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Matty Leppard

BBC News - Emerging nations more upbeat on 2011 than G7: survey - 0 views

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  • Matty Leppard on 22 Dec 10
     
    Article talking about how people from the east and developing nations are expecting a good year of prosperity.
Duncan Innes

Inequality increasing globally including in India: Christine Lagarde - The Economic Times - 1 views

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  • adding that the richest 85 people in the world own the same amount of wealth as the bottom half of the world's population.
  • "It leads to an economy of exclusion, and a wasteland of discarded potential," Lagarde said.
  • Duncan Innes on 04 Feb 14
     
    Lagarde emphasizes how inequality has been underestimated. 
Duncan Innes

Profit vs principles - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Duncan Innes on 11 Jul 13
     
    5 minute video on corporate aims and objectives inc CSR
Duncan Innes

World job crisis is a threat to democracy, says IMF head | Business | The Observer - 0 views

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  • Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF's managing director, warned that "we face the risk of a lost generation", adding: "When you lose your job, your health is likely to be worse. When you lose your job, the education of your children is likely to be worse. When you lose your job, social stability is likely to be worse – which threatens democracy and even peace. So we shouldn't fool ourselves. We are not out of the woods yet. And for the man in the street, a recovery without jobs doesn't mean much."
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      Duncan Innes on 10 Oct 10
       
      USA is losing patience with China
  • Tim Geithner, Obama's treasury secretary, said: "The United States believes that global rebalancing is not progressing as well as needed to avoid threats to the global economic recovery.
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  • "Our initial achievements are at risk of being undermined by the limited extent of progress toward more domestic demand-led growth in countries running external surpluses and by the extent of foreign exchange intervention as countries with undervalued currencies lean against appreciation."
  • "In the G20 framework there are too many people and too many interests to be able to find a currency arrangement," Juncker said. "The ideal forum would be G7 plus China."
Thomas Minney

Poverty Is Poison - New York Times - 0 views

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  • many children growing up in very poor families with low social status experience unhealthy levels of stress hormones, which impair their neural development
  • That’s not surprising. Growing up in poverty puts you at a disadvantage at every step. I’d bracket those new studies on brain development in early childhood with a study from the National Center for Education Statistics, which tracked a group of students who were in eighth grade in 1988. The study found, roughly speaking, that in modern America parental status trumps ability: students who did very well on a standardized test but came from low-status families were slightly less likely to get through college than students who tested poorly but had well-off parents.None of this is inevitable. Poverty rates are much lower in most European countries than i
  • came into office in 1997 made reducing poverty a priority — and despite some setbacks, its program of income subsidies and other aid has achieved a great deal. Child poverty, in particular, has been cut in half by the measure that corresponds most closely to the U.S. definition. At the moment it’s hard to imagine anything comparable happening in this country. To their credit — and to the credit of John Edwards, who goaded them
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  • dest in scope and far from central to their campaigns.I’m not blaming them for that; if a progressive wins this election, it will be by promising to ease the anxiety of the middle class rather than aiding the poor. And for a variety of reasons, health care, not poverty, should be the first priority of a Democratic administration.
  • he nation turns back to the task it abandoned — that of ending the poverty that still poisons so many American lives.
  • the alleged abuses of welfare queens driving Cadillacs, and the fight against poverty was largely abandoned.In 2006, 17.4 percent of children in America lived below the poverty line, substantially more than in 1969. And even this measure probably unders
  • as always been a form of exile, of being cut off from the larger society. But the distance between the poor and the rest of us is much greater than it was 40 years ago, because most American incomes have risen in real terms while the official poverty line has not. To be poor in America today, even more than in the past, is to be an outcast in your own country. And that, the neuroscientists tell us, is what poisons a child’s brain.
  • failure to make progress in reducing poverty, especially among children, should provoke a lot of soul-searching. Unfortunately, what it often seems to
  • Some of these excuses take the form of assertions that America’s poor really aren’t all that poor — a claim that always has me wondering whether those making it watched an
  • eativity in making excuses.
  • an city. Mainly, however, excuses for poverty involve the assertion that the United States is a land of opportunity, a place where people can start out poor, work hard and become rich.But the fact of the matter is that Horatio Al
  • dren growing up in very poor families with low social status experience unhealthy levels
  • Thomas Minney on 16 Dec 10
     
    The effect of poverty on children and families, and it's multiple and long term consequences.
Duncan Innes

Macroeconomics - Theories of Economic Growth - 1 views

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  • The annual growth of productivity in the British economy increased by only 0.8% in 2005 the slowest growth since the recession year of 1990. There are many reasons for this sluggish growth of productivity. Part of the reason was the slowdown in growth in 2005 because output and output per worker tend to be positively correlated. In an economy where demand and output is weaker, people in work are not being used as intensively compared to when the economy is stronger. Deeper-rooted explanations for weak productivity performance focus on supply-side deficiencies. These include the effects of skills gaps in industry; and the transfer of the economy's resources into the public sector where productivity is lower. Other factors contributing to sluggish productivity growth include the effects of business red tape and a persistently low rate of spending on research and development.Low productivity growth means that little progress has been made in reducing the productivity gap that exists between the UK and most of her major competitors.
  • Duncan Innes on 09 Jan 11
     
    How economies grow. Analysis of supply side factors: Output per worker, the movement of services to the the less efficient public sector, skills gap, red tape, low spending on R&D, quality and quantity of labour supply, low productivity growth in workforce, innovation 
Duncan Innes

Down with people « Peace Dividend Trust Blog - 0 views

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  • Duncan Innes on 10 Feb 11
     
    What is the true cost of a volunteer in Africa?
Duncan Innes

BBC News - Higher tax rate to hit 750,000 more people, says IFS - 0 views

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  • Duncan Innes on 31 Jan 11
     
    A clear graph on the marginal rates of direct taxation. An article identifying the winners and losers after April 2011 changes
Duncan Innes

Unemployment rises above 2.5m milestone | Business | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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  • Unemployment rises above 2.5m milestone • Jobless total rises to 2.51m • Unemployment rate at 7.9%• Public sector employment falls by 111,000• Claimant count rises by 20,300 in August•Youth unemployment increases to 972,000
  • Duncan Innes on 16 Sep 11
     
    Unemployment trends sept 11
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