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  • 22 Mar 2012
    Budget: Underestimating the yield on the 50p top tax rate

    This morning (22 March 2012) Chancellor George Osborne is mainly taking stick for his so-called 'granny tax' - as the tabloids put it. That is the tax adjustments which mean that 4.41 million pensioners lose money and the Treasury claws back some £1.2 billion.

  • 4 Feb 2012
    Catholic bishops in India concerned about growing economic divide

    The president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India says that the widening gap between rich and poor is "a matter of serious concern for the church".

  • 2 Nov 2011
    The rich and the Western sovereign debt crisis
  • 25 Dec 2010
    Rowan and the rollicking rich

    Dr Rowan Williams' Christmas sermon amounted to a rebuke to the most prosperous in society, according to BBC religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott. Goodness. So what did the Archbishop of Canterbury actually say?

  • 14 Jan 2010
    Why poverty and wealth remain the issue

    Modern political discourse often denies the centrality of wealth and poverty to the concerns it addresses, says Simon Barrow. It is in denial. But so are Christians when they fail to see the centrality of wealth and poverty to the biblical narrative and to the Gospel vision.

  • 15 Oct 2009
    The "white working class" aren't racists

    The government's initiative for the "white working class" uses a loaded phrase and deflects attention from the real division in British society - between the very rich and the rest of us.

  • 21 Feb 2008
    Beyond rich-poor stereotypes

    In a world where we are used to generalizing, it is inevitable that we will continue to use expressions like “the rich” and “the poor”, says Paul Mukerji. But his time in Colombia led him to question the way this division is formulated.

  • 2 Dec 2007
    Christian Aid says rich must pay towards poor nations' climate action

    Christian Aid will push for a follow-on agreement to the Kyoto Protocol to include large-scale financial support for developing nations from the rich industrialised world at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali starting tomorrow.

  • 25 Nov 2007
    Rich have reneged on pledges to the poor, says church agency

    Rich countries have utterly reneged on their promise to pay £200 million a year to help poor countries cope with climate change, Christian Aid claims. Had the promise been kept, wealthier countries would have now contributed £584 million.