Collocations withpolicy
These are words often used in combination withpolicy.
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admission policy
The hospital serves a large municipal and suburban catchment area with a non-selective admission policy.
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aggressive policy
Over time, an aggressive policy of promoting civil servants who were highly pliable or sympathetic to monetarist views implanted the new paradigm even more firmly.
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agricultural policy
The paradigm of staple food self-sufficiency that has been the cornerstone of agricultural policy in most developing countries becomes increasingly obsolete with economic growth.
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austerity policy
They had fiercely opposed the austerity policy and tried to depict it as unfair and a clamp-down against the weakest in society.
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bipartisan policy
This is a field where it would be such a splendid thing if we could have something approaching bipartisan policy.
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changing policy
Their self-reflexivity was enabling them to visualize themselves at the centre of a fluid world of intense relationships, emerging out of the changing policy climate.
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coherent policy
We synthesize economic, engineering, and health data to elucidate this complex relationship and support more coherent policy.
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colonial policy
First, it points to yet another weakness in the presupposed relation between taxation and labour supply in colonial policy discourse.
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competition policy
Policy content looks at the governing principles of competition policy.
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comprehensive policy
These results point towards the need for a comprehensive policy framework towards agriculture in general and land tenure in particular.
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conservation policy
On the other hand, the conservation policy has had some adverse effects which work in the direction of threatening the wildlife in the long term.
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conservative policy
Conservative policy has had rather a jolt as a result of the party's two years in office.
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controversial policy
For example, the controversial policy of racial profiling may be more geographically than racially fueled.
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current policy
According to current policy, these foster parents are categorised as 'rural residents'.
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defence policy
The three substantive policy dimensions most closely correlated with the general left-right dimension were defence policy, national identity, and foreign policy.
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deliberate policy
This was a deliberate policy rather than gross negligence.
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disastrous policy
It is now recognised that that was a disastrous policy which had considerable consequences on the development of small wharves.
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discriminatory policy
The fact that there were more women than men in the population set a limit to any discriminatory policy.
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drug policy
Identifying reliable markers of chloroquine resistance is important to inform both individual malaria treatment and local drug policy.
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economic policy
Both elements are central in assessing economic policy.
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educational policy
Several writers have commented on the centrality of the idea of individuality within globalized educational policy.
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energy policy
The results of the analysis have broader policy implications for the comparative utility of different indicators in energy policy processes.
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environmental policy
If environmental improvements are mediated by changes in government policy, then growth and development cannot be a substitute for environmental policy.
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existing policy
It emphasizes the importance of further theory development concerning the impact of existing policy measures on compliance.
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expansionary policy
That motion dealt with local government and called for an expansionary policy of local government expenditure.
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explicit policy
Fertility is therefore often the feature that is targeted by explicit policy and the demographic measure that is probably most influenced by social norms.
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failed policy
After failed policy, new research was proposed to inform future policy measurements on this subject.
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federal policy
Federal policy changes became hostage to the evolving character of federalprovincial relations.
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forestry policy
As a first step, the forestry policy inherited from the previous administration was further revised to suit the objectives of the new administration.
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formal policy
Moreover, formal policy discourses need to find their way into formal and informal domains if they are to challenge historically constituted practices.
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governmental policy
It was the evolution of governmental policy which made it impossible for central bankers to evolve cooperative policy in the summer of 1933.
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health policy
Such an extension of current case register data is one affordable and powerful tool for optimizing mental health policy development.
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immigration policy
We must, then, look through this veil at the larger backdrop against which immigration policy, medical or otherwise, plays out.
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interventionist policy
How precisely did such a process ultimately cause a welfare/interventionist policy orientation to reign supreme?
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isolationist policy
It also holds that material threat and assimilationist threat shape restrictionist and isolationist policy preferences.
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laissez-faire policy
A laissez-faire policy, meanwhile, which is the dominant approach at present, results in numerous negative consequences in terms of social inequalities and spatial disparities.
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lending policy
We assume that agents derive no utility from the revenue earned by the central bank through this lending policy.
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liberal policy
Not surprisingly, the conservative mandates stand out for the opposite reason, replacing the usual liberal policy activity with conservative action.
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long-standing policy
This is consistent with our own long-standing policy of seeking self-sufficiency in blood products sourced from our own volunteer donors.
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macroeconomic policy
Electoral considerations are also expected to shape macroeconomic policy choices and outcomes.
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manpower policy
It is impossible to put two such considerations side by side and say which manpower policy was right.
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migration policy
First and foremost, there are lessons for national migration policy.
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misguided policy
It represents an aggressive and misguided policy.
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national policy
There was recognition that due to national policy, patient and public involvement was no longer optional.
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neoliberal policy
As a consequence, poverty rates for a large part of this period declined rather than increased, in spite of neoliberal policy prescriptions.
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official policy
State-promoted historical writing for journals or special publications tended slavishly to follow official policy.
