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Since the Industrial Revolution, the nation has depended on mobilising external sources of funding in order to deliver growth and development. It successfully attracted a large amount of capital expenditure for nationalised industries post WWII, and drew in impressive volumes of forei...
Breaking free of London-focused growth Photo credit: GeezaWeezer May 23, 2013 // By: James Meadway The graph below is perhaps the most important in British politics. It deserves to be far better known. It is taken directly from an Office for National Statistics publication and it show...
Mythbusters: “There’s nothing we can do about tax havens” May 16, 2013 // By: Stephen Reid Tax havens play a key role in facilitating tax avoidance, yet so far, few serious measures have been taken to prevent their operation. Fuelling this inertia are not one, but several myths: a boo...
David Cameron is on the wrong side of the global debate on inequality Photo credit: The Prime Minister's Office May 15, 2013 // By: Faiza Shaheen & Laura Stoll The Prime Minister, David Cameron, is opposed to including reduced income inequality as a target in the goals to replace the ...
The truth about money and happiness Photo credit: rachel_titriga May 9, 2013 // By: Laura Stoll & Juliet Michaelson , Centre for Well-being Last week Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers published a paper on the relationship between income and well-being that argued there was no suppor...
Selling off the Royal Mail - who would actually benefit? Photo credit: Not enough megapixels May 9, 2013 // By: Lindsay Mackie , nef Fellow Attempts by this Government and the last to privatize the Royal Mail have been beset with difficulties, from worries about whether one buyer exis...
Transforming finance: a ‘how to’ guide forged in the public interest Photo credit: John Bradley May 10, 2013 // By: Tony Greenham How can we create a more diverse banking industry? This is one of many questions that an alliance of civil society organisations, think-tanks and academics...
This isn't just about the effects of recession. We are all losing out, and losing out devastatingly, to the rise of a whole new class which has become known as the ‘One Per Cent’ (one per cent may be an overstatement: in the UK, 0.6 per cent of the population earns more than £150,000 ...
