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A Europe For the Many, Not the Few: Time to reverse the course of inequality and poverty in Europe

09/09/2015

8 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

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Europe is facing unacceptable levels of poverty and inequality. Instead of putting people first, policy decision making is increasingly influenced by wealthy elites who bend the rules to their advantage, worsening poverty and economic inequality, while steadily and significantly eroding democratic institutions. Austerity measures and unfair tax systems across Europe are skewed in favour of […]

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Journal article

Gendering the inequality debate

31/07/2015

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

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In the past 30 years, economic inequality has increased to unprecedented levels, and is generating widespread public concern among orthodox, as well as leftist and feminist, thinkers. This article explores the gender dimensions of growing economic inequality, summarises key arguments from feminist economics which expose the inadequacy of current mainstream economic analysis on which ‘development’ […]

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