Editors' Choice 2024

User icon Toby Green
21 February 2024
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Every week, Gary Price and I choose new and noteworthy reports for Policy Matters, a newsletter that goes out to our growing community of registered users. Here are reports we've chosen so far in 2024.


Creative Australia · 6 May 2024 English

This is the seventh in a longitudinal study, carried out over the last four decades by Professor Throsby and colleagues at Macquarie University, with support from Creative Australia (previously the …


Feedback · 18 March 2024 English

This report maps the global financial flows to the world’s largest 55 industrial livestock companies – spanning the beef, dairy, pork, poultry, and animal feed sectors – as an update …


CCP: Climate and Community Project · 15 May 2024 English

This report sets out to answer the question of why governments in the Global South have routinely failed to achieve biodiversity goals and targets. Rather than focus on the usual …


WHR: World Happiness Report · 20 March 2024 English

In this issue of the World Happiness Report we focus on the happiness of people at different stages of life. In the seven ages of man in Shakespeare’s As You …


Imagining the Digital Future · 29 February 2024 English

As uses of artificial intelligence (AI) systems expand, a two-part research study reveals a broad range of opinions as to how complicated and, at times, disorienting these life-changing digital tools …


The Williams Institute · 14 February 2024 English

This report provides an up-to-date look at the enforcement of HIV criminal laws in Ohio. The Williams Institute analyzed data from Ohio’s Incident-Based Reporting System (OIBRS) about HIV-related criminal incidents …


ELCA: Emergency Leaders for Climate Action · 20 June 2024 English

The report emphasizes the urgent need to enhance community safety from escalating climate impacts. It identifies five key priorities: providing comprehensive climate risk information, prioritizing protection for the most at-risk …


WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization · 2 May 2024 English

This study explores the evolution and success drivers of the global video game industry, focusing on key hubs within Finland, Poland, Japan, and the United States. Using a qualitative methodology, …


GFI: Green Finance Institute · 24 April 2024 English

The objective of this project was to assess the materiality of nature-related risks to the UK financial sector both in the near-term and the longer-term. At least half of global …


WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization · 2 May 2024 English

Economic diversification is a tough process. It asks policymakers difficult questions about which areas to support, which not to support, and where untapped potential lies. It also requires the flexibility …