#Israel ’s operation in eastern #Rafah is a culmination of 7-month campaign to forcibly transfer & destroy #Gaza ’s population - say UN experts, urging States with influence stop the assault and end flow of arms to Israel:

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Net zero is THE economic opportunity of the 21st century.

We can either build our way to net zero, and get the economic benefits, or buy our way to net zero, while others prosper.

Our new report looks at the future of manufacturing in the UK. Read here: ippr.org/articles/manuf…

Austerity’s children – those born after 2010 – now account for 3.4m of Britain’s 4.3m children in poverty, with an extra 100k children pushed into poverty every year.

The damage to them runs deep and will have devastating consequences.

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An Israeli human rights lawyer interrupts her own Al Jazeera interview for a tearful plea condemning Israel’s war on Gaza and Israelis attacking aid trucks headed for Gaza.

The US economy as a whole is doing well, but there are seriously worrying signs of rising financial stress for the most stressed households.
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We're looking for Policy Fellows to drive policy-oriented research & impact.

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IIPP’s Mariana Mazzucato & David Eaves write why central banks must create & shape a new digital infrastructure around interoperable payment systems to increase competition, inclusion, accessibility, & gain new tools for managing crises.

Read their Project Syndicate op-ed➡️ project-syndicate.org/commentary/cen…

Just as importantly, it requires capacity building within public institutions. Great ambitions minus new skills and new ways of working? Same old, same old.

Despite the Biden administration’s investments in industrial policy—and the United States’ economic recovery since the COVID-19 pandemic—many Americans continue to feel that the economy is not working for them, write Mariana Mazzucato and Sarah Doyle. trib.al/j8nKBJG

We have economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive. Now we need economies that enable us to thrive, whether or not they grow. Here's what I just wrote about it in The Guardian 1/2
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.Mariana Mazzucato, Rainer Kattel: 'The paradox at the heart of mission-driven government is that it pursues ambitious, clearly articulated policy goals through myriad policies & programs based on experimentation... not top-down planning exercises directed by omniscient policymakers.'

Join us on 30 May 2024 at 17:30 BST for the launch of the Mission Critical report by IIPP Director Mariana Mazzucato & Cllr Georgia Gould on their vision for mission driven governance in the UK.

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Hmmm. But Elon Musk got more than $5 billion from Uncle Sam (and that’s a figure from 10 years ago) latimes.com/business/la-fi…)

Prof Damon Silvers describes how the financial crisis discredited market fundamentalism, but also discredited democracy.

He tracks the resulting global rise of the authoritarian right wing, gaining political support from angry, alienated citizens as well as the tax-shy elite.

Corporations say they were forced to raise prices.

But their profits have skyrocketed since 2020.

They hit a record high in Q4 2023.

News flash: They used inflation as cover to get rich.

Ugh.

Im a Gunner. Duh.

Come on Spurs!!!!!!!!

Millions of British children born since 2010 have only known poverty. My £3bn plan would give them hope | Gordon Brown | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

IIPP’s Prof @RainerKattel and Manuel Maldonado discuss how challenge-based tools can be used by governments to tackle today’s complex problems.

Read their insights from IIPP’s work with national innovation agencies in the UK and Peru here ➡️ medium.com/iipp-blog/how-…