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Small Kids, Big Payoffs: The Hidden Economics of Growing Up Healthy

Nutrition, caregiving, safe environments, and early learning in the first years of life generate…

  
What happens when Cambodia graduates from aid but isn’t self-sustaining?

Cambodia’s “missing middle” means economic growth hasn’t yet produced the managers and…

  
A survival guide for advisers to the powerful

From Nixon’s downfall to Merkel’s success, history offers hard lessons for those behind the…

  
Japan’s analog bureaucracy holds back a digital economy

Obtaining a criminal-record check should be a simple task, yet in Japan reveals a state capacity…

Expanding Health Coverage and Cutting Costs Through Technology and Smarter Spending

India’s national health insurance program has provided cashless care to more than 700 million…

The World Isn’t Flat, but Government Data Is

Rapid advances in satellite sensing and location-based analytics are turning national spatial…

  
Rethinking the Indo-Pacific as a single ocean system

The waters that connect the region matter more than the distances between its shores, and 2026…

  
Japan lost its climate leadership – and now Australia can help

Japan’s largest supplier of coal and LNG has just pledged to transition from fossil fuels –…

  
Australia bets on old laws to manage new AI risks

Relying on legacy laws may seem pragmatic, but other countries are racing ahead with purpose-…

  
High stakes in India’s refusal to send former Bangladesh PM to trial

A carefully worded extradition treaty means New Delhi can hedge its bets, but it should be…

  
Want to fix Defence? Start by cutting bureaucratic bloat

Same people, same jobs, new structure – but somehow performance will improve. This story has…