Category: Inclusive Growth
Blog: 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 [...]
Read moreBlog: 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: 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: Don’t depoliticise inclusive growth!
by Tony Payne, Professorial Fellow at the Sheffield Political Economy Research institute (SPERI)
That was the conclusion – both optimistic and pessimistic at the same time – that I drew at the end of a very interesting day spent in Glasgow two or three weeks ago as a delegate at what was described, with genuine national pride, as ‘Scotland’s Inclusive Growth Conference’. It was highly [...]
Read moreBlog: The social economy is missing in strategies to create more inclusive growth
by Andrea Westall, Strategy and Policy Consultant and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Open University
We therefore need to also look at how we structure economic activity, whether to improve access to and create ‘decent jobs’, or to ensure that people share more fairly in the proceeds of ‘growth’. It was for this reason that the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) funded a piece of work that I was [...]
Read moreBlog: Why Rebuild Macroeconomics?
by Angus Armstrong, Director of the Rebuilding Macroeconomics Network
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has invested in a brand-new network to understand the macroeconomy. This is an extraordinary opportunity; we know of no comparable research funding anywhere in the world. Through our network, Rebuilding Macroeconomics, over the next four years we [...]
Read moreBlog: 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 [...]
Read moreBlog: Building a more resilient and inclusive global economy
by Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
Thank you, Jean-Claude Trichet and Guntram Wolff, for your kind introductions. And thank you to Bruegel for hosting this event here at the wonderful Bibliothèque Solvay. As I experience this beautiful building, it reminds me that good architecture is not about geometry or design in the first [...]
Read moreBlog: Why don’t we just… make sure economic growth benefits everyone?
by Jane Thomas, Member of Sheffield’s Our Fair City Advisory Group
In the recent Budget, the Chancellor acknowledged that too many families are still feeling the squeeze, almost a decade on from the financial crash. Theresa May and Philip Hammond have both promoted the goal of inclusive economic growth or an “economy that delivers for everyone” yet there is no [...]
Read moreBlog: A country that works for everyone? Only with inclusive growth
by Stephanie Flanders, Chair of the RSA Inclusive Growth Commission
Britain’s vote to leave the EU has forced into the open a fundamental and increasingly urgent debate about the country’s future. Should we pursue a more Singaporean model of economic growth, with low taxes and tariffs to attract investment and trade? Or should we seek to ‘regain control’ of our [...]
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