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Piketty: Diagnosing inequality and prescribing a dose of anti-corruption

25 August 2014 in Access to information, Financial Markets, Poverty and development, Private sector

It’s the blockbuster policy book of the year: Thomas Piketty’s weighty Capital in the 21st Century, a 600 plus-page analysis of the scale and perils of rising inequality. As Piketty argues, wealth and return on capital are growing faster than the overall economy and income from labour. Making matters worse, labour income is becoming increasingly […]

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Thanks, British taxpayer! Thanks Royal Bank of Scotland

22 May 2013 in Europe and Central Asia, Region

Banks are currently not everybody’s darling so it’s no wonder that they try to polish their image. I was invited last week to a Scottish evening hosted by the Royal Bank of Scotland — which is 81 percent owned by the British government — at the Skylounge of the E-Werk, a typically lavish party location […]

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