Monetary environment as the core of financial system has been functionally designed in light of the new set of extensive goals including financial stability, sustainable noninflationary growth, external sustainability, and price stability. A comprehensive monetary policy framework is proposed for Iran which systematically include the new goals, stance variables, instruments, transmission mechan...

With the increase in information accessibility, security and privacy of data is a key concern, underscoring the need for managing security of system resources and objects in an enterprise. One of the most popular access control management approaches is to abstract security administration tasks by employing system and security policies [1]. While policy based security management approach offers ...

The Government, when it came to power in 1997, adopted a monetary and fiscal policy framework which was intended to deliver low and stable inflation, high and stable economic growth and fiscal balance as a basis for fairness between generations. It is abundantly clear from the chaos of the past few weeks that the policy has failed. Given that the policy goals are unlikely to be criticised, the ...

SCA (Service Component Architecture) is a collaborative effort by the leading vendors in the enterprise software space to define an architecture for building applications and systems using a ServiceOriented Architecture. SCA allows developers to define components that implement business logic, which offer their capabilities through services and consume functions offered by other components thro...

Background Government policy measures have a key role to play in the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). The Caribbean, a middle-income region, has the highest per capita burden of NCDs in the Americas. Our aim was to examine policy development and implementation between the years 2000 and 2013 on NCD prevention and control in Barbados, and to investigate factors promotin...