Stakeholders’ perceptions of adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health needs in Southeast Nigeria: a qualitative study by Obinna Onwujekwe, Chinyere Cecilia Okeke, Chinyere Ojiugo Mbachu, Ifunanya Clara Agu, Uchenna Ezenwaka, Ifeyinwa Arize, Chibuike Agu, Chinonso Obayi

“…This will provide evidence that could be useful for policy and programme reviews for improving access and use of services in to meet the SRH needs of adolescents.Design A qualitative cross-sectional study was conducted in Ebonyi state, Southeast, Nigeria. …”
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Patients’ and family members’ knowledge, attitudes and perceived family support for SMBG in type 2 diabetes: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis by Jun Lu, Xiaohong Li, Qian Zhao, Ying Guo, Xinying Yu, Yuheng Feng, Yuxi Zhao

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The EU’s Arctic Strategy: Interests and Priorities by O. V. Aleksandrov

“…The main task of the author is to show the development of the EU’s Arctic policy during the previous 5 years, to analyze motivations of the EU’s actions in the Arctic, to assess the foreign policy resources which are at the disposal of Brussels to carry out the EU’s Arctic policy, and therefore to demonstrate the growing role of the EU in the Arctic. …”
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European Monetary Union: Badly Prepared for Big Crises by Michael Heine, Hansjörg Herr

“…Except in the field of monetary policy, the EMU lacks institutions that support quick and sufficient economic policies. …”
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Securitización y condicionalidad migratoria en la ayuda oficial al desarrollo de la Unión Europea by Delkáder-Palacios, A.

“…In this article, it is explained the consequences of migration-related conditionality for the EU development policy which appears after a process of securitization of migration. …”
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Research on the Vulnerability of Government Procurement of Elderly Care Services: A Complex Network Perspective by Yuting Zhang, Lan Xu, Zhengnan Lu

“…The policy of government procurement of elderly care services has the vulnerability characteristics that all complex systems have. …”
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La gestion participative des forêts en Afrique centrale by Daou Véronique Joiris, Patrice Bigombe Logo, Séverin Cécile Abega (†)

“…Participatory management, like any policy, can be considered as a concept, a policy practice and an actors-oriented issue. …”
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Predictors of Antiviral Therapy in a Post-Transfusion Cohort of Hepatitis C Patients by Maciej Witkos, Qi-Long Yi, Jenny Heathcote, Moira K Kapral, Murray D Krahn

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Shortage of Rental Housing in Germany: Causes, Instruments, Implications by Stephan L. Thomsen, Daniel Vogt, Lars Brausewetter

“…A set of different housing policy interventions has been provided by the German government that aims to alleviate the disequilibrium. …”
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Politiques de développement régional dans les Hautes Plaines occidentales algériennes : un bilan mitigé by Mohamed Hadeid

“…Regional and country planning policy has accentuated the imbalances which begun during colonial period and yet, the approved efforts as far as equipment and Opening up. …”
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L’adaptation aux risques d’inondation façonnée par les métiers de la ville by Mathilde Gralepois, Sofia Guevara

“…This article shows how adaptation policy for flood risk is shaped by the local public procurement’s ambivalent position regarding urban development projects in flood area. …”
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Fixing a Design Error: How the Cyclically Adjusted Budget Balance Becomes Democratically Legitimate and Sustainable by Florian Schuster, Philippa Sigl-Glöckner

“…Abstract The optimisation of the cyclical adjustment procedure under the German debt brake should focus on how to contribute to a democratically legitimate and sustainable fiscal policy. In this article, we discuss four criteria that should be satisfied: The method must (i) be sufficiently determined, (ii) take the current state of research into account, (iii) incentivise a policy that enhances supply-side capacities, and (iv) be transparent. …”
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La promotion de l’environnement à La Réunion : pratiques associatives et enjeux politiques autour d’un gisement d’emplois by Nicolas Roinsard

“…This policy was operated on a large scale by the Reunion associations that have grown in great numbers within a few years time. …”
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40TH ANNIVERSARY OF INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: FROM A PROBLEM LABORATORY TO THE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES by A. L. Chechevishnikov

“…Applied foreign policy analysis is the hallmark of MGIMO-University. 2016 marks 40th anniversary of introduction of this element to the identity of our university in a form of Problem Research Laboratory. …”
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Neoklasik Realizm ve Küçük Devlet Yaklaşımı Çerçevesinde Kosova Dış Politikası’nın Değerlendirilmesi by Göktürk TÜYSÜZOĞLU

“…Kosovo, which acts as a small state in terms of its foreign policy, has integrated into the regional strategies of the US and the EU. …”
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Florida's Citrus Canker Eradication Program (CCEP): Benefit-Cost Analysis by Marisa L. Zansler, Thomas H. Spreen, Ronald P. Muraro

“… In this paper, an economic analysis of the Citrus Canker Eradication Program (CCEP) on the Florida citrus industry is conducted through employment of a benefit-cost analysis of retaining the current policy. A benefit-cost analysis of the CCEP in Florida is developed using the predicted values of the benefits and the costs associated with the policy. …”
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Loosening of Access Threshold and Downturns in Listed Firms Performance: A Quasi-Natural Experiment from the “IPO Green Channel” for Poverty Alleviation by Yi Sun, Chunying Cui, Ya Gao, Chunyan Zhao

“…This paper uses data from public annual reports of listed companies to construct a policy intervention group and a control group and comparatively analyzes the degree of annual performance downturn of newly listed companies in A-share from 2016 to 2017 through a counterfactual method, and the results show that the “IPO green channel” policy for poverty alleviation has an obvious negative effect on listed enterprises in poverty-stricken counties. …”
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Restructuring of Rural Governance in a Rapidly Growing Resource Town: The Case of Kitimat, BC, Canada by Laura Ryser, Greg Halseth, Sean Markey

“…Drawing upon our case study in Kitimat, British Columbia, we highlight transformations associated with neoliberal policies that have affected rural governance. Neoliberal public policy shifts include wider changes where the state has become less involved in program and infrastructure investments in resource-dependent communities. …”
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Military Interventions As Omitted Variable Of Inversed Democratic Peace: An Empirical Evidence by Srđan Korać, Nenad Stekić

“…Foreign policy score includes S score dataset developed by Curtis S. …”
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Development of Comprehensive Evaluation Model of Free Trade Port Investment under Macroeconomic Support by Haitian Zhang, Wang Benxue

“…The financial benchmark rate of return is gradually declining, and the free trade port policy is not enough to improve the investment financial benchmark rate of return. …”
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