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The next government should restore the value of benefits to cover the costs of living.
Austerity Britain has translated into worse lives for many people: tougher working conditions, minimal statutory services and a retraction of the local state at a time when people need it.
Ever since the welfare state was established in 1948, Britain’s elected leaders have grappled with how to pay for and deliver social care.
In my view, Sunak’s plan positions young people as a problem.
Targeting benefits at the most vulnerable sounds like good sense – but a wider support system could be more effective at tackling poverty.
Until government addresses the link between cuts to funding public services and the rise in knife crime, the violence children and young people are facing will continue.
Public goods like clean air and a stable climate demand more democratic planning, not less.
Birmingham’s spiralling budget deficits are the result of a decade of austerity and a disastrous implementation of a new Oracle IT system.
Beneath the obvious policy differences between Labour and National lies a tacit consensus on fundamental economic settings. Until that changes, political choice will be constrained.
The former chancellor and shadow chancellor have revealed how their parties collaborated on devising some of the most damaging policies of the past 20 years.
More than a decade of austerity in English local government has squeezed councils to their utter financial limits.
Evidence shows austerity has wide-ranging consequences for health.
It’s not always the case that poorer citizens want more public spending and richer people want less.
Numbers obtained through a freedom of information request reveal the dire state of the legal aid sector in England and Wales.
The conditions placed on countries borrowing money from the International Monetary Fund have further disadvantaged these countries economically.
Although English to speakers of other languages (Esol) is treated like any other subject, it can offer far more to those learners.
Prioritising economic growth without a plan to curb exploitative business practices is not a solution. The UK needs a return to the forward-thinking social reforms of 1945.
We talk about ‘fiscal responsibility’ but rarely are a government’s annual accounting exercises assessed in ethical terms.
There are at least five errors that marred the currency redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria, most of which could have been avoided.
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Professor Emeritus of Economics, SOAS, University of London
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor in International Macroeconomics, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Associate Professor in Economic Policy, UCL
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Professor of Management, University of Essex
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Professor of Citizen Participation, University of Essex
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Professsor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Emeritus Professor of Economics, and Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, York St John University
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Senior Lecturer in Global Studies, Social Science & Planning, RMIT University
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Professor of Public Health, Newcastle University
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Professor of Economics, University of Athens
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School of Social Sciences, Monash University
