This blog was first published on 27th November 2017 on the SPERI political economy blog. We have republished it with the kind permission of the author, Andrew Baker, Faculty Professorial Fellow, SPERI who discusses the key points from the recent workshop with the Tax Justice Network: Earlier … [Read more...]
Enlighten Project
The Spider’s Web film wins ARFF Global Award
We're delighted that Michael Oswald's documentary film The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire has won the monthly Global Award from the Berlin Around International Film Festival (ARFF). The Spider's Web, which was co-produced by TJN's John Christensen, draws inspiration from Nicholas Shaxson's … [Read more...]
Research shows UK’s Finance Curse grip tightening in next five years
Britain's Trade Unions Congress has published projections showing the increasingly unbalanced growth of the UK economy. As you can see from this map, economic activity is skewed in the direction of England's south-east region, which includes London. It's forecast to produce 40.1 percent of the UK's … [Read more...]
Ten years on, dodgy debt continues to threaten global chaos
In early September 2017, ten years after the collapse of UK bank Northern Rock, TJN will be publishing a special edition of Tax Justice Focus, guest edited by Professor Daniel Mügge (University of Amsterdam) which draws on fresh research from the EU-funded Enlighten programme. In this article … [Read more...]
London and the Finance Curse: the view of a top development economist
The Globalist has just published an article by Helmut Reisen, former Head of Research at the OECD's influential Development Centre, in which he discusses the developmental impact of the recent fall in the value of sterling. He comes to similar conclusions to those we blogged last month; allowing … [Read more...]
