Author: Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
Blog: House of Commons Library Research
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
Assuming that recent annual growth rates in the amount of wealth held by the top 1% and other 99% are maintained up to 2030. We can then estimate the share of total wealth held by the top 1% under such a scenario – though this is clearly simplistic. Nevertheless, following this [...]
Read moreBlog: Research suggests British people worried by growing political power of global super-rich
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
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Read moreBlog: New paper suggests asset managers take ‘Hippocratic Oath’ to ‘do no harm’: The Purpose of Asset Management...
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
Cross-party Parliamentary think-tank launches programme to harness the City to help fix inequality New paper suggests asset managers take ‘Hippocratic Oath’ to ‘do no harm’ Parliament’s cross-party economic think-tank, Inclusive Growth, has launched a new programme [...]
Read moreBlog: What we’re reading: Tuesday 20th February
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
How to create good work and inclusive growth in a 21st century economy David Burch, Policy & Research at the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) According to official government statistics, 2017 saw the British economy witness its highest period of employment since records began, [...]
Read moreBlog: Davos Download: This time it MUST be different
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
This year’s World Economic Forum, was given a flying start by the Managing Director of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, who delivered the organisation’s first ever Davos update on the world economic outlook. For the first time since the financial crisis, economists are now forecasting that the [...]
Read moreBlog: UK recovery now worse than after Great Depression
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
The research confirmed that the path of the recession in 1929-31 followed a similar path to the crisis of 2008-09 but the recovery over the last ten years has been much slower. Ten years after the Wall Street financial crash, Britain had left the Gold Standard and, like today, pursued a policy [...]
Read moreBlog: The New Agenda for Tax Reform
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, we have created a world of very rich elites and very remote elites, where the top one per cent now control half of global wealth – 85 families own more than three billion of the world’s people – while public life has been drained of politics and the […]
Read moreBlog: Welcome to the Future of Political Economy
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
In the US, new research shows that in the rust-belt states an incredible 40% of those born in 1980 are worse off than their parents. Here in the UK the gender pay gap still looms large – and as the Institute for Fiscal Studies revealed, there has been a four-fold increase in the number of […]
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