This paper reviews the achievements of the Labour Government’seducation policy between 1997 and 2001. Tony Blair claimed that hisGovernment would make education a priority. The first part of thepaper reviews the scale of education spending in relation to theeconomy at large and within the...

Poverty Street draws on evidence from twelve of the most disadvantagedneighbourhoods in England and Wales, using Census data from 1971, localadministrative data from 1998 onwards, and over 400 interviews conducted in 1999 and2001.The neighbourhoods have multiple problems - unemployment three...

As unemployment falls it is often the most disadvantaged unemployed whoget left behind. To identify what works to improve the job prospects of thisgroup, Helen Evans has looked at Bootstrap Enterprises in Hackney, anexample of a community-based employment project working for 22 years withthis...

One of the most significant changes in the labour market in the twentieth century was the rise of the internal labour market. Its origins can be found in the nineteenth century, particularly in the large service companies such as banks and the railway companies. By studying the internal labour...

This article does not address specific capital proposalsnor does it suggest specific new requirements. Theframework it provides, however, has implications for possiblefuture refinements in the supervisory approach to capitalrequirements.[...]

In both Britain and the United States, people have been moving awayfrom the inner cities to suburban developments, often leaving behindconcentrations of poverty and decaying neighbourhoods. Anne Power’spaper focuses on the British situation. As Britain comes to terms with theimplications of...

The housing system is intrinsically linked to almost every major area of government policy fromthe economy and taxation to the environment and education. It is driven by a huge range offactors from the behaviour of individuals to global economic forces. It is also in most casesthe greatest asset...

Trafford Hall offers training, support and pump-priming grants to residents andvolunteers in low income communities to help them tackle local problems within theircommunities. Since 1994 when the Centre opened, around 70,000 participants have beenon residential courses leading to action plans...

[...]The New York City Social Indicators Survey (SIS)project represents one effort to track the consequences ofpolicy reform and devolution for inequality and well-beingin the largest and most diverse city in the United States.The project uses a telephone survey to collect data from arepeated...