The very fact of requiring ministers and their officials to give evidence has often resulted in changes of policy.
Having been happy enough to win power on the changes of policy and image he helped to fashion, New Labour should take no pride in refusing to acknowledge its debt.
Creditors have been more patient with democratic governments than with other regimes, probably because the risk of abrupt changes of policy (like the repudiation of Tsarist debts by Russia in 1917) are reduced.
"As a consequence of these changes in policy inside of Myanmar, the United States has been able to relax sanctions that had been placed on Myanmar, and many countries around the world have followed suit, " Mr. Obama said.
Kristin Goss, an associate professor at Duke University who has researched the politics of gun control, said there was little chance of significant policy changes as result of the shootings.
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"It is very difficult to assess how well the government is progressing toward its target of reducing net-migration to the 'tens of thousands', or to evaluate the effects of specific policy changes, " says Dr Martin Ruhs, Director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford.
The ECB seems to have an instinctive dislike of rapid changes in policy direction.
The move is the latest in a series of policy changes aimed at lowering the barriers of entry for new banks.
The charity wants to use this large-scale study to create a benchmark for a "well-being index" - so that the impact of future changes in policy can be measured.
The report suggests that a series of policy changes, including removing immigration barriers for skilled workers and reforming the U.S. corporate tax system, could help U.S. entrepreneurs build their businesses and expand them more rapidly.
And it ruins the strategy of holding common-sense reforms hostage to more controversial policy changes, a type of gamesmanship on which legislators rely.
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In the case of the UK, such policy changes account for just under 5 percentage points of that 32.6 point overshoot in the debt forecast.
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Different organizations, ranging from the Bowles-Simpson Fiscal Commission to the House Budget Committee, have considered this current policy baseline to be the appropriate reference point, since it measures changes relative to the status quo, rather than the mix of expiring provisions and policy changes that would likely never be implemented.
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She said the rest of the changes to the policy were simply subtle language changes.
In other cases, it simply needs to be more careful in explaining the benefits of its policy changes.
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But this did not materialize because of changes in the housing policy and weak export performance in July and August.
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Facebook made a number of changes to its privacy policy last year after Canada's privacy watchdog raised several concerns with the firm.
Now imagine that while we know the direction of each of these policy changes, alas, we are very uncertain about how far these wonderful ideas will go.
The reason given is that president Dilma Rousseff realizes that after a period of intense changes in economic policy, that now the best way to ensure a return to economic growth is to strengthen business confidence.
Fair of Yale University estimates that without big changes in policy, the national debt will rise to 75% of GDP by 2020 from 50% now, while interest expense will rise to 4.3% of GDP (see chart, below).
Bottom line, the budgetary rules treating growth as a given instead of the all important variable for achieving budget balance have both sides of the aisle ignoring the most important question: What policy changes would achieve a sustained period of 4% growth?
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In modern life, with its constant parade of changes large and small, major investment and policy decisions can turn on the question of just how fundamental a change is.
Foursquare has also done a decent job of making its policy changes understandable to primates.
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Kim answers: Clinton made permanent changes at State regarding conduct of foreign policy, i.e. focus on women, economic statecraft.
What is happening now could mark one of those sea changes in public policy that seem to come along once in every generation.
As for the Fed, Ben Bernanke and company is not expected to make any major changes to the current course of monetary policy.
"If circumstances change, through no particular fault of the government, changes in policy should take place", such as trying to avoid unemployment worsening, he argued.
In addition to creating and refining those documents, we want to point out two specific changes to our policy, both of which will go into effect on January 28, 2013.
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The social network's site governance page also has a new article explaining some of its upcoming policy changes in layman's terms, which eases readers into the language it uses to describe how it shares information with affiliates, clarifies user content ownership and promises not to remove certain privacy controls.
Much of the venom is reserved for policy changes, such as confusing updates to privacy settings, but the tweaks to the physical look of the site also generate a lot of feedback.
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