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If the decisions to be improved are not first properly identified and analyzed, there is a high risk that much of the collection effort could be wasted or misdirected.
Quantitative analysis of decisions across many domains, including environmental policy, business investments, and cyber security, has shown that people tend to overestimate the amount of data needed to make a good decision or misunderstand what type of data are needed.
The first step is to identify and frame frequently recurring decisions.
In the field of development, these include large-scale decisions such as spending priorities – and thus budget allocations – by governments and international organizations.
The second step is to build a quantitative model of the uncertainties in such decisions, including the various triggers, consequences, controls, and mitigants, as well as the different costs, benefits, and risks involved.
Incorporating – rather than ignoring – difficult-to-measure, highly uncertain factors leads to the best decisions.
I, for one, prefer making political decisions to wallowing in doubt and self-pity.
In other words, in North Korea, many of the most routine decisions taken by states elsewhere cannot be left to just anyone – particularly not to those outside the Kim bloodline.
Activist columnists helped the public understand political decisions by making policy accessible.
And the people, they say, should have a direct voice in the important decisions affecting their lives – apparently even decisions about war and peace.
Finally, women must be better represented in networks such as chambers of commerce, thereby giving them influence over key decisions affecting their communities.
But it did adopt three other decisions, entitled Strengthening the Review Process for the Treaty , Principles and Objectives for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament , and Resolution on the Middle East .
Reflecting the standard colonialist view that a colony cannot be trusted to make independent decisions, a bipartisan Financial Oversight and Management Board was created to make fiscal decisions for Puerto Rico.
Jack Welch, who led General Electric for 20 years, is a case in point: he once stated that many of his own major business decisions had come “straight from the gut,” rather than from analytical models or detailed business forecasts.
While there is often some delay when political negotiations and trade-offs are involved, in this case, the sense of uncertainty may be heightened by policy-sequencing decisions.
Conversely, NATO must avoid the temptation of a US-Russian condominium making decisions above the heads of NATO’s European members.
Last but not least, is the challenge to avoid the loss of efficiency stemming from the growth in membership in a body where decisions are made on the basis of unanimity.
Bush’s declared intention to “better explain the reasons for his decisions” to America’s Allies simply will not do.
Those decisions demonstrated his resolve to uphold Egypt’s role as a force for regional stability, which implied refusing to allow his ideology to drive him toward a radical foreign policy.
Amazingly, President Viktor Yushchenko regularly vetoed decisions necessary for that stabilization, including every effort at privatization.
As one of the architects of policy after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, I know the controversy, anguish, and cost of the decisions taken.
South Africa has adopted the King III Code of Governance Principles, which requires firms to integrate their financial and sustainability reporting, and a revision of the Pension Funds Act establishes guidelines for consideration of environmental and social outcomes in investment decisions.
Since the crisis erupted, there has been no shortage of opportunities – in the form of inadequate conclusions and decisions by officials – to nurture one’s anxiety about that prospect.
When the enlargement of the EU into Central and Eastern Europe is finally decided by the European Council in Copenhagen next month, the conclusion is clear: Europe has become a much better and safer place to live in, thanks to the decisions taken by NATO and the EU during the crucial autumn of 2002.
In order to rescue the country’s banks from their bad lending decisions, Merkel breached the Maastricht Treaty’s “no-bailout” rule, which bans member governments from financing their peers, and forced European taxpayers to lend to an insolvent Greece.
Identity EconomicsBERKELEY and DURHAM – A great strength of economics is its ability to examine how decisions are made from the point of view of decision makers.
When we examine people’s decisions from the perspective of their identities and social norms, we get new answers to many different economic questions.
Who people are and how they think of themselves is key to the decisions that they make.
As economists and policymakers, we could be content to continue looking only at prices and income and related statistics to explain people’s decisions.
Whatever responsibility poor adults may bear for their lot in life – they may not have worked hard enough, saved enough, or made good decisions – children’s circumstances are thrust upon them without any sort of choice.
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