A progressive moment: Social protection’s rationale identified as citizenship, not charity at IMF/LSE event
08/11/2018
Matthew Greenslade The London School of Economics is where the welfare state was invented. Social protection is now needed more than ever, everywhere, to address rising challenges of high inequality and political upheaval. A new social contract is needed, in all countries. Higher income countries have designed their welfare states,...
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