Great new (open access) book on informality and its future!

Chen et al UNU-WIDER
wider.unu.edu/publication/co…

EU Directive on violence against women adopted.

Should make big difference for homeless women who are victim of violence - better accommodation + support.

MS have 3 yrs to transpose Directive in national law.

Important to ensure homeless women are included as rights holders.

People usually overestimate the share of immigrants in their country.

In this new paper, however, I show that those who do not use round numbers like 10% or 20% in their guesses collectively estimate the share with astounding precision. #crowdwisdom

cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/hand…

I might look and sound miserable, but look at this thing

Positive Public Policy – A New Vision for UK Government paulcairney.wordpress.com/2024/05/07/pos…

📊 APP UPDATE! Our #CbCR Explorer now includes new data for US multinationals for 2021 from the IRSnews.

Curious about where multinationals book their profits or where they pay their taxes? 🤔

🔎 Explore the latest anonymized and aggregated CbCR stats: taxobservatory.shinyapps.io/CbCR_Explorer/

Belgium now among countries with most accurate and complete stats on homelessness (ETHOS 1 to 6 including sofa surfers).

Total : 45.860 people experience homelessness on any given day.

That is 0.4% of the population.

In hindsight, the majority of British voters thinks that Brexit was a mistake.

via Michael A. Arouet

'Wyniki te stanowią najsilniejszy jak dotąd dowód na to, że to, czy beneficjenci polityki mogą łatwo rozpoznać rząd jako odpowiedzialny za ich korzyści, wpływa na masowe skutki zwrotne polityki' w postaci zwiększonego poparcia w wyborach

📣Don't miss out! Join us at the upcoming EAPN España online event💻 '𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱' #𝗘𝗨𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 🇪🇺𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰'
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🧩 Over half of OECD and EU countries have an active national strategy to combat #homelessness .

Many of them report #HousingFirst and housing-led approaches that prioritise access to immediate, long-term housing and tailored support.

👉 Find out more oecd.org/housing/data/a…

2021 country-by-country data are out:

US multinationals booked more profits in Ireland and Singapore than in the UK + Canada + Germany + Mexico + China + India combined

Congratulations to the highly productive Irish & Singapore workers*!

* and also to the tax accountants

Fiscal austerity has undermined climate action. New empirical evidence.

Fascinating paper by Bidner, Francois, and Francesco Trebbi!
nber.org/papers/w20552

Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.

418 milionów dzieci na świecie obejmują programy posiłków w szkole

Read some aggressive criticisms by Phil Magness on Gabriel Zucman's recent NYTimes article. Because I think bias is bad, let me give some nuance
twitter.com/PhilWMagness/s…

We spent 2/3 of the last 6 years and 1/2 of the last 8 years under 4% unemployment rate.

This has *never* happened since the BLS started collecting unemployment data.

We've never had 6, 7, or 8 year stretches with as many months under 4% unemployment rate as we do today.

Antidepressant efficacy is inflated by the cumulative impact of publication bias, outcome reporting bias, spin, and citation bias on the evidence base.

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Czy w Polsce są już realizowane te zalecenia? '1. Wprowadzenie obowiązku oferowania bezpłatnych podstawowych rachunków płatniczych ubogim i wykluczonym konsumentom'...

Are basic payment accounts affordable in the #EU ?
We raise this question in our📑new report, “Breaking down barriers to basic payment accounts”.

See below a snapshot from Germany, Spain & Romania. Read more in the full report👇
finance-watch.org/policy-portal/…

#FinancialInclusionFriday