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We talk about ‘fiscal responsibility’ but rarely are a government’s annual accounting exercises assessed in ethical terms.
There are at least five errors that marred the currency redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria, most of which could have been avoided.
Public spending cuts and the soaring cost of living will not only affect people lives now, but could trickle down through generations.
Cutting infrastructure spending and maintaining the pensions triple lock are among the questionable moves in Jeremy Hunt’s statement.
Used wisely, public debt could be a way to improve things for our children and grandchildren.
With an election ahead and finances stretched to capacity, the prime minister has a difficult balancing act to strike.
More people died from the austerity in the five years before the pandemic than have died from COVID since.
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.
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.
The promised £39 million is not enough to ‘level up’ park provision in the UK.
The prime minister’s party has long sought to reconcile political popularity with fiscal constraint.
Interviewees describe ‘scrimping and saving’ to make ends meet.
Boris Johnson is raising national insurance for employees and employers to help pay for the NHS and social care.
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 will have to balance austerity and the high expectations of the many unemployed young people and struggling people who voted for him.
The idea that funding cuts were inevitable and necessary is pervasive.
Hundreds of thousands more people died between 2010-11 and 2017-18 than anticipated. Austerity could have something to do with it
US trading partners can expect an export boom, but that alone will only have muted benefits for them.
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.
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Professor Emeritus of Economics, SOAS, University of London
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sheffield
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Professsor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Professor of Citizen Participation, University of Essex
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Associate Professor in Economic Policy, UCL
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Associate Professor in International Macroeconomics, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Emeritus Professor of Economics, and Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford
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Professor of Management, University of Essex
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Lecturer in Politics, York St John University
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School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Global Studies, Social Science & Planning, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of International Relations, Australian National University
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Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
