Home Page Contents

Poverty & Activism

Tax Research UK

'Standortkonkurrenz' (*)

Victims of Neoliberalism's Planetary Casino

Asylum Seekers

Care of the Elderly

Child Poverty

Crime and Rehab

Deprived Children

Family Breakdown

Global Labour Market

Housing

Inequality

Mental Illness

'Neets' - Lost Generation

Street Gangs

The Crime Equation

Welfare US-Style

Welfare 'Reform'

Youth Unemployment

(*) Or "locational competition", which refers to what Zygmunt Bauman calls the "pedlar/beggar" role of government within neoliberalism:

Governments are reduced to the role of standortkonkurrenz to seduce free-floating capital to flow in and to cajole it to resist the temptation to flow out ... (it is the) ... pedlar/beggar role to which governments have been reduced in their struggle to keep their subjects alive and away from mischief ...

This is to help meet the demands of the Washington Consensus, and especially the avoidance of tax.

Firms' secret tax avoidance schemes cost UK billions:

Tax Gap    Going Dutch    What is the tax gap?




Back to top      Home Page


End Child Poverty

Closing the chasm
Devaluing Labor
Multinational rights and responsibilities
A competitive edge that Britain needs to preserve
Give globalisation
a human face
Food Stamps
Monaco's millionaire commuters
Tax Avoidance Costs ...
The consequences of a large underclass
Wisconsin welfare plan
Cupboards Are Bare