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Anthony Barker has crunched some numbers to reveal that measures of relative inclusion and prosperity at Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) level in England can mask important local variations.  Using the Inclusive Growth Monitor methodology at local level The Inclusive Growth...

Viewed over 20 years there’s been little sustained improvement in poverty rates in the UK. But, how should we measure being poverty, and does how we measure it make a material difference to who is seen as in poverty? Anthony Barker looks at the new indicator developed by th...

Anthony Barker, our lead on Inequality & Poverty, explores what is meant by ‘inclusive growth’ and concludes that we don't currently have the necessary evidence to inform effective strategies to advance it. The 2018 UK poverty report published by the Joseph Rowntree Fo...

In this blog our Director, Anthony Barker, takes a look at inequality – What does it mean?  Why is it important to understand the wider policy impact? For many, ‘inequality’ is synonymous with issues of living standards, income and poverty. Indeed, there has been a r...

The latest edition of the Gender Equality Index, published today, shows that Europe is moving in the right direction. However, as the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)* says, this progress has come at a snail’s pace. The Index highlights continued wide difference...