Given environmental pressures and long-term economic stagnation, GDP growth can no longer be considered as method to improve welfare resources. Max Koch discusses how researchers must investigate the relationship between growth and welfare, and policymakers must realize the environmental limitations of the economy.
The government of Ontario, Canada launched a basic income pilot in 2017. Though it was cancelled prior to official analysis in 2019, researchers were able to gather data and make findings about the pilot. Ferdosi, McDowell, Lewchuk and Ross explain these evaluations, focusing on work-life outcomes in particular.
We need to reset along a more equitable and smart path. But how? Here is the latest by leading experts as they debate ideas and hands-on (and new) policy solutions to this.
The rapid rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) raises pressing privacy concerns despite its possible benefits. Stacy-Ann Elvy explains how the increasing volume and variety of IoT data may lead to an expansion of surveillance capitalism with far-reaching consequences.
We urgently need new social-ecological policies to simultaneously tackle the climate emergency and create a fairer society. Milena Buchs writes these policies would need to support societies to stay within planetary boundaries, satisfy everyone’s basic needs, achieve a fairer distribution of resources and opportunities, and enhance democratic governance.
Inequity in health systems has become the most significant challenge in the effort to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. Diahhadi Setyonaluri, Rachmat Reksa Samudra, and Muhammad Faisal examine how the pandemic feeds off pre-existing disparities in Indonesia, limiting equitable access to quality health care services.