CGIAR Reform - Why so Difficult?

Why is health reform so difficult?

This article examines the possibilities for health care reform in the 111th Congress. It uses a simple model of policy making to analyze the failure of Congress to pass the Clinton health plan in 1993-1994. It concludes that the factors that created gridlock in the 103rd Congress are likely to have a similar impact in the present.

Why U.S. health care reform is so difficult.

ealth care reform now heads the U.S. domestic agenda, but this generation of policymakers may be less successful than its predecessors in effecting major changes. The president wants universal coverage and a wider array of services. Key members of both parties, such as Senators Dole and Moynihan, resist anything so grandiose. “Yes, there are problems,” declared the Republican congressional lead...

Why Do Students Find Statistics So Difficult?

Why is Knowledge Management So Difficult?

The “big idea” with knowledge management is that in a fast-moving and increasingly competitive world, a firm’s only enduring source of advantage is its knowledge – the knowledge of its individual employees, and the knowledge that gets built into its structures and systems. Consulting companies and R&D organisations have known this for years, but increasingly even “old economy” firms in oil, ste...

Why Is Educational Entrepreneurship so Difficult ?

Much of the recent literature on improving education in the United States seeks to promote entrepreneurship as the solution to raising educational quality and equity. But, the historical record documenting substantial and sustained departure from conventional educational practices is scant despite numerous attempts at entrepreneurial innovation. This paper contends that the challenge of entrepr...