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Blog: INCLUSIVE GROWTH: FROM ANALYSIS TO ACTION
by Amelia Watts, Communications Manager, Blueprint for Better Business
Last month we were honoured to be invited to join the All Parliamentary Party Group (APPG) on Inclusive Growth at the OECD Global Parliamentary Network meeting in Parliament which was held to discuss inclusive growth. The organisers invited a number of business leaders associated with [...]
Read moreBlog: Our research shows that a Citizen’s Basic Income would reduce poverty and inequality
A recent news item from the All Party Parliamentary Group tells us that new research from the House of Commons library suggests that, if nothing changes, the top 1% of the world’s population could own two-thirds of the planet’s wealth by 2030 if inequality grows at the same rate as it [...]
Read moreBlog: New figures suggest top 1% could own two-thirds of global wealth by 2030
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
New figures suggest top 1% could own two-thirds of global wealth by 2030 Research suggests British people worried by growing political power of global super-rich The top 1% of the world’s population could own two-thirds of the planet’s wealth by 2030 if inequality grows at the same [...]
Read moreBlog: Time to Rewrite the Rules: Remarks to the OECD Global Parliamentary Network Meeting on Inclusive Growth...
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
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Read moreBlog: House of Commons Library Research
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
Assuming that recent annual growth rates in the amount of wealth held by the top 1% and other 99% are maintained up to 2030. We can then estimate the share of total wealth held by the top 1% under such a scenario – though this is clearly simplistic. Nevertheless, following this [...]
Read moreBlog: Research suggests British people worried by growing political power of global super-rich
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
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Read moreBlog: New paper suggests asset managers take ‘Hippocratic Oath’ to ‘do no harm’: The Purpose of Asset Management...
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
Cross-party Parliamentary think-tank launches programme to harness the City to help fix inequality New paper suggests asset managers take ‘Hippocratic Oath’ to ‘do no harm’ Parliament’s cross-party economic think-tank, Inclusive Growth, has launched a new programme [...]
Read moreBlog: Inclusive Job Growth: Companies, Sectors and Places
by Mark Hepworth, Co-Founder and Director of Research and Policy, The Good Economy
The Good Economy co-founder, Mark Hepworth, shares new ratings of regions and sectors to see where inclusive growth is needed most.
Read moreBlog: The people’s stake – creating a force for convergence
by Stewart Lansley, author of 'A Sharing Economy: How Social Wealth Funds Reduce Inequality'
Creating a more inclusive economy, one that ensures that the proceeds of growth are more equally distributed, is a long-declared political goal. Yet it is a goal that has proved elusive. Over recent decades, the top one per cent has exercised its political and economic muscle to capture a [...]
Read moreBlog: A national investment bank could support enterprise and be a path to more sustainable growth
by Justin Protts, Chief Economist at Civitas
Since the financial crisis, economic growth has mainly been driven by the combination of a larger workforce and greater consumer spending. This is unsustainable. For growth to be experienced by everyone and to be sustainable then each worker will need the ability to produce and earn more. [...]
Read moreBlog: What we’re reading: Tuesday 20th February
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
How to create good work and inclusive growth in a 21st century economy David Burch, Policy & Research at the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) According to official government statistics, 2017 saw the British economy witness its highest period of employment since records began, [...]
Read moreBlog: Taxing Wealth: Going after the Big Money
High and rising income inequality is a serious concern in many countries, as highlighted in the IMF’s recent Fiscal Monitor. Wealth, however, is distributed even more unequally than income, as in the picture below. Although Thomas Piketty has famously proposed a coordinated global wealth tax of [...]
Read moreBlog: Davos Download: This time it MUST be different
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
This year’s World Economic Forum, was given a flying start by the Managing Director of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, who delivered the organisation’s first ever Davos update on the world economic outlook. For the first time since the financial crisis, economists are now forecasting that the [...]
Read moreBlog: Business: an essential partner for creating an inclusive economy
by Tom Levitt, former MP for High Peak
When the post-war global movers and shakers came together almost 70 years ago, on a piece of philanthropically-gifted real estate in New York, they were driven to act to save the planet from war and other challenges. The then 58 members of the United Nations absorbed the International Labour [...]
Read moreBlog: Inclusive growth through unlocking the potential of offenders
In November 2017, the UK government published its industrial strategy white paper. This sets out how businesses will be supported to grow the economy in the future. Also in 2017, the Parliamentary Work and Pensions Committee published its fifth report, Support for ex-offenders. While at first [...]
Read moreBlog: The wealthy have been doing rather well but what about the bottom 50%?
by Deborah Hardoon, Deputy Head of Research at Oxfam
Gotta love a data release. Every year I look forward to the release of the Credit Suisse Global Wealth databook. An immense piece of work, developed over a decade and led by Anthony Shorrocks, which brings together all available data on household wealth within countries all over the world. It [...]
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