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January 26, 2022
Decision-making under stress
Contemporary life is complex, fast-paced, overloaded with decisions, and accompanied by ever-present undercurrents of stress. Decision-making in the...
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December 27, 2021
Policy contexts and conflict
The challenge of devising good policy is heightened by the conflict that can come from the conflicting interests of policy influencers. In such...
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November 29, 2021
Public administration and decisions
Policymaking is an important and consequential public activity that needs to be in the limelight – and it often is. An allied public activity,...
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October 30, 2021
Values and policy decisions
Public policy environments will invariably include some contentious policy decisions. These decisions will often involve implicit value judgements...
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September 29, 2021
Science diplomacy
The seemingly inherent incongruences between science and diplomacy can lend an element of incoherence to initiatives that see science and diplomacy...
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August 23, 2021
Innovative policy design
In any contemporary complex policy landscape, it is practically impossible to devise that singular ‘silver bullet’ policy that will then go on...
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July 26, 2021
Artificial Intelligence in reality
Artificial Intelligence is a fascinating technological development that is significantly impacting our present-day lives. Given AI’s potential,...
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June 16, 2021
The public in public decisions
What often passes for public participation in a public decision is nothing more than mere tokenism. To be able to distinguish substantial...
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May 16, 2021
Problems and policy
Public policy should solve society’s problems. However, this ostensibly plausible depiction can mask serious problems with how societal...
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April 02, 2021
Participatory budgeting
Participatory budgeting is a process that meaningfully engages those who have traditionally been excluded from participation in important political...
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March 20, 2021
The Golden Age and medical science
The debilitating effects of a pandemic that refuses to go away can make just remaining safe and healthy seem like accomplishment enough. The public...
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March 03, 2021
Civic space, politics and decisions
A civic space that meaningfully engages civil society with policymakers can contribute to improved public policy decisions. This article looks at...
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February 03, 2021
Complexity and collaborative policy
Making appropriate policies to address complex issues is not a simple thing. If inappropriately addressed, according to H L Mencken, the...
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January 06, 2021
Policy and risk mitigation
To promote appropriate preventive behavior and stem the rise of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is important that policymakers better...
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December 12, 2020
Active ageing
Abraham Lincoln’s view that “it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years” captures the essence of what...
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December 03, 2020
Evidence-based policy
Ideally, all major public policies should be based on sound evidence or, still better, on sound scientific evidence. Moving towards this ideal...
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November 19, 2020
Participatory governance
Cities and urban areas are where the majority of the global population now lives. To improve the quality of life of the urban population it is...
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November 04, 2020
SDGs and seniors
Seniors are a growing segment of the population and it is important to see how the global development frameworks view them.The Sustainable...
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October 23, 2020
Questioning progress
“Progress” was the erstwhile confident answer to the important question “What is the best way to improve society?” Now this answer is being...
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October 14, 2020
Options for the ‘old’
Ageing is a gradual and steady chronological progression that commences at birth and ceases at death. Becoming ‘old’, on the other hand, is an...
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September 30, 2020
Reasoned policy matters
Public policy in Pakistan is ubiquitous and impactful. To gauge the net impact of the seventy plus years of policymaking, we can look to see where...
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September 19, 2020
Consensual development
On the basis of a relatively objective and reasonably extensive purview of major international development initiatives, it is hard to be either an...
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September 01, 2020
Turning old into gold
Gold, lustrous and precious, has provided a metaphor for the years after retirement – described as the “golden years” – however, in...
