15 resolutions for 2015

By Patrick Love. The best New Year’s toast I ever heard was proposed by some Poles, who claimed it’s traditional: “Here’s to the New Year, because even if it’s going to be worse than last year, it’s going to be better than next year”. But that’s an entirely personal view, and professionally, we’ll all be working to propose better policies for better lives again this year. So here with the help of Insights blog articles from 2014, is a list of 15 resolutions to make the world a better person in 2015.

1. Get fit. To begin at the beginning. Every list of resolutions worth its salt starts with this because so many readers have a personal stake in the issue. Most adults in the developed world are now overweight and a fifth are obese. In the United States, Mexico and New Zealand, that proportion rises to a third. Read more...