Head of the Political Affairs and Planning Division

Expenditures are for the period from 1 May to 30 June 2004.

Policy design, political leadership, and human agency come back to life.

The proposed policies can be readily implemented if given the political will.

Counterproductive economic policies and a lack of political will to address the problems created by these policies are common phenomena.

Many similar organizations have flourished, gaining the ability to shape political outcomes and public policies.

Now is the moment to launch an analogous effort to reform and rationalize the political process that produces fiscal policy.

And these policies (or policy shifts) are increasingly affecting other economies and the global system, giving rise to what might be called policy externalities that is, consequences that extend outside policymakers target environment.

Unfortunately, bad political choices often make these policies even less cost effective.

Russian political experts, pollsters, and consultants ascribe every success or failure in Russian politics to political technologies.

There are ways in which the policies pursued to preserve the euro could be modified to meet the EU s political objectives.

Regrettably, political tensions along personality and party lines have continued to cast a shadow on the prospects for stability in Guinea Bissau.

Political advocacy and policy support still stands as an important issue in ensuring the proper institutional mechanisms are in place to effectively address refugee needs.

But, in general, universal social policies have been much more effective and politically sustainable, while policies targeting the poor, or the poorest of the poor, have often been costly and neglectful of many of those in need.

It analyses policies and their impact on gender relations, and thereby offers important contributions to the analysis of the state and to political science in general .

With regard to political rights, women's participation in policymaking and decision making continued to lag behind in all countries, even the most developed.

Its mandate was to promote policies aimed at eliminating discrimination against women and ensuring their participation in the political, economic and cultural activities of the country.

The first era of globalization, which lasted until 1914, was a success as long as economic and monetary policies remained insulated from domestic political pressures.

Eighth, emerging market economies have more policy tools left than advanced economies do, and they should ease monetary and fiscal policy.

Those policies are reflected in the National Agreement that the political parties, civil society and the Government have pledged to fulfil in 20 years.

After all, the EU s future depends on its members policies, which, in turn, depend on their diverse and variable political situations.

Voting on family political lines, non support of political parties (including the lack of policies for the advancement of women in their party platforms plus the lack of support by women themselves for female candidates remain major obstacles.

Policymakers should be working to unite seemingly disparate theories to align policy decisions with the business cycle and the economy s level of development.

Although China is building Confucius Institutes across the globe, China s traditional political philosophy does not often play decisive role in policymaking.

At the same time, the study of public policy is distinct from political science or economics, in its focus on the application of theory to practice.

The thematic section looked at the gender sensitivity of policy on human rights, aliens, newcomers, integration and return, and the relationship between these policy fields.

Doctrinal or policy references that give the impression that nuclear weapons are being accorded increased importance in respective security policies are anathema to disarmament efforts.

Rent seeking tends to lead to policy failure in the form of intense political competition aimed at gaining short term access to revenues and benefits, as opposed to political competition over what policies might be in the long term public interest.

The net increase in international staff posts (P 5 P 4) in the Political, Policy and Planning Office relates to the closing of the Political Affairs Office and the Policy and Planning Section in the third quarter of the 2004 05 period as an element of the Mission's downsizing.

But once the political franchise was enlarged, the working class got organized, and mass politics became the norm, domestic economic objectives began to compete with (and overwhelm) external rules and constraints.

But an excessive focus on vested interests can easily divert us from the critical contribution that policy analysis and political entrepreneurship can make.

Long term growth stems from prudent monetary and fiscal policies, the political will to regulate banks, and a combination of bold public and private investments in infrastructure, skills, and cutting edge technologies.

Spatial justice stands as a unifying concept for the social sciences its coherence stems from a reflection on the modalities of the political decision making and on the policies implemented in order to improve spatial distributions.

To that end, we undertake to actively promote mainstreaming of a gender perspective in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political, economic and social spheres.

Any transition to peace may well prove ephemeral unless policymakers make political reconciliation and integration not optimal economic policies the bedrock priority.

With the political context undermining the right mix of short and longer term measures, national policymaking has stumbled into partial approaches and unusual experimentation.

Acknowledging that full incorporation of women into the political, social and economic decision making in their societies can enhance development policies,

Second, policymakers are prone to capture by vested interests, especially in relatively weak policy environments, leading to favoritism, inefficiency, and waste.

The chief victims of that conflict had been the Saharans living under Moroccan sovereignty within the 1979 frontiers their rights had been sacrificed to policies and political agreements in which they had not been the main consideration.

Integrating these elements into and strengthening the relationship between macroeconomic policies and social development goals are key elements of national poverty reduction strategies.

Policy harmonization and political will can come together through the adoption of a multisectoral State family policy, plan of action or programme in which implementation is spearheaded by a national coordinating mechanism.

Also expressing its concern about the underrepresentation of women in political and economic decision making, and stressing the importance of mainstreaming a gender perspective in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of all policies and programmes,

Perhaps academic economics departments will lose mindshare and influence to others from business schools and public policy programs to political science, psychology, and sociology departments.

Turkish policymakers must now guarantee the judiciary s autonomy and political impartiality, restore freedom of expression for all citizens, and establish a system of checks and balances to replace the military as the guardian of secularism.

For example, low power distance is associated with consultative political practices and income equity, whereas high power distance is correlated with unequal income distribution, as well as bribery and corruption in domestic politics.