“Any incoming progressive government will face massive social challenges. Leaving aside green issues, the biggest of these will be the income and wealth inequality that is crippling our society and leaving many in poverty.”
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“The financial and legal barriers to an ambitiously sized British NIB are not as challenging as might have been thought. Given this, whatever happens in regard to Brexit, it would seem the time is right to create such an institution to support British industry and help create a more investment-led growth model.”
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“Support for national and multilateral development banks has grown worldwide in the decade since the global financial crisis. And the continued success of national development banks (NDBs), in particular, will be vital to achieve more sustainable economic growth in the future.”
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“In recent years, even organisations like the IMF and the World Economic Forum have recognised the dangers of inequality. In particular, they have both drawn attention to both the high and rising inequality caused by austerity, and its damaging effects on both social cohesion and economic growth.”
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“The Green New Deal is being championed in the USA as a solution to the joint problems of climate change and economic inequality. But what exactly is it, and what is its wider significance?”
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“The persistence of austerity as an idea and a policy therefore owes far more to human emotions – or, as Keynes branded them, “animal spirits” – than it does to sound economics.”
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“Despite the multiplier’s effect on the change in real GDP being relatively straight-forward to calculate – once you know what it is – arriving at an accurate estimate of the current multiplier is very difficult; and forecasting it borders on the impossible.”
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“If we are to survive earth systems breakdown, then we must begin by transforming the Treasury and by removing the politicians that threaten the futures of today’s younger generations.”
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