This study addresses two questions: “What factors affect the adoption of research within educational policy making?” and “How might a better understanding of these factors improve research adoption and aid the development of policy?” In investigating the concept of research adoption, which I regard as vital to the successful creation of ‘evidence-informed’ policies/policy instruments, it is hop...

This essay contributes to the growing critique of policy science‘s dominant neopositivist methodologies. Not only is neopositivist policy science seen to have failed in its effort to develop a usable body of predictive generalizations, it has been unable to supply effective solutions to social problems. An important part of this failure is traced to outmoded epistemological assumptions. Drawing...

To progress toward universal health coverage and promote inclusive social and economic development, it will be necessary to strengthen domestic resource mobilization for health. In this paper, we examine options for increasing domestic government revenue in low- and middle-income countries. We analyze the relationship between level of economic development and levels of government revenue and ex...

Urbanization in China has in part been subject to centrally planned control and in part has resulted from the pressures of industrialization and economic development. One of the major, if neglected, influences has been the social policies controlling internal migration and influencing urban-rural inequalities in income and social welfare. Urbanization poses continuing and growing challenges for...

Lance Taylor is the Director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) and the Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development at the New School for Social Research. Rudiger von Arnim is a Research Assistant. This SCEPA Policy Note is based on their 2006 paper for Oxfam International titled, “Modeling the Impact of Trade Liberalization: A Critique of Computable ...

introduction urbanization in developing countries has caused many problems, such as increase in urbanization, lack of housing and employment, migration and stagnation of villages, and promoting villages to towns is one of the main policies to reduce these problems. development of small and intermediate urban centers has, for the past several years, been canvassed by many scholars and internatio...

The Public Policy Institute of California is dedicated to informing and improving public policy in California through independent, objective, nonpartisan research on major economic, social, and political issues. The institute's goal is to raise public awareness and to give elected representatives and other decisionmakers a more informed basis for developing policies and programs. The institute'...

business clusters are known as a  new model of economic development throughout the world. in recent years, this model has also been noted by policy-makers in iran. accordingly, the present study aimed at proposing a model for sustainable development of business clusters in iran based on experience in this regard. a qualitative strategy (case study) is used as the research method. additionally, ...