What are indicators of ineffective policy?

This is specifically in regards to Dubai, U.A.E. and its promotion of free economic zones. How do these zones contribute toward a sustainable economic policy. I need to find some variables to use in my tests. I was thinking of looking at GDP/cap, Foreign...

A) When the top rate is lower, there VERY STRONGLY tends to be more demand for Materials and components for construction http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/WPUSOP2200 r=0.90 ...show more

Many scientific articles base the consequences of Chinese presence in Africa either on (realistic, liberal) political theories; on China’s ‘going-out’ policy (which insinuates that there is only one sort of Chinese...

Bloomberg's Aki Ito and Alisa Odenheimer report: The central bank stands at the forefront of the world’s hunt for new economic indicators, analyzing keyword counts for everything from aerobics classes to refrigerators -- reported by Google...

My growing office of 10 is thinking about developing a vacation scheduling/leave request policy, and I'd be responsible for managing it. Staff get about 3-4 weeks vacation every year, and we're in a student service office in a university setting in the...

It is a nearly daily occurrence that some TV commentator points out that the USA does not have an energy policy.  There are many little pieces of a policy involving everything from fossil fuel production and export to "Renewable" energy industries...

What Cold War foreign policy was the most effective containment policy? Why? Is containment the only policy during the Cold War? Thank you!

It seems every day we are inundated with real estate and economic news, but it can be very confusing to try to bring meaning and big picture outlook.  For example, I believe case-shiller statistics actually show statistics from three months ago.  I do...

I've found plenty of articles explaining why having a policy is important and some examples of companies that have such a policy but haven't found many good examples of policies themselves. I'm looking for a good template on which to base a proposed...