But I firmly believe that the quality of our public policy is directly related to the quality of our public debate.
He raised the quantity and quality of Policy Unit staff (it now boasts a dozen high-flyers), and widened its remit to oversee existing policies and develop new ones.
And soon the report of our Quality of Life Policy Group will make another significant contribution to that whole debate.
If politicians are to gain control over policy, the quality of cabinet ministers will have to be improved.
For the last two years, I have been calling attention to the generally poor quality of the public policy debate about cybersecurity in the United States.
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The need for there to be transparency of health care price information and quality information elicits copious nodding on the part of health plans, policy wonks and sometimes even politicians.
It will likely also have a severely chilling effect on the willingness of policy-makers rigorously to challenge, and thereby to improve, the quality of the intelligence they are getting about tomorrow's threats.
She said the current policy covered safety, competency and quality of service.
The breakdowns observed included (1) the lack of an audit trail in the COMPASS database and the ability for the arrestees to manipulate worksheet items in COMPASS, (2) the failure to perform periodic contractor cost audits (3) the quality of the Trenching Manual, (4) the lack of a formal employee rotation policy, and (5) the failure to coordinate follow through on reported allegations.
"The concept of a payment policy that supports quality and safety is something that we support, " says Nancy Foster, who handles quality and patient safety issues for the American Hospital Association.
Particularly, UNESCO Tashkent is providing technical advice for policy making and strengthening capacities of teachers for quality education and lifelong learning.
The council, which hopes to bring in the policy in April, said it would improve the quality of the local area.
But if Wal-Mart either raises the quality of Chinese imports, or implements their standard return policy (or both), then South Africans will have much more value for the money they spend.
In 2009, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) initiated the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, which includes representatives from more than 20 Federal Agencies.
Should such a competitive approach be pursued henceforth, the result will be to invigorate and improve the quality of formal intelligence community estimates and their usefulness to policy-makers and to help insulate such analyses from undue political influence aimed at eliciting a desired answer.
Her research focuses on virtualization, policy-driven resource management, and various aspects of obtaining quality of service in the Grid environment.
Although many MEPs welcomed the reform, Irish MEP Mairead McGuiness said it was too easy to criticise the policy, saying it had delivered "quality food" in the face of future food security concerns.
The answer, of course, is that it was government policy for these poor quality loans to be made.
The prince, referring to changes in farming with the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, said the emphasis would be on quality, not quantity.
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Final document of the Forum (Forum Recommendations) that constitutes policy recommendations for further development of legal framework, improving management, funding and quality of adult education in Uzbekistan was drafted and adopted by Forum participants.
" It's also proposing changes to its site governance process, including a shift away from its current voting method for feedback on policy changes, which it says "incentivized the quantity of comments over their quality.
As the world marks "Education for All Week", United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) urged policy makers to recognize the growing demand of trained teachers in order to provide quality education to all children in Pakistan.
Under a tenure policy, however, the employer effectively loses this flexibility to eliminate tenured faculty whose quality of work fails to meet a minimally acceptable level or whose productivity has dwindled over the years.
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Psychosocial job quality is a pivotal factor that needs to be considered in the design and delivery of employment and welfare policy.
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Market control of this service is thus not an option, said Charles Bruner of the Child and Family Policy Centre in the United States, who argued that public sector involvement is indispensable to ensure quality of programmes and equality of access, especially in "neighbourhoods of multiple vulnerability factors".
Our consistent policy has been to seek to balance these two elements in a way that increases both the quantity and quality of our cooperation with China as well as our ability to compete.
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