Resources
A review of current thinking about the nature of work and economic resilience
by Professor Anne Green
Projects funded by the Friends Provident Foundation contribute variously to proposing new solutions (innovation), gathering evidence to support and inform practice...
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Economic inequality and racial inequalities in the UK
by Omar Khan, Runnymede Trust
Inequality has risen up the public and policy agenda. While there is some dispute about how far inequality has risen or fallen in the past decade in Britain, there is increasing re...
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Friends Provident Foundation Annual Report 2016-17
by Friends Provident Charitable Foundation
Our Annual Report 2016-17 has been published.
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Fair Pay for Fair Work: A Look at Executive Compensation
This report by St Paul’s Institute makes recommendations to build on the recently improved disclosures on pay ratios. It calls for action regarding the lowest paid, and integrati...
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Remodelling Capitalism: how social wealth funds could transform Britain
by Stewart Lansley, Duncan McCann & Steve Schifferes
A pioneering new citizens’ wealth fund in the UK could provide a universal annual cash dividend and eventually a weekly basic income.
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Building Community Resilience
by Wessex Community Assets
This report explores how community benefit societies can support the shift towards a more resilient, sustainable and fairer economic system.
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Making the Most of Brexit
by Tom Startup and Claudia Wood
The UK’s decision to leave the EU creates both opportunities and risks in both the process of negotiation and the outcomes for the UK. The experts we consulted consider these to ...
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Gridlock in UK Power Markets: How Big Six capture of the regulatory process poses investor risk
by InfluenceMap
This report examines energy utilities and risks arising from the market transition to decarbonisation, decentralisation and democratisation (3Ds).
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Financial Inclusion Annual Monitoring Report 2017
by Karen Rowlingson and Stephen McKay
This report is the last in a series of five annual monitoring reports commissioned to monitor progress towards or away from financial inclusion in Britain.
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Wise Minds: The energy transition and large utilities
by Will Dawson and Ian Watt
The UK energy system is in flux. It is changing more quickly – and more fundamentally – than at any point since the Industrial Revolution.
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Moving beyond neoliberalism
by Laurie Laybourn-Langton and Michael Jacobs
Neoliberalism – the set of socioeconomic ideas and policies which have dominated public life over the last 40 years – has failed. Despite the evidence that neither its anal...
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Financial Innovation Today, Toward Economic Resilience
by Mark Davis and Tim Braunholtz-Speight
We are at the threshold of a cultural war over the meaning of money. The events of 2007/8 were quickly framed within an Overton Window as a global ‘financial’ crisis within the...
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Creating Good City Economies in the UK
by Clare Goff
In 2015 the Friends Provident Foundation awarded funding to the Centre for Local Economic Strategies – which owned New Start magazine – and the New Economics Foundation to map ...
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People Powered Prosperity: Ultra-local Approaches to Making Poorer Places Wealthier
by David Boyle and Tony Greenham
Can we find economic techniques which cities can use effectively to tackle their own market failures – and release their own wasted economic potential – and if so, why hasn’t...
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Financial System Resilience Index
This report on resilience in financial systems, from the New Economics Foundation, richly repays reading.
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