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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a poor policy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a policy that is ineffective, unwise, or not beneficial in a particular context.
Example: "The decision to cut funding for education is considered a poor policy by many experts in the field."
Alternatives: "an ineffective policy" or "a bad policy".
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Moderately supporting a poor policy is hardly better than strongly supporting it, she argued.
Mr Cameron, believing the problem was poor communication rather than a poor policy, resolved to join the mission to explain it.
If the periphery's ignorance of the fact that both insights have a flipside is not a "poor policy choice", I don't know what is.The concept of a balance-sheet boom/recession is an important one for Europe.
This was a poor policy, which was quickly rescinded: "American" was duly entered when editorial work progressed deeper into the letter A, but by then it was too late to make changes in the "af-" section.
A document, entitled Labour's Economic Credibility Strategy, seen by this newspaper, admits that "Labour suffers from a perceived lack of credibility on the economy", but that there is now "close to a consensus among macro-economists that austerity represents a poor policy choice for governments".
The National Association of Head Teachers said it was a "poor policy decision" to scrap a project that has "yet to be evaluated".
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is a strikingly poor policy when analyzed from a consumer welfare perspective, not least of all because it is premised upon the not so subtle irony that the best way to preserve the Internet as an open and competitive platform is by imposing a set of far-reaching regulations never before imposed on it.
Overall, the analysis reveals that the 401(k) saving response to matching is quite inelastic, and, hence, matching is a rather poor policy instrument with which to raise retirement saving.
This finding challenges the underlying assumption of the NHIS that the scheme is a pro poor policy that fosters equity in access to care.
Drug users are being exposed to significant and avoidable risks by a combination of poor policy and a lack of any real enforcement combined with zero quality control.
Finally, scholars have also stated that exceptionalism is a consequence of poor policy choices, in particular a tendency towards state intervention and isolationism.
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