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Blog: Rethinking a New Economy
by Sue Newsom
“Financial deregulation has markedly increased the frequency and magnitude of banking crises, entrenching instability as a structural feature of the global economy and, in the case of 2007-08, leading to systemic breakdown. Economic growth has been based on an unprecedented [...]
Read moreBlog: Survival of the Richest
by Nomi Prins
Like a gilded coating that makes the dullest things glitter, today’s thin veneer of political populism covers a grotesque underbelly of growing inequality that’s hiding in plain sight. And this phenomenon of ever more concentrated wealth and power has both Newtonian and Darwinian components to [...]
Read moreBlog: The continuous challenge of labour rights
by Kari Tapiola
Fifty years ago, the International Labour Organization received the Nobel Peace Prize. In the lecture delivered on that occasion, the Director-General at the time, David Morse, concluded that the goal of social justice, established by the founders of the ILO in 1919, was a dynamic concept. “As [...]
Read moreBlog: Embedding inclusive growth into the nation’s psyche
by Ben Franklin
Growth at any cost is a defunct idea but there is confusion about where to go next Bill Clinton famously coined the term “it’s the economy stupid” when campaigning for President of the United States. At the time, it was generally believed that as long as public policy was aligned [...]
Read moreBlog: Capitalism, Democracy & the State
The 2008 financial crisis rocked global capitalism to its foundations. In its aftermath growth has slowed, living standards have stagnated, inequality has risen and tight fiscal austerity has re-shaped the social and political structure of many advanced countries. Developing economies have not [...]
Read moreBlog: Inequality is growing – but it’s not inevitable
On the eve of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Oxfam is again highlighting extreme economic inequality across the world. Our research shows that the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world saw their wealth decline by 11 per cent last year, while [...]
Read moreBlog: Future of Work Presentation: Liam Byrne MP
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
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Read moreBlog: Future of Work Presentation: Jeffrey Franks, IMF
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
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Read moreBlog: Future of Work Presentation: Jack Tadman, Opinium
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
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Read moreBlog: Ignore the USA
by Torsten Bell
In navigating this complex and important debate, I have one rule of thumb: ignore the United States of America. Why is that a good idea? First, if we focus on the US, we soon conclude that “wages and productivity growth are now completely unrelated”. This is something that has been a problem in [...]
Read moreBlog: Automation as opportunity
by Lily Cole
Running a technology company – impossible.com – for the last five years has given me the opportunity to watch from many angles, just how technology is affecting work, including the impact on jobs and how automation alters and sometimes replaces the workforce. One woman at Impossible, for [...]
Read moreBlog: Give workers a stake
The UK has one of the highest levels of regional inequality in Europe, so it is crucial for us to focus on the challenge of making sure any benefits growth are spread across the whole country. Coming up with just one key idea for this new social contract is a challenge. But the one I would [...]
Read moreBlog: The rich need to pay their fair share
by Michael Jacobs, Director of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice
In proposing one key idea for the new social contract, I will rather sneakily take six of the 73 policy recommendations in the final report of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice, under one general heading. The core argument of the Commission is that the way the UK economy – and many other [...]
Read moreBlog: Putting trade unions at the heart of the new social contract
150 years ago, the trade union movement gathered for its first ever Congress at the Mechanics Institute in Manchester. A century and a half later, our solution for social justice remains fundamentally unchanged: collective bargaining. Time and time again, our movement has proved that [...]
Read moreBlog: The Time is Now for Inclusive Growth
With echoes of Brexit ringing in Parliament’s corridors, an oasis of calm was to be found in Portcullis House, at the APPG on Inclusive Growth’s conference on the Future of Work and Inequality. But calmness should not be confused with complacency – the urgent need for inclusive growth to [...]
Read moreBlog: Time to include the excluded in economic growth
by Bev Hurley
Many UK cities and regions lag behind their EU competitors in GVA and productivity, and there are growing inequalities within and between regions in poverty, health and life chances. The majority of households living in poverty are in work, but in low paid/low status jobs, and two thirds of UK [...]
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