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Variation in policy response to COVID-19 across Australian states and territories
This working paper provides an overview of the key policy decisions taken to curtail the transmission of COVID-19 and protect public health in the eight Australian states and territories.
What have we learned from tracking every government policy on COVID-19 for the past two years?
This paper describes the broad patterns of government responses over the first two years of the pandemic. Understanding what works, and what does not, first requires valid measurement of what governments have and have not done.
Zambia’s Constituency Development Fund: Policy considerations
Socio-political consequences of regional economic divergence in Britain: 1983-2018
Regions and nations of Britain have become still more economically divided in recent decades. This paper assesses the extent to which social and political attitudes in different regions and nations of Britain have indeed become more polarised, in line with regional economic divergence.
Rethinking Health Security after COVID-19
In a critical examination of the health security paradigm, this report argues that, while the security implications of pandemics are clear, the concept of health security distracts attention from the underlying determinants of health that exacerbate the effects of severe disease outbreaks and disproportionately affect the most vulnerable. The report offers recommendations for developing and sustaining a human-centred approach to global health.
Wellbeing and macroeconomics: a SAGE approach
Timor-Leste’s drivers of growth and sectoral transformation
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