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Inclusive growth

  • Frances O'Grady

    Frances O’Grady: 'Britain has been very good at creating bad jobs'

    In May 2015 the UK faces a choice over the austerity agenda. Tamsin Rutter speaks to the TUC boss about what the election means for public sector workers
  • Alexis Tsipras, Greek prime minister, addresses parliament

    The Greek tech revolution: meet the citizens battling corruption

    Despite technophobia, a brain drain and a government that struggles to keep up, ordinary Greeks are using technology to tackle fraud and tax evasion
  • Battery charge vector icons

    10 barriers to using mobile technology to fight inequality

    There’s huge potential for mobile to be a catalyst for inclusive growth. But many challenges – from gender inequality to phone charging – must first be addressed
  • Detroit waterfront

    Detroit's gentrification won't give poor citizens reliable public services

    Call the police in Detroit and you’ll wait hours. But the wealthy have their own security forces. Can a city so divided be a model for regeneration?
  • Kenyan company M-Pesa allows people to transfer cash using their phones.

    Can mobile technology be a catalyst for inclusive growth?

    Join us on Thursday 26 February from 5-7pm GMT, to discuss the potential for the mobile industry to help lift people out of poverty
  • Melinda Gates speaking at Davos

    Melinda Gates: more women in work will boost the lives of the poorest

  • Participants at Davos 2015

    Davos 2015: overriding pessimism over growing inequality

  • Jim Wallis

    Jim Wallis: 'Ferguson is a parable about how black men are treated'

    Alec Hogg talks to the Christian activist in Davos about the growing equality movement post-Ferguson and a need for morality if capitalism is to work
  • Professor Christopher Pissarides won the Nobel prize for economics in 2010.

    Punishing the rich is not the answer to inequality, warns top economist

    Former Nobel laureate tells Davos that high taxes and handouts to the poorest are less effective than other options such as subsidising childcare
  • Private jet landing in the Alps

    As inequality soars, the nervous super rich are already planning their escapes

    Hedge fund managers are preparing getaways by buying airstrips and farms in remote areas, former hedge fund partner tells Davos during session on inequality, writes Alec Hogg
  • Helen Clark, UNDP

    Helen Clark: 'Many things blighting our world are linked to inequality'

    Alec Hogg talks to the head of the UNDP in Davos about how feelings of exclusion, not poverty, is the root cause of the volatile new global context
  • Anne-Marie Slaughter

    Davos 2015: world leaders 'failing on social cohesion'

    US is divided on race, class, justice and even transport options, while leaders everywhere are failing on equality, says thinktank chief
  • Man smoking cannabis

    Why marijuana legalization is an equality issue

    John Hudak
    John Hudak: The four US states that have legalized cannabis have entered a brave new policy world, with the goal of inclusive growth
  • A cable train makes in Davos, Switzerland

    Our economic system enriches the most powerful at the expense of the 99%

    Winnie Byanyima
    The richest 1% will soon be wealthier than the rest of the world combined. We must fix our global economy now – or face chaotic consequences
  • Slovak Roma residents of the district "Na Demetri" walk in front of a house in the eastern town of Kosice

    Ethnic inequality is widespread and a drag on the global economy

    Omar Khan
    The discrimination faced by minority groups in both developing and developed nations will not go away by itself. Governments everywhere must act
  • Close up of girl's hands holding globe

    Inclusive growth: how do we include everyone in global prosperity?

    The “staggering rise” in inequality is high on the economic agenda at Davos. Today we begin a three-month debate, with news and analysis of how global leaders are tackling the issue
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