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America’s War on Poverty, America’s War on the Poor
Fifty years after Lyndon Johnson’s vision, American politicians desperately need to reinvigorate the stalled campaign against poverty David Coates January 2014 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the...
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Food banks and welfare reform
A ‘right to food’ approach can help to determine ultimate responsibility for preventing hunger Hannah Lambie-Mumford Last week the All Party Parliamentary Inquiry into hunger and food poverty was...
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Paul Ryan as the Prince of Paupers
The hard-nosed approach to poverty from the American Right is a threat to long-term democratic stability in the United States David Coates Given the scale and depth of poverty in the United States, it...
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Zero Hunger Britain
Brazil’s Zero Hunger programme is being adopted in countries around the world: why not Britain too? Tony Payne has argued that ‘we’re all developing countries now’. One corollary of this is that the...
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From MDGs to … SDGs
The world has drafted a spectacular new ‘to-do’ list of Sustainable Development Goals Following two years of deliberations at the UN in New York, UN ambassadors have proposed seventeen ‘Sustainable...
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The American economy at mid-term
The numbers don’t reflect the reality and give no cause for crowing over the Eurozone It is mid-term season in America: time for the Administration to talk up the strengths of the economy. The...
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Rwanda: an agrarian developmental state?
‘Getting the politics right’ in smallholder agriculture is an important first step in Rwanda’s development, but it needs to be sustained for a generation At the heart of the burgeoning literature on...
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When work doesn’t work
The left’s focus on full employment fails to address the realities of work and family in the twenty-first century ‘The clue is in the name’, Ed Miliband said, Labour is ‘the party of work’. The...
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What is the capabilities approach capable of?
Sen’s capabilities approach is not interested in poverty reduction through economic transformation. We should recognise it as a normative theory of well-being, not a social theory of change In...
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Inclusive growth at city-region level: a perspective from Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is an important test-bed for how inclusive growth can be put into practice at a local level The Inclusive Growth Analysis Unit (IGAU) was established in January 2016 by the Joseph...
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