All posts tagged "Inequality"

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  Majority of citizens support development of global climate policy, study finds

  More than 80% of citizens across 20 countries think public policies to tackle climate change need to be put in place at the global level, while a majority support the

  • Posted June 25, 2025
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  License to build: understanding what people think about public sector use of AI

  Imogen Parker of the Ada Lovelace Institute argues that the public sector must consider people’s comfort with AI if it is to use the technology effectively. Here, she sets out

  • Posted June 24, 2025
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  UN introduces feminist climate justice framework for policymaking

  A new UN report has set out a framework for enabling women’s contribution towards climate justice and how it can be applied to policy in practice. The report shows how

  • Posted December 6, 2023
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  In pursuit of public good: the need for a welfare revolution in South Africa

  Jelena Vidojević of the New South Institute argues that South Africa must introduce comprehensive welfare reform if it is to address socio-economic divisions and deliver for the public good South

  • Posted July 30, 2023
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  The one-two punch: protecting living standards in an era of conflict and inflation

  At the Global Government Summit in Singapore, civil service leaders from 16 countries met to explore five of the biggest challenges facing their countries – debating first how to protect

  • Posted July 18, 2023
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  More information but less influence? A dilemma for government finance departments

  Fast-increasing access to data gives treasuries the tools to provide better targeted services, more effective policies and more comprehensive reporting. But at the Global Government Finance Summit, senior leaders worried

  • Posted December 15, 2022
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  US federal staff to be deployed to rural communities to boost economic opportunities

  US president Joe Biden has launched a programme to deploy federal government employees to rural areas to help local leaders access the resources they need to boost their communities.  The

  • Posted April 28, 2022
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  OECD report finds support for higher taxes to tackle inequality

  More than six out of 10 citizens from OECD countries want their government to tackle the income gap between rich and poor through taxes and wealth transfers, research has found.

  • Posted November 22, 2021
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  Mass vaccination: COVID-19 protection for the many, not the few

  Global rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations has raised questions over supply, inequality and logistics. Catherine Early heard panellists at a Global Government Forum webinar discuss how they have overcome the many

  • Posted November 18, 2021
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  Public attitudes to health inequalities in the UK in the context of COVID-19

  Life expectancy in England is stalling for the first time in a century and for some groups of people, it is falling. These differences in health outcomes, or health inequalities,

  • Posted November 3, 2021
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