Understanding the prominence of religions and their effects on the politics of gender defies facile explanations, say Anne Jenichen and Shahra Razavi
All public bodies are obliged to have "due regard" to the impact on people of their actions on grounds of gender, race and disability. So has the Treasury done so in the Spending Review that is even now decimating benefits and services across the country? The Equality and Human Rights Commission (
Osborne claimed in his June budget that the Coalition's economic strategy would be fair and progressive. Yet the brunt of their attack on the deficit will be borne by the poor, while business has been shown some astonishing largesse.
Collaboration between western academia and Pakistani women at home and in the diaspora has established a body of donor-funded research with an exclusive focus on Islam. Will development policies based on such research lead to any kind of liberation?
What is progress? Could our societies grow richer but everyone get more miserable? Is output the best measure of a nation's success? Such questions bring OurKingdom and openEconomy together to launch the Happiness Debate, which opens with an essay by Will Davies on the relationship between happine
What is progress? Could our societies grow richer but everyone get more miserable? Is output the best measure of a nation's success? Such questions bring openEconomy and OurKingdom together to host The Happiness Debate.
How do we reconcile the idealistic aspirations of the tax justice movement with the pragmatic need for reform? Richard Murphy, director of Tax Research LLP, sets out proposals.
"In A Strange Room" is South African writer Damon Galgut's new collection of stories. The difficulty of coexistence between travellers trying to get along seems to speak to the current condition of his homeland.
Listening to and watching Cameron pitching the government’s misguided plans for the NHS in the speech and media interviews on Monday, I was struck by the sheer gall of the man, as well as his ‘class arrogance’, or perhaps it should be his ‘class ignorance’. Actually it is both.
Informality allows people to change their immediate circumstances for the better, but it locks the state and society in a vicious circle of reproduction of a weak state, promising insecurity for the majority and prosperity for the few
