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Ideas in Good Currency

Identity Groups

Impact Evaluation

Implementation Lenses

Implementation Space

Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI)

Incentive Compatability Constraint

Inclusive Management (in public management)

Income Elasticity of Demand

Income Estimate of Gross Domestic Product

Income Inequality

Income Offer Curve

Income Statement

Increasing Returns to Scale

Incremental Costs (in public management)

Incrementalism in Policy Reform

Indifference Curve

Influential Observations

Information Economy

Inherent Right to Self-Government (Aboriginal context)

Innovation Networks

Institutionalism

Instrument Choice

Instrument Design

Intangible Benefits of Programs

Intellectual Capital

Intellectual Property

Interactive Policy Analysis

Interagency Collaboration

Interest Aggregation

Interest Rate Parity

Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers

Intergovernmental Organization

Intergovernmental Relations

Intergovernmental Transfers (in Municipal Finance)

Intermediate Outcome

Internal Consistency

Internal Expert (in audit)

Internationalization

Intertemporal Choice

Intra-Generational Mobility

Intrastate Federalism

Inverse Demand Function

Involuntary Unemployment

Isowelfare Curve

Issue Attention Cycle

Jensen's Theory of the Firm

John Henry Effect

Jointly Exhaustive Classification System

Judicial Activism

Judicial Independence

Judicial Review

Just-in-time Inventory

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Initiative

A priority outcome and the means to achieve it articulated by a government. It may involve one or more departments, and one or more programs.

(Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.)

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