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EU and US trade negotiators seek to get TTIP talks back on track
Officials will rush to lock in progress on controversial trade deal before Barack Obama leaves White House in January. Trade negotiators will meet in New York next week to search for common ground on the controversial EU-US trade deal, which has been buffeted by strong opposition on both sides of the Atlantic. A team of […]
World Bank renews drive against inequality
Report says faster growth and more anti-inequality measures would be needed to meet goal of eliminating extreme poverty and boosting pay. The World Bank has called for a fresh drive to tackle inequality after warning that the gap between rich and poor risks thwarting its ambition of eliminating extreme poverty by 2030. Ahead of its […]
‘Trump’s promises are empty’: energy experts lay waste to proposals
From making coal great again to cancelling the Paris accord, industry analysts say his ideas are farfetched and his talk of climate change as a hoax is dangerous. Donald Trump’s energy agenda which includes pledges of complete energy independence, making coal great again and ditching the Paris climate deal is drawing bipartisan fire from industry […]
The economics of a 10 an hour living wage – BBC News
Image copyright PA John McDonnell promised he would reveal a new “interventionist” underpinning to Labour’s economic policy. And the shadow chancellor did not disappoint. New rules on takeovers to guarantee pay and pension payments, a doubling in size of the co-operative sector by giving workers rights to own businesses at the point of change of […]
The government wants more offshore fish farms, but no one is biting
The US imports about 91% of its seafood, half of which is farmed in aquaculture facilities. Should the US do more to kickstart its own industry? Off the coast of San Diego, Americas eighth largest city, commercial fishermen harvest about 1,100 metric tons of seafood from the Pacific every year. That sounds like a lot. […]