Monetary policy rule is an approach to avoid time inconsistency problem as regarded by new classical economist to choose a time plan for policy making in order to maximize households’ well-being. The foundation of time inconsistency problem is not coincidence of expectations as an ex-ante variable, which is expected variable, with actual variable as an ex-post variable. Expectations in Finn K...

Brugha and Bruen (2014) raise a number of compelling issues related to the interaction between politics and policy in the global health context. The first question that their views invite is whether this is, at heart, best characterized as a benign or malign influence. Many commentators have suggested that this overlap should be discouraged (see, for example, Marseille et al 2002; Thomas & Webe...

The focus on public policy and health equity is discussed in reference to the current global health policy discussion on Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This initiative has strong commitment from the leadership of the international organizations involved, but a lack of policy clarity outside of the health financing component may limit the initiative’s impact on health inequity. In order to add...

Nick Vonortas is the Director of the Center for International Science and Technology Policy and of the Science, Technology and Public Policy graduate programme of George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. He is also an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics. Professor Vonortas’ teaching and research interests are in industrial organisation, the economic...

in the age of globalization, neoliberal developmentalism is hegemonic cherachtristic of the international system. in this age legitimacy of political systems depends on national development. in such a space, creating a constructive interaction between national and international levels is a must for sucsess in national development plans. foreign policy is the main field & major means of creating...