Mutual aid
People pull together when times are tough. Governments should let them. Guy Dauncey explains. In the 1870s there was a surge in the numbers of self-help groups in the …
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Nigeria: an infected economy
Malpractice and mismanagement have long been the emblem of Nigerian government. Covid has added to the West African nation’s woes and young Nigerians are fleeing their homeland. Grimot Nane looks …
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Time to be unreasonable
Normality: there can be no turning back, says John Barry. Like buses, crises (and the opportunities that can accompany them) seem to come in threes. First, we have Brexit and …
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Tax in the time of coronavirus
More tax reform is needed to repair the economic damage Covid-19 will wreak. But tax hikes are not the way forward. Richard Murphy explains. We can only hope the worst …
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The launch pad
Stewart Lansley asks if it is finally time for a guaranteed income floor, a form of progressive basic income that would build social resilience, opportunity and choice in an increasingly fragile and divided …
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The point of no return
The disintegration of growth is irreversible. Roxana Bobulescu explains. I was born in Romania in 1972 when the country was a socialist republic. It was the year of the Meadows …
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Dependency issues
Coming out of the pandemic crisis will be a difficult political and economic balancing act for the Eurozone. And Germany stands to topple, says Dirk Ehnts. The Eurozone is a …
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The human touch
Paul Frijters shares a dream. The world is getting hotter and wetter due to humanity increasing its carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions over the past 200 years. Even if …
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The only way out
Post-war reconstruction involved taxing the richest – it could help with building a low-carbon economy according to Dario Kenner. Amid the worst public health crisis in a generation, an economic disaster has …
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An inconveniently complex truth
Roland Kupers tells how complexity characterises climate policy questions. And how it also provides answers. The world’s governments in 2015 made a radical shift in the principles that governed their …
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