Category: Corporate Governance

Blog: Corporate Power & the Global Economy

by SPERI Research Team

Corporations sit at the heart of contemporary capitalism. They command vast resources, govern entire swaths of our economy, and wield immense political power. For instance, the 2017 sales of Walmart, the world’s top retailer, was around US$500 billion, around the scale of the GDP of a rich [...]

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Blog: 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 [...]

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Blog: 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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Blog: The role of business in an inclusive economy

by Sacha Romanovitch, CEO of Grant Thornton UK LLP

Nearly ten years ago, in the midst of the global financial crisis, I found myself at work late into the night, planning the restructure of our firm. This was the worst thing I have ever had to do – taking decisions that I knew would have severe consequences for some of my colleagues and their [...]

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Blog: Why finance matters for inclusive growth

by David Pitt-Watson, Thinker and practitioner in the field of responsible investment and business practice

Most people would agree that a successful modern economy, particularly one which promotes inclusive growth, requires an effective financial system.  But few stop to ask how we might measure efficacy. Indeed you will search, almost in vain, amongst the writings of economists to find a single one [...]

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Blog: Community-led and collaborative models of growth are the cornerstone of an inclusive economy

by Nat Defriend, Director of Communities at the Young Foundation

We want to return to what she said in 2016 to offer her three concrete ideas for what she should do to deliver on this critical agenda. 1) The Prime Minister talked in 2016 about combatting the entrenched advantages of the privileged few. She was right to do so. We know from our work in […]

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Blog: The UK economy needs fundamental reform

by Michael Jacobs, Director of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice

Last week’s announcement by the Bank comes at a time when the UK’s growth forecasts are being downgraded and average real wages are falling. The MPC’s warning is solely a reflection of its mandate to control inflation: since the EU referendum vote, the depreciation of the pound has been pushing [...]

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Blog: Tackling extreme pay inequality must be central to securing inclusive growth

by Wanda Wyporska, Executive Director of The Equality Trust

Last summer, the Prime Minister pledged to build a nation that “works for everyone, not just the privileged few”. One of her central ambitions in setting out this vision was to tackle irresponsible business behaviour that leads to “irrational, unhealthy and growing” pay gaps between bosses and [...]

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Blog: Re-framing Tax Spillover

by Richard Murphy & Andrew Baker

Tax continues to fascinate the media, politicians and international political economists. In that approximate order there is also an increasing demand for data to support action on what many think to be tax abuse. Much of that demand relates to specific abuses of tax systems, whether by tax [...]

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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 [...]

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Blog: Our research shows that a Citizen’s Basic Income would red

  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 [...]

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Blog: What we’re reading: Tuesday 20th February

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, [...]

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Blog: 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 [...]

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