Morning After: Election Results In Nigeria, What Is The Mandate?Oguchi Nkwocha, MD
If a health insurance risk pool is large enough and has enough healthy people paying premiums, then there will be enough money available to cover the costs of those who get sick. The rationale behind the individual mandate is that if everyone is required to have insurance—especially healthy...
Mandate A requirement to carry out a particular policy. The organization has a mandate to promote environmental sustainability. 1 Law Law is a system of rules created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding deb...
The "Mandate of Heaven" is an ancient Chinese philosophical concept, which originated during theZhou Dynasty(1046-256 B.C.E.). The Mandate determines whether an emperor of China is sufficiently virtuous to rule. If he does not fulfill his obligations as emperor, then he loses the Mandate and...
A mandate refers to an official authorization or directive given to an individual, organization, or government entity to carry out specific actions or responsibilities.
open-ended asset-purchase program is explicitly cast in terms of an ongoing cost-benefit analysis. But anyone who wants to convince me that monetary policy actions have been contrary to our dual mandate is going to have to explain to me why that conclusion isn’t contradicted by the chart ...
After two years and more than two billion dollars spent, President Obama was returned to Washington with a clear mandate on the economy and the direction of the country. When it came to our economic approach voters did want to go forward, not back to the trickledown economics of the GOP....
An investment mandate is an order to manage a pool of funds using a certain plan that is put in place to help guide the actions and choices of the fund's manager. It also lays out thelevel of riskthat the owner of the money would permit. The mandate can vary and depends on the goa...
What is the One-Penis Policy (OPP)? According to non-monogamous sex expert and kink instructorJulieta Chiara, the OPP is also (jokingly) known as the "Monopoly on the Meat-stick Mandate." And while this is a hilarious thing to call it, this "rule" within CNM dynamics has more issues ...
Would changes to its mandate compromise the BoE’s independence? Some experts argue there is scope for a review. “It makes sense, 25 years on, to revisit the issue [of the mandate] and look at things that can get better,” said Costas Milas, professor of finance at University of Liverp...