Policy Wise

And so is sex-determination

Policy Wise has in the past pointed out that it is futile to regulate women’s reproductive choices. A new study by the World Health organization brilliantly illustrates this point,
“We now have a global picture of induced abortion in the world, covering both countries where it is legal and countries where [...]

As expected, the Nobel peace prize for 2007 has been awarded for raising awareness about global warming to Al Gore and the United Nations Intergovernmental panel on Climate changed headed by Indian scientist Rajendra Pachauri.
The IPCC came out this year with its fourth report which categorically established global warming as a phenomenon which is inevitable. [...]

The wonderful freakonomics blog provides an excellent example of how laws can actually harm the intended beneficiaries. The American with Disabilities Act was enacted to afford greater civil rights protection to the disabled. But has it really helped them?
In 1990, the U.S. Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, or A.D.A., which was meant to [...]

In a very interesting article, Joel Waldfogel discusses how markets can fail for the same reason democracy often does: tyranny of numbers.
John Stuart Mill pointed out that voting gives rise to a tyranny of the majority. If we vote on what color shirts to make—or whether to make wide or narrow shoes—then the majority gets [...]

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Law is one field which has embraced internet in a big way. It is not only true for sites like Westlaw which facilitate legal research but even individual law firms have their own websites. The site Top lawyersof America attempts to make search for attorneys easier by bringing [...]

Green buildings are no longer the craze of the building industry; they are becoming rapidly mainstream. The latest ‘green building’ to join the list is a building in Athens:
The five-story structure in southern Athens produces zero emissions, uses no fossil fuel and meets virtually all its own energy demands — in winter and in summer [...]

An interesting story illustrates how global warming can change economic fortunes,
Every four years or so, killing spring frosts hit Quebec, nearly obliterating the year’s harvest around St.-Jean Lake, while Down East Maine, some 563 kilometers, or 350 miles, southeast, reliably produced millions of kilograms a year for use in jams, pie fillings and muffins.
But temperatures [...]