At what price wealth?
Monday, April 11th, 2011 by Katherine Trebeck Posted in Attitudes, Cuts, Equality, Fairness, UK poverty, Wellbeing, Whose Economy | No Comments »Reviewing the recently concluded Whose Economy? seminar series, a few major themes stand out. One of these was the issue of wealth: what is the price that our society, our economy and our environment pays for great extremes of wealth? As ...
“All the jobs on offer are low paid and insecure”
Thursday, March 24th, 2011 by Oxfam UK Poverty Posted in Equality, UK poverty | No Comments »Speaking at a Fawcett Society briefing on the 11th of March, single mother Julie King (activist for the Bristol based Single Parent Action Network, an Oxfam partner) highlighted the difficulty of being a single mother trying to find work. With ...
Can human rights provide a counter-narrative to the cuts agenda?
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Attitudes, Cuts, Equality, Fairness, UK poverty, Welfare reform, Wellbeing | 4 Comments »As we increasingly begin to feel the real effects of public spending cuts, the government’s language of ‘fairness’ will feel more empty than ever. Cuts to the public services that the poorest in society in particular rely on are going ...
Want to avoid financial crises? Then reduce inequality, says the IMF
Friday, January 21st, 2011 by Oxfam UK Poverty Posted in Equality, Inequality, UK poverty | No Comments »What are they putting in the water at the IMF these days? Following its recent advocacy of not one, but two new global taxes, a new IMF working paper by Michael Kumhof and Romain Ranciere links inequality with financial crises... See ...
New Oxfam discussion paper: Whose Economy?
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011 by Oxfam UK Poverty Posted in Attitudes, Equality, Fairness, Inequality, Livelihoods, UK poverty, Wellbeing | 2 Comments »Many Scots face a life characterised by high mortality, economic inactivity, mental and physical ill-health, poor educational attainment, and increasing exclusion. But anti-poverty policy in Scotland (and the UK) has tended to prioritise only narrow economic growth policies, emphasising employment ...
Austerity explained – or the myth of virtuous consolidation
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 by Oxfam UK Poverty Posted in Attitudes, Cuts, Debt, Equality, Fairness | 2 Comments »A short video in which Mark Blyth, professor of International Political Economy at Brown University and faculty fellow at its Watson Institute for International Studies, unpicks the way in which governments worldwide tackle deficit. Are those responsible and those who ...
