Financial worries stemming from austerity could span generations.
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Public spending cuts and the soaring cost of living will not only affect people lives now, but could trickle down through generations.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt: even in a crisis, don’t expect the government to play with a straight bat.
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Cutting infrastructure spending and maintaining the pensions triple lock are among the questionable moves in Jeremy Hunt’s statement.
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Used wisely, public debt could be a way to improve things for our children and grandchildren.
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With an election ahead and finances stretched to capacity, the prime minister has a difficult balancing act to strike.
Austerity-related deaths lead to fears about what forthcoming cuts might lead to this winter, amid the cost of living crisis.
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More people died from the austerity in the five years before the pandemic than have died from COVID since.
Kristalina Georgieva, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, speaking in Senegal in 2019.
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The IMF sends its staff on two types of mission to member countries: to assess the state of the country’s macro economy or to assess the need for financial support.
Giving greater visibility to paralympic sports is only part of what is needed to make inclusivity a reality for all.
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Mega-events like the Olympics have the potential to start important conversations around societal change. But improving the lives of disabled people takes much more than that.
Wealthy areas of London have better green space provision than the national average.
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The promised £39 million is not enough to ‘level up’ park provision in the UK.
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The prime minister’s party has long sought to reconcile political popularity with fiscal constraint.
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Interviewees describe ‘scrimping and saving’ to make ends meet.
How to raise taxes and be Conservative at the same time.
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Boris Johnson is raising national insurance for employees and employers to help pay for the NHS and social care.
Trying to be iron and quicksilver at the same time.
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With an ageing population, pandemic recovery and climate emergency in the in-tray, social care is not the only thing the chancellor has to finance.
Zambia’s new president Hakainde Hichilema.
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Zambia’s new president will have to balance austerity and the high expectations of the many unemployed young people and struggling people who voted for him.
Cameron and Osborne: architects of austerity.
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The idea that funding cuts were inevitable and necessary is pervasive.
Over 90% of local authorities in England experienced more deaths than expected between 2010-11 and 2017-18.
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Hundreds of thousands more people died between 2010-11 and 2017-18 than anticipated. Austerity could have something to do with it
‘It’s big but it can only do so much.’
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US trading partners can expect an export boom, but that alone will only have muted benefits for them.
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Greek musicians have shown that developing new solidarities and campaigning initiatives with other performers could be the way forward in responding to issues caused by COVID.
Expenditure cuts require a political settlement that has failed to materialise under South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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South Africa’s National Treasury now proposes to reduce salaries. On the face of it this seems sensible. But the fundamental issue is the structure of the public service.
Victory: supporters of Jair Bolsonaro celebrate in October 2018.
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A new study shows how economic shocks caused by cuts to import tariff cuts in the 1990s is linked to the rise of populism in Brazil.
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Many leisure centres survived austerity by transferring their management to the local community – could this tactic work again in today’s crisis?