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In October of 2015, the government of China announced the end of the One-Child Policy, which had been introduced in 1979 following a decade-long two-child policy. Thus was a notably high-profile and counter-productive effort in
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One of the most controversial policy decisions in the United States was made by the Supreme Court, rather than the country's elected politicians, who have notably shied away from passing clear legislation on the matter.
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The seemingly minor innovation of etching an image of a housefly onto the men’s urinals at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has become a poster child for nudge policy. Nudge theory, based on behavioural economics, aims to
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The rapid increases in agricultural production and efficiency achieved through a series of research technology transfer projects in the 1950s and 1960s have been variously called the ‘Green Revolution’ or the ‘Third Agricultural Revolution’, and
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The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) was formed in 2000 as a public-private global health partnership devoted to increasing access to immunization in poor countries. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation played a
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The US has long led the world in action to reduce cancer-causing tobacco consumption. In 1966 it became the world’s first country to require a health warning to be printed on cigarette packets—a measure widely
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For many years, governments waged war on drugs, by making their use, production and distribution subject too often to severe criminal punishment. Increasingly policymakers have recognized that this approach has not worked well, and there
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Maria da Penha is the woman who changed Brazil’s domestic violence laws after being shot and almost killed by her husband in 1983. Lodging in her spine, the bullet paralysed her from the waist down,
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There has been tremendous progress in the past 75 years against some of the world's nastiest infectious diseases. Two such diseases have been formally eradicated since 1945: smallpox in 1977 and rinderpest, a viral condition
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Cycling is arguably the healthiest, most environmentally-friendly method of urban transportation—providing the rider is safe from being squashed by bigger beasts of the road, such as cars and trucks. Dedicated bike lanes are the key
