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Category: Inequality

Charting progressive routes to recovery

11/05/2009

TASC hosted a seminar today at which Maria Rodrigues, special advisor to the Federation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), made a presentation …

How sub-prime bankers 'bought' financial de-regulation in the US

Paul Sweeney 07/05/2009

Paul Sweeney: De-regulation did not just happen. It was bought, partially! So much for the idea that the free marketeers won the battle for ideas …

Wealth in a downturn

Paul Sweeney 29/04/2009

Paul Sweeney: Most of the banks and financial sector economists, especially those paid under the banks’ Marketing Budgets (as apposed to those bank …

Low corporate taxes and poverty

Slí Eile 27/04/2009

Sli Eile: In a letter to the Irish Times, Justin Kilcullen of Trócaire imagines what it would be like if ‘thousands of Africans, Asians, and Latin …

A notice from TASC: recruiting a Head of Policy

24/04/2009

TASC, the 'parent' of this blog, has received grant-aiding from the Atlantic Philanthropies and is working on a major new programme of work. We are …

Budget 2009, ODA and Guru George

22/04/2009

The effects of the recent Budget will be felt in the developing world as well as here in Ireland - click here for Oxfam's response to the ODA …

Rating the Raters

01/04/2009

‘Which is better, health or wealth?’, asks Cardinal Brady, RC Primate of Ireland. Standard and Poor’s (curious name) – the new shadow …

Responding to the crisis

24/03/2009

It can be hard to see beyond the impending budget and the rising crescendo of voices clamouring for cutting our way out of the present gathering …

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