All posts tagged "Policy"

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  Chinese social media opening up public debate, university study finds

  Chinese social media systems are fostering a more open public debate within the country on political and social issues such as corruption, new research from the University of Rhode Island

  • Posted April 27, 2017
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  New research boosts crusade to embed happiness in public policy

  New research suggests that governments could have more success in improving people’s lives if they prioritised improving mental health over traditional top goals such as boosting economic growth. The research,

  • Posted December 15, 2016
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  UK cabinet secretaries defend pre-vote Brexit planning

  Serving and former UK cabinet secretaries have defended the civil service against accusations that it did too little to plan for a Leave vote in the Brexit referendum, explaining that

  • Posted December 1, 2016
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  Former UK chancellor condemns ‘idiotic’ Brexiteer lines on EU talks

  Veteran Tory Ken Clarke last week criticised Britain’s ‘doolally debate’ on Brexit – and argued that politicians’ focus on media headlines has undermined good policymaking, leaving the door open to

  • Posted November 22, 2016
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  Helping governments bridge the gap between intentions and performance

  The ideal of good government is one shared by billions of people around the world but more needs to be done for it to become a reality, says Adrian Brown

  • Posted November 21, 2016
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  Mark MacDonald, EY Global Lead Partner, Public Financial Management; and Lead Partner, Government & Public Sector: Interview

  Long interested by how governments respond to the big issues of public policy, Mark MacDonald has spent his entire career working for better public administration. Now leading both EY’s global

  • Posted November 10, 2016
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  Finland pushes ahead with basic income trial

  The government of Finland is to trial a new ‘basic income’ model that it hopes will pave the way for broader reforms of the country’s social security system. The concept

  • Posted October 28, 2016
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  John Kingman, champion of HM Treasury’s supply-side activism, warns of Brexit threat

  The former second permanent secretary at the UK Treasury last week mounted a passionate defence of its activist micro-economic policies – now under threat in Westminster’s shifting political landscape. Matt

  • Posted October 24, 2016
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  EC claims headway in tackling African migration

  The European Commission has hailed the early results of a new initiative to tackle the root causes of migration in a number of priority countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The Commission

  • Posted October 19, 2016
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  Britain turns to private sector, foreign governments and retired officials for help with Brexit talks

  Britain is turning to foreign governments, the private sector and former civil servants to help it ramp up its capacity to conduct complex trade negotiations following Britain’s decision to leave

  • Posted July 5, 2016
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