Category - Economy

September 6, 2017

'Our economic model is broken', says Archbishop of Canterbury

The UK economy no longer translates economic growth into rising earnings, finds Commission on Economic Justice. Gains from growth have gone largely into profits rather than wages,
August 29, 2017

WEF launches third edition of Global Shapers Annual Survey

The World Economic Forum yesterday launched the third edition of the world’s most geographically diverse survey of millennials, the Global Shapers Annual Survey 2017.
March 27, 2017

UN agrees roadmap to women’s economic empowerment

The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women has agreed on a roadmap to women’s full and equal participation in the economy as a vital step to achieving sustainable development as the body concluded its two-week session.
January 3, 2017

Churches chief to have voice at world economic summit

The General Secretary of the World Council of Churches will participate in the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos from 17-20 January 2017.
March 16, 2016

Tax cuts for the rich, taxes and cuts for the poor

A regular theme of George Osborne's Chancellorship has been to reduce taxes for the rich while cutting the wages and services of everyone else, particularly those who are poorer.
March 16, 2016

Budget 2016 - violence in a smart suit

Gandhi said 'Poverty is the worst form of violence.' That being so, the Budget was a violent attack on people already battered and bruised.
March 16, 2016

Not getting it right on booms, slumps and austerity

The following from Professor John Weeks and Ann Pettifor of Prime Economics was published on 15 March 2016, a day ahead of the UK Budget speech by the Chancellor, in the Guardian newspaper:
March 16, 2016

George Osborne's economy isn't working: time to change tack

Today (16 March 2016) will be George Osborne’s seventh Spring budget.
September 14, 2015

Corbyn, the media, and the economic debate

As a new Shadow Cabinet takes shape, the economy promises to become the most fascinating area of policy debate.
July 8, 2015

Osborne's measures 'likely to increase inequality', says NEF

The Chancellor’s measures spelled out in the 2015 Summer Budget "are likely to worsen levels of UK inequality", says the New Economics Foundation.