Did China’s adjustment to personal income tax in 2011 reduce inequality? Li Du and ZhongXiang Zhang write that using the Gini coefficient could conceal the positive impacts of the policy.

On this week’s Policy Forum Pod, we hear from Olli Kangas, the lead designer of Finland’s Universal Basic Income experiment, about the future of social welfare and why the Finnish trial will be discontinued.

The scandals that engulfed Najib Razak in Malaysia reminded voters that they were paying a heavy price for bad government, Teck Chi Wong writes.

China’s government is ending a decade-long policy of buying grain from farmers, with potentially global ramifications, Tristan Kenderdine writes.

Australia’s budget was steeped in a type of policy nostalgia which says progressive mass reform is no longer possible. Such thinking is harmful for the country and dangerous for the two major parties, Helen Sullivan writes.

On this week’s special Policy Forum Pod Extra, Darren Lim takes a look at how domestic politics are dragging the US and China into an escalating trade war.