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What does gender mean at the WTO, and who benefits?

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Following the World Trade Organisation’s recent Public Forum, Dr Erin Hannah and Dr Silke Trommer reflect on the new focus on gender in global trade and the challenges of addressing it.  Inserting meaningful gender sensitivity into the business of the WTO will require a massive paradigm shift and change in thinking The appointment of a […]

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The forgotten welfare gap in older age

Kingsley Purdam By Filed Under: Growth and Inclusion, Health and Social Care Posted:

As the winter months and colder weather approach, the University of Manchester’s Kingsley Purdam explains how welfare reform and austerity has affected the growing numbers of older people. Ongoing research into food insecurity shows older people are at risk of under-nutrition because of poverty, or because they don’t get the support they need to shop, […]

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Is having any job at all better for your health and wellbeing than being unemployed?

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There are long held assumptions that taking any job is better for a person’s health and wellbeing than being unemployed. A study of over 1000 unemployed adults by Tarani Chandola, Professor of Medical Sociology at The University of Manchester, compared health and stress levels of those remaining unemployed and different quality jobs. The study revealed evidence that […]

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Time to address the North-South health divide through proportionate economic growth incentives

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New research has revealed widening inequality between death rates in the northern and southern England. Here Professor Iain Buchan explains the significance of his research and calls on policymakers to take action and introduce northern weighting in industrial growth funds to address the North-South health divide. There has been an alarming rise since the mid-90s […]

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Why language statistics might be misleading

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This month’s issue of The Economist included an article entitled ‘Why central and eastern European children lag behind in British schools’. Here, Professor Yaron Matras responds to the article and discusses the difficulties of using official statistic to record languages. The article looks mainly to languages as being a factor in differential educational achievement, but […]

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The impact of inequalities in later life

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As part of our series of blogs examining The Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing’s (MICRA) new report ‘The Golden Generation?’ Anna Dixon, Chief Executive at the Centre for Ageing Better assesses the importance of inequality to this debate. There is a 19-year difference in healthy life expectancy between the richest and poorest neighbourhoods. The poorest […]

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Women in local government: time is on the side of change

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Last week, the Fawcett Society, in partnership with the Local Government Information Unit, released a report into whether local government works for women. Here, Cllr Angeliki Stogia, Executive Member for Environment and Skills at Manchester City Council, looks at the report’s recommendations and reflects on Manchester’s path to women’s political representation. We need a range […]

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Seven foundations for a stronger economy

Diane Coyle By Filed Under: Brexit, Growth and Inclusion Posted:

The independent Industrial Strategy Commission has issued its emerging findings. Commissioner Prof Diane Coyle outlines how the UK can address some of its longstanding economic weaknesses and deliver meaningful prosperity for everyone. Previous government intervention, which has been more accidental than purposeful, has not delivered a strong or fair economy Political consensus is key in […]

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The Conservative and DUP deal: a pick ‘n’ mix approach to equality

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As pundits and politicians across the UK try to digest and interpret the confidence and supply deal with between the Conservatives and the DUP, Dr. Elaine Dewhurst considers the implications of the deal for equality legislation and lays out a way forwards for equality and human rights in the UK.   There is a distinct […]

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Guaranteeing minimum income in China

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With China accounting for the lion’s share of global poverty reduction witnessed in recent decades, Dr Jennifer Golan looks to one of the largest targeted social assistance schemes in the world, and discusses its effectiveness. China’s minimum living standard guarantee programme provides cash transfers to households with incomes below a threshold Despite being a national […]

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