The latest ILO data on the labour market impact of the COVID-19 pandemic reveals the devastating effect on workers in the informal economy and on hundreds of millions of enterprises worldwide.
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Finance
Frances Coppola: Why central bankers don’t understand inflation
“The job of the central bank is not to set the current level of inflation, but to keep wages down by influencing people’s expectations of the future level of inflation.” Read here
National Politics
Ben Wray: Care Homes a Privatisation Story
The surprising number of coronavirus deaths in Scottish care homes conceals a greater scandal about the hollowing out of the the UK National Health Service. The 1996 privatisation of care homes was described by Allyson […]
EU politics
Portugal’s Socialists toast ‘biggest ever’ election win
From Politico The Portugese Socialist Party won an impressive electoral victory following its easing of austerity. Danger lurks, however, as the two far left parties in coalition with the Socialists, crucial in driving anti-neo-liberal policy, […]
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