Child maltreatment, which comprises both child abuse and child neglect, is a principal social quagmire. But why is there a huge focus on the criminal aspect of this social malady? It is mainly due to the reasons that crime and its consequences are the most socially expensive potential outcomes...

As one of the leading GHG (greenhouse gas) emission countries, China is playing the most important role in the world climate mitigation issue. Since 1980s, China's climate change policy has been transformed deeply: from the symbolic participation to substantial cooperation, from the refusing to...

Creating agricultural policies that balance the needs of different interest groups and economic sectors presents challenges for policy makers. While many different methods have been developed to address this issue, this report will provide a critical review of the process that is commonly known...

Kilpatrick examines UK past economic policy and notes its problems in terms of instability, imprecise objectives and poor coordination of policies. He describes the recent reforms aimed at increasing transparency and accountability of fiscal policy, introducing firm fiscal rules and establishing...

This paper shows that there are sound economic arguments for developing a modern industrial policy at the EU level. The rationale lies in the need to facilitate economic restructuring through strategic behaviour whenever market forces fail to do so themselves, and also in order to encourage...

The recent great financial crisis and the ensuing deep recessions have placed in sharp relief the fundamental issue of how financial factors, including financial instability, interact with the real economy. In order to understand the nature of these interactions and formulate policies that would...