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Are Governments ‘Paying for Failure’ With Social Impact Bonds?
Three years ago, New York City launched an ambitious and unprecedented social policy experiment at its jail on Rikers Island. Thousands of teenage inmates began receiving group therapy aimed at improving their moral reasoning by addressing their beliefs and thought processes in a step-by-step treatment. The goal was to reduce the number of repeat offenses once the inmates were released. Academic studies using the method, known as moral reconation therapy, had reported success in reducing recidivism. Still, no one had ever scaled up these studies to accommodate anything like the 9,240 inmates the four-year Rikers Island program aimed to serve. This month, the program is coming to an abrupt end.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- failure, impact bonds, public policy
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How Anti-Vaxxers Have Scared the Media Away From Covering Vaccine Side Effects
"It was the most startling side effect I've ever come across." That's how Elizabeth Miller, head of the immunization department at Public Health England, described some recent vaccine research you've probably never heard about: Pandemrix, a shot designed to stave off swine flu, also appears to be causing narcolepsy in some children.
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- Health Care
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- public policy, vaccines
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Obama’s Top Initiative to Aid Africa Is Now in Jeopardy
As President Barack Obama returns to Africa this week, his major initiative to help the continent double access to electricity is in jeopardy, undermined by Congress.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public policy
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Viewpoint: India Must Keep Patent Laws for Manufacture of Cheap Generic Drugs
Recently, trade ministers from 10 Asean countries, India, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea gathered to negotiate a deal on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement. But, RCEP negotiations on intellectual property (IP) are at a standstill because India and the Asean countries are unwilling to trade away health by adopting IP provisions that go beyond what is required of them under international trade rules.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- public policy
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India Pitches for Global Tax Policy to Safeguard the Interests of Developing Nations
India has pitched for a global tax regime built into the UN process, rather than being looked at from the point of view of rich countries, in a bid to curb illegal financial flows from the developing world running into some $200 billion annually.
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- South Asia
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- public policy
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Duke Global Health Institute Receives $20M From Gates Foundation
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provided a $20 million grant to the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI).
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- Education, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public policy
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Surgical Intervention: How to Improve Access to Surgical Care in the Developing World
Access to surgical and anaesthetic care is an essential, but often forgotten, component of health care in the developing world.
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- Health Care
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- public policy
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Indonesia to Unleash Loan Funds as Micro-lending Rates Cut
Indonesia wants to unleash 30 trillion rupiah ($2.3 billion) of new loans for small businesses and halve some bank micro lending rates to help revive an economy running at its slowest pace in five years.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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