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Climate resilience and poverty reduction must go hand in hand in Africa
Long-term poverty reduction in East and Southern Africa can only be achieved through integrated packages of support to help people on the lowest incomes cope with climate crises. This is the finding of the new IDS Bulletin on ‘Climate Resilience and Poverty Reduction’, just published.
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Implementing Burnham’s ‘Manchesterism’: Four ideas to reduce inequality
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17 July 2026
Implementing Burnham’s ‘Manchesterism’: Four ideas to reduce inequality
The UK’s incoming Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, set out his vision for the country in a speech last month, with clear domestic policy aims around decentralising power, ‘bottom-up’ growth and more state intervention. This ‘Manchesterism’ ideology, following his decade-long role as Mayor of Manchester, is responding to the “failure of trickle-down economics” and the “end…
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