provide policy - makers with rigorous evidence.

That research will provide a sound evidence - base to inform policy development, implementation and evaluation.

Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick Centre for Housing Policy, University of York Research designed to provide a robust account of the nature and patterns of Multiple Exclusion Homelessness across the UK.

A recent research project by Kayte Lawton and myself for the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), funded by the Nuffield Foundation, attempts to inform debate by providing a critical assessment of the options for reforming wealth taxes inresearch project by Kayte Lawton and myself for the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), funded by the Nuffield Foundation, attempts to inform debate by providing a critical assessment of the options for reforming wealth taxes inResearch (IPPR), funded by the Nuffield Foundation, attempts to inform debate by providing a critical assessment of the options for reforming wealth taxes in the UK.

To make sure that we represent the science accurately, we have a board of seven expert advisers from a variety of fields (including economics, medicine and policy) who review all of our publications, provide us with guidance, and occasionally collaborate on joint research projects.

Announces Up to $ 10 Million in Grant Funding to Advance Research and Provide Resources to Future Processing Businesses Legislation Clarifies Status of Industrial Hemp as An Agricultural Commodity in the State Establishes Working Group to Guide Research, Support Industry Development and Advise Policy and Program Changes Launches One - Stop Shop, Hotline and Webpage to Help Producers and Processors Navigate Industry Regulations and Requirements

The Institute for Policy Research also provides funding for Migration Watch, the Tax Payer's Alliance and other right - wing lobbying groups.