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Economic Policy for Sustainable Development: Role of Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy and Regulatory Policy
This study empirically examines the effect of economic policy on sustainable development using annual data for 22 countries from 2011 to 2018. The...
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Nutrition policy or price stabilisation policy: which policy is more effective for nutrition outcomes?
BackgroundMalnutrition remains a global problem and is increasing with the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Madagascar, half of the children...
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The Wise-Use Checklist as a Science–Policy Interface– The Interaction of Science and Policy in Taiwanese Wetland Conservation Policy
The ‘Wise-Use Checklist’ was designed to assist people in formulating the ‘Conservation–Utilisation Plans for Wetlands of Importance’ in Taiwanese...
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Implementing policy integration: policy regimes for care policy in Chile and Uruguay
How are integrated policies implemented? In this paper we analyze two policies in Latin America aimed at securing integral care to children to show...
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Metricizing policy texts: Comprehensive dataset on China’s Agri-policy intensity spanning 1982–2023
Due to the lack of direct assessment metrics, existing studies on the intensity of agricultural policies often utilize indicators such as Gross...
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Target-oriented policy diffusion analysis: a case study of China’s information technology policy
Current quantitative research on policy diffusion tends to focus on the citation relationship between policies, while ignoring the nature of policy...
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Policy translation in assemblage: networked actors mediating science teachers’ policy play
Educational policies exist as part of complex systems of many policies, all of which science teachers must make sense before using in practice. Using...
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Economic policy uncertainty and cash dividend policy: evidence from China
This paper investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on the dividend policy of listed companies, alongside its underlying...
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Policy involvement and policy consistency identification of supportive policies for SMEs
The practice of supportive policies for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Zhejiang Province during the post-epidemic period is of great...
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An evaluation of the Australian Community Pharmacy Agreement from a public policy perspective: industry policy cloaked as health policy?
BackgroundA series of Community Pharmacy Agreements (Agreements) between the Federal government and a pharmacy-owners’ body, the Pharmacy Guild of...
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Towards understanding policy design through text-as-data approaches: The policy design annotations (POLIANNA) dataset
Despite the importance of ambitious policy action for addressing climate change, large and systematic assessments of public policies and their design...
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Reimagining public policy formulation and analysis: a comprehensive theoretical framework for public policy
This research paper delves into the intricate domain of policy science, focusing on the policy-making process itself. Existing theoretical frameworks...
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Modelling policy scenarios: refocussing the model-policy logic for the case of German passenger transport
BackgroundNational energy and climate scenarios are typically simulated or optimised using sectoral or energy system models, which include a large...
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Cautious policy programming: exploiting KL regularization for monotonic policy improvement in reinforcement learning
In this paper, we propose cautious policy programming (CPP), a novel value-based reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm that exploits the idea of...
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Policy Diffusion and Regionalization of Immigration: Canada’s International Student Migration Policy Landscape
Canada has been increasing allocation to the Provincial Nominee Program in the immigration target total. Regionalisation of immigration has been an...
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British environmental foreign policy identity post-Brexit: environment and climate policy
Since the 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (UK) government has been keen to persuade commentators and...
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Local government policy to facilitate healthy and sustainable diets and the broader policy hierarchy: insights from Milan Urban Food Policy Pact cities
BackgroundLocal government authorities are well positioned to change the way food is produced and consumed through the implementation of integrated...
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How free tuition became a policy in Chile: the importance of policy actors and their beliefs
In recent decades, there has been a revival of free tuition policies around the world. Understanding the current revival of these policies is...
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DRL Empowered On-policy and Off-policy ABR for 5G Mobile Ultra-HD Video Delivery
Fifth generation (5G) and beyond 5G networks support high-throughput ultra-high definition (UHD) video applications. This paper examines the use of...
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Homotopic policy mirror descent: policy convergence, algorithmic regularization, and improved sample complexity
We study a new variant of policy gradient method, named homotopic policy mirror descent (HPMD), for solving discounted, infinite horizon MDPs with...
