Various government and policy research studies show that large corporations are increasingly using gray areas of the tax code to minimize or illegally evade billions of dollars in taxes a year through complex international structures.
For these policy areas, the intervention literature was reviewed and segmented into three domains: policy research (studies examining the relationship of policies to physical activity levels in young people), effectiveness studies (multi-site physical activity interventions), and efficacy studies (single site or local physical activity interventions).
The data used are from the second major educational policy research study conducted by the 14 countries that constitute the Southern African Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality study (SACMEQ).
3. International partnerships between researchers as a way of enhancing researchers' credibility and power to affect policy decisions often in specific fields such as policy research, clinical studies or operational research.
As these factors potentially influence study results, and the way that the study findings are interpreted, this information is vital for consumers of research to ascertain whether the results of the study can be believed, and transferred appropriately into other environments, such as policy, further research studies, education or clinical practice.
Two key challenges facing NCMS (re-design of financing and reimbursement mechanisms; regulation of quality and efficiency of healthcare providers) will be the focus of country work that combines literature review, policy research and field study.
A policy research group study has found that the National Flood Insurance Program, a division of FEMA, primarily benefits wealthy homeowners who build in high-risk coastal areas at the expense of U.S. taxpayers.
CEGA builds portfolios of policy-relevant research studies, organized by sector or theme.
The context of our examination of the implementation of this policy was two research studies, one initiated before and one after the HBHC policy enhancement.
Mr. Stone used a monthly newsletter to turn the federation into a policy research organization that studied issues like nuclear proliferation, energy and government secrecy.
Poor fathers are often asked to pay significantly more, as a percentage of their income, than middle- class fathers, according to the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a social policy research group that studied 5,500 low-income fathers in seven cities in the 1990's.
