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People have traded goods for thousands of years proving Adam Smith´s saying that “truck and barter” is a fundamental part of human nature. (Pomeranz et al, 2013). Therefore, it isn’t surprising that for a long time the world economy has developed into an interdependent one. Globalization has accelerated rapidly in recent decades, this as a…

With free trade, the ideal purpose of the agreement is to give traders the freedom to buy and sell from various economies without the application of any governmental regulations such as tariffs, prohibitions, or quotas on goods and services. In other terms, free trade is directly opposite to economic isolationism, or trade protection. In today’s…

I will be using Esping-Andersen’s Welfare-State Regimes model (1990) to analyse the speech that was delivered by DPM and Minister for Finance Heng Swee Keat at the Singapore Summit on 20 September 2019. He expressed concern about the fracturing of societal interests as a result of the retreat from globalisation, the growth of nationalist and…

During the long periods of the conflicts between the nation, the U.S. became very involved in global affairs which helped them control areas that seemed dangerous and appear to wish to help by modernizing and providing economic aid with hopes of containing communism and making them look western. The policy of the U.S. during the…

Introduction Proctor et al. (2009) define implementation research as, “the study of processes and strategies that integrate evidence-based effective treatment into routine use” (p.5). Driven by their concern with complexity and the process by which outcomes are reached, policy implementation scholarship is, most often, qualitative, with many implementation scholars utilizing case study methodology (Sandfort &…

The world in which one lives in today is different than that of which our parents and grandparents lived. What is meant by cultural diversity and how will it apply to the nursing world? Cultural diversity is important because it represents the difference in ethnicity, age, sex, sexuality, political stance, ideology, religion, disability, group personality,…

The ‘noble lie’ has tangible impacts on policy design, which seem informed by an underlying belief that the actors need to be controlled (Dupre & Durak, 2008; Harris, 2004) and constrained via policy levers (Schneider and Ingram, 1990) or accountability measures (Achinstein & Ogawa, 2006) or prescriptive policy (Achinstein & Ogawa, 2006). This most often…

It can be argued that one of the most insidious single changes that have affected status relationships within the lower classes does not relate to the social action programs, but to the implementation of means tested programs (Murray 2015, 184). The importance of the sociological influence of being a public benefit recipient cannot be denied,…

Throughout history, presidents and their administration have chosen to focus on different aspects of the space program and allocate funding accordingly. There are also differences in how they have handled relationships with other countries in regard to regulations and cooperation. Two presidents who have starkly opposed each other’s policy are President Obama and President George…

Policies are decisions and guidelines that are determined, and acted upon, in response to a particular problem. Policies are made throughout private organizations, within the public arena, and in specific sectors, such as healthcare. Whether created to benefit a particular organization, as in allocative policies, or as a regulatory policy aimed at shaping a public…