- “Overall economic growth is important, but the poor should not have to wait until its benefits trickle down to them; with the right anti-poverty policies, governments can encourage trickle-up growth as well.” So says Kaushik Basu, chief economist of the World Bank.
- The government is going to force companies to disclose who owns them, in a bid to clamp down on shell companies used for tax evasion – an important and welcome development.
- ‘Economics is the last bastion of modernism’, says John Kay in this interview, as he picks a top five books on ‘economics in the real world’.
- In 14 months as Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson has had just two briefings on climate change.
The Earthbound Report 