Public Policy
319 Threads
What we call "economics" increasingly refers to a bunch of policy-focused quantitative social sciences: - Economics - Finance - Accounting - Marketing - Public policy - Health pol...
4 Govt. Schemes launched in November '24🧵
The number to be multiplied and the multiplier are two different things. The point of this test was to get this idea through. 3x4 says that it is three times, so there must be thre...
Congratulations and kudos to the commissioner Mr. Balakrishnan IPS for the excellent application and down to earth approach in analysing and implementing workable solutions that ea...
Do Americans have "car brain"? Survey says yes! Super excited to share my new paper on #WindshieldBias in @findingspress - I'll share some highlights here, but it is only 1k-ish wo...
Dr. David Martin: The WHO is a "criminal racketeering organisation"—founded by eugenicists—which has been, since 1953, "exclusively a vaccine promoting enterprise, for the benefit...
Honestly shouldn't the burden of proof be on you to prove giving people these things actually increases family formation and birth rates because I can assure you it doesn't. The p...
The Lagos State Government has commenced a cleanup of open defecation in Ojodu Berger. The Lagos State Government is also warning against defecating on roadways, emphasizing the...
A lot happened in July. But, one event went quietly unnoticed. The result of largest American controlled experiment in Universal Basic Income (UBI) was released. You haven...
Court of Appeal Judges Kathurima M'Inoti, Agnes Kalekye Murgo & John Mativo have ruled that Finance Act 2023 fundamentally flawed and therefore void & consequently unconstitutional...
🧵In the last few weeks, I've heard that we should find things that 'unite Kenyan citizens', based on which to make joint claims from GOK. I searched and found a few and they are no...
Telangana Budget 2024 Updates: Congress government presents “Farmer, Rural and Welfare focused budget” Majority of funds allocated to Agriculture (including farm loan waiver), we...
Very disappointing defeatism from Scott about how to deal with street lunatics, this post encapsulates everything wrong with left thought on this topic We don't need to do any of...
"Rochelle Burgess and colleagues eloquently described participatory community engagement as essential for successful COVID-19 vaccination, which involves appreciating the heterogen...
I didn't get around to posting the CPI-based Ecumenical Underlying Inflation measure yesterday. It was 2.9% for May, down from 3.5% in April--among the bigger monthly falls we've s...
Helmut-Schmidt-Programme Master’s Scholarships for Public Policy and Good Governance 2025 is open The master’s courses for the Helmut-Schmidt-Programme (Master’s Scholarships fo...
Short thread on the most important aspect of the FIT 21 bill - the five prong decentralization test to determine whether or not an asset is a digital commodity. Expect all protoco...
Spot on about the uniqueness of Singapore. Too different a model to be genuinely adopted elsewhere: “Singapore is too particular, too sui generis in both its assets and liabiliti...
📈Inflation is hard to understand! It has complex causes, consequences & trade-offs. Our new paper with @FraNuzzi98 & @Al_Bi99studies how people understand inflation & what they wan...
Short Thread 👇 Remember when we raised this issue back in 2022, we we were accused of maligning the Indian pharma industry? Look what just dropped. Albendazole, a drug that is u...
Hey my medicine and public health people! How much do you know about eugenics? Just old pseudoscience, you say? Any idea how much it continues to influence us? Answer: A LOT....
How Finland Conquered Homelessness: Whereas the number of homeless people has been skyrocketing in Europe in recent years, Finland is the only European Union member state to have...
Nov. 2023 "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has written to the Sigma Pharmaceuticals conference to express his “personal gratitude” to the [community pharmacy] sector." 🤔 https://t.co/5...
🧵THREAD: Remember when they cancelled millions of cancer screening appointments, leading to a significant increase in avoidable cancer deaths, while they performed ridiculous dance...
