Category: Business ethics
Blog: TOWARDS THE MANIFESTOS: Business perspectives on poverty and inequality in the UK
by Inclusive Growth Contributor
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Read moreBlog: The importance of effective partnerships for inclusive growth
โThe spirit of the Inclusive Economy Partnership is about generosity - generosity of time, ideas and support. Our purpose is creating a society weโre proud to pass on to our children. And the only way weโll do that is by building a new kind of inclusive economy.โ - Sacha Romanovich, CEO of [...]
Read moreBlog: HOW CAN THE FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY WORK WITH POLICYMAKERS TO SUPPORT INCLUSIVE GROWTH?
by Amelia Watts, Communications Manager, Blueprint for Better Business
โAt a time when technology is rewriting international financial services, we need to ask how policy is best placed to manage this process and ensure it reduces inequality and creates inclusive growthโ Greg Medcraft, Director of the OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise [...]
Read moreBlog: INCLUSIVE GROWTH: FROM ANALYSIS TO ACTION
by Amelia Watts, Communications Manager, Blueprint for Better Business
Last month we were honoured to be invited to join the All Parliamentary Party Group (APPG) on Inclusive Growth at theย OECD Global Parliamentary Network meeting in Parliamentย which was held to discuss inclusive growth. The organisers invited a number of business leaders associated with [...]
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: Davos Download: This time it MUST be different
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
This yearโs World Economic Forum, was given a flying start by the Managing Director of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, who delivered the organisationโs 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: Business: an essential partner for creating an inclusive economy
by Tom Levitt, former MP for High Peak
When the post-war global movers and shakers came together almost 70 years ago, on a piece of philanthropically-gifted real estate in New York, they were driven to act to save the planet from war and other challenges. The then 58 members of the United Nations absorbed the International Labour [...]
Read moreBlog: The wealthy have been doing rather well but what about the bottom 50%?
by Deborah Hardoon, Deputy Head of Research at Oxfam
Gotta love a data release. Every year I look forward to the release of the Credit Suisseย Global Wealth databook. An immense piece of work,ย developed over a decadeย and led byย Anthony Shorrocks, which brings together all available data on household wealth within countries all over the world. It [...]
Read moreBlog: The role of business in an inclusive economy
by Sacha Romanovitch, CEO of Grant Thornton UK LLP
Nearly ten years ago, in the midst of the global financial crisis, I found myself at work late into the night, planning the restructure of our firm. This was the worst thing I have ever had to do โ taking decisions that I knew would have severe consequences for some of my colleagues and their [...]
Read moreBlog: The social economy is missing in strategies to create more inclusive growth
by Andrea Westall, Strategy and Policy Consultant and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Open University
We therefore need to also look at how we structure economic activity, whether to improve access to and create โdecent jobsโ, or to ensure that people share more fairly in the proceeds of โgrowthโ. It was for this reason that the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) funded a piece of work that I was [...]
Read moreBlog: Community-led and collaborative models of growth are the cornerstone of an inclusive economy
by Nat Defriend, Director of Communities at the Young Foundation
We want to return to what she said in 2016 to offer her three concrete ideas for what she should do to deliver on this critical agenda. 1) The Prime Minister talked in 2016 about combatting the entrenched advantages of the privileged few. She was right to do so. We know from our work in […]
Read moreBlog: Tackling extreme pay inequality must be central to securing inclusive growth
by Wanda Wyporska, Executive Director of The Equality Trust
Last summer, the Prime Minister pledged to build a nation that โworks for everyone, not just the privileged fewโ. One of her central ambitions in setting out this vision was to tackle irresponsible business behaviour that leads to โirrational, unhealthy and growingโ pay gaps between bosses and [...]
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