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Blog: Seizing the Opportunity to Drive Inclusive Growth
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
This essay is included in the new book from the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and IMF: The Future of Work for the People we Serve. To sign up for the launch of the book as well as a conference on the future of work and inequality, click here! By Sir [...]
Read moreBlog: Automation and the Future of Work – Understanding the Numbers
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
This essay is included in the new book from the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and IMF: The Future of Work for the People we Serve. To sign up for the launch of the book as well as a conference on the future of work and inequality, click here! Dr Carl Frey and Michael […]
Read moreBlog: Introduction to ‘The Future of Work for the People We Serve’
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
This essay is included in the new book from the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and IMF: The Future of Work for the People we Serve. To sign up for the launch of the book as well as a conference on the future of work and inequality, click here! Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP, […]
Read moreBlog: Changing investment law for inclusive capitalism
The resignation of Sacha Romanovitch as Chief Executive of Grant Thornton – and the campaign waged against her by some of her partners – was a good reminder that inclusive capitalism won’t just happen because right minded people want it. If the press reports are to be believed, a significant [...]
Read moreBlog: The investment system must be transformed to become a vehicle for inclusive growth
This month, we mark the 10th anniversary of the 2008 financial crash with distressing levels of poverty prevalent in the UK. According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, one in eight UK workers (3.7 million) was living in poverty in 2017. We will find it hard to tackle this as long as our [...]
Read moreBlog: The importance of effective partnerships for inclusive growth
“The spirit of the Inclusive Economy Partnership is about generosity - generosity of time, ideas and support. Our purpose is creating a society we’re proud to pass on to our children. And the only way we’ll do that is by building a new kind of inclusive economy.” - Sacha Romanovich, CEO of [...]
Read moreBlog: Power to Change Capitalism for Good: The IPPR’s Economic Justice Commission
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
Thank you Mr Speaker It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I beg to move the motion in my name and I hope you will forgive me the beginning with a short hymn of praise to the Archbishop of Canterbury. It was at his behest that I and others founded the All-Party Parliamentary […]
Read moreBlog: Rolling back the state will never deliver equality
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
How do we mend capitalism and end populism? The populism that is fuelled by surging inequality around the world? After two years of hard graft, the IPPR has answers. Today, its commission on economic justice, whose members include the Archbishop of Canterbury, has produced its final report. It [...]
Read moreBlog: Prosperity and the productivity puzzle
The pursuit of inclusive growth is a challenge facing national government leaders across the world. From South Africa, Brazil and India, to the Congo, Egypt and Barbados, countries are developing strategies to ensure as many people as possible can contribute to and benefit from economic [...]
Read moreBlog: The Purpose of Finance – APPG roundtable discussion
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
The finance industry is one of the UK’s most successful industries. But it’s an industry most associated with boosting inequality than equality. And when things go wrong they go badly wrong for all of us. For years, we’ve focused on how the finance industry works, but not on why, or in other [...]
Read moreBlog: Inclusive Growth means thinking about low-pay sectors
by Dr Neil Lee, Associate Professor in Economic Geography, London School of Economics
Economic development tends to focus on the glamorous parts of the economy. Many cities, for example, are trying to attract Channel 4. In the US, they are bidding for the (second) Headquarters of Amazon. This focus is understandable, as sectors such as high-tech or media tend to produce some [...]
Read moreBlog: Reflections on the ‘Purpose of Finance’ from Positive Money
by Rob Macquarie, Economist, Positive Money
Positive Money is delighted to see a Parliamentary think tank addressing long-standing problems with our monetary and financial system. David Pitt-Watson and Hari Mann’s effort to kick-start a debate on the purpose of finance is an important contribution to the struggle to improve the sector [...]
Read moreBlog: THE ROLE OF BUSINESS IN PROMOTING INCLUSIVE GROWTH
by Amelia Watts, Communications Manager, Blueprint for Better Business
‘There is strong evidence that the current level of inequality is unsustainable from a political, social and economic perspective. We have changed the inclusive growth narrative, but now action must follow.’ Gabriela Ramos, OECD Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20, speaking to the OECD Global [...]
Read moreBlog: Greed’s not good
by Todd Holden, Lead for Inclusive Growth, The Growth Company
It doesn’t seem that long ago that terms like inclusive growth and social value sat in the margins of mainstream discussions. If they were seen at all, it was as public procurement technicalities, or easy to dismiss concepts in an economic model where profits are its raison d’etre. Not so [...]
Read moreBlog: What is the purpose of finance?
by Hari Mann and David Pitt-Watson, Purpose of Finance initiative, Pension Investment Corporation
So what is the purpose of finance? Try that question over dinner and you will likely get a somewhat cynical reply, about its self-serving nature. Financial crisis after crisis, scandal after scandal have not helped to build a narrative that the finance serves any purpose than to serve itself. [...]
Read moreBlog: HOW CAN THE FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY WORK WITH POLICYMAKERS TO SUPPORT INCLUSIVE GROWTH?
by Amelia Watts, Communications Manager, Blueprint for Better Business
‘At a time when technology is rewriting international financial services, we need to ask how policy is best placed to manage this process and ensure it reduces inequality and creates inclusive growth’ Greg Medcraft, Director of the OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise [...]
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