Barack obama signed his healthcare programme into law 427 days after taking office. Joko Widodo, Indonesia's president, took just two weeks to begin honouring his health-care and education promises. On November 3rd his government began issuing cards that will give poor Indonesians access to three programmes-two expanding publicly funded health care and education, and one giving cash handouts of 200,000 rupiah ($15.75) per month. The income top-up scheme is planned eventually to cover 86.4m people in 15.5m house-holds-a third of Indonesia's population. That would make it the largest such programme in the world.
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