Changes that occur in a budget are driven by several factors, which can arise from both internal and external to an organization. This article examines the factors influence changes, namely: setting planning, leadership styles government policies. It is hoped this contribute ideas build hypotheses of between variables be used future research. The results literature review are: 1) determination ...

A call to governments enact a strategy for sustainable food system is high on the global agenda. presupposes need go beyond view of as linear and narrow, comprehend dynamic interlinked, which involves understanding social, economic ecological outcomes feedbacks system. As such, it should be accompanied by strategic, collaborative, transparent, inclusive, reflexive agenda-setting process. The co...

Monetary policy as a tool for expectations management is believed to be most effective if it can coordinate the beliefs and expectations of the economic agents. The optimal communication policy is in an environment where central bank announcements are common knowledge and abundant information is complete transparency. The above conclusion is altered in the more realistic situation where economi...

BACKGROUND Public health is to a large extent determined by non-health-sector policies. One approach to address this apparent paradox is to establish healthy public policies. This requires policy makers in non-health sectors to become more aware of the health impacts of their policies, and more willing to adopt evidence-informed policy measures to improve health. We employed a knowledge broker ...

The interaction between economic integration and environmental policy has become an important issue in the last few years. Despite the considerable scholarly attention this topic attracted, actual government responses in terms of environmental policy outputs remain largely untouched by both theoretical and empirical work. To fill this gap, we suggest a theory-based disaggregation of the compoun...

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