“Mandatory” outlays are often funded by laws that require spending to continue indefinitely unless Congress and the president pass new laws to change the status quo. Most mandatory spending is for social insurance programs, means-tested welfare programs, and interest on the national debt. “Disc...
Virtually all of the scores of CDC-funded firearms studies conducted since 1985 had reached conclusions favoring stricter gun control. This should have come as no surprise, given that ever since 1979, the official goal of the CDC’s parent agency, the U.S. Public Health Service, had been ...
2025 Alumni Engagement Innovation FundU.S. Mission to IndiaThe Embassy of the United States in New Delhi announces an open competition for past participants (alumni) of U.S. government-funded and U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs to submit...more Posted On - 2024-12-11 ...
We should expand market access and continue to open up the modern services sector. We should ensure national treatment for foreign-funded companies. We should take active steps to see China join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and accede to other hi...
also the product of amalgamation of several earlier institutions and programs, was launched in 1999 to provide higher education and additional training opportunities for indigenous peoples. The government-funded Adult Migrant English Programme, operated through Charles Darwin University, provides language inst...
LGUs now operate most public-funded facilities. But the devolution also led to the breakdown of the country’s integrated referral system, putting further strain on the service. The World Health Organisation (WHO), in a 2011 review and report of the country’s health care system,...
We will improve services for promoting foreign investment and accelerate the launching of major foreign-funded projects.We will take solid steps to develop pilot free trade zones and the Hainan Free Trade Port, promote re...
Johnson, overseeing a narrow House majority, has therefore had to rely on Democrats to pass the continuing resolutions that have funded the government in recent months, a dynamic that continued in Thursday's vote. House Freedom Caucus chairman Bob Good, a Virginia Republican, criticized Johnson's...
Blank and Stigler were among the first researchers to perform an empirical analysis of the relationship between publicly funded and private R&D investment. Their results were mixed, with evidence supporting both additionality and substitution effects. After almost five decades of research, the empirical ...
This research was funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government, grant number NRF-2017S1A3A2066084. Institutional Review Board Statement Not applicable. Informed Consent Statement Not applicable. Conflicts of Interest The authors declare no conflict of interest...