Building on the work from our focus on poverty, and previous series of poverty blogs we continue our new series on practical approaches to tackling poverty with Dr Cathryn MacCallum, Director of Sazani Associates explaining how Sazani works towards sustainable development and poverty reduction in Wales and Zanzibar. Sazani Associates…
In my first week as an undergraduate we were given an assignment on the relationship between super-national bodies, such as the EU, and devolution in the United Kingdom. At the time, I didn’t get it. These seemed to me to be divergent political trends pulling in opposite directions. And I…
Building on the work from our focus on poverty, and previous series of poverty blogs we continue our new series on practical approaches to tackling poverty with Dr Eva Elliott exploring how universities and researchers can work with communities more effectively to help reduce poverty. Universities are often seen, particularly…
Continuing our series on practical approaches to tackling poverty, Lucy Cui from the Young Foundations describes how the Amplify Cymru project sought to involve local people in making sustainable change in three Welsh communities. “If we change the story we tell ourselves then it leaves everything open to possibilities.” People…
Continuing our series on practical approaches to tackling poverty, Michael Trickey explores what actions should be taken as a result of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s poverty reduction strategy and the framework for action in Wales. The signals are all around us, whether the prospect of a ‘dreadful’ stagnation in UK…
Following on from our initial poverty series, which examined differing theoretical perspectives on reducing poverty, over the next two months we are publishing a series of blogs that explore how organisations and individuals are putting theory into practice. Several of these blogs focus on ways of taking account of the…
From the offset, the case for devolution in the UK featured strong calls for different regions to be granted the means with which to develop distinctive and place-appropriate responses to the issues they face. In the words of the former Labour First Minister of Wales (2000-2009), Rhodri Morgan, the devolved…
Most of the political interest around the Welsh Government’s draft budget has inevitably centred on the deal with Plaid Cymru. But in fiscal terms, there was another story. The Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government called it a ‘budget for stability and ambition’. It might also have been called…
The current Brexit debate is important and the structure of the UK’s trading and migration arrangements with our international neighbours will influence our future prosperity. However, other more fundamental long term issues remain important for the UK around productivity. UK productivity lags significantly behind that of our main international competitors…
Throughout the last 45 years the value of economic output has generally been lower in Wales than other UK countries and regions (see chart). By 2014, Gross Value Added (GVA) per head in Wales was 28 per cent below the UK average. In comparison, the Greater South East region –…
