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The long game: Why politics, not evidence alone, drives welfare reform in Indonesia

  • Widyana Perdhani,

Democratic transitions can create opportunities for reform when governments have invested in the evidence, institutions, and coalitions needed to act when the opportunity emerges.

Gutom o Ginhawa: Why Philippine rice policy must align with smallholder practice

  • Dr Eric D U Gutierrez, Prof Wolfram Dressler, Dr Trent Brown, Dr Dominic Glover, A/Prof Brooke Wilmsen, Mercedes Limsa, Richelle Cañete, Rowelyn Agravio, Demi Divinagracia & Dr Michael Pido,

Modernisation and market reform were supposed to raise rice yields in the Philippines. But rice farming has grown more precarious.