In September 1995, the Congressional O ce of Technology Assessment completed a study of the potential for AI technologies to detect money laundering by screening wire transfers. The study, conducted at the request of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, evaluates the technical and public policy implications of widespread use of AI technologies by the Federal government for fraud...

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Glenn McGee argues that the time is now for debating the morality of patenting human genes. In one sense he is surely right. While thousands of patents have been issued or are pending on many gene sequences, public policy with respect to ownership of the human genome is still far from settled. So a debate about the ethics of patenting genes is, if nothing else, timely. In another sense however,...

By reflecting their systemic nature, the Production Development Partnerships (PDP) in Healthcare represent a shift in healthcare policy and constitute the main instrument of public action on the part of the healthcare development policy community. Considering the importance of healthcare to a national development trajectory that combines economic competitiveness and social inclusion, this artic...

The elderly There is no magical age at which one becomes "old," and any special housing needs are never a consequence of age alone but rather of accompanying financial, mental, or physical disability. The old include some of our poorest, most vulnerable citizens-in 1986 a fifth of single pensioners lived in houses needing more than £1000 worth of urgent repairs to the external fabric.' But ther...

Recent years have seen enormous demand amongst policy makers for new insights from the behavioural sciences, especially neuroscience. This demand is matched by an increasing willingness on behalf of behavioural scientists to translate the policy implications of their work. But can neuroscience really help shape the governance of a nation? Or does this represent growing misuse of neuroscience to...

While drawing on different perspectives, the insightful responses of our commentators all highlight the increasingly crucial role of informal, and mostly unpaid caregivers. They also raise key questions. The first question, "how should we refer to caregivers," pushes us to acknowledge the diversity of caregiver characteristics, contexts and roles. The second, "how should we understand the careg...

Research on international migration often focuses on the outcomes for emigrants at their destination, thereby overlooking the consequences for the family members of migrants remaining in the home country. In source countries with rapidly aging populations such as Mexico, a critical public policy concern is how the elderly dependents of US migrants fare while their children are away. This paper ...

• Moving the debate forward I hope you enjoy our eleventh Vodafone Policy Paper. Our aim in these papers is to provide a platform for leading experts to write on issues in public policy that are important to us at Vodafone. These are the people that we listen to, even if we do not always agree with them. These are their views, not ours. We think that they have important things to say that shoul...