by admin | May 26, 2022
Measuring the economic impacts of specific government policies, such as a new tax, is pretty straightforward: find the right variables and track them before, during and after the policy is announced. But trying to demonstrate a connection between overall government...
by admin | Nov 19, 2021
In 2007, the Indonesian government announced it would stop sending samples of the H5N1 avian influenza virus detected in its country to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) reference laboratories. Its worry was that these samples, provided freely, would be used by...
by admin | Nov 19, 2021
Inevitably, a view from a 30th-floor window is different to that from the second floor. But how do you monitor the benefits of either? In the time of COVID-19, ‘view health’ is particularly important as going outside may be restricted. Now a technological window of...
by admin | May 12, 2021
Shenzhen, located just across Hong Kong’s border with southeastern China, has been described variously as a modern metropolis, Asia’s Silicon Valley, an economic hub and an overnight city. Forty years ago it was viewed as a rural backwater, until Deng Xiaoping named...
by admin | Nov 8, 2020
A new approach to ruling has emerged in recent decades that is shaking up the relationship between the state and society. Governments in diverse areas of the world have been mobilising citizens to execute and give legitimacy to their policy aims, in the guise of a...
