waiting times. As a result, the English government in 2000 adopted the use of an aggressive policy of targets coupled with … been dubbed ‘targets and terror’. We estimate the effect of the English target regime for waiting times for hospital care … data are used but, regardless of the data source, the ‘targets and terror’ regime in England lowered the proportion of …

Waiting-time targets are frequently used by policy makers in the healthcare sector to monitor providers' performance …. Such targets are based on the distribution of the patients on the list. We compare and link such distribution with the …

: monitoring, targets and incentives. However, it is an open question whether the functioning of these practices depends on …

tremendous impact of the pandemic is rooted in the adoption of health policy reforms that prioritized targets, vertical …

introduced several binding environmental targets for government departments and large enterprises. The heavy reliance on a target … undesirable outcomes of binding environmental targets in China's evolving green planning system. This paper argues that … environmental targets have a signaling function that has resulted in ecological issues movement onto local governments' core policy …

targets that have been set by 2008 to 2012. The international community had an opportunity to put in place a credible …

Performance targets are commonly used in the public sector, despite their well known problems when organisations have … multiple objectives and performance is difficult to measure. It is possible that such targets may work where there is … English National Health Service (NHS) to waiting time targets. Long waiting times have been a key issue for the NHS for many …

greenhouse gas abatement with reference to the findings of the Stern Report, the setting of greenhouse gas targets by Australian … reference to the findings of the Stern Report, the setting of greenhouse gas targets by Australian political parties, the danger …