The potential Pareto improvement criterion and other measures of economic efficiency do not pass the test of consistency and coherence within economic theory, nor do such measures accord with what public decision makers seek in policy advice from economists. Such efficiency measures are, nonetheless, durable components of the ideology of economics in general, and benefit-cost analysis in‘ parti...

The Outcome Document of the recent international diplomatic conference on sustainable development, Rio+20, portrays it as a multi-stakeholder process aimed at increasing the wellbeing of present and future generations in a dynamic, inclusive, equitable, safe, lasting, and environmentally balanced fashion, emphasizing that it should lead to poverty eradication, social development, the protection...

represent AAP policy. Abstract Health-care reform could generate major new opportunities to strengthen the central role of neonatology in improving child health in the United States. However, without considerable caution, such reform also could destabilize many of the policies that have facilitated neonatology’s most important contributions. This article anticipates the policy issues of greates...

This study aims to show how Islamic social finance (ISF) instruments can contribute achieving SDGs and filling the gaps in pressing humanitarian crises, such as refugee protection. ISF institutions enjoy sufficient financial capacity bridge realize most relevant urgent SDGs. However, due policies other constraints, their participation international development aid programs is limited. According...

Fátima Antunes is a professor at the University of Minho (Portugal) with a PhD in Sociology of Education. This book presents her doctoral thesis focused on the sociology of educational policy, thus addressing educational policies as specific objects of study. Since it goes deeper in a specific area of knowledge, mobilizing complex key inputs, it will cause difficulties to the work of reviewer. ...

Authorization of access to resources is typically viewed as being the responsibility of the applications that access specific resources. This leads to incoherent implementation of security within an organization as the protection of a resource becomes dependent upon the path through which it is accessed. This paper proposes that authorization be provided as a service that is utilized by applica...