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Inclusive Growth for UK Cities – new Manchester-based collaboration gets underway

Ruth Lupton By Ruth Lupton Filed Under: Inclusive Growth Posted: April 14, 2016

A new research team aims to make poverty reduction central to economic growth and devolution in Greater Manchester, and to provide analysis and insight on inclusive growth in GM and other UK cities. Ruth Lupton explains more about it and why it’s needed. The 15th April sees the launch of IGAU – a new independent […]

Tagged With: Greater Manchester, inclusive growth, Inclusive Growth Analysis Unit, inequality, poverty reduction

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At what point will we do something about inequality?

David Hulme By David Hulme Filed Under: All posts Posted: February 4, 2016

Oxfam’s annual inequality report reveals that the richest 1% now have as much wealth as the rest of the world combined. And the wealthiest 62 people on the planet have as much wealth as the poorest half of the global population. Professor David Hulme examines this extreme fiscal inequality and asks what can we do […]

Tagged With: global development, inequality, Oxfam, poverty, wealth

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Ethnically targeted government assistance: a hard sell

Rob Ford By Rob Ford Filed Under: Ethnicity Posted: December 21, 2015

How can the UK Government best tackle ethnic disadvantage? Dr Rob Ford looks at why a targeted approach aiming to tackle the problem directly could be politically dangerous. Discrimination is a serious problem in Britain. A wide range of research shows ethnic minorities suffer disadvantages in university applications, in the labour market, in the housing market […]

Tagged With: ethnicity, immigration, inequality, race

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Inequality: What is to be done?

David Hulme By David Hulme Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: June 30, 2015

Professor David Hulme tackles the problem of rising global inequality. Over the past few years there has been a wealth of research demonstrating the perils of inequality – both in the rich world and in developing countries. Studies have shown that increasing levels of inequality bring greater social problems and can act as a brake […]

Tagged With: Barak Obama, Davos, india, inequality, Latin America, millennium development goals, The Pope, TTIP

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Why childcare matters

By Brenda Gannon Filed Under: Featured, Westminster Watch Posted: June 4, 2015

Increased provision of free childcare will not only help to lift the UK’s productivity, it will also raise household incomes – potentially improving health outcomes for children, explains Dr Brenda Gannon. Currently, all children aged three or four are entitled to 15 hours of free childcare per week for 38 weeks. In last week’s Queen’s […]

Tagged With: childcare, Children and Young People's Health benchmarking tool, health, Health Survey for England, Healthy Lives - Healthy People, inequality, Marmot Review, productivity, Queens Speech

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Ethnic inequalities in health – policy paralysis and the need to be ambitious

James Nazroo By James Nazroo Filed Under: All posts, Ethnicity, Featured Posted: February 5, 2015

How and why does policy continue to fail to address inequalities in health? asks Professor James Nazroo. A recent report on inequalities in health, commissioned by the British Academy, brought together responses to the question, “What one policy could make a difference if implemented at a local level?” The context was, of course, local government, […]

Tagged With: Black Report, British Academy Report, employment rights, inequalities, inequality, Laia Bécares, local government, Runnymede Trust, This Generation

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Today’s global poverty is down to the way we run the world

David Hulme By David Hulme Filed Under: Featured Posted: October 16, 2014

Today is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and also Blog Action Day 2014, with the theme of inequality. Professor David Hulme laments the fact that global poverty still continues to plague our world – despite previous headline-grabbing pledges by the richest nations. Today, as on all the previous days of the 21st century, […]

Tagged With: blog action day 2014, Brooks World Poverty Institute, famine, global poor, health, inequality, MDGs, Millennium Declaration, nutrition, poverty, third world, water

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The decline of racial prejudice in Britain

Rob Ford By Rob Ford Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: August 21, 2014

The recent release of the 2013 British Social Attitudes report has triggered the usual bout of agonised soul searching about the state of the nation, writes Dr Robert Ford. But dig into the data and it becomes clear that racial prejudice is on the decline. The British, it seems, are becoming meaner and more inward […]

Tagged With: BSA, inequality, prejudice, racial prejudice, racism, social attitudes

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Ethnic inequalities persist in the labour market

James Nazroo By James Nazroo Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: July 10, 2014

Despite government programmes to address high levels of unemployment in ethnic minority groups, inequalities persist, explains Professor James Nazroo. The impact of the economic crisis on members of ethnic minority groups has been strangely overlooked. Discussions of falls in unemployment rates and how these relate to part time and insecure – zero hours – employment, […]

Tagged With: employment, ethnicity, inequality, racism, unemployment, work, zero hours

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Social enterprises: putting the social into the economy

Mike Emmerich By Mike Emmerich Filed Under: Featured Posted: May 29, 2014

With market forces and state funding failing to ensure the wellbeing of our cities, universities can be the architects in the development of a new social economy, argues Mike Emmerich. Austerity. Rising inequality. Poverty. Unemployment. An ageing population. These are all challenges that exercise the great minds of the world. There is recognition that a new approach […]

Tagged With: enterprise, inequality, social enterprise, society, Universities, wellbeing

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