Media policy is the first topic and it emphasises on how media regulated and controlled by using the 5 stages of policy processes and also discussing the laws that guide the practice of media in the Republic of South Africa. ... The final topic is media representation and how it illustrates aspects of reality and how media works specifically on news as representation discussing news values. 2 MEDIA POLICY AND REGULATIONS 2. 1 The nature of media and communication policy Communication policy requires steps and processes for the regulation and control of media. ... [CITATION Med08 l 7177 ] 2...

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Microeconomic reform policies are necessary to address specific structural problems in markets such as a lack of competition or efficiency which cannot be addressed through macroeconomic policies and so require the application of selective policy measures (such as reform of the labour market) to raise productivity. ... For this reason both microeconomic and macroeconomic policies have been the focus of government policy since the 1980s. ... Changes in the factor and product market included: National competition policy Policies of privatisation, deregulation and corporatisation Increased prod...

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The real debate now is over which policy should be employed, where it will be implemented and how. ... Standards, or regulations, are probably the most traditional and least flexible of the major policy tools. ... In fact, high emissions often result from very high control costs. ... An offset policy allows new sources to acquire ERC's as a temporary means of avoiding investments in expensive capital equipment. ... A bubble policy creates an internal trading system by grouping multiple emission points of an organization together. ...

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In conclusion I will discuss Cuba's trade policy and Cuba's main trading partner. ... In this pre-revolutionary period, Cuban resources were concentrated in the hands of a few. 8% of the owners controlled more than 70% of the land, and US owners controlled 25% of Cuban land. ... These include expanding and diversifying exports, increasing investment levels, terminating the monetary and institutional dualism, creating an appropriate environment for self-employment and small and medium scale enterprise, and addressing other institutional and policy problems and information contr...

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It can be handled through proper planning, policies and mechanisms. ... The unemployment could solely be controlled through proper guidance and strengthening of education policies. ... Accountability and transparency could also be controlled the unfair regulation of competitions. ... It could solely be controlled through overwhelming on energy crisis. ... It can be controlled by industrialization and overwhelming on energy and security crisis. ...

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It was a moderately restrictive monetary policy, and an income policy with a commitment to begin structural reform. ... Because the policies of supply and demand, certain measures have been taken. ... Since then, and in all regard to need, monetary and fiscal policy has been provided. To go with these policies of restrictive demand and more flexible supply, the government has tried to stimulate an income policy on several occasions. ... As Spain has been forced to live within its means and state spending has been slashed to control the rising budget deficit. ...

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This policy focused on the principle that one nation gain is a loss to another. ... However, even if this view is attractive, it has weakness in the control of intervention. ... External economies view is similar to the argument of strategic trade policy. ... Since that pollution cannot be limited and controlled through borders, the harm of the pollution will include the pollutant country and countries. ... On other hand, other intervention policies are not perfect. ...

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The main reason why this crisis was instigated was because countries such as Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines had embraced an unusual policy combination of liberalisation of controls on flows of financial capital on the one hand, and quasi -fixed heavily managed exchange rate systems on the other. ... Otherwise these policies destabilising capital flows would inevitably undermine the exchange rate. ... Another argument put forward against regulation is that controls demand determined and forceful government administration and constant attention. ... Government's interest lies in the...

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However, the policies do not seem to take them much into account. ... The idea of global capitalist class can render much of the understanding in the reason behind the issuing policies. ... The capitalist class does not need to rule directly in the sense that a government or dictatorship rules, but no government or dictatorship that works actively against the interests of those who own and control the means of production can survive for long. ... Many domestic policies concerning women's resources reflect this viewpoint clearly. ... However, policies employed to achieve the desirable ...

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In order to counter the trend, the government and Federal Reserve could use fiscal and monetary policies to intervene the economy. ... To fix the inflationary window and prevent inflation, we can take a soft landing policy. ... When economy approaches the inflationary window, the government should tax more and Federal Reserve should take a tight money policy to control the money supply in the circulation. ... The capital account can complicate the monetary policy designed by the federal to reduce money supply in the market. ... Also the Federal Reserve could take an easy money policy to stim...

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Systems have been developed to regulate, direct and control the resources of this society. ... The forces of production (technology, capital, the infrastructure of society, etc.) are important for the simple fact of who ever controls them controls the society. ... The purpose for this position was for taxation and control of the profits. ... Power is defined as control of the resources. ... This policy was disturbing to the English populace. ...

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Although each shared their fair amount of failures during their presidency each had social, political, and economic policies that were successful. ... The nationalists demanded a policy for countrywide industrialization in order to produce more goods in the hope that it would lessen the economy's reliance on exports. ... The strategy that Perón used to gain power took little under two years to gain control. ... By creating centralized economic policies Perón affected the interests of the Estancieros and their dependence on foreign export of products.  ... The army and governors of st...

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It bears noting, however, that public policy has led to Ireland being one of the only countries in the OECD in which manufacturing's share in output has continued to rise, while it has fallen throughout Europe in recent decades. ... The marked change in the direction and effectiveness of fiscal policy in the late 1980s was absolutely critical to Ireland's subsequent economic success. ... New policies in the late 1980s focused on cutting the debt/GDP ratio. They attacked the debt by controlling public spending, rather than by increasing taxes. ... Following on the high tax polic...

