China’s patent applications have rapidly grown, leaving policymakers scrambling to keep up, Lauren Johnston writes.

Policy Forum Pod turns 50 this week! So, in this special pod we take a look back at some of the presenters’ favourite moments, and some moments they would probably like to forget.

How can our policy institutions regain the public’s trust? On this week’s Policy Forum Pod, we bring an ethical lens to the fields of law, economics, and politics.

Indonesia’s Jokowi government plans to use state-owned holding companies to stimulate a sluggish economy. But for the plan to succeed, it will need more than a one-size-fits-all strategy, Kyunghoon Kim writes.

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.