By Professor Tony Dobbins, HR Management and Employment Relations Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham Opinion: The minimum wage alone is insufficient to tackle working poverty and raise living standards, and is undermined by anti-worker policies producing the opposite. The Low Pay Commission estimates that approximately 2.4 million workers will receive close to a 5% … Continue reading “The National Living Wage: Is this a ‘Real Living Wage’?”
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World Water Day 2019: Leaving No One Behind
By Dr Nana Osei Bonsu, Research Fellow Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business, University of Birmingham Water is life – and rising human daily consumption patterns is causing water scarcity in many parts of the world. This over-consumption of water comes from not only everyday domestic use but the often invisible water used in … Continue reading “World Water Day 2019: Leaving No One Behind”
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the wealth of nations
By Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta University of Cambridge In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly agreed on an agenda for sustainable development in member countries. Nations committed themselves to meet 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), involving 169 socio-economic targets, by the year 2030. To measure progress in meeting those targets, it was proposed to … Continue reading “The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the wealth of nations”