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How should Tajikistan adapt to ongoing and future climate change, in particular given the many pressing development challenges it currently faces? The paper argues that for developing countries like Tajikistan, faster economic and social development is the best possible defense against climate change. It presents some key findings from a recent nationally representative household survey to illustrate the strong public support for more climate change related spending on better management of water resources, disaster management, agriculture, and public health-four key sectors that the government's latest poverty reduction strategy identifies as being especially important from a climate change perspective. Finally, the paper argues that, as important as project-based adaptation measures may be, it is imperative that they be supported by an overall policy framework that provides a truly enabling environment to facilitate faster climate change adaptation.

Climate Change --- Climate Change Adaptation --- Climate Change Economics --- Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases --- Developing Countries --- Disaster Prevention --- Environment --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Household Surveys --- Income --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Management of Water --- Migration --- Population Policies --- Public Health --- Public Support --- Science and Technology Development --- Science of Climate Change --- Water Supply and Sanitation --- Water Supply and Sanitation Governance and Institutions

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Relying on a novel dataset covering more than 120,000 firms in 60 countries, this paper con-tributes to the debate about D policies to support businesses through the COVID-19 pandemic. While governments around the world have implemented a wide range of policy support measures, evidence on the reach of these policies, the alignment of measures with firm needs, and their targeting and effectiveness remains scarce. This paper provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of these issues, focusing primarily on the developing economies. It shows that policy reach has been limited, especially for the more vulnerable firms and countries, and identifies mismatches between policies provided and policies most sought. It also provides some indicative evidence regarding mistargeting of policies and their effectiveness in addressing liquidity constraints and preventing layoffs. This assessment provides some early guidance to policymakers on tailoring their COVID-19 business support packages and points to new directions in data and research efforts needed to guide policy responses to the current pandemic and future crises.

Access To Finance --- Business Development Services --- Business Support --- Coronavirus --- COVID-19 --- Disease Control and Prevention --- Employment and Unemployment --- Firm Perspective --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Labor Policies --- Pandemic Response --- Private Sector Development --- Private Sector Economics --- Public Support Policy --- Small and Medium Size Enterprise --- Social Protections and Labor --- Uncertainty

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Courts --- Human rights --- International law and human rights --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights. --- Colombia. --- LGBTQ rights. --- Mexico. --- South Africa. --- activists. --- advocates. --- backlash. --- democratic infrastructure. --- domestic vs international law. --- elected government. --- enforcement. --- human rights. --- indigenous rights. --- judicial process. --- legal authority. --- precedence. --- public support. --- refugees.

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Governments have known since the 1960s that smoking results in irreversible health damage. This open access book examines why governments have done so little to combat this when they have been aware of the problem and its solutions for decades. What are the strategies and decisions that make a difference, given that policy environments are often not conducive to change? Taking the Netherlands as an example, this book helps to understand the complex policy process at the national level and why it so often appears irrational to us. It is the most sophisticated analysis of tobacco control policy to date, applying insights from political sciences to the field of tobacco control. Marc C. Willemsen is Professor of Tobacco Control Research at the Department of Health Promotion, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. He started tobacco research in 1989 and has since become a recognised expert in the field of tobacco control. He wrote and contributed to numerous research studies and scientific papers. In addition to his academic work, he gained first hand insights into the policy making process while working for various national tobacco control organisations. .

Political science. --- Public policy. --- Health promotion. --- Political Science and International Relations. --- Public Policy. --- Governance and Government. --- Legislative and Executive Politics. --- Development and Health. --- Health Policy. --- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. --- Health promotion programs --- Health promotion services --- Promotion of health --- Wellness programs --- Preventive health services --- Health education --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Legislative bodies. --- Economic development. --- Medical policy. --- Medicine. --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medical care --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Science and state --- Social policy --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Bicameralism --- Legislatures --- Parliaments --- Unicameral legislatures --- Constitutional law --- Estates (Social orders) --- Representative government and representation --- Government policy --- Health Workforce --- agenda setting --- tobacco act --- the netherlands --- policy process --- corporatism --- public support --- multiple streams approach --- cultural values --- smoking rate --- lobby --- policy stagnation --- deregulation --- dutch smoking or health foundation --- self-regulation --- advocacy coalition framework --- social norms --- ministry of health --- tobacco taxation --- tobacco control --- evidence based health policy