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His main issue regarding development is that we have not yet seen how globalization will affect all sectors of a given developing countries, and to get governments involved with policies is a slippery slope towards a situation which hog-ties the largest contenders simply because of their success in several markets. ... In my own experience in the Philippines I found that the government was run by those who were also in control of the local economy and thus the government will make ridiculous rules against foreign multi-nationals in order to preserve their own investments. ... It is the pract...

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In the early 1960s, Korea started out with import substitution industrialization policy (ISI), as many other post- W.W II developing countries did. The ISI policy promoted the growth of three "White Industries", which are sugar, cotton yarn, and wheat flour, at the expense of agriculture and service. ... Since almost of all governors and politicians were from the military force, people was under control of them. ... Chun Doo Hwan's new government carried out several structural reforms, which were financial liberalization, import liberalization, and anti-monopoly and fair trade policy. .....

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The empirical framework for explaining the economic performance of any country is to examine the relative contribution of Capital, Labor and total factor productivity, controlling variables such as initial resource endowments, public policies, political and social stability, institutional capacity, and external environment. ... Now the fiscal, monetary, and trade policies have been started to work ithout tion of politicians, bureaucrats, and military rulers, and statutory orders that effect almost every single aspect of running a business. ... Given the fiscal mismanagement, mounting e...

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In international relations, a state in its conventional structure is possibly most suitably described as a clearly distinct territory which: (i) is acknowledged internationally as a state, (ii) is presided over by a government able to construct and implement independent decisions regarding domestic policy and law and foreign policy, (iii) is permanently occupied by an explicit population. ... This would imply that the efficacy of national policies will be eroded and national autonomy will be gravely endangered. ... This is true, so much so that many policy problems are beyond the capability of...

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One of the key factors that gave china the rise of power was its economic policy. ... However, after its failure, China was quick to adapt new policies that would open up the country towards capitalism. ... As we have witnessed China climb to the second largest economy in the world, they have remained consistent with their foreign policy. ... Central to China's rise has been their concerted efforts to control the Asian Region. ... Many point to this as why China has become more aggressive and assertive with their regional policies. ...

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On the other hand, a losing foreign capital control has allowed remittances play a role in lifting living standards. ... Party elites in the Vietnam Communist Party (VCP) and local administration continued to benefit and thus were satisfy with the status of a controlling regime. ... However, in Vietnam, such action is impractical due to the stable policy environment of the VCP, and the VCP is the only party in a one-party system. ... Although the government has managed to preserve a rigid control through authoritarian rule, a move to a more flexible policy environment will benefit the citizens...

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This policy was abandoned after the year 1990, because the huge number of immigrants settled in Canada. This policy also was abandoned because political parties did not want to lose votes from the settled immigrants. From that year to now, high immigrant intake has been virtually institutionalized and immigration policy has abandoned the needs of Canadian workers. ... Before 1990, Canada used the policy Tap-on, Tap-off to control the average yearly immigration intake to Canada. ... For Canada to be take more advantage of immigration and become more efficient, there are two policies the country...

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Second, past and current military and diplomatic policy. Finally, I want to tie all of this to the idea of adopting the policies and philosophies of the Western democracies. ... Government control of all areas of the economy resulted in manufacturing plants that lacked the freedom to adapt to changes. ... In the early 1990's Albania's government abandoned most of its communist policies relating to the economy. ... Foreign Policy Albanias' foreign policy is complicated by having some three to four million ethnics living outside of Albania. ...

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These two reasons are both responsible for China's highly restrictive labour mobility policies in the pre-reform era (Meng, 4). ... Although rural-urban migration was strictly restricted up unto the late 1980's, which will be discussed later on in this paper, all factors aforementioned led to immediate readjustments of China's agricultural policy in 1978. A new policy had six steps that were aimed at reducing agriculture's contributions to the state. ... These initial policy readjustments led to the immediate reform of the agricultural economic structure. ... With these...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Introduction 1) Economics 1) Society 1) Conclusion Introduction The world is fast moving towards a globalized economy, however, certain factors are still there which allow the nation states to follow their indigenous policies for the purpose of economic and social development. This may be true for most of the countries whose gross domestic product makes them attain the status of developed societies, but in case of low-level income nations it is not entirely possible for the respective g...

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The new President of the Federal Reserve Board, Adolph Miller, tightened the monetary policy and set out to lower the stock prices since he perceived that speculation led stocks to be overpriced, causing damage to the economy. ... This policy reduced the amount of broker loans that originated from banks and lowered the liquidity of non-financial and other corporations that financed brokers and dealers. ... Hoover's statement suggested to the public the lengths he was willing to go to control the stock market. ... After the crash there was criticism of the Federal Reserve policy. ... Monet...

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Ocran describes the role of fiscal policy as stimulating economic and social development. ... In 2008, one period after GDP began to decline, government spending rose sharply as a proportion of GDP as countercyclical policy was enacted. ... Hence, a stricter and more humane measure of the success of countercyclical fiscal policy must unemployment figures. ... For the policy developed after this to have been successful, this trend would need to be reversed to form an "A" shaped bar graph. ... Countercyclical policy is therefore judged as a failure with respect to unemployment. ...

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