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  • 23 Mar 2011
    The wrong economic telescope, chancellor

    Once again, as the budget looms, the government is looking down the wrong end of the economic telescope.

  • 19 Jan 2011
    Trickle down needs trickle up

    Seventeen miles outside the Mozambique capital of Maputo sprawls the Mozal aluminium smelter - a huge industrial complex that cuts into the red earth and scrub woodland of the Boane district.

  • 8 Jan 2011
    Client economics in West Africa

    As I have observed in previous articles arising from my 2011 Ghana trip, economic and political life here is comparatively stable and prosperous, and there has been substantial growth over the past decade - but how benefits are assessed very much depends on perspective. Structurally, and in terms of levelling income and power distribution, things look much less rosy, for sure.

  • 12 Nov 2010
    G20 urged to stop using trade as football, start using it to help poorest

    As conflicts over trade interests dominates the G20 Summit in Seoul, CAFOD is urging world leaders to ensure trade is used as a tool for development.

  • 11 Nov 2010
    Small is ignored, but has the capacity to weather a financial crisis

    The G20 nations are flying in to Seoul in South Korea today for the start of the two-day summit which will see a new development agenda discussed.

    Tonight, heads of state will gather for a working dinner before meeting tomorrow around the negotiating table proper. But for many of them it will only have been days since they saw each other last, with the US courting India and Cameron skirting the human rights elephant in the room during trade tête-à-têtes with the Chinese supremo.

  • 11 Nov 2010
    Anger spills over in student protest against tuition fees hike

    The National Union of Students has condemned the violent actions of "rogue protestors" as undermining an otherwise peaceful tuition fees protest.

  • 28 Sep 2010
    Live launch for Archbishop's book on economic morality

    The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Guardian's economics editor Larry Elliott have 'live launched' a new book on the role of morality and ethics in business.

  • 27 Sep 2010
    Unjust economic systems sustain poverty, churches say

    We must change the global economic system to eradicate hunger and poverty, said participants in a forum co-sponsored by Church World Service.

  • 23 Sep 2010
    World churches' leader says radical economic change is needed

    The General Secretary of the World Council of Churches has written to the UN Secretary-General urging economic change to embed anti-poverty goals.

  • 24 Jun 2010
    Leading analysts say Budget is risky as well regressive

    The UK coalition government has been left on the back foot in defending its emergency budget after established analysts proclaimed its social impact regressive and its economic approach flawed.