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one-child policy
The late 20th-century economic reforms and the one-child policy have fundamentally reshaped the social context in which old age is experienced.
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optimal policy
If there is a government policy that allows the decentralized economy to achieve the constrained planner's allocation, then it is the optimal policy choice.
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overall policy
As one part of a broader health system decision-making process, the fourth hurdle system will reflect the overall policy preoccupations of the day.
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policy adviser
So, here too, we must find a new approach and make the sector our first and most important policy adviser.
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policy advisor
In his career as academic, policy advisor and civil servant he published, polemicised and contributed creatively to a vast variety of different policy areas, often clearly ahead of his time.
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policy agenda
Failure may however see the issue of mental health further marginalized on the health policy agenda.
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policy analyst
For the concerned health policy analyst there are a number of important lessons.
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policy arena
Changes in civil registration are seen as an essential condition for implementing other types of changes in the family policy arena.
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policy brief
These led to a policy brief prepared for senior research managers and policy-makers.
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policy decision
Far-reaching consequences have been ascribed to a policy decision that remains undocumented except for hearsay evidence in the popular conversation that surrounded the trials.
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policy directive
I certainly would not have gone ahead without some policy directive on these questions of taxation, and so on.
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policy domain
Thus, until 1996, the two major political parties sought to cultivate bipartisanship in this policy domain.
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policy expert
He could not find a single local authority, one private company, any community group or any urban policy expert to agree with his extraordinary euphoria.
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policy guidance
Both national and local policy guidance said that carers should be provided with written confirmation of their assessment.
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policy initiative
A minister announcing a policy initiative to the annual party conference is almost bound to draw on analyses and papers prepared in the department.
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policy of appeasement
Such ambiguities are inherent in any policy of appeasement, which is of essence reactive.
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policy preference
Similarly, the effect of the economic variables is differentiated so that optimism or pessimism on them does not always provoke the same policy preference.
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policy prescription
The model generates a policy prescription that is dynamic in nature.
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policy proposal
Sometimes it is enough to have two or three member states wishing to have a certain policy proposal initiated.
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policy recommendation
A main policy recommendation according to this approach is agricultural intensification: increased productivity will reduce the deforestation pressure.
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pricing policy
Such a pricing policy has since become the deciding factor in the widespread establishment of plantations, and especially cocoa plantations.
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privacy policy
The second step offers a practical way to elicit the particular expectations that underlie differences of opinion about privacy policy.
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progressive policy
In the absence of progressive policy change local farming communities, who have been the historical producers of the fragrant wood, will continue to be denied their rightful inheritance.
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proposed policy
Proposed policy changes seek to reverse this pattern.
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protectionist policy
But whoever supposed that the object of a protectionist policy was to shut out all imports?
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rational policy
Free trade is the automatic result of a 'pre-stabilized harmony' among rational policy monads.
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redistributive policy
This is so because most of us are members of groups of persons whose expected benefits would increase if a non-member followed a redistributive policy.
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regulation policy
These results are crucial information for the regulator in order to analyze the effects of a water regulation policy, based on prices.
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repressive policy
The mass uprooting of the population further fostered discontent and political activism among them, leading the authorities to adopt an even more repressive policy.
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restrictive policy
Was the restrictive policy a concern to you before then?
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retention policy
That must be the aim of any recruitment and retention policy.
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security policy
It would not be hard to parameterize the interpreter with respect to the security policy, giving rise to a separate specification.
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sensible policy
At least there can be little doubt that cost-benefit analysis is necessary for sensible policy.
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socialist policy
Cohesion policy, which, by some, is considered to be a socialist policy par excellence, is thought of as a capitalist policy by others.
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sound policy
From our results, it is apparent that such linkages are quite complex, and sound policy making will require the type of information produced in our investigation.
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stabilization policy
Is the process through which aggressive inflation stabilization policy fosters coordination consistent with theory and evidence on adaptive learning by economic agents?
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stated policy
That is right, and it is my stated policy to continue that progress in the future.
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strict policy
The default common law rule required unanimous consent of shareholders, so this silence amounted to a strict policy.
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substantive policy
Table 3 reports the salience that each party was judged by the experts to attach to each of the ten substantive policy dimensions.
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tax policy
In essence, we propose transferring the risk inherent in pharmaceutical research from the market system to the taxpayer, through tax policy.
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thrust of policy
The main thrust of policy accordingly became reclamation with a view to the ultimate assimilation of the tribesmen into the general community.
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trade policy
This is tantamount to the network design of trade policy.
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welfare policy
There are many alternative ways of structuring mutuality and fair reciprocity in social welfare policy.
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wellness policy
The legislation placed the responsibility of developing a wellness policy at the local level so the individual needs of each district can be addressed.
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written policy
The majority of companies (77 per cent) reported no written policy regarding flexible working arrangements, while 18 per cent reported an ' informal ' policy.
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zero tolerance policy
A zero tolerance policy must be applied to tax havens.
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