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Three Facts about Debt and Deficits
Professor Roger Farmer is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Research Director at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR). The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, will present his Autumn Statement...
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Cost over quality: sexual health in an age of austerity
Dr Frances Amery is Lecturer in British Politics at the University of Bath and Co-Convener of the PSA Women and Politics Specialist Group. Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is a hugely important yet neglected area of public health. From access to abortion and...
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Comparing Basic Income Experiments: Lessons and Challenges
Dr Jurgen De Wispelaere is a Policy Fellow at the IPR, as well as Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Tampere. As part of the latter role, he plays a part in the Kela-led research team preparing the upcoming...
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A world collapsing
The measure of Donald Trump’s victory is given by those who have been first to welcome it: Marine Le Pen, Pauline Hanson, and David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Trump gave voice to deep wellsprings of...
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Some thoughts on Article 50 and the High Court Ruling
There can be little doubt that the government lost its case over the exercise of prerogative power to trigger notification of Article 50 (the mechanism by which the UK begins the process of leaving the European Union) very badly in...
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Citizen's Income: the long history of an inevitable idea
Dr Malcolm Torry is Director of the Citizen's Income Trust and a prolific author on the subject of Citizen's Income. On Tuesday 11 October the Institute for Policy Research hosted a seminar on the desirability and feasibility of a Citizen’s or...
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Cooperating for Africa: two challenges to meeting development goals
Seung-Jin Baek is an Economist at the Renewal of Planning Section of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and is studying on the IPR's Professional Doctorate programme. Currently, Africa faces a great challenge,...
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Exposing a fragile coalition: The state of the basic income debate
Dr Luke Martinelli is Research Associate on the IPR's universal basic income project. Is it time to move beyond the polarised views that characterise the basic income debate? Universal basic income (UBI) may be an attractive solution to a host of policy...
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Who will shape the future of the data society?
Dr Jonathan Gray is Prize Fellow at the IPR The contemporary world is held together by a vast and overlapping fabric of information systems. These information systems do not only tell us things about the world around us. They also...
