Pages tagged by "Policy"

A more prepared Australia

In this Policy Options Paper, and longer companion Occasional Paper, William Leben addresses the importance of preparedness in Australia and the need to...

Making sense of complex systems: practical principles and frameworks

It is clear that we are operating today in a world of increasing complexity. What is less clear is how we should understand and analyse this complexity in...

A port in the storm: Indonesia’s economy in troubled global times

Democracy Sausage podcast: Recession and an inverted yield curveball

Podcast: Stepping up in the Pacific

Book launch: Hybrid public policy innovations

Politics remains mired in ideological preconceptions about what is optimal, often landing us in bad policy. Too often we see a simplistic and false dichotomy between partisan claims that markets are the best policy tool because they are efficient, or that government should lead because this ensures equity. This is a major drag on our progress and prosperity because today’s policy challenges typically require hybrid policy solutions: sophisticated combinations of government and market tools that promote both efficiency and equity simultaneously.