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The Lancet Public Health Commission on gambling
This Commission conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the global prevalence of gambling participation, including any risk gambling, gambling disorder, and problematic gambling in adults and adolescents. It found the harms to health and wellbeing that result from gambling are more substantial than previously understood.
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How regulators can benefit from a focus on risk: Harvard's Malcolm Sparrow
One of the issues that afflicts regulation is the “swinging of the regulatory pendulum”, as governments switch from adversarial enforcement-centred strategy to more trusting and cooperative postures, and then swing back again when something awful happens.