At this time of the rapid spread of coronavirus we can, of course, easily see one the downsides of globalisation. However, globalisation has … Continue reading “Five decades on from Populorum Progressio, have we achieved one world?”

When I was a PhD student in the early 1990s, Francis Fukuyama published The End of History and the Last … Continue reading “The battle of ideas is NEVER over – and it is currently “less over” than ever”

Continued from Part 2… Alston makes many claims about living standards. Some turn out to be without foundation and based … Continue reading “Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short?! (Part 3)”

Continued from Part 1… Alston points to rising food insecurity and calls for the government to “systematically measure food security”. … Continue reading “Food banks and food insecurity (Part 2)”

There is a danger that anything a Christian writes about Christmas for an economics blog will be a heresy or … Continue reading “Oh what a wonderful world!”

Continued from Part 1. Furthermore, the condition of poverty is not uniform and some will endure more hardship than others. … Continue reading “How the UN gets poverty wrong? (Part 2)”

A few years ago, when my grandfather was still alive, my father took him to see Angela’s Ashes at the … Continue reading “How the UN gets poverty wrong (Part 1)”

Were it not for Brexit, the furore over the roll-out of Universal Credit would surely be dominating the headlines on … Continue reading “Don’t ditch Universal Credit, fix it”

Following an article I wrote about last week’s IPPR Commission on Economic Justice report, a correspondent argued that we should … Continue reading “The ‘cold, hard, facts’ about in-work poverty”