Rwanda’s gains from linking science and policy

Linking Law, Science and Policy to Spur Innovation

Linking Climate Change Science With Policy In California

Over the last few years, California has passed some of the strongest climate policies in the USA. These new policies have been motivated in part by increasing concerns over the risk of climate-related impacts and facilitated by the state’s existing framework of energy and air quality policies. This paper presents an overview of the evolution of this increased awareness of climate change issues ...

Policy commitment and the welfare gains from capital market liberalization

This paper evaluates the quantitative impact of capital liberalization on the taxation structure and welfare of the liberalizing countries when governments conduct fiscal policy optimally but without commitment (time-consistent policies). The transition from a regime of capital autarky to a regime of free mobility leads to a decrease in the long-term tax rate on capital of 13 percent and an inc...

Margaret McCartney: Who gains from the media's misrepresentation of science?

The Daily Mail said that “770 deaths a year could be avoided,” about weekend childbirth. But the study hadn’t said that. For this to be true, maternity services would need to be like Groundhog Day, with every day being Tuesday (the weekday with the lowest risk). In theMirror it was “good news for the posh” because drinking three glasses of champagne a week could “stave off” dementia, although t...

Turning science into policy: challenges and experiences from the science-policy interface.

This paper discusses key issues in the science-policy interface. It stresses the importance of linking the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity to the Millennium Development Goals and to issues of immediate concern to policy-makers such as the economy, security and human health. It briefly discusses the process of decision-making and how the scientific and policy communities have su...