The gulf between the sexes.
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Gulf states have given women great education, but they are still very limited participants in the workplace.
More tragedy than drama: the fate of UK theatres hangs in the balance thanks to COVID-19.
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The theatre industry is facing an existential crisis and government action is urgently needed to ensure its survival.
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The city’s latest financial woes are a result of the coronavirus crisis.
Rishi Sunak, the UK chancellor, has already said he is “deeply troubled” by the OBR projections.
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Why most debt and deficit projections are still way too upbeat.
National Treasury and Finance Minister Tito Mboweni support budget cuts, labour market deregulation, and tax cuts.
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The South African government should be spending more, not less, to boost economic growth and create jobs.
This outbreak is going to show how decimated the UK’s welfare system is, and how it is the most vulnerable in society that will suffer the most.
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The UK is on the tipping point of a humanitarian emergency. To tackle this the government must now give more money to local authorities.
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Attempts by municipal councils to be inclusive towards their ethnic minorities are being hampered by austerity and rising nationalism.
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It’s time there was a serious policy response to the other key drivers of homicide rates, like poverty and austerity.
Sinn Fein generated a powerful story that they are the party that represents working people against the privileged.
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A short history of Ireland’s political economy explains Sinn Fein’s surge in popularity.
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Poor neighbourhoods are driving health inequalities in children.
The Alberto and Cristina show: the new president and deputy president turn out in Buenos Aires.
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The new government of Alberto Fernandez must now deal with Argentina’s least favourite international organisation.
Jeremy Corbyn tries to rebuild Labour’s support in the East Midlands.
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Years of austerity and growing inequality has left parts of the UK disenfranchised and frustrated.
Boris Johnson’s party has announced some modest spending increases.
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Before we declare the end of austerity, it is important to explore what exactly austerity was – and remind ourselves of the terrible toll it has had on many people’s lives.
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Food poverty is increasingly generating child victims, whose only salvation comes from donations of emergency food provisions.
Short-sighted?
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A political economist explains the background to Labour and the Conservatives’ new commitment to spending and borrowing.
A clouded future for local councils.
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Reforms to the way local authorities are funded are probably the most radical – and least discussed – changes made by the Conservative government.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis takes office as Greek prime minister.
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The road ahead remains rocky for Greece’s newly elected prime minister.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greece’s new prime minister, hugs his daughter after his election victory.
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Ten years after the onset of Greece’s biggest crisis since World War II, radical populism is running out of steam.
George Osborne’s eyes a return to politics.
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The main distinguishing feature of Osborne’s policy record was presiding over one of the worst economic recoveries in British history.
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Far from being a technical, commercial instrument, money can be a social and political construct that has immense radical potential.