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TUC calls for employers to commit to living wage as pay gap widens
Report shows salaries for top 10% of earners rose faster than for bottom 10% as pay inequality intensifies across UKThe gap between the highest and lowest earners has widened since 2000 and most...
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The UK's neglected regions could be fired up by the power of imagination |...
Economists generate universal prescriptions, but no two places are alike – we need a radical shift in our mental modelsIf you split your time as I do, between London and your native Wales, you soon...
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Tories close in on Labour's lead in polls
Jon Cruddas adds his voice to calls for strategic change in Labour's direction as two new opinion polls are publishedEd Miliband has come under further pressure with two new polls suggesting the Labour...
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Inflation at lowest level in four years
Fall in petrol prices helped consumer price index rate hit 1.7%, below target of 2%, likely to mean prolonged low interest ratesA dip in petrol prices helped inflation fall to its slowest level in more...
View ArticleGovernment hails drop in inflation to four-year low – video
Treasury minister Sajid Javid says the new Consumer Prices Index measure of inflation shows the government's recovery plans are working
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George Osborne hopes for £4.2bn from sale of 7.5% stake in Lloyds Bank
Move suggests that the bailed-out bank will be back in private ownership before the general election next MayThe government has moved a step closer to returning Lloyds Banking Group to the private...
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Ed Miliband and the thinktanks' policy wishlist for Labour | @guardianletters
While "members of the progressive community" write to this page (Letters, 24 March) mapping out the principles on which Labour should build a new offer to the electorate, Cameron carries on marking out...
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No one formula for encouraging invention | @guardianletters
Larry Elliott asks if the innovations made by Formula One manufacturers cannot be used in the fight against climate change (When nudge comes to shove, 24 March). I agree. We sit on 400 years' worth of...
View ArticleTwo thirds of EU firms would repatriate jobs if regulations were simpler
A snapshot of major companies across the EU has found that the trend for placing operations abroad is waningAlmost a quarter of European companies plan to repatriate their foreign operations in the...
View ArticleAn economist's answer to the youth employment crisis in Africa
Governments need to encourage entrepreneurship and provide job-focused training to help the millions of young unemployed people on the continent, says OECDThis is a tough time to be young in Africa....
View ArticleBudget 2014: the government's spending and income visualised
How much money does the UK have coming in this year - and where will the spending be? Take a look at this visualisation, published the Guardian's Budget 2014 supplement, to see what the government's...
View ArticleDid Nasa fund 'civilisation collapse' study, or not?
Journalistic standards won't be upheld by attempting to discredit science we don't likeBlogger Keith Kloor, who writes for Discover magazine, claims that my article on a Nasa-funded study modelling...
View ArticleMonetarism is the living dead of economic theory let's kill it off
The Bank of England suddenly looks capable of doing what the government can't: consigning monetarism to the pastIn September 1976 the Labour government, headed by James Callaghan, approached the IMF...
View ArticleWanted: a tax-and-spend policy that makes sense
Conservatives like to cut and give away, Labour is unwisely relying on growth meanwhile, public services and social mobility sufferA dimension of post-budget analysis which has been ignored by almost...
View ArticleUK current account deficit far bigger than forecast
Government gap stands at more than £22bn, which equates to 5.4% of GDP, undermining claims of economic recoveryBritain was warned over the sustainability of the recoveryafter official figures showed...
View ArticleHow the right sold austerity as the only economic solution
More than 30 years of neoliberalism and six years of austerity have floored us, yet the left is incapable of mounting a serious challenge to this economic orthodoxy. Why?This is the bad news gospel:...
View ArticleGeorge Osborne: help for small firms rejected for a business loan
Speaking at today's Federation of Small Businesses 40th anniversary conference, George Osbourne reveals measures to help SMEs access financeA consultation on measures to help small businesses access...
View ArticleWorkers are treated with contempt. This should be Labour's focus
Ed Miliband's 'cost-of-living crisis' is just a symptom of a market system not delivering the prosperity its proponents promise. We need mutual respect between bosses and workersPoor Ed Miliband. He is...
View ArticleThe rules of healthy competition
Modern etiquette made simpleEveryone is in favour of healthy competition, healthy, in this context, meaning "difficult for me to lose".Rule: a company's enthusiasm for competition shrinks directly in...
View ArticleYoung people's financial woes are down to lack of knowledge, not funds
With interest rates set to rise, a whole generation of young people who have never known tight monetary policy are in for a shock. But there is one answer Goldilocks skipped merrily back into the world...
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