Should Australia’s Current Media Regulations Be Relaxed? Over the past two decades the Australian government has undertaken a task of economic liberalisation through a process of deregulation and privatisation. Deregulation of the media industry is now on the agenda. On the 13 July 2006 Senator Coonan‚ Minister for Communications‚ Information Technology and the Arts announced a government framework for progressive deregulation of the media industry (Coonan 2006a). Contained within the deregulation
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Assignment 1 – government and policies P1) outline the responsibilities of the different levels of government in the UK. P2) describe the roles of the government departments in relation to the public services including their responsibilities. P3) explain the electoral processes used in the UK elections. M1) explain in detail the responsibilities of the different levels of government in the UK. M2) compare the electoral processes used at different levels of government in the UK. D1) evaluate the responsibilities
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what effect did local government intervene to ameliorate the adverse effects of industrialisation on the populations of towns and cities? Towns and Cities in the nineteenth century grew extremely quickly as vast numbers of people congregated in urban environment’s which were created as a response to rapid industrialisation‚ this developed problems such as poor public health. The problems that became apparent had to be dealt with and this gave rise to local governments being set up to deal with
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importance of regulation is evident through the significant growth in global regulatory changes throughout the 1990 ’s. It is estimated that between 1991-2000 some 1‚185 regulatory changes occurred in the UK‚ 95 percent of these changes created a more favourable FDI environment (Hillman and Omar‚ 2005). The influence of regulation on UK firms ’ and international investment decisions is of the essence. Regional differences between less developed economies has meant that regulation is a statistically
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Hernan Verlarde Chapter 15 2. (Government Regulation) What three types of government policies are used to alter or control firm behavior? Determine which type of regulation is used for each of the following: a. Preventing a merger that the government believes would lessen competition b. The activities of the Food and Drug Administration c. Regulation of fares charged by a municipal bus company d. Occupational safety and health regulations that affect working conditions Answer
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Government‚ Regulation & Business Ethics The issue of business relations with government has increasingly become a key issue of business ethics. Some of the many questions raised are * Is it acceptable for corporations to use their considerable power tp shape government policy? * Is the government jeopardizing its role in protecting the public interest when politicians sit on the board of corporations? The government has a crucial role to play in establishing the ‘rules of the game’
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Explain and evaluate government policies that can be used to address the market failure associated with (i) public goods (ii) common resources‚ including a case study of each. Discuss why ‘government failure’ can occur when the government attempts to correct for these two types of market failure. Introduction This paper presents about the explanation and evaluation of government policies to specify clearly the market failure associated with public goods and common resources. It will cover up
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Importance of Externalities Our federal‚ state‚ and local governments are challenged each day with producing specific incentives that help boost growth in our economy‚ help protect our environment‚ and the safety of our well being. These challenges can often be achieved by the government stepping in and dealing with externalities. Externalities are effects on those not involved in the market but have can have a significant impact on everyone. “When an externality – the gap
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Unlike other regulations of cigarettes such as tax or promoting ban‚ this territorial smoking control sparked heated debates. While some argue that the implementation of this regulation is inefficient and reduce the public welfare (Viscusi‚ 1994; Tollison and Wagner‚ 1992; Lambert‚ 2006)‚ others claim that smokers do impose negative externalities to both non-smokers and themselves (Gravelle and Zimmerman‚ 1994; Hanson and Logue‚ 1998). In this study‚ by explaining the externalities of smoking‚ we
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In the environmental sphere‚ the government could focus on stronger regulations that would decrease reliance on oil‚ and instead increase the use of clean energy resources. One such successful example has been Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards‚ which encourage higher fuel efficiency for all vehicles. By creating higher standards for cars‚ the government forced carmakers to innovate and create cleaner cars. At a federal level‚ the EPA could do more to encourage safer extraction of unconventional